1920
There are three obvious reasons why you should delay no longer in mailing your largest ever check to the Alumni Fund. 1) The College needs your support, deserves it, and relies on it. a) The Class is too good a class to be allowed to look bad in the company of its fellows. 3) Your Class Agent Al Foley has earned everlasting and enthusiastic support by his patient perseverance and undaunted good humor.
As A 1 has already mentioned in our exuberant Green Sheet, the Twenties up North have been stirring their stumps of late. AI Frey and Frank Moulton are in the van of the N. H. part of the so-called Children's Crusade, with Paul Richter of Lake Waukewan running the administrative end locally from an office on Concord's Main St. Paul reports that "Haland Harriette Bidwell have just returned (this was about April Fool's Day) from two months of wandering around the U.S.A. on a leisurely motor trip. They can tell you all about the wonders of the west, the delights of southern California and Texas. Living in Simsbury, Conn., Bid presides over the destinies of the Bidwell Hardware Cos. in Hartford."
Mrs. Tom Dudley, a Richter neighbor in Concord, did her valiant best to answer a recent secretarial demand for news. Big item on that family front is Dartmouth's acceptance of Tom Jr. for admission to the class of 1952. Young Tommie has been on the Phillipian at Andover and has likewise made his mark with the swimming team. His younger brother Dick is coming right along behind him. The family—ma, pa, and the boys—took their first real holiday in a long time at Easter and really "did" New York and Washington. Tom Sr. is much too quiet about his own accomplishments, but it's well known in Concord that he performs medical miracles almost daily. "Get Tom," is the cry, at the first sharp pain. "He's at his cheerful best," says wife Dorothy, "when the load of work is heaviest."
Twenty's other Concord resident (now that the phone co.'s Sam Center has moved out) is Charlie Falconer, who is still on the same job with the N. H. Unemployment Compensation Division. Charlie owns his own home; does some gardening; gets to Hanover for a game once in a while. He prefers to keep out of the limelight, but has a philosophically cheerful outlook on life in general.
Final New Hampshire Item of the month: Rachel White (Mrs. Sherm) Adams has been named New Hampshire Mother for 1948 by the American Mothers' Committee of the Golden Rule Foundation. Rachel is all that the GRF says she is, and its endorsement will not do a bit of harm to Sherm's chances for the governorship later this year.
On a recent venture into the fringes of the Berkshires, your correspondent finally caught up with Fred Buschmann, Westfield (Mass.) attorney, looking just about as youthful and vigorous as anybody could wish. Fred has a comfortable law practice, a lovely wife, a brand new Packard, and a fine home beautifully furnished with mouth-watering antiques. These, together with their summer place in nearby Otis, are important Buschmann family interests, but tops with both father and mother is young John Porter Buschmann, who will be nine this summer. His dad's law practice is mostly civil cases, estate work, and the like. The office has a well-worn, prosperous and permanent look. It all adds up to a not-toosmall -town life that is leisurely and happy.
The Annual Alumni Dinner of New York's Association, held at the Commodore, April 14, brought a presentable 1920 turnout. Big brag for us on the occasion was the incursion from the hinterland: Sam Stratton came down from Middlebury and found three would-be Middlebury Fathers waiting at the ballroom door to sell him on their daughters' applications. Sherry Baketel, just reelected (naturally) for a second two-year term on the Alumni Council, tore over from Philadelphia, and showed up in the excellent company of honorary classmate H. S. Baketel Sr. Jack Lappin broke loose from his Maine moorings and exchanged medical pleasantries through the evening with Dr. Hal Clark. Ginger Bruce maintained his annual (and much appreciated) habit of catching the streamliner down from Waterbury, Conn.
Others who found attendance a somewhat simpler but no less pleasant chore were BillFuguet, George Sackett and Paul Canada, the three whose daughters aspire to Middlebury; Tinker Lombard, Charlie Mills, Al Osborn,George Winter, Brad Oakley and Dick Pearson. Brad's Dartmouth undergraduate son, on the strength of a 3.7 average to date, is a newlyelected member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Absence out of town kept various Twenties, whose intentions were of the best, from swelling the class ranks at the dinner. Don Harris couldn't make it. His note of regret mentioned a 10-day busman's holiday—the railroader riding the rails up through Vermont to Canada, and back via the B. 8c M. and New Haven to his own B. & O. backyard. Jim Chilcott was on his second Latin American trip since the New Year. He writes now from Maltine Cos. headquarters in Morris Plains, N. J., where the company's administrative offices (Jim is President) are located, as well as its new laboratories. Maltine got out a handsome but informal brochure, as a get-acquainted gesture to the new neighbors in New Jersey, and the publicity produced 1700 applications for the 100 vacant jobs at the new location. CarrollSwezey was taking a rest in South Carolina at the time of the dinner. Clint Johnson had to be out of town on business, as did John Fellis, who had his reservation made but had to settle instead for an unexpected plane ride to Detroit.
Lek Willard got off that very day, April 14, for Hanover, so as to talk to the Tuck Schoolers on Production Control. Answering pressing inquiries about his new connection, Lek explained that he is now plant manager of the new Manning, Maxwell & Moore Cos. factory in Stratford, Conn., for the manufacture of pressure gauges. Formerly production control manager in the company's Bridgeport plant, he now has to tangle with plant manufacturing, purchasing methods and accounting functions. As a sideline, which he particularly likes, he manages a Junior Achievement Cos. of high school kids, who learn the rudiments of business through their own company which makes plastic articles.
Here is the latest on Pat Tobin. Under his aegis, the famous old house of Steigerwalt on Philadelphia's Chestnut St. is to expand the facilities in its main store and open a branch in Haverford. The firm handles men's and women's shoes, women's accessories, and so on. Pat's new home address is 22 Llanfair Road, Ardmore, Penna.
The Pasadena Star-News for April 1 carried the engagement announcement of Barbara Helen Forbush, daughter of Zenas (Forby), to Herbert W. Kalmbach, navy veteran with a rank of lieutenant (j. g.). Mr. Kalmbach, attending U. S. C., plans to enter law school in the fall. His June bride-to-be, Tournament of Roses princess in 1942, is a right beautiful young lady. Forby, her father, writes that he has been connected with the tax assessor's office in Pasadena for more than a year, after leaving his long-time connection with the Los Angeles Athletic Club. He called on DickHayes at his "San Fernando Valley hideout" not long ago, and reports the ex-colonel and wife most happy in their new home.
The Class has sustained a severe loss in the death, April 1, of Stan Munroe. Quiet and modest always, but a deservedly popular member of 1920, Stan has an appropriate tribute paid to him by his nephew, George B. Munroe '43, who wrote the notice which appears in the In Memoriam section of the MAGAZINE.
All his many friends will grieve for A dieStern, whose lovely wife Edna was lost to him in April.
Secretary, Blind Brook Lodge, Rye 17, N. Y. Treasurer, 1 Windmill Lane, Arlington 74, Mass. Class Agent, Box 315, Hanover, N. H.
