1920
The New York Times and Newsweek went all out for our Ted Cart early in the summer. Hailing him as America's "luggage king" and reporting the sales of his Atlantic Products Cos. running at an all-time high, they blazoned his story across their financial pages and illustrated it with fitting snapshots of 1920's top entrepreneur. "Cart has revolutionized travel for the average American," trumpeted the Times, "and, in him, we witness the embodiment of a new concept of luggage that threatens to change travel habits." "His army of dealers (4000 of them) makes Cart confident that his firm is all but depression proof," concluded Newsweek. Variety of product has something to do with the firm's stability, also. If you buy the latest lightweight golfbag from your pro, or the lowest priced zipper kit bag in the drug store, or a dustproof Car-Sac in your home town's swankiest department store, the chances are that you're making your contribution to Atlantic's continued progress and to Ted's industry and imagination. And our armed forces in the last war were better off for the light-weight duffle bags, field bags, canteen covers, hammocks, service pads and Val-A-I'acks that Atlantic turned out for them. "What will he think up next?" is the question the competition must be asking, but the boys can depend upon it that Ted Cart won't stop thinking.
There have been other distinguished achievements in business by Twenties since we rendered our last report. Rus Jones, account executive, became a vice-president of Cunningham & Walsh, Inc., the advertising agency which has done so much over the years to keep the smoking public conscious of Chesterfields. In its present makeup, C & W is pretty much an outgrowth of Newell-Emmett which Rus joined way back in 1929 and remained with for many years HikeNewell, executive vice-president of Geyer, Newell & Ganger, has been elected to the board and executive committee of the National Outdoor Advertising Bureau HalBernkop and partner are buying and operating specialty shops in northeastern Massachusetts. They've taken over Town and Country in Belmont and Royal of Salem, Inc. Hal will commute (from Brookline) to Salem daily and "try to satisfy all the local witches.".... Gerry Morse has made a connection with Bancroft, Ltd., of 363 Madison Ave., one of the Big Town's top outlets for fine men's furnishings and summer clothes Ken Fenderson was a key figure in what the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times called "one of the biggest shows in town" last spring. As vice-president and general counsel for the Florida Power Corporation, Ken contended vigorously that a $300,000 increase in rates was what the doctor ordered, as opposed to the county utility board's insistence that an even more sizable reduction of rates was in order.
Next, let's take a look at the events of the summer mating season and the fruits of still earlier seasons. Most interesting item in these categories may well be the arrival, May 21, of Julie Marie, handsome seven-pound daughter of Mugs and Lucia Morrill. Newest of the Twenty babies, she puts her old man in the young father class with Paul Richter and HalClark. A June bridegroom from the 1920 roster was Gerry Baron, who was married to Betty Harms McColm in his home town of Columbus, Ohio.
Jim Parkes, Sherry Baketel, and Bun Harvey are the latest to report the arrival of grandchildren, all gals. Reminding us that his daughter Jess, Smith graduate, was married in 1947 to Courtland Van Renseler Halse Jr., now assistant to the Dean of Admissions at Rhode Island State University, Jim proclaims his own advancement to the state of grandfatherhood on June 21, when Dale Simmons Halsey arrived, "weighing seven pounds eight ounces in her shower bath costume. Sherry's second grandchild began life seven ounces lighter than the Parkes granddaughter. Her loyal mother worked the Class of 1920 twice into her first daughter's name, sending the "surprisingly cute young lady out into the world under the label of Sherry Kimball Leonards. The daughter of Bob Harvey, recent Dartmouth football star, was born April 14 and is named Linda Carol.
The elder Harveys had matrimonial matters to engage their attention in June, as did the Bung Rolands and the Charlie Cratherns. Jane Harvey, who graduated from Smith earlier in the month, was married June 30 to Robert Charles Baldwin, graduate of Colgate and Harvard Business School, with a record of four years' wartime service as lieutenant in the Navy. The ceremony took place in St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Wellesley, Mass., and her father gave the bride away. So did Phillips H. Roland give his daughter Carol Bruce in marriage, on June 17, at the Church of St. John the Evangelist in nearby Swampscott. The bride carried a bouquet of white orchids, such as only the Rolands can raise, when she took the vows with Richard Lee Ranger, Dartmouth and Tuck School graduate. An announcement from Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Alexander Drawbridge tells of the marriage of their daughter, Xeola Mae, to Charles Frank Hill Crathern 111 on June 20 in Concord, N. H.
Another matrimonial item appeared on June 18 in the New Hampshire Sunday News, which announced that Governor ShermAdams' "middle" daughter Jean of the Alumni Records Office (interim resident of Sun Vallev) will marry William Martin Hallager of Hartsdale, N. Y„ Danish-born Dartmouth and Tuck School graduate, who is as enthusiastic a skier as his fiancee. Jean's lovely picture, running the width of four full columns, probably set some new kind of record for local society pages.
The New York Herald-Tribune of August 19 recorded the marriage of Sallie Barrow Newton, daughter of Carl, to Jose Machado Calhoun, a neighbor in Millbrook, N. The ceremony took place in Grace Church, Mill brook. Sallie went to Madeira School and Yassar. As Mrs. Calhoun, she will live in Cambridge, where her Yale-graduated husband is attending Harvard Law School.
Ted Weis has brought us up to date on the younger (shall we say Weiser?) generation. With the older daughter married and settled down, it was in the summer o£ 1949 that Dartmouth undergraduate Ted Jr. and his sister Polly took a student bicycle tour through Europe, hitting the high spots of England, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and Holland. Once having had the bit in his teeth, young Ted business-managed a tour for others this past summer and did the whole thing all over again. Polly has come East to Boston now, and is working on cancer research at the Children's and Infants' Hospital.
Bill Fuguet, fine friend to many and loyal Dartmouth man these 30 odd years, passed away in June. An In Memoriam notice appears in the back pages of this issue. If you failed to read the July issue with sufficient care, you may have missed the election of our Slan Newcomer as vice-president of the General Alumni Association for the year 195051. Sam Stratton's picture appeared in the same issue, in the distinguished company of the other recipients of honorary degrees. "With family pride and neighborly affection," said John Dickey as he made Sam a Doctor of Laws, "Dartmouth today acknowledges her gratification in the achievement of a son and salutes with admiration the institution he now heads in the year of its 150 th anniversary."
Secretary, Blind Brook Lodge, Rye 17, N. Y.
Treasurer, 1 Windmill Lane, Arlington 74, Mass.
Memorial Fund Chairman, 438 East Elm Ave., Monroe, Mich.
