1920
There could be much less congenial labors for this Labor Day morning than commencing one's second term of office as secretary of the Class of 1920. As represented by the Solid Seventy-three, who made our Thirtieth Reunion so successful, the Class appeared robust, cheerful and relatively prosperous. May the high spirits and good courage continue unabated until our Thirty-Fifth!
Reunion Remnants. On his way to the 30th festivities Laddie Myers stopped off at New Canaan, Conn., to try his golf game on an eastern course; sampled Woodway with JackBrotherhood; "concentrated," coming down the stretch, and parred the last four holes. (Mrs. Brotherhood's name, incidentally, frequently appears in accounts of Westchester-Fairfield tournaments.) ... Doc Miller, it will be recalled, wired his regrets to the reunion banquet. He was stalking some kind of quarry in the Rockies or High Sierras. Newly elected trustee of Worcester's Natural History Society and frequent lecturer on the adventurous life, Doc may have brought back East new trophies for the museum and new subject-matter for his appearances on the rostrum.. . . GeorgeSackett's daughter Joan, decorative debutante who added much to the official reunion picture, came to Hanover fresh out of graduation from Garland Junior College.... As they started on their various homeward paths, after Sunday's picnic, 25 or more reuners stopped at Stone House, Canaan, for a farewell toast to Twenty with Sherry and BettyBaketel. Among those who signed the Stone House Visitor's Book were Ginger Bruce, Laddie Myers, Gerry Stone, Jim Robertson, HalClark, Jack Lappin and Bun Harvey.
House Warmings. Ted Weis, turned country gentleman, has sold his home in the Ottawa Hills section of Toledo and taken title to a six and a half acre place on South Otter Creek Road, Lasalle, Mich. Thus he establishes himself closer to his place of business in nearby Monroe.... If all has gone as anticipated, the Jack Mayers are by now installed in the new home they were building in Dongan Hills, Staten Island. You can't get farther out in the country and still be a resident of New York City. . . .Dr. H. S. Baketel, honorary classmate, retired as of July 1 from the presidency of Reed & Carnrick, sold his summer place in Greenland, N. H., bought a new home near son Sherry at 309 Midland Ave., St. Davids, Pa., and will divide his time hereafter between the Philadelphia suburb and St. Petersburg, Fla.
Wedding Bells. From the junior Sherry of the Baketels comes a colorful first-hand account of the marriage of Barbara, daughter of Ted and Dorothy Cart, at Cart Wheel Farm, Harbourton, N. J., on July 12. Miss Cart became Mrs. Michael Macauley "in a very lovely setting, beautiful in its simplicity. Immediately following the ceremony the wedding party formed a reception line at the entrance to the main marquee, a three-pole affair under which tables were set to accommodate some 500 guests. A dance floor had been installed in a separate marquee, where two orchestras—one Hawaiian and one American —played almost constantly." Barbara is a graduate of Bennington College and Katharine Gibbs School, and husband Michael, a Field Artillery veteran, has his degree from the University of California. They are setting up housekeeping in New Hope, Pa., to the tune of an extra verse of "Bye Bye Baby," especially written for them by Anita Loos, the song's original author.
Stan and Grace Newcomer's son Bill was married July 14 to Betty Jean Gerken. The ceremony took place in the Bishop's Chapel of Rosary Cathedral, Toledo, and was followed by a wedding breakfast at the Toledo Club.. . . The weddings of two daughters of 1920 followed each other in quick succession in Rochester, N. Y., during June. Anne, daughter of the Pete Potters, was married on the Bth to Harcourt M. Sylvester, himself a Rochester resident. They have since been honeymooning in Europe. Wedding bells chimed on the 16th for Ruth Jean, second daughter of the Set Macks, who became the bride of James Wilson, a fellow alumnus of the University of Rochester.
Business and Professional. State Mutual of Massachusetts is proud of Ben Ayres, who has qualified for membership in the 1951 Million Dollar Round Table. .. . Paul Richter, Concord, N. H.'s agent for National Life of Vermont, is the newly-elected president of the local Association of Life Underwriters.. .. Charlie McGoughran, Sinclair's vice president, has been at home to callers since August 20 at the new air conditioned, sound-proofed Sinclair Oil Building, 600 Fifth Avenue, New York.... Hub Duffy, until recently Attorney-General of the state of Ohio, has resumed his former association with Thomas J. Duffy for the general practice of laW. The firm's offices are in the First National Building in Columbus. .. .John Amsden, a recognized authority on hospital history and management, spoke on July 9 before the Plymouth (N. H.) Rotary Club on "The Responsibilities and Problems of Hospital Trustees." In recent years John has made a very thorough study of hospitals in the United States and Europe, tracing their origin and history.
