1920
Anne and Charlie Crathern are making a nice recovery from severe injuries sustained June 3, when their brand new four-passenger Stinson plane crashed on its first major flight north of Willcox, Arizona. Running short of gas and failing to locate an airfield which was presumed to be in the neighborhood, they attempted a forced landing on what appeared to be presentable terrain but proved otherwise. Both were badly hurt and were hospitalized there in Arizona, Anne at Willcox and Charlie at the Veterans' Hospital in Tucson. So strong are the Crathern recuperative powers that before the end of June the two of them were happily headed eastward. Loyal Dartmouth men in the Tucson region, on call throughout the emergency, kept frequent progress reports going to other parts of the country.
Celebration of their parents' recovery took an unusual and interesting turn among the second generation Cratherns and kept the Worcester (Mass.) papers even more Crathernminded through the week-end of August 23-25. On the twenty-third, a Saturday, daughter Dorothy Anne was married to Arthur W. French II of Worcester, and on the following Monday, the 25th, Mrs. French served as matron of honor when her sister, Barbara Jean, became the bride of William L. Polhemus of the United States Navy. The Polhemus wedding was in Tatnuck Congregational Church; the French wedding in the garden of the Crathern home. Charlie gave both of his lovely and lively daughters in marriage.
The '21 secretary, Don Mix, has been a source of great assistance in piecing the Crathern story together, while former '21 secretary, Charley Stickney, has been helping to keep the Sherm Adams epic up-to-date. Our portrait gallery contains no fewer than four new pictures of Sherm, indicating almost certainly that his political progress has not subsided permanently. Sherm sang with all his old-time form and fervor at "fun night" of the N. H. legislature in June; was principal speaker at a conference of Granite State businessmen held in Concord; took over the presidency of the N. H. Society for Crippled and Handicapped Persons and launched a $1,000,000 campaign to build on Mt. Crotched the finest hospital for crippled children in the country; attired in an ice cream suit, awarded cups at the mid-summer Franconia-Sugar Hill horse show; made August Old Home Day speeches all over the state of New Hampshire. Daughter Jeanne Adams has followed the family trail to Hanover and is now a member of the Ad Building staff. Marion started teaching music this fall at the Cambridge School, Weston, Mass. Sally, a Fanny Farmer graduate, put her knowledge immediately into practice this summer at the Hillside Inn on Newfound Lake.
Our other Lincoln, N. H., classmate, TedMarden, has recently joined our mounting roster of grandfathers. Jane Livingston Hyde, daughter of Ted's daughter Betty, is the new addition in that family. It was a boy—sevenpound Tommy Leonards lll—who made Sherry Baketel a grandpa on June 9, and Warrie Gault became likewise on July 2, when a son Thomas was born to daughter Jane (Mrs. Arnold Nicosia) in the New York Hospital.
Sherry, off almost immediately to the Alumni Council conclave in Hanover, wrote that "grampa maintained his grandparental dignity, though under some difficulties, due to the widespread enthusiasm of 1917, which had a splendiferous reunion." In Hanover, Sherry found "Brother Foley sartorially splendid" and "Roc Elliott, with his better half, very much in evidence." Warrie, interviewed at the Dartmouth Club in mid-July, was just back from Puerto Rico and had picked as his next foreign stop, starting any minute, either for Germany or Italy.
We move on from grandparents to potential grandparents. It's not only the Crathern daughters who have taken the marriage vows since we last performed our secretarial chores. On May 17, Jim Robertson gave his daughter Jane in marriage, at the Church of Our Saviour in Brookline, Mass.. to Luthene Gilman Kimball, graduate of Phillips Andover and Bowdoin. They, the Kimballs, after a wedding trip to Quebec's well-remembered Chateau Frontenac, were to make their home in Brookline. Exactly a week previously, on May 10, Bob Van Iderstine's daughter Ethel Louise, a ballet dancer, was married in St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Englewood, N. J., to Major Robinson Riley Norris of Ist Army Headquarters, Governors Island, New York, a West Point graduate with a record of five years' service in the Pacific.
