1920

Fiftieth Birthdays in November: Class Agent Al Foley on the 11th; Charlie Piper, the 13th; Dick Welch, the 16th; Freddy Buschmann, the 20th; Johnny Allen, the 23d; Bung Roland, the 24th; Jim Stark, the 28th; and Exec. Comm. Member Al Haas, the 30th. Nice going, one and all.

Twenty's Man of the Month, from the standpoint of professional recognition, is "Marshy" (C. Herbert Jr.) Marshall, whose election as president of the National Medical Association was reported in the Washington Star of August 22. The accompanying biographical sketch pointed out that "Marshy" followed in the footsteps of his father, who practiced medicine in Washington for 40 years. Our Dr. Marshall has been president for several years of the Rock Creek Civic Association. He is a former chairman of the NMA Trustee Board, former president of the District Medico-Chirurgical Society and past president of the Washington branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Sherm Adams cantered down the home stretch in New Hampshire's primary election in September, without even turning his head to see how far behind the opposition was trailing. Sherm amassed 38,792 votes for the Republican nomination for Governor, while his lone opponent could collect only 7,650. Quite a different story from 1946, when Sherm lost the same contest by less than 200 votes Another piece of political news goes all the way back to the Republican National Convention last June. We discover belatedly that Tommy Greene, as might be expected, was chairman of the delegation from Rhode Island. According to a feature story which ran in the Boston Globe June 21, Tommy is an ardent booster for the United Nations—a survival, no doubt, of his World War I enthusiasm for Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations .... Hub Duffy is trying his luck again as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Attorney-general of Ohio. Hub served in that capacity (1936-38), back when the Democrats were the "ins," even in the Buckeye State.

LETTERS: Longest-distance communication of the summer came from Gerry Stone, the same being heavily loaded with pretty Italian stamps. "England, France, Germany, Czecho and Hungary on the itinerary. More and more I realize what a wonderful passport I carry and that in spite of all our grousing about things back home, the U.S.A. is the only place in the world in which to live. Conditions have improved but they are a long way from being - normal." .... Family news from Dean Travis last May: "Donald, my eldest son, our 1920 class baby, is now married and selling for Johnson & Johnson in the Philadelphia area. My eldest daughter, Dolores, made me a grandpop nearly two years ago. Dean Jr., now 19, is still with the Marine Corps in. the Central Pacific area. Phillip, 13, expects to enter Dartmouth in the Class of '56, is pushing 6' 4" and ought to be big enough for the basketball team when he grows up. My Board is giving me six weeks this summer to take one of those once-in-a-lifetime vacations, which we expect to spend in western Montana and Wyoming, getting in some real trout fishing."

MORE LETTERS. Hal Bernkopf complied withour request tor enlightenment on the subjectof Surburban Centers, Inc.: "Our company,"says Hal, "seeks to build planned shoppingcenters in the suburbs accessible to a largehunk of population by motor car. We try toget hold of big estates, so that we will not haveother centers growing up around the fringes,to nibble off the edges. Our plans include oneor two department stores in each project, aWoolworth, a Liggett, a first-run movie, onesuper market, and all kinds of specialty shops,florists, banks, etc. We covenant to providethree times as much parking space as sellingspace. My particular work is largely gatheringup the loose ends of the managing trustee andwhipping them into shape—procuring thelands, working with the architects and engineers, doing a little on the rentals, the zoning,the financing, and just about everything." Halgoes on to tell of a relatively quiet summer,with son Mike attending the University of St.Andrews and then cycling through Wales andEngland, before returning for his final year atDartmouth.

Here's the latest from Ken Fenderson: "I am still with Florida Power Corporation in St. Petersburg as Vice President and General Counsel. I have now been doing the legal work of the Company for approximately 24 years and have been its General Counsel since 1939. Haven't been to Hanover during recent years for the reason that Mrs. Fenderson and I visit on Cape Cod most every summer." .... And Laddie Myers: "I have been spending most of my spare time since the first of May at the Hinsdale Golf Club in an effort to learn how to play a modestly good game of golf. Really, I am embarrassed at the unsatisfactory results. If I make the grade, I'll continue to play. If not, well, it says here, "I'll sell my clubs and go back to tennis." And that's probably just what Laddie will do, as he squares away for the run through the fifties.

Abe Winslow writes of good visits with RusCotner and Dick Charlock, both of whom are comparatively recent additions to the roster in the Golden Gate area. Abe himself, long time secretary for the Northern California Association, has apparently withdrawn to a really quiet life, because it takes a new and younger man to tell (in the latest Club notes) how Abe's clutch pitching bested a combination of Brown, Columbia, and most of the rest of the Ivy League in the annual League picnic for the West Coast last June.

The Bill Carters have announced the marriage of their daughter Katharine Adelaide to Douglas Rosander Stevenson, on September 16, in Hanover. All members of the family will remain within hailing distance of each other for a while, because the groom is a Dartmouth senior.

This month's orchids go to the Bill Mezgers, who are celebrating their 25th Anniversary in November, and to the Rog Popes, whose silver wedding day falls on the 16th The CarlLenzes became grandparents on August 11, when a daughter, Joyce Leslie Andrus, was born to their daughter Dorothy in New Haven.

Gradually the Class of 1920 penetrates the Solid South. On top of the firm establishment of Bob Van Iderstine's Old North State Insurance Cos. in North Carolina, we now have LeeHodgkins settling in the Old Dominion and representing the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in the eastern area of Virginia, with headquarters in Richmond.

Ed Mating competes with Pike Emory for the most distant address in the Class, reporting his latest whereabouts as 2240 Waikolu Way, Honolulu, 20, T.H. This represents a long jump from Hillsboro, Oregon, but Ed makes plain that it left his interest in Dartmouth undamaged Quoting Paul Weil: "Still publishing a couple of trade magazines in radio, television and broadcasting fields. Golfing at North Hempstead Country Club in Port Washington, N. Y. Son Don, now 23, in his senior year at Colgate. Member of Delta Upsilon. After three years in war service, he retained his commission in the Air Corps Reserve."

Hal Clark sends on the unwelcome word that Ginger Bruce was in a tough automobile accident, resulting in multiple fractures; but the silver lining in that cloud is that Ginger is on the mend at 77 Bank St., Waterbury, Conn. The Doctor had nothing to add on his own account, but fellow-medico and fellow-classmate H. Sheridan Baketel Sr. fills in some of the gaps in the Clark record. Dr. Baketel points out that Hal is associate clinical professor of clinical surgery in the New York Medical College, assistant clinical professor of surgery in the New York Post Graduate Medical School, visiting surgeon at the Metropolitan Hospital and associate attending surgeon at the Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals. "Aside from that and a lot of operating," says, H.S.B. Sr., "old man Clark seems to have very little to do." Dr. Baketel himself was in Hanover for the sequicentennial of the Medical School and turned that into a 10-day visit, the longest he has spent there since graduation.

We report with deep regret the sudden death of Bill Dale, of coronary thrombosis, at his home in Wayne, Mich, on June 30. Modest and retiring as he was, Bill never lost track of Dartmouth or the Class. A fuller account of him appears in the necrology section of this issue.

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Treasurer, 1 Windmill Lane, Arlington 74, Mass.

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