1920
It's Boston's turn this month. Just as in the old days—with memories of sardine-packed rooms at the Adams House and tea dancing at the Brunswick—the Dartmouths of The Hub decreed a monster football rally, the first in years, at the City Club, the night before the Harvard game. Attendance on the part of 1920 was pronounced satisfactory by your secretary, who infiltrated the proceedings.
Long-time-no-see guys included, among others, Scout Lee and Paul Hutchinson, both looking fat but fit. And still fatter but no less fit, was George Macomber, m.c. for our part in the affair, who can cite line, chapter and verse on any '20 man in the whole of Greater Boston. Class financier Roc Elliott sat beside George, but willingly gave him a free hand on the fiscal negotiations of the evening. Roc, recently feted journalistically for his elevation to the presidency of Area Council No. 1, Boys Clubs of America, is more interested in talking about the marriage of his daughter Audrey. Herself a Cornell graduate, Audrey took the vows with John White, a marine lieutenant, Cornell '47, in St. John's Episcopal Church, Arlington, on July 12. Roc gave his daughter in marriage, and the reception was in the garden of the Elliott home.
To get back to Scout and Hutch, the former, a C.P.A. by trade, maintains with some earnestness that his prolonged state of bachelordom is "not necessarily permanent." Paul, a security salesman these 15 years, claims that he has spent the biggest and best part of them on the telephone. He lives in Newton Highlands; summers in Harwichport on the Cape. His outfit, formerly known as Davenport & Cos., is now J. Arthur Warner & Co.
Likewise mingling with the City Club throng were Mel Merritt, Bung Roland and Charlie Goodnow. Mel, looking fine, beams at mention of his beautiful baby daughter Melita. Bung is proud of his family, too—and of the swell job son Frank has done in comeback from serious illness. Frank is a high school senior; daughter Carol, a senior at Beaver College. Bung's present business love is the orchid (white ones sell for $15 apiece, wholesale), but if you stop by his place before Christmas, he'll gladly let you view his magic carpet of 100,000 poinsettas. As for Charlie, a little systematic interviewing produced the information that son Ward Goodnow, Hobart sophomore, is playing some football there in upstate New York and not doing badly for himself at all.
Mugs Morrill was at the rally, and so were Chet Wiley, Fred Calhoun, and Charlie Crathern. Charlie is happily none the worse for wear after his flight experience of last June. Wife Anne, so he says, would have liked to crash the stag party herself, if only to demonstrate that she, too, is making a very nice recovery indeed. C. Crathern Jr. is a Worcester Academy guard who could be very useful at Hanover one of these days. Fred Calhoun, as of September 1, had tackled a new kind of calling for him, moving in as office manager of that one of the many Personal Bookshops located on St. James Ave., in Boston. Fred's daughter Nancy, Mount Holyoke junior, is active in theatricals and in the glee club.
Rog Pope was nicely spruced up after tangling with the new tractor on his Hillsboro, N. H., farm. Louise, elder of the two Pope daughters, attends the Nursery Training School in Boston. Younger sister Eleanor was greeted at the opening chapel exercises of her sophomore year at Wellesley with the announcement that she had last year attained honors for "outstanding scholastic achievement," but these only matched the equally coveted honor that had already came her way as freshman Tree Day Mistress. From LeeHodgkins, standing nearby, Rog pried the interesting information that he, too, is a Wellesley father, with freshman and senior year daughters. Janice, the elder of the two, is president of the Inter-society Council.
From one corner or another of the City Club, items drifted in concerning some of the absentees. George Vincent, for example, is now reported to be the father of three married daughters. Suzanne, third of the lot, who was only 18 when we got out our 25th Report, was married in June. Bing Whitaker has bought himself a new house (at 103 Lawton Road, Needham) and is bringing along a youngster there, Bing Jr., who performs some very capable pitching chores for Needham High in the springtime. Another Twenty with a new Boston address is Phibby Bennett, whose 95 Mt. Vernon St., home abuts right on the famous Louisburg Square. Phibby's status in the real estate world of Boston is attested by the job he held throughout the Tobin administration as leading housing advisor to the governor.
Hal Bernkopf has a new home, too. He bought a house at 25 Willard Road, Brookline, but just how much time he spends in it is something else again. Hal is a busy gent. He works an overlong day at Lamson Hubbard in Boston and jumps over to New York frequently to keep a careful eye on the Balch Price connection.
Seen in the Stands (in Hanover at Penn game time): Ben Ayres, Jack Lappin, Charlie Crathern, Wade Smith, Don Rogers, Bun Harvey, Pat Holbrook, Frank Moulton, George Macomber, Dick Goddard, Arch Lawson, Doc Miller, Sherry Baketel, John Prentiss, Carroll Swezey, A1 Frey, A1 Foley, Harry Sampson and Dick Pearson.
Ben Ay res, as the record shows, led a goodsized contingent north from Worcester, which he will always do at the drop of anybody's hat. Ben has taken office now as president of the Dartmouth Club of Worcester. Getting the filing system in shape, he gives us the word that Art Pfeiffer is now only a nine-tofive resident of Worcester, with a new home address at 190 Oak Crest Drive, Framingham. John Colton has moved to 138 June St., Worcester. Ned Deßouville, now working for the Whitcomb Division of the U. S. Envelope Co., found a place to live at 82 Morningside Road, when he brought his family over to Worcester from Albany. The Ayreses played host to EricStahl, Mrs. Stahl, and daughters Mary Jo and Edith, on a memorable evening when the whole Stahl family stopped off to say hello,— en route all the way from Tulsa to deposit Mary Jo in Wellesley's freshman class.
Those who made the acquaintance of the lovely Annabelle Newcomer at our 25th will understand why Monroe, Mich., society was agog at the announcement of her engagement to Franklin Bock, who grew up, as did Annabelle, in Monroe. News of the wedding, planned for early winter, will no doubt follow shortly. Her father Stan is Toledo's regional chairman for the Hopkins Center Project, a function performed by Sherry Baketel in Philadelphia and by Pickles Hill in St. Petersburg, Florida. And, speaking of Toledo, there are these two recent items for the record: Don Smith reports the marriage on July 28 of his daughter Dorothy Jeanne to ex-army pilot Robert H. Bohm. "Son G. D. Jr., shows no symptoms along these lines," says his father, "so I still have one around to go fishing with." From Ted Weis comes the word that one daughter was graduated from Northwestern in June, 1946, a second will finish at Wellesley in June, 1948, while "the third one" (rather obviously a boy) is now in Hanover, class of 1951.
Hostess of the month, or any other month, in this writer's book, is Gertrude McPartlin, who always makes you £eel like a long-lost brother when you stop by to chat with her and Ray at 12 Grozier Road, Cambridge, Mass.
Secretary, Blind Brook Lodge, Rye 17, N. Y. Treasurer, 1 Windmill Lane, Arlington 74, Mass.
