1920
Our All-American girl this month is Dorothy Lyle Burbank McGoughran, wife of Charlie. And the "All-American" epithet is used advisedly. Descended on one side from a law partner of Daniel Webster's up in Franklin N. H., and on the other from the man who got the seeds out of oranges, Luther Burbank of California, Dorothy grew up in the blue grass of Kentucky and still holds the title of president of the New York Society of Kentucky Women. To make her coverage of the United States complete, she moved hither and yon with her husband, hedge-hopping from one state to another through Charlie's early business career; finally settled permanently in New York City and bought a really old farmhouse in Norfolk, Conn.
The McGoughrans go for things that are old, both indoors and out. Their place in Connecticut is 18th century vintage, and the maple out front, now threatening to topple over and demolish the house, was planted in 1790. The antiques inside were gathered and set in order by Mrs. M., who would do all right as an interior decorator, if she had the time and the inclination. But here are some of the affairs she occupies herself with instead: Annually she takes charge of the sale of products for the New York State Commission for the Blind. She is vice president of the Offi- cers' Club of New York and a trustee of the Washington Headquarters Association. Until recently she was chairman of the Good Citizenship Committee of the D.A.R. and during the war served as vice-chairman of their War Work Committee for New York City. Previously she had been Regent of the New York City chapter of the D.A.R. as well as chairman of the Regents' Round Table of Greater New York.
Dorothy graduated from Ward-Belmont in Tennessee. Like Dorothy Harvey she was trained in music (the piano), but her husband says there has been "a gradual decline of interest" in that particular. Perhaps it started toward the end of her formal education, when Camp Zachary Taylor was operating full blast nearby, with a battery of officers-in-training that included Zack Jordan, Frank Morey and Jim Chilcott, besides none other than C. F. McGoughran himself. Those days marked Dorothy Burbank's introduction to Dartmouth; and if for no other reason, her continued loyalty to the College would give Dorothy McGoughran a place of honor in the Dartmouth 1920 family. She and Charlie make from one to six trips to Hanover together every year, and there has probably been not more than one year in the last 20 when she has failed to put in a single appearance on the Plain.
The holiday season brought some welcome visitors to New York from points west. Stan and Grace Newcomer were in town on their annual pre-Christmas week-long junket, seeing the best shows, having themselves a time, doing all the things that most homebred, full-time New Yorkers never get around to doing. Gerry Baron showed up for New Year's Eve, visiting his Larchmont sister and bringing with him a wife whom some of us hadn't heard about before. Formerly Mrs. Sorais Fitzgerald (but perfectly willing to be known as Sue) she and Gerry were married as far back as February, 1944. Gerry's son Chuck, by his first marriage, is in the merchant marine and had his Christmas dinner in Germany. Before putting out to sea he had been attending Trinity College in Connecticut. Gerry's daughter graduated from Walnut Hill last June.
The latest Baron address, 27 East 22nd Ave., Columbus, Ohio, is a piece of property that Gerry acquired in the conduct of his real estate business. He considers the outlook good for his particular calling, with 70,000 dwelling units in existence in Columbus, and a crying need for 20,000 more. But he and Mrs. Baron suspect that sometime they may develop a hankering to move back to New York to live. As happens not uncommonly, Gerry encountered more Dartmouths in the big town in a few days than most of us working there do in weeks. Among them was our own Tom Carpenter of the South Norwalk Carpenters. According to The Baron, he "looks just the same" after considerably more than 20 years; keeps himself in shape by playing tennis both summer and winter. Tom's younger daughter now goes to college somewhere out in Colorado.
School Superintendent Art Pierce writes from Wellesley, Mass.: "This year has been a very busy one, but quite satisfactory. We feel that we are making definite progress. Salaries are of considerable concern with us as with all other school systems, but it now looks as though we would come through with an excellent schedule."
In the Public Prints. Geyer, Cornell & Newell, Inc., Hike's advertising agency, has become Geyer, Newell & Ganger, with B. B. Geyer continuing as president Warrie Chamberlain's appointment as Eastern advertising manager of Cue magazine has been announced, as of comparatively recent date. .... The New York Herald Tribune reported, under a Rumson, N. J., dateline for November 23, that "Mr. and Mrs. James Saunders Parkes gave a tea in their home 'Top o' Knoll' this afternoon in observance of the fiftieth wedding anniversary of Mr. Parkes's parents. About 100 guests were present." (This constitutes the first authentic news of the safe return from the Pacific of the lieutenant commander and former member of General Mac Arthur's staff.) .... The widely lamented passing, on December 14, of Albert Sherman Osborn at the age of 88, leaves Al Osborn the Second, of our class, as the unchallenged nonpareil in the business of the examination of questioned documents.
Jim Chilcott, as president of the Maltine Co., is carrying out a big refinancing and expansion program which will include the construction of a sizeable new plant and laboratory at Morristown, N. J Jack Brotherhood, according to reliable reports from our Sports Front, bagged the Country Club Purse in south-western Connecticut golfing circles last summer. Jack is the boy who is primarily responsible for the uniform and lovely colonial type development of the business section of New Canaan Tom Glines and Paul Kay served on one of the examining committees for Westchester County, looking over applicants for admission to Dartmouth at Christmas time.
Secretary, Blind Brook Lodge, Rye 17, N. Y
Treasurer, 1 Windmill Lane, Arlington 74, Mass.
ANNUAL BOSTON DINNER, FEB. 26 COPLEY PLAZA HOTEL, 6:15 P. M.
