1920
Sherm Adams missed by a whisker in his campaign for the Republican nomination for governor of New Hampshire. Running against the incumbent, Gov. Charles M. Dale, in the August 6 primary, Sherm came so close that he had all the political hair in the Granite State standing on end. First reports claimed he had lost unofficially by 466 votes out of almost 46,000 cast. The official count reduced the margin to a very scant 185. Finally, the recount of August 22 confirmed the result, but cut the Dale lead still farther to 157. At that point, pending investigation of protested ballots in half a dozen communities, the box score read: Dale, 82,923; Adams, 22,766. As would be expected, Sherm took his defeat more than gracefully, pledging full support for Dale in the election and announcing at the same time that he would make another gubernatorial try in 1948.
Meanwhile, Marian, eldest of the Adams daughters, has earned the degree of Bachelor of Science in the department of piano at New York's Juillard School of Music.
The August MAGAZINE (as all may have noticed) Wah-Hoo-Wahed for Sherry Baketel, celebrating his election as President of the Philadelphia Association of Life Underwriters. It might have done likewise for honorary classmate Harry Sheridan Sr., because he got his picture in the paper last spring when he collected a 50-year certificate from the N.H. Medical Society. You may think of the doctor as a New Yorker, but his official place of residence has long been Greenland, N. H. Barbara Baketel's marriage to Thomas Cathcart Leonards Jr., a University of Pennsylvania graduate, took place in the Nevil Memorial Church of St. George, Ardmore, Pa., on September 6. Ring bearer was Thomas H. Ainsworth Jr., son of our doctor friend now resident in Northport, L. I.
Barbara, before she became Mrs. Leonards, was present at the Friday Reunion festivities in June and should have been included in the official list. So should her mother, Betty Baketel, and Norm Richardson's boy Fred, who was there on Saturday. With these additions our Reunion total becomes 215—100 men, 68 women and 47 sons and daughters.
More news pickups from Reunion: The Ginger Bruce Waterbury store is rapidly becoming a chain. Ginger has opened a second store in New Britain, Conn., and has a third lined up for Bristol. Classmate Bill Tracy, local real estate operator, was the lad who worked out the details of the Bristol lease.
. ... Newt Nash's daughter Liz is now a senior at the University of North Carolina, to which hall of learning she transferred from Bennett. Newt Jr. goes to Kent School and his twin sister Suzanne is at Dobbs Charlie Good-now has bought himself a house at 4 Lakeview Road, still in Winchester (Mass.), but just around the corner from the Roc Elliott mansion in Arlington Roger Horton Jr. is a baseball fiend; plays the game five nights a week, as his father did before him—"only better," the old man says; aspires one day to be another Red Rolfe Bus Moore, long active in the Dartmouth Club of Wellesley, maintained his interest when it was broad-ened into the Charles River Dartmouth Club and served for a period as secretary.
The Sacketts, the Jack Mayers and the Bowens stayed on the week after Reunion and greatly enjoyed the Hanover Holiday. Bob and Bernice Winters couldn't make the grade for Reunion, but got to town and registered at the Inn for a short stay a month later. But the boy who really made the most of his Hanover visit was Lek Willard. He went scouting down the Lyme Road and came up with two pieces of property, about nine miles north of Hanover. "One is on the east side of the road," Lek writes, "and is about 60 acres. The other, on the west side, is about 50 acres. The house on the east side is about 200 years old but has been recently renovated and modernized and is in excellent condition. We plan to use this for weekends in the fall and winter when attending football games and skiing. The west farm is about 150 years old and needs quite a lot done to put the house in condition. It is now used as a second-hand auto repair shop and junk yard. After the junk is cleared up and the house modernized, it will be a very attractive place. Then I'll be looking for a Dartmouth man to sell it to, as one farm is all I want, but I don't want a junk yard opposite it."
It took the Reunion roster to uncover the fact that Tom Glines's daughter Jean Louise had been married and is now Mrs. Wallace Carpenter. The wedding took place in the Congregational Church of Greenwich, Conn., (where the Glineses live) on February 3, 1945. Living the life of a naval-officer couple, Lt. and Mrs. Carpenter were shifted about from here to there and put in some time on the Pacific Coast shortly after their marriage. Tom's son, Charles Thomas, served in the infantry and saw action in northern Italy, returning home this year and being readmitted to Dartmouth.
Carl Newton is farming on a businesslike scale at Millbrook, N. Y., but at last accounts was living at the Ritz for lack of any other quarters near enough his office to permit him to practice the law. Bill Fuguet reports that Carl mixes vocation with avocation more than successfully and is to be highly complimented on his oil paintings—an excellent portrait and a landscape—which were outstanding in last spring's exhibit of the New York Bar Association.
Speaking of painting reminds me of the phrase, "captor of beauty," that Bill Cunningham applies to Paul Sample. Bill says he "couldn't begin to list the Prizes Paul has won, the world famous galleries where his pictures hang (there are some in the White House) and the honors this tall, handsome ex-athletic terror wears." The Christian Science Monitor, talking about the same show at the Vose Galleries in Boston last April, put it enthusiastically if somewhat less lyrically: "The water colors are soothing.... Aquarelles show a judicious, thrift, a calculated abbreviation. ....Many are winter scenes in which the architecture is set off sharply in silhouette against the snow. There are in addition a number of genre scenes, domestic episodes that are engaging for their tender sentiment.
.... The combat pictures by Mr. Sample are sharply in contrast with the water colors, which are bright, airy, sunny, and happy. The return to peace has sharpened the artist's enthusiasm for activities expressive of good-will and well-being."
Still other Twenties have had their activities reported lately in the public prints. Kel Smith, soberly attired in cap and gown, had his picture in the May issue of the Dow (Chemical Co.) Diamond. Mel Merritt's was in the Boston Herald for June 10, grouped with the other golfers who were defeated by one Edward Martin of Winchester on his triumphal march to the Country Club Cup. Ray McPartlin's daughter Joan has been writing some perfectly swell articles for the Boston Globe. Under her own byline and with the feature heading "Summer Semester," Joan reported the doings of the young high school and college set at the resorts up and down the Massachusetts coast.
A ROADSIDE REUNION of some of the members of 1920—Left to right, John Carleton '22, Sherm Adams, Bill Carter, Tommy Thomson, George Page, Al Frey, Carl Newton, Prof. Joe McDonald (Honorary), and Dick Pearson, with his back to the camera.
Secretary, Blind Brook Lodge, Rye, N. Y. Treasurer, 1 Windmill Lane, Arlington, Mass.
