1920
A Happy New Year from that virus-flu-ridden rockpile, New York City. We bad a '20 dinner at the local Dartmouth Club on December 11 (Exec-Committeeman Al Haas organizing and whooping up the affair) and some of the boys like Gene Fiske of Mount Vernon were kept away by the persistent and annoying germ. Others like John Felli were out of town, John presumably being in Detroit mapping out campaign strategy with other GM officials. But, in consideration of all the deterring factors, the turnout of 20 Twenties might have been a good deal worse.
Here is the official attendance: Lek Willard, Warrie Chamberlain, Joe Brewer, Carl Lenz, Roger Nutt, Arch Lawson, Jack Mayer, Tinker Lombard, Bill Fuguet, Bill (occasionally now known as Prugh) Sigler, Spence Snedecor, Phil Gross, Ted Cart, Charlie McGoughran, Dean Travis, Gerry Morse, Bob Morse, Pop Birch, Al Haas and Dick Pearson.
Lek Willard has quite a story, however modestly told, about his sailing activities. He gives all the credit to the two Willard daughters, Jean and Joyce. It seems that they sailed last summer in the national championships for the Atlantic Class, held on their "home course," the Pequot Yacht Club at Southport, Conn. Through the first four out of five races, they were well in the lead; then, as so often happens, something went awry in the last race and they finished the series with a standing of third in the class. But that' sounds good enough to make a greenhorn wonder what will happen when the gals really get their growth.
Joe Brewer, a comparative newcomer to the Big City, is serving in the unusual capacity of Visiting Librarian at Queens College (the telephone service out there does a consistently good job of attaching the "Doctor" to his name). With the former chief librarian no longer on hand, and the assistant librarian in the Army, Joe is just about the works when it comes to guiding the bibliophiles in this one of New York City's really great public halls of learning. In his spare time Joe also carries on a lecture course at the School of Library Service, tops of its kind at Columbia University.
On the subject of children—and grandchildren—these items have been gleaned. Class Baby Donald A. Travis, first lieutenant in the Army Air Corps, was married December 1 to Miss Georgianna Reeves of Sidney, Nova Scotia, herself a lieutenant in the Canadian Navy, or that branch of it known as the Nursing Sisters. Roger Nutt is our latest addition to the ranks of the grandfathers, his daughter's son being christened Richard S. Barnes Jr. Ted Cart's daughter Barbara, now enrolled at Bennington College, "came out" at the Allied Ball at the Waldorf-Astoria December 20, and immediately thereafter was scheduled to start plugging songs for Feist, a la the young Gershwin in the recent "Rhapsody in Blue" movie. This is Barbara Cart's way of filling up the Bennington mid-winter work period, when the college saves fuel by sending its student body out to learn the ways of the world at first-hand.
Bill-Prugh-Sig Sigler is another who landed in town just in time for the class dinner. His stay is to be permanent, and his first impression is that it will be 0.K., partly because he was fortunate enough to, land a place to eat and sleep at 115 Harmon Drive, Larchmont. Sig is with ESCO (E. S. Christiansen Co. of Chicago), dealers in aluminum and magnesium with eastern division offices at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City.
Lt. Col. Jack Mayer was the surprise package of the New York affair. Out of the Army December 8, the Cunnel had piled up the maximum of 120 days' terminal leave, and so will not officially become' a civilian until April 7. He was looking fine after his long tour of duty in Europe.
"When good fellows get together"—two classmates join forces with the announcement by Dr. Baketel, honorary 1920, that Spence Snedecor is his new assistant at Reed & Carnrick, manufacturers of pharmaceutical preparations. A relatively new development at R & C, their Institute of Medical Research doubtless has some direct connection with Spence's affiliation. He came out of the Army in early November as lieutenant colonel, a promotion not heretofore noted, and will continue his private practise of orthopedics in Hackensack, N. J., in addition to his work for Reed & Carnrick. Spence can say a thing or two of his own—all good—about Meryl Frost, because he knew the lad as a patient at Valley Forge when the going was tough.
New '20 members of the New York club are Prugh Sigler, Sam Stratton, Gerry Morse, Rog Horton and Scout Lee. The Scout, incidentally, has long been a tough one to get any direct word from; but Art Hale, a fellow bachelor, reports a visit with Lee in Boston last fall; says that Frank can brag, if he wants to, about a noticeable gain in avoirdupois. Other bulletins from The Hub: Ed Naylor, now with Holtzer Cabot in Jamaica Plain, lives on Chicopee Row in Groton. George Vincent's daughter Margot was married last fall to John Wesley Conn, a recent Dartmouth graduate, and at the time of his marriage a naval lieutenant located at Quonset Point. The Cates' Christmas card shows that Al is keeping up all his old-time avocations, such as sketching, bicycling and aviating, probably taking special pains to keep outdoors while daughter Tricia is doing her daily practicing on the clarinet. Frank Moulton, after twenty-two years of law practice in Boston, heard a call from Judge Dodge of Littleton,. N. H., just ten miles north of Frank's old home town of Lisbon; forthwith packed his bags and became a Granite Stater on December 17, joining forces in a partnership with the Judge. Dana Eaton and Ray Bellows, Littleton natives, may well pause for a moment's envious contemplation of Frank, perhaps climbing the hill back of his office to look out toward Haystack and the snow cross on Lafayette.
We can all likewise do some envying on the subject of Charlie Youmans, whose November Amateur Archaeologist article in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE disclosed that he is the possessor of a farm in Orford, N. H., just a few miles above Hanover. Johnny Prentiss, to the south in Keene, was lately reported by a fellowtownsman to be back in good shape, as active as ever and regularly in attendance at Rotary Club meetings. John's company sold the old Sentinel building there in Keene and moved into a new and modern printing establishment last year.
Captain Hal Clark has written from Jacksonville, Fla., ,to announce the early November arrival of Amanda Helen Clark, a candidate for Smith's class of 1965 Rube Warner is out of the Army and back at 80 John St., N. Y. C Dutch Scholbohm has an exotic new address—Whispering Pines, Accomac, Va Paul Johnson, now comptroller with a wholesale seed company, can be reached via Michael-Leonard Co., Box 1048, Sioux City, lowa.
DEMONSTRATING A GROUND OVEN, Kenneth P. Emory '20 adorned with a hibiscus flower instead of an apron, assembles fish and other native foods wrapped in ti leaves, to be cooked in an oven lined with hot stones. During the war Emory, who is connected with the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, taught ranger-trained men the science of surviving, in cast-away conditions, without food, water or shelter on Pacific Islands.
Secretary, Blind Brook Lodge, Rye, N. Y. Treasurer, 1 Windmill Lane, Arlington, Mass.
