1920
Two new presidents we got, we Twenties, and mighty proud of them we are! Modest Carl Lenz, tho' he almost hates to admit it, is the recently chosen president of Kennecott Sales Corporation, in which he assumes major responsibility for disposing of Kennecott copper anywhere and everywhere on the earth's surface. And Chet Smith, nationally known sports writer for the Pittsburgh Press, is this year's president of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
Chet was said by New York sport scribes to have "set a new world record for speeches by delivering his opener (at the annual banquet) in one minute 24 seconds." According to them, he "could have used another minute profitably to relate how he bought $3 worth of stage money and shipped it to Roy Hamey with the note, 'I figure you will need this about now.' " Hamey, of the Pirates, had paid the top bonus price of $100,000 to entice a just-graduated Los Angeles high school pitcher into professional ranks.
Cornered in California, Chet wrote from the Pirates' San Bernadino training camp:
"Not much to report. As a friend of mine wrote in our Scripps Howard monthly magazine, 'The facts about Mr. Smith's early life are duller than most facts.' I've been in newspaper work ever since I came back from the Navy in 1919 and have been sports editor of the PittsburghPress since '31. I seem to spend most of my life packing or unpacking a bag—baseball trips, World Series, bowl games, golf tournaments and the like. One comfort, my wife doesn't see enough of me to know what a deadly bore I am. So we get along famously. Incidentally, being president of the Baseball Writers Association hasn't affected my status with the income tax people. It's a job that costs money to hold."
Our other new president, Carl Lenz, is also quite a bag-packer—more so than ever in his new capacity. He's even now plotting out some foreign travel for May, deciding which of the European countries offer best prospects for Kennecott copper. And that leads us to reflect admiringly on the unprecedented late-winter exodus of Twenties to all corners of the globe. Leo Ungar, wife Alice and daughter Barbara were off for Europe early in March, planning stops in London, Paris, Nice, the Riviera, Rome, Naples, Sorrento, Florence, Lucerne, Frankfort and Amsterdam. This expedition had a touch of business in it—buying for "southwestern lowa's largest home furnishing store." Motor matters have recently taken HarryPhillips to South America, while the SpenceSnedecors chose to explore that continent as a prescription against medical overwork.
Our comparative newlyweds, the ArtieSterns, report all fine and fancy-free in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. JimChilcott, who likes that part of the world too, spent a week in Cuba during March. Jack Brotherhood carries his fondness for the Caribbean even farther: he has bought a place in Antigua, one of the Bahama Islands, spends every minute he can spare down there and is nuts about it. The Sherry Baketels had a February convention to attend in Havana, and on the way back allowed themselves three days with honorary classmate HSB Sr. Dr. Baketel has a lovely new Florida home in the Bahama Shores section of St. Petersburg. Charlie McGoughran got to Florida for two weeks, but that was strictly business, as so much of the McGough's active life has to be.
Following the example of the HershChandlers, the Stan Newcomers fled the tough windup of a midwest winter to seek solace in Hawaii. They were hoping for a Honolulu reunion with resident Twenties, Pike Emory and Ed Maling. Stan, come to think of it, is still another new Twenty president—of the Dartmouth Club of Toledo. Perhaps unbeknown to him, the Ted Carts cut loose in February on a two months' cruise to the Far East, with Honolulu also on their list as an important port of call.
If all the above had been able to entrust their itineraries to Carroll Hill, St. Petersburg, Fla.'s, premier travel planner, Carroll could have circumnavigated the globe a couple of times on his profits. As it is, he "has finally been able to get his office staff up to the point where he feels that he can go on a trip and see some of the places he has been telling other people about for the last 20 years." The quote comes from ChuckGarnsey, secretary-treasurer of the Dartmouth Club of South Florida, in which outfit GeorgeLoehr of Fort Lauderdale holds a vicepresidency. Warrie Chamberlaine gets around to meetings occasionally from his present home at Belle Isle Courts, Venetian Way, Miami Beach. Chuck, who is located in Miami at 5811 North Bayshore Drive, writes briefly about himself:
"I have gotten sand in my shoes and taken root here" in Miami. For the past four years I have been in the electrical contracting business. This past year has meant a great deal' to me because of my, should I say, reconnection with Dartmouth College and Dartmouth men thru our club here. I sincerely feel if Dartmouth, men all over the country would put forth just a little more effort and try to get in closer contact with the College either thru a Dartmouth club or by correspondence with someone at Hanover, they would be well repaid How my wife has put up with me for the last 25 years, I can't understand. Our daughter is a grown-up gal now—a good looking number, if I do say so."
