1920
Salutations this month to Charlie Mc-Goughran, Assistant to the Vice President of the Sinclair Refining Company, who on April 1 was appointed General Sales Manager in complete charge of the sales activities of the company. This, according to our spies in the oil business, is Really Something. It caused the latest alleged likeness of our Charles to appear on one of the financial pages of the N. Y. Herald-Tribune around and about that time.
Another of our Twenties who made the New York papers in April was Paul Sample. The one-man show of his work at the Associated American Artists galleries, running through the month of April, was the first exhibition of his painting in New York since 1942. It turned out to include some of his best-remembered canvasses—"Chicken Thief" is one example—and also a whole new series of pictures of New England life. A Herald-Tribune art critic said: "Sample's style has not changed materially; it has grown inwardly with a subtle feeling for nature; outwardly it appears more decorative; flat colors are used tastefully, with almost cursory slightness; it reveals a true instinct for draftsmanship, something that leads him, in his landscapes, to deal with life skilfully, but more than ever illustratively Mr. Sample imbues his scenes with lightness, serenity; his colors are the piquant accents of the realist, the academic artist, who sees clearly and deftly translates reality."
At the House of the Bar Association, starting April 26, the artist-members, of. the. New, York Bar were showing each other what they had accomplished in the painting line during the past year. Prominent among the names in the Association's Committee on Art is that of Carl E. Newton, who has taken some top awards in this show in years past.
Some of the Not-So-Young-Men-About-Manhattan who were not haunting the art galleries on the night of April 21 were the following: Paul Canada, Hal Clark, John Felli,Fred (once known as Beardsley) Foster, PhilLenz, Tinker Lombard, CharlieMcGoughran, Bill Mezger, Newt Nash, RogerNutt, Dick Pearson, George Sackett, Prugh (formerly Sig) Sigler, Spence (once Peck, God knows why) Snedecor, Warren Turner and Lek Willard. These lads gathered at the Dartmouth Club to see what they could find out about each other and to view football movies which the D.A.A. had been thoughful enough to provide for the occasion. It was a good party. The Sigler-Gross-Sackett combination made some special efforts to get the boys out, and Phil unabashedly and quite properly improved on the occasion to promote his new activity as Assistant Class Agent in the New York area. In a mood of bemused reminiscence, John Felli was heard to inquire whether anybody knew how far into the thousands Al Cate may have catapulted his scientific, lifetime system for recovering socks and other odd articles from the laundry. We pause for a reply.
Quite an assortment o£ entertaining and welcome letters have come to hand .... from Jim Powell, giving us his new address at 16 Rutland St., Dover, N. H., and promising to keep us better posted in the future .... from Dick Hayes, as a follow-up on our secretarial Far Western travel.... from Leo Ungar, who has done some transcontinental hopping himself, trying first California and then Florida, after a 12-inch snowstorm in a land where chains don't exist had kept him from seeing Dick Kimball or any other Dartmouths in California's customarily sunny south from Ben Ayres, who gives us 15 Col ton Lane, Shrewsbury, Mass., as the spot where Hub Loudon of New England Power Cos. has installed himself in a new home, and who reports occasional exchange o£ greetings with Jack O'Brien of Western Biscuit Co.'s Worcester headquarters. Ben appends the information that Doc Miller had to rely on some outside surgical aid for the removal of his own appendix last fall.
There are still other breezy and newsy communications from Sherry Baketel, A. B.Prescott and Charlie Crathern. Sherry, motoring east from San Antonio to New Orleans, hoped to encounter on the road Tom Ainsworth, who had accepted a flattering offer from the U. S. Public Health Service and was taking four weeks to drive "in easy stages to Texas via Florida in a new boiler." The encounter did not come about, as hoped, but the doctor is reported to be safely established in the Public Health Service Hospital at Fort Worth. Sherry caught up with the most dazzling features of the Mardi Gras in New Orleans; then came north in time to visit with Jim Frost, now completing his 18th year as school superintendent in Putnam, Conn., and Art Pierce, who is just leaving the superintendency at Wellesley, Mass. Both were in
attendance at the Philadelphia meeting of the American Association of School Administrators. About to hook up his trailer and leave his Garden Court Apartment residence in Philadelphia, according to Sherry, is Charlie Ashton, who plans an extended trip to the southwest. He recently sold his South Dennis, N. J., property.
Abe Prescott is back in Colorado. He moved his family out of there last May (Abe was practising osteopathy in Hugo), thinking that a new supply of dust storms was on the way and seeking to avoid that particular brand of trouble. They drove over 25,000 miles, mostly in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Michigan; "finally sat down in Belding, Mich., because school was starting and the local doctors said they needed someone there." But the housing problem was_ frightful, industrial troubles closed in on the town, and Colorado began to sound pretty good to the Prescott family again. They decided this time on Pueblo and Abe has now opened up an office there, with a most promising outlook for the future. It's a long way from Hanover, he regrets, but the Prescotts keep promising themselves a pilgrimage back, even tho' "at the Inn on our honeymoon in '25 a hair curler Mrs. p bought at a local appliance store went fft and burned off part of her hair when she tried to pretty up before dinner."
Charlie Crathern saw some of the cham. pionship hockey in Colorado before he started back east from there. "When the Merci train arrived in Denver," according to Charlie, he as an old poilu "was invited to ride in its deluxe freight cars and to drown out sorrow with pinard on the trip to Cheyenne. That was cold mountainous country, but the pinard and the expression 'c'est la guerre' made us all forget it. It was a great trip."
"Foley substituting for McLaughry" is not intended to imply that A 1 has been filling in for Tuss in directing Big Green strategy. He did, however, take over for the coach on two speaking engagements in northern Jersey and Westchester late in March Sam Stratton has been doing some talking too. He was top man on the program at the Middlebury Alumni dinner in Springfield, Mass., March 25 The Roc Elliotts are quietly celebrating the arrival of a grandson February 2. .... Charlie Stevens is president of the Zeta Psi Educational Foundation, a program to develop leadership and outstanding scholarship among-younger members- of the fraternity.. ... Congratulations poured in from all over the country. * according to the Boston Herald, when Johnny Prentiss's Keene Evening Sentinel celebrated on March 23 the 150 th anniversary of the founding of the paper by John's great-grandfather.
Keeping up with the Adamses: Governor Sherm, under his so-called "Little Hoover" plan has been empowered by the N. H. legislature to reorganize the governmental agencies of the state. He has "supplied the pulpit" in his home town of Lincoln, gone to Washington as a guest of the Cherry Blossom Festival committee, crowned New Hampshire's poultry queen, snowshoed down Cannon Mountain, and had his picture in the paper countless times.
We celebrate in June the 50th birthdays of Bill Carter on the 15th, Tom Glines on the 22d, Charlie Stevens and Bob Dow on the 25th and Harold Bower pn the 30th. And, for the record, it should be noted that WarrenTurner, Larry Lovejoy, Nate Whiteside, Carrol Downes and Hal Bernkopf "come o£ age" in August; Scout Lee and Fred Ruisseau in August; George Winter and John Garden in September. The best o£ everything goes to the following for June silver wedding anniversaries: the Ed Taylors on the 7th; the Sel Macks on the 17th; the Dan Benders and Prugh Siglers on the 18th; the Ralph Robertses on the 24th; and the George Rassieurs on an unverified June date 25 years ago.
ART WORK OF THE BAR (LEGAL): New York lawyer Carl Newton '20, himself an exhibitor, drew this program cover for the Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by members of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, April 26.
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Treasurer, 1 Windmill Lane, Arlington 74, Mass.
Class Agent. Box 315, Hanover, N. H.