Belatedly we report a thumbnail sketch in the series of World Trade Leaders which appeared in the Journal of Commerce ImportBulletin of April 19:
"Clinton C. Johnson is vice president of Chemical Bank & Trust Co., in charge of the Foreign Department, having under his direction one of the largest international banking operations among U. S. banks.
"Mr. Johnson entered this field with the Chemical Bank in 1919, fresh from the war, with the first duty of copying letters in the old-fashioned copy press and sending out foreign mail. From that point he progressed through all the divisions of the Foreign Department, including letters of credit, collections, foreign exchange and commodity financing.
"Extensive traveling in the United States and foreign countries has made Mr. Johnson well known to his counterparts in banks around the world, and these associations have contributed greatly to the rapid growth of Chemical's foreign business.
"He attended Dartmouth College, has a degree from the Graduate School of Banking of Rutgers University, is vice president of the Bankers Association for Foreign Trade, vice president of the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce, a member of the New York Federal Reserve Board's Committees on Foreign Exchange and E. C. A., and a member of University Club.
Did you see Holiday magazine for September? The feature article is devoted to New Hampshire and the cover, appropriately, is a Paul Sample masterpiece. Says Holiday: "Thirty years ago undergrad Sample knocked them for a loop as Dartmouth's heavyweight boxing champ; today, at the same college, he's knocking them ditto as Artist in Residence. One of the great contemporary painters, Mr. Sample has even made New York's august Metropolitan." Bill Cunningham, as of June 5, anticipated some of those sentiments in what he called his "Yearly Art Critique" for the Boston Herald. "Paul Sample," to Bill, "as we Brother Rats knew him, was about as arty as a pair of football shoulder pads. (GusSonnenberg, Jim Robertson, Mel Merritt,Zack Jordan and Pat Holbrook come into the story at that point.) I had it on no less an authority than the late Mr. Sonnenberg that tackle candidate Sample was no geranium. But football was only part of it. The gentleman liked to box, and nobody in the institution was able to stand up to him.... He likewise was a basketball star. The man, furthermore, blew a hot saxophone. ... Pab today is a big, good-looking, easy-going gent, no more arty than he ever was to look at and talk with. But those honors, medals, exhibitions, commissions from magazines such as Life,Fortune, etc., seem to tell a different story."
Again—to get back to September Holiday- no self-respecting magazine could cover New Hampshire these days without reference to Governor Adams, and this feature story does the right thing by Sherm. Over and above a casual mention of the Governor's haircut, "which you always see because he doesn't wear a hat," the article pictures Sherm, Rachel, daughter Sally and son Sam enjoying a clambake on the top of Mount Sunapee. The New York Herald-Tribune also had a picture of Governor Adams on July 31, in connection with a story about the industrial development drive he is spark-plugging for New Hampshire. And later, August 29, he got on the AP wires when he had the state's new summer resident, Harold Stassen, for a luncheon guest.
All of Ray McPartlin's friends—and they are many—well know what a heavy loss he sustained when his wife Gertrude died on July 24. She was a rare spirit, a wonderful mother of three fine daughters and a staunch supporter of Ray himself all the way down the line. She had few equals at managing a home and raising a family; and in addition she had been an honor graduate of Trinity College, a greatly respected schoolteacher and a member of the Massachusetts bar.
We have it on the word of the man himself that a guy by the name of Elliott, caught again in the class officer draft, is out to collect class dues for 1920. "The only thing left uninflated," says Roc, "is class dues." Won't you give him a hand?
REUNION CHAIRMAN Frank Moulton '20 (right) and George Page '20, nominating committee chairman, look fearlessly at Ben Ayres' camera.
Secretary, Blind Brook Lodge, Rye 17, N. Y. Treasurer, 1 Windmill Lane, Arlington 74, Mass.