Last May's news of the Alumni Association of Eastern New York carried two items of special interest to the Class of 1920. 1) EddieBoxven and Frank Morey are both on the association's executive committee; and 2) StanConway's attendance at the annual meeting was the first word we'd had of his safe return from foreign service. The story on Stan is best told in Eddie Bowen's words, as follows:
"Stan is one of the very few men I know who served in World War I and still was drafted in World War II and served therein as an enlisted man. He entered the Armored Forces October 3, 1942, served in Brazil at Natal, then was transferred to the Air Force as a weather observer and sent to the Near East. He was stationed for a year and a half at Cairo before a transfer took him to Upper Egypt and Luxor. Since then he has been in Damascus, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Cyprus and Teheran. Other stations were in Rome and Crete, prior to his discharge September 5, 1945. Stan has resumed the practice of law in his home city of Cohoes, N. Y., and is serving as a member of a rating board with the Veterans Administration."
It is time also to wind up the service stories of two other Twenties who have been discharged from the Navy, with rank in both cases of Lieutenant Commander. Harry Harris came out on June 25, 1945, and picked up his insurance business where he had left it in the Homer Building, Washington, D. C. RogerFink bine, who must have quite a story to tell of experiences aboard the carrier Bunker Hill, has been back in Des Moines for a year or more as President of the Wisconsin Lumber Cos. After he set foot safely back on the mainland of the United States, Roger went to work in Washington, where he established and put in operation the officers' discharge service.
Dick Hayes, whose Colonel's rank puts him close to our top from the standpoint of "brass," writes cheerfully and interestingly from his new home in California. Shortly after Dick became a civilian again, he and Helen sold their Hollywood place and bought a new suburban home at 13340 Valley Vista Boulevard, Sherman Oaks. Dick makes it evident that visitors from the class are always welcome. If they'll look around in back of the house, they may find him puttering in the garden.
Irv Hutchins, writing of son Frank's graduation at Hanover last June, spoke of Al Foley's high rating in the "current student survey of courses and instructors." Recognizing this as ground-to-be-trod-with-utmost-caution, we nevertheless prevailed upon Frank (who followed the family tradition as Business Manager of The Dartmouth) to supply the exact data. It read, if you must know, "Professor Foley did a superlative job of making the material stimulating and entertaining, allowing ample discussion and not following the book too rigorously. His sympathy for the students was unusual." Speaking of Al, as far back as March 19, another Dartmouth item told of his service in connection with the Vermont Forum, running his picture with the caption "Professor of history and perennial moderator, who performed his usual function in Norwich Town Hall." Incidentally, from the masthead of The Dartmouth we gleaned the additionally interesting information that Mike Bernkopf '49 is likewise following in his old man's footsteps and has already "made" the business board of the paper.
Our seven 1920 members of the Dartmouth faculty put us in a tie with the class of 1906 for the largest delegation currently improving the minds of the younger generation. One of them, Paul Sample, this year won the $1,000 prize awarded by the National Academy of Art for his painting, "Delirium Is Our Best Deceiver," the inspiration for which came to him while Paul was convalescing in a field hospital in the Philippines. Another of our gang, Harry Sampson, moved up from Instructor rank to Assistant Professor when the faculty promotions were announced in June.
Look back at your July issue of the MAGAZINE if by any chance you missed the citation (p. 29) for Don MacKay of the Chicago Alumni Association as best club secretary of the year. Don's quiet, long-term service thus won no more than proper recognition.
A NEW GRANDPA: Warrie Gault has increased the 1920 roster of Grandfathers with the coming of Tommy Nicosia. Warrie has just recently returned from Puerto Rico, and is now probably on his way to either Germany or Italy.
Secretary, Blind Brook Lodge, Rye 17, N. Y Treasurer, i Windmill Lane, Arlington 74, Mass.
