1920

Here is the official roll call for Twenty's25th Reunion, compiled by Reunion Chairman Bill Carter as the June 28-30 festivitiesdrew to a close. Present, according to Economist Bill, were 100 men, 67 women and 45 ofthe second generation—a total of 212, as follows:

Sherm and Rachel Adams, John Amsden, Sal Andretta, Ben and Ellen Ayres with son Robert and daughter Janet, Dr. and Mrs. Baketel, Sherry Baketel, Duke and Elinore Bellen with daughters Barbara and Elinore, John Beranek, Hal and_ Liz Bernkopf, Hal and Harriefte Bidwell, Pop Birch, Eddie and Virginia Bowen, Tudor and Jessie Bradley with son Nicholas, Ginger Bruce, Paul Canada, Johnny and Gladys Carden, Bill and Laura Carter with son Doug and daughter Kitty, A 1 Cate, Warrie and Florabel Chamberlain, Dick Charlock, Jim and Ruth Chilcott, Charlie and Anne Crathern with son Terry, daughters Dorothy and Barbara and guests Mrs. R. F. and Nancy Morrison.

Also Dal and Marguerite Dalrymple with son Philip, Tom and Myra Davidson, Roc and Laura Elliott, Pike Emory, John and Ann Felli, Gugger Fiske, A 1 Foley, Beardsley and Marian Foster, A1 and Anne Frey, Jim Frost, Bill and Dorothy Fuguet, Warrie Gault, Tom and Louise Glines with son-in-law and daughter Lt. and Mrs. Wallace Carpenter.

Also Dick and Polly Goddard, Charlie Goodnow, Phil Gross with Phil Jr., Art Hale, Bun and Dorothy Harvey, Buttons and .Eva Hill, Howie and Dorothy Hitchcock, Lee and Ann Hodgkins with daughters Janice and Joyce, Pat and Rita Holbrook, Lowell and Anne Holway, Rog and Gladys Horton, Rus Keep with Rus Jr., Phil and Grace Kitfield with daughters Ann, Joyce and Sally, Elmer and Margaret Koski with son Robert and daughter Barbara, Jack and Anna Lappin, Carl and Dorothy Lenz with daughter Joyce, Spud and Dorothy Lind with daughters Peggy Gene and Elizabeth Anne, Johnny McAllaster, Joe McDonald, Charlie and Dorothy McGoughran with guest Cliff Watson '22,

Also Sel and Anne Mack, Don and Ruth MacKay with Don Jr., George and Hazel Macomber, Jack and Margaret Mayer, Doc and Harriet Miller with son Erwin and daughter Edith, Bus and Helen Moore, Frank Morey, Bob Morse, Frank Moulton, Newt Nash with daughter Elizabeth and Newt Jr., Stan and Grace Newcomer with daughter Annabelle, Carl Newton, George and Helen Page with son David, A1 and Mrs. Palmer with daughter Hannah and A1 Jr.

Also Dick and Robin Pearson, Mrs. Grosvenor Plowman with daughters Nancy and Jean, Rog and Marjorie Pope, Pete and Wilhelmina Potter with son Jack and daughter Anne, Norm and Doris Richardson, Paul and Lillian Richter, Jim and Mary Robertson, Bung Roland, Cy and Jerry Rounseville with daughters Barbara and Elizabeth, George and Mildred Sackett with daughter Joan, Harry Sampson, Charlie Sargent, Red and Brownie Small, Art and Marguerite Smith with son Robert, Spence and . Mary Snedecor, Dick and Martha Southwick with son George, Ken and Hildegarde Spalding with sons Richard and Ken jr., A1 Stillman, Sam and Marjorie Stratton, Bill Sullivan, Caroll and Henrietta Swezey, Tommy Thomson with Tommy Jr., Red Tillson, Leo and Alice Ungar, George Vincent, Eb and Barbara Wallace with daughter Marnee, Dick and Helen Welch, Bud and Alice Weymouth, Chet and Mildred Wiley and Lek Willard.

The major part of the clan gathered in the afternoon and evening of Friday, the 28th. Twenty was assigned to North Mass and Hitchcock, with part of 1919 also camped in Hitch and the rest of it down the road a piece in Gile. Our tent, pitched in front of Hitch, had a piano ready for Sal Andretta and a table ready for Sammy Sampson's punch bowl. Sammy, besides working with Bill Carter to form a most efficient and hospitable reception committee, also served as Master of Financial Ceremonies and Chief of Libation, the last being Dr. Baketel's 64-dollar word.

The Class was properly in evidence at President John Dickey's Friday night reception and also had a sizeable delegation of onlookers at the dance in Alumni Gymnasium. If there was any '2O fantastic-tripping, it has not been recorded. Mainly, Friday night was a congenial and well-paced warm-up for the major events of the Saturday program.

Last minute arrivals on Saturday morning gave us a picnic attendance that was just about what the traffic would bear. The Oak Hill reservation (new to a lot of us) was our camp ground, and Ross McKenney had charge of the frying and broiling activities, to confound the prophets of reunion famine. By hook or by crook, a class picture got taken at the picnic. Capping that climax, Congressman Sherm Adams (who made three speeches in three different New Hampshire communities that same Saturday) still found time to serve as chairman of the nominating committee for the class, aided and abetted by Carroll Swezey and Ken Spalding. Their "slate," accepted by acclamation as far as this reporter could determine, continued in office or ushered thereinto the following eleven members of the Class, who now constitute the Executive Committee: Sherry Baketel, Charlie Crathern, Roc Elliott, A1 Foley, A1 Frey, A1 Haas, Charlie McGoughran, Stan Newcomer, Dick Pearson, Tommy Thomson and Leo Ungar. For lack of legal opinion to the contrary, A1 Foley will remain in office as Class Agent, Roc Elliott as Class Treasurer, Stan Newcomer as Chairman of the Class Memorial Fund Committee, and Dick Pearson as Secretary-chairman until Twenty's Thirtieth in 1950.