Lots of newsy letters this past month, almost more than a man deserves. Paul Bowerman wrote in a happy and mellow mood:
"I was in the east last summer as the Caltech delegate to an engineering education conference. Shortly after our we sought a place in this pleasant village (Sierra Madre), only 15 minutes from the Caltech campus, at the foot of Mt. Wilson. A little orchard keeps me out of mischief. The move ended an eight-year hitch of commuting from Los Angeles to Pasadena..... My daughter Helen, who was born in Berlin of my first marriage, married John A. Reindel when they were both about to finish their schooling in Ann Arbor. A grandson, named for the father, was born in Washington on November 15, 1948.
As a comparatively new grandfather, Paul will be interested in the news of CharlieCrathern's third grandchild, a girl, born on New Year's day to daughter Dorothy Ann, (Mrs. Arthur W. French). Leading grandsires in the class, as reported in Al Foley's latest Twenty, are George Vincent, Henry Hayes and Tommy Thomson, each with four third generation offspring.
Here's the latest from Bob Van Iderstine, after a year of residence in Baltimore: "As you know, I was asked to help start an insurance company in North Carolina. After putting in much too much unproductive time there I decided that support was not forthcoming and gave it up as a bad job, writing the whole deal off to experience. On April 1, 1949 I joined Leonhart & Co., Inc., in Baltimore as a vice president. We are both insurance and reinsurance intermediaries, so I'm back in a field that I have been in almost all of my business life. Needless to say any visiting firemen will be greeted with open arms! .... In Minneapolis-St. Paul the middle of December I tried, but failed, to reach Don McLeran. I gathered from others that he is quite a big shot in the life insurance business. I have since been laid up for six weeks (imagine me with a heart attack) but the doc says I will have no- bad after affects."
Sam Stratton writes engagingly about the life of a college president, surprising this observer no end by stating that he, like most college presidents, is pretty constantly on the road. As is customary, his Middlebury ski team ran neck-and-neck with Dartmouth throughout the winter season Dick Hayes sends a bulletin on daughter Barbara, who has finished her training as a nurse and is earning a fabulous salary at the Birmingham Hospital, convenient to the Hayes homestead right there in Van Nuys, Calif Eric Stahl reports two trips from Tulsa to Hanover in the past two years: "one when we put our daughter in Wellesley in September, 1947, and another last spring when the same daughter fast talked me out of my business car for the balance of the school year."
Jim Powell, in recent touch with classmates Adams and Foley, has 30th Reunion attendance much on his mind for 1951 Charlie Goodnow, New England division manager for Standard Brands, admits possession of a new home at 47 Yale St., Winchester, Mass.; "has both children at school in Maine, a daughter at Gould Academy in Bethel, and a son greatly enjoying his special studies in agriculture at the state university Paul Kay, who managed the Port Chester (N. Y.) office of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. for a full 25 years, has now been installed as Mount Vernon manager, with a chance of 50% increase in business Craig Sheaffer's fountain pen company declared an extra dividend in February, making this year's dividends of $11.25 per share the largest in the company's 38-year history Governor Sherman Adams is the 1949 winner of the New England Outdoor Writers Association's Parker Trophy, awarded annually to the person considered to have done most for conservation of natural resources in N. H.
Hail Lloyd Smith, youngest member of the Class, who finally attains his 50th birthday on April 14! Lloyd is an officer of Virginia Dare Extract Co.; a past president and governor of the Extract Association and a just retired president of the Soda Water Flavoring Association. His boy, seeking a career as a chemical engineer, is a sophomore at Princeton.
BESIDE A JOSHUA TREE in the Mojave Desert stands Paul Bowerman '20, world traveler, educator, diplomat and author, now comfortably and contentedly settled in Southern California.
Secretary, Blind Brook Lodge, Rye 17, N. Y. Treasurer, 1 Windmill Lane, Arlington 74, Mass. Class Agent, Box 315, Hanover, N. H.
