1920
Chicago holds the center of the 1920 stage this month. Touring the American Heartland in late September, your correspondent found affairs in topnotch shape in the Windy City. Laddie Myers was reported still agile to the incredible point of playing tournament squash. Ed Curtis of the Kankakee Curtises has extended the limits of his small loan business beyond the boundaries of Illinois and operates in the sunny clime of Hollywood, Florida, when the midwinter going gets really rough. Hank Spero, relatively free of labor troubles because of the profit-sharing system in effect at his plant (Type and Press of Illinois, Inc.), can muse happily over the progress of his two daughters, the elder attending Chicago's Art Institute and the younger at Stanford some 2000 miles farther west.
The moving season, a practically forgotten institution, has taken on new vigor in the suburbs. The Nate Whitesides, ranking well up on the list of oldest inhabitants of Hinsdale, wouldn't even consider such rank heresy as moving across the town line. But they did pack up their belongings and re-locate in another piece of family property at 234 East 3d St., about five blocks away from where they had been before. More than that, Nate does a real job of summer-time commuting weaving his way with compass and astrolabe to the Whiteside summer place at Glen Lake in northern Michigan. Sometimes Nate gets a quick look at Spud Lind, who summers at nearby Leland, Mich. It's about time the fact was recorded that Nate III was a member of the two-man team that came down to Hanover from Kimball Union Academy last May and worried the best of Dartmouth's varsity Outing Clubbers considerably in an all-day session of flycasting, canoe jousting, and all-around demonstration of woodland lore. The story on the rest of the Whiteside family is that Peter, 11, is full of energy, and daughter Barb is enjoying her second year at Pennsylvania College for Women in Pittsburgh.
Near-neighbor Len Davis of LaGrange put in three weeks back in New England last summer, sunning himself with the folks at York Beach, Maine. The older of his two sons, Lee, is getting along fine in his second year at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind., and likes the set-up there very much indeed. Another Twenty who gets back to New England summers is Dana Eaton, Littleton, N. H., native, who says his good-byes to the stockyards in early August and heads for the Granite State. He had an especially memorable weekend this year in the shadow of New Hampshire's Croydon Mountain.
But we had started to discuss the housing situation in suburban Chicago. Bachelor Wally Schinz, stable citizen of Wilmette on the North Shore, sold one house and bought another, just like that, and is now securely established in the latter, with his mother, at 2000 Thorn wood. Wally is manager of the investment department at Betts Borland.
Chicago's University Club sees quite a bit at noontime of Don MacKay, now especially busy as Dartmouth's local president blueprinting the early 1948 Hanover Holiday in Chicago. Other habitues of the club are Hersh Chandler, proud new possessor of what he calls "25 acres of cattails on the Fox River," and Fred Hamm, who was last spotted cooking up some kind of deal right up to the end of the ninth in a tensely broadcasted World Series game. Hersh's recently acquired property is really a fisherman's delight; he has a shack on top of an oak knoll, just thirty miles from home. From one or another of the above mentioned we picked up the welcome news that Tinker Lombard of Summit, N. J., has entered his daughter Nancy in Duke University, and that TedWeis, seen in the Loop during a stationers' convention, is the father of a member of Dartmouth's freshman class.
Add also to the Proud Poppas' Panel Frank (The Snake) Corbin, whose boy Franklin III likewise made his bow in Hanover this fall. With one of his two daughters finishing up at Radcliffe this year, Frank figures that New England is bound to see something of him before the school year is over.
Back in the east we're getting some of the folks safely settled in new locations also. Johnny McAllaster, now of 13 Fleetwood Ave., Albany 3, N. Y., explains it all as follows:
"The house we were in at the old address was sold to a guy who had to move into it within a certain length of time, or so the official papers said. So we joined the parade and pulled the same trick on the next fellow. The new neighborhood and the general accessibility are satisfactory. Grubbing the grounds, puttying -windows, scraping paint, and kindred chores constitute the curriculum now."
George Noveck, another Albanyite who had his own worries about the housing shortage the last we knew, reports a new home address at 58 South Main Avenue. And RubeWarner, back out of service after two years spent mostly at Camp Sibert, Alabama, (two years, incidentally, which he claims "wore the old man down") feels lucky to have snagged a nice apartment at Carlton House in Riverdale, just north of the New York City line. Rube has a wholly new business connection. He is an associate of Robert J. Keane, recently appointed general agent of the United States Life Insurance Co., and "specializing in accident and health, as well as hospitalization, for individuals, groups and associations" with offices at 150 Broadway.
Hanover Press Gleanings. "Prof. Allen R.Foley returned last night from New York, where he met Gene Autry at Madison Square Garden, saw 'Oklahoma,' and addressed the Class of 1923 alumni at a dinner celebrating the 28th anniversary of their matriculation at Dartmouth." .... "John P. Amsden, president of the Mary Hitchcock board of trustees, awarded diplomas to 33 nurses when the Hospital School of Nursing held its 53d commencement in the White Church. Former U.S. Rep. Sherman Adams of Lincoln, commencement speaker, took for his subject, 'Why Help Anybody?'" Sherm also figured in a news photo of 12 eminent Dartmouths who got together in Hanover, representing different sections of the state, to make plans for New Hampshire's part in the $4,000,000 building program for the College.
Our Twenty-Paper will no doubt soon piece together the full roster of Sons of Twenty in the Class of 1951. Among them we learn, thanks to Cliff Hart '21, are young Jack Brotherhood and Beardsley Foster's son Brace. It is through Cliff that we have the appreciated news of Bill Nelson of Keene, N. H., now recovering from a serious illness and doubtless receptive to any good word the mailman brings along to 130 School St.
Other sons of 1920 in the entering class include: Frank N. Corbin III, Phelps Dewey, Charles R. Keep Jr., Robert E. Koski, Alan H. Loehr, Frederick W. Lord, Dudley H. Page, David L. Stillman, William T. Weis, and Josiah H. Welch.
Grandpa Warrie Gault, whose rather forbidding passport photo adorned the pages of the October issue, fooled everybody including himself by heading for Alaska, instead of Germany or Italy, on September 22, but tossed the parting word over his shoulder that he'd be back in time to get to the Princeton game.
This department's citations of the month for gracious hospitality go to Don and RuthMacKay, to Nate and Mildred Whiteside. Knowing no special reason why classmates should be either gracious or hospitable, the secretary is constantly being tickled out of his boots because so many of them are.
TWENTY-SIXTH REUNION: This 1921 group. President Dickey not included, was the cause of a doubtful impression on the peace and quiet of the Hanover Plain for an all too short 24 hours. Shown here, left to right, front row, Howie Ransom, Bill Perry, Gladys Hart, Rog Wilde, Randy Childs. Back row, Cliff Hart, President Dickey, Jeff Hart '51 Seated is Prexy Tom Cleveland.
Secretary, Blind Brook Lodge, Rye 17, N. Y.
Treasurer, 1 Windmill Lane, Arlington 74, Mass.