The class banquet took place in the Colonial Room of Thayer Hall Saturday evening, Just previously, wives of the class had their choice between viewing impressive Commencement exercises at the Bema (with Harold Stassen doing the speech-making) or attending a tea sponsored by the Hanover ladies of the Class at the Inn. This cleared the decks for stag activity as far as the dinner was concerned. Again, neither quantity nor quality of food proved to be a problem, with the CarterSampson team arranging and the famous Mrs. Hayward supervising. Features of the banquet, apart from the fine fare, were a message of regret from Hoppy that he could not be with us, a welcome cable from Gerry Stone, sent, from France, sparkling extemporaneous chatter by Dr. Baketel, Joe McDonald, A1 Foley and. Stan Newcomer, and cheer-leading extraordinary by Gugger Fiske and Bung Roland. The special effectiveness of the Newcomer oration will have been reported in Twenty before this, summary bulletin gets into print. Stan did a real job of teamwork with A1 Foley and the outcome, as all know, was a new and respectable high for 1920 in the Alumni Fund campaign.

Reunion ended offically Sunday morning,, when Memorial Services were conducted in Rollins Chapel under the joint auspices of 1918, 1919, 1920 and 1921. John Amsden, representing our class, led the Litany of Commemoration, and Bill Carter's daughter Katharine was soloist for the service. This same Katharine or Kitty is the girl who stood behind the counter in Ward's throughout reunion and accosted all wearers of the Admiral Mitscher cap with the pertinent question, "Do you know my daddy?" Only an impostor could have said no to that one. Her daddy did a fine service for 1920 in planning and managing the 25th Reunion, and the 212 beneficiaries of Bill's expert management aren't likely to forget him or his works in a hurry.

Twenty was not in the running for attendance awards, but we'd have been in there pitching if there had been a prize at stake for most miles traveled. Pike Emory made the half-way-round-the-world trip from Hawaii to Hanover in 2½ days flying time—what used to be ten days of travel. He picked up a Ph. D. in anthropology at Yale en route. Now Pike is starting work on a National Research Council project of a highly scientific nature, which will most likely keep him tied up for ten years in Micronesia (fancy word for the small islands of the South Pacific). Another traveler from the far places was John Beranek of Seattle, Wash., who flew most of the way to Hanovgr but drove the last lap with Paul Canada.

Reunion-time reports on the younger generation included a number of engagement announcements. Peggy Jean Lind, Spud's daughter, is marrying Charles Wilson, discharged Marine, on July 20, and will then continue her college education—as will her husband—at the University of Michigan. Jim and Mary Robertson disclose that daughter Jane is to marry Luthene G. Mitchell of Brookline, Mass., a Bowdoin graduate who served three years in the Army. Jane Robertson has been training at the Children's Hospital in Boston, and while there she and Lee Hodgkins' daughter Janice kept watch over Bung Roland's boy Frank, as he started his courageous journey back the long road from a bout with polio. Another July wedding will be that of Nancy Stillman, daughter of Al, who is marrying Eugene Patton, University of Tennessee '4l, on July 2 at the Stillman home in Laceyville, Penn. Nancy's husband-tobe served in the Infantry and was for a time a German prisoner.

North country papers carried the news that Elizabeth Jane Marden, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic T. Marden- of Lincoln, N. H., and John L. Hyde of Marquette, Mich., were married June 1 in the Lincoln Union Church. Elizabeth Jane was graduated from Colby Junior College and has been employed the last two years at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital. Her husband, a Dartmouth graduate, recently received his discharge from the Army.

From the Boston Herald for May 23: "Prof, and Mrs. Albert Wesley Frey of Dartmouth College announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Janet Wendell Frey, to Mr. Edward Holmead Harte, son of Mr. and Mrs. Houston Harte of San Angelo, Tex. Miss Frey was graduated from Oakwood School, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and Bennington College, class of 1944. Mr. Harte attended the University of Arizona, served with the Army Air Forces for three years and now is a senior at Dartmouth College."

Reunion item of special interest: A1 Palmer officially rejoins the class, after 25 years' suspense midway between 1920 and 1921. He is a welcome addition to the roster Warrie Gault's boy, Warren Thayer, has been officially admitted to Dartmouth's class of 1950 and his old man is very happy about it. Warrie Sr. gave up chicken-ranching in short order and is now on his way back to Anchorage, Alaska, where he will serve as account auditor for the U. S. Government Phil Gross, Jr. is another who will bring '2O back to the Hanover plain exactly 30 years later; and there to greet him will be Roc Elliott's boy, Richard, and the Maury Dewey twins, Charles and Maury, Jr., who were admitted last February.

Twenty remains in the industrial limelight with the election of Ted Cart (Atlantic Products Corporation president) as president of the Luggage and Leather Manufacturers of America Hub Duffy is the Democratic nominee to oppose Republican incumbent Judge Charles S. Bell for election to the Ohio Supreme Court in November. Hub's vote was 186,000, to 81,000 for his opponent in the May 7 primary Lowell Holway represented the Eastern Connecticut Association at the meeting for class and alumni association secretaries held in Hanover early in June.

The Class mourns the loss of Ray Moody, who died at his brother's home in Cranford, N. J., on April 29. Ray was a gentle soul and a man of rare courage. We extend sincere sympathy to Paul Canada, who lost his wife early in the summer, and to Dick Kimball and Elizabeth Baketel, whose father passed away late in June.

Secretary, Blind Brook Lodge, Rye, N. Y.

Treasurer, 1 Windmill Lane, Arlington, Mass.