1920
Twenty has been ringing the bell againringing it madly, like a whole furious chorus of Swiss bell ringers. Consider, for instance, the following items:
Red Small, whose bright light has been too long under a bushel, was finally exposed to the pitiless glare of alumni publicity, when Jack Hurd presented his case in the December issue of this MAGAZINE. Anyone who missed that article on Red's outstanding accomplishments for the relief of human pain and misery should backtrack four months and catch up on his homework. Red has been for ten years Head Chemist, Division of Chemotherapy, U. S. Public Health Service.
Charlie Crathern has been getting his picture in the papers again. He went out west for a rest, but almost immediately saw his chance for a new kind of air mission, and in no time was dropping hay over Casper, Wyo., from no more than 200 feet up. "From the New England viewpoint," Charlie was quoted, "it's a lot easier dropping hay than picking it up." So doubtless by now our flying friend is well rested. The reports on him are gratefully acknowledged to PaulRichter, who gathered them from Ned DeRouville, sales manager for U.S. Envelope Cos. in Worcester.
Clayt Wallace is another whose latest achievements are reported by the elder of the Richter brothers. Clayt, interviewed on the streets of Concord, N. H. several months ago, admitted that his movements now take him to all corners of the U. S. He is General Superintendent of The Temperance League of America, with an office address in Washington, D. C., and a home in Indianapolis.
Bud Phillips is not long returned from the Australian "inaugural" of the Holden automobile, which General Motors makes espe- cially for Australian consumption. Bud is the Operations Manager of G.M.'s Overseas Operations Division, and has lately been placed in charge of all assembly plants overseas.
Paul Sample's "Rittenhouse Square" "led local balloting as the most popular painting in the Gimbel Pennsylvania Art Collection," according to the Lancaster, Pa., New-Era. Paul was "overwhelmingly the popular favorite" throughout the show sponsored by the Lancaster County Art Association, with his "School Children in Independence Square" earning third-highest number of votes and "Devon Horse Show" placing fifth.
Next, three springtime toasts to the ladies, God bless them! (1) Carroll Swezey's fetching 20-year-old daughter Priscilla was quite rightly crowned queen of the Dartmouth Winter Carnival. (2) Frank Mayer's wife {Catherine, a corking golfer when the Lake Shore course is in operation, won midwinter honors of another sort when she was elected president of the Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago. (3) Ray McPartlin's daughter Joan, Radcliffe senior, is rounding out her college career as the first girl staff member in all the Harvard Crimson's 75 years of existence. So well has her job been done that from now on a small board of three girls, editorial and business, will carry on the tradition thus established.
Some good letters have been coming in. Freddy Hamm, reporting for Hanover Holiday in Chicago, gives an unofficial count of the following Twenties in attendance: LaddieMyers, Nate Whiteside, Len Davis, Don McKay, Henry Spero, Frank Corbin and FrankMayer.... Bill Farnham, perennial booster for the Great Northwest, can't think of anything especially, new about his own bachelorhood, but welcomes Reuel Phillips back to Spokane. Reuel has settled down at 172 South Coeur d'Alene St Johnny McAllaster, regretting George Noveck's departure from Albany, opines that New York's loss is New Jersey's gain. George remains a bridge engineer in the Public Roads Administration, but reviews plans and projects in the N. J. district office, instead of serving the larger division unit which centers in Albany. The Federal Building in Trenton is where you'll find George at work; he has found a place to live at 8 Rex Court The welcome word from Jack Mayer is that San Palo is back in business circulation, having joined up with a former associate to form or revive the investment firm of Ruth & Palo in Buffalo. J. Mayer himself has been having one of his busiest years. He is Deputy Grand Master of the Richmond Masonic District, com- mander of a Reserve AAA group, and president of the Reserve Officer Association Chapter on Staten Island.
Arthur Pierce's resignation has been announced, effective April 1, from the superintendency of the Wellesley, Mass., school system. Formerly at Bangor, Me., Reading and Southbridge, Mass., Art has held the Wellesley post since 1943.
All in the Class will mourn with Don Rodgers the untimely passing of his wife Esther last December.
A very recent gleaning from the metropolitan journals: Mr. and Mrs. George F. Kuryman of 1112 Park Avenue, New York City and Stratford, Conn, announce the engagement of their daughter Sally Jane to Michael Bernkopf, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold E. Bernkopf of Brookline and Martha's Vineyard, Mass. Miss Kurzman graduated from the Dalton School and is now attending Wheelock College. Mr. Bernkopf will be graduated from Dartmouth College next June. During the war he served with the U.S. Army Military Intelligence in Washington, D. C.
And so we become increasingly aware, from month to month, that the pops and grandpops of 1920 are growing older. On April Fool's Day, just 50 years ago, Leo Ungar saw the light of day, followed one day later by Breg Breglio. Along came Pete Potter on April 10, Hib Richter on the 13th, Al Cate on the 14th, Ray McPartlin on the 19th, Roy Rubel on the 25th and Dick Hayes on the 29th.
Silver wedding anniversaries this April include the Chuck Garnseys on the 3d. Then followed a batch of them, everybody getting married at once back there in 1924: the BunHarveys on the 21st, the Charlie Cowleses and Roger Nutts on the 22d, and the Bill Fuguets on the 23d. The best of everything to one and all!
The aforementioned Bill Fuguet, new president of the New York Color Slide Club, was one of 13 Twenties (by the best available count) in attendance at the annual Alumni Dinner in New York. Sam Stratton took the curse off the unlucky number by occupying a seat at the speakers' table, while down below sat his compatriots—friend Fuguet, CharlieMcGoughran, Tom Davidson, Sherry Baketel,Tom Ainsworth, Gerry Stone, Newt Nash,Prugh Sigler, Tom Glines, Al Oshorn, Beardsley Foster and George Winter.
Sig has since, on Valentine's Day, become a first-time grandfather, with the arrival down in Virginia of Wendell Prugh Sigler the 3d. Gramp, feeling his age, has moved into town at 222 West 71st St., whence he can even drop into his Radio City office on Sundays and holidays. Commuting, sezze, is no life for him, after experiences in Larchmont and Old Greenwich; but he'll settle for a Connecticut farm, if someone will dig one up for his weekends. Newt Nash, on the other hand, continues to appreciate the blessings of Scarsdale, even tho' that involves daily trips to 60 Wall St. There Newt is law partner with Barent Ten Eyck, who did so well as one of Tom Dewey's bright young assistants way back when the racket investigations were going on. Last June Newt had three commencements to worry about at once. His older daughter finished at University of North Carolina, the younger girl graduated from Masters to enter Smith, and son Newt the Younger polished off Kent School as a stepping-stone to Yale. Incidentally dentally, Tom Glines's boy, Dartmouth '44, has gone into the real estate business with his old man in Greenwich, Conn.
Travel notes. While the younger Glines keeps things in hand, the folks will be off for Bermuda. And by the time these jottings appear, Gerry Stone will have started another of his European junkets. Ben Ayres, after a Sunday spent in Hanover looking over the ice sculptures, shivered and headed South, for a three or four weeks' stay. Sherry Baketel will have made his company's San Antonio convention a handy stop on the way to Mexico City, for that's where he was bound and that's where he and his good wife may have run head on into the Stan Newcomers. Your secretary and Robin will be aboard the City of San Francisco exactly a week from the day these notes are penned, and all of us Rover Boys will pass on to you later our tales of wild adventure.
Secretary, Blind Brook Lodge, Rye 17, N. Y.
Treasurer, 1 Windmill Lane, Arlington 74, Mass.
Class Agent, Box 315, Hanover, N. H.
