1920
Just in case the facts are not made amply clear in the other pages of this issue, let it be stated here that the mornings of September 29 and 30 dawned clear and crisp in the Hanover-Woodstock region. As 1920's Executive Committee rolled out of bed to start homeward after arduous business sessions, the thermometer outside the Woodstock Inn regis- tered just below freezing. It had been approaching that point when the Committee dutifully sized up the season's prospects at the opening game with Fordham the day before, and there was every indication that thingswere going to get no better fast in the North Country.
As you will remember, your Executive Committee numbers n members. Of that total only Craig Sheaffer could not attend this First Annual Meeting; the demands on him elsewhere were imperative. But it's a sure thing; that he can be counted on for Meeting No. 2. John Beranek came successfully through from Seattle, the Stan Newcomers from Monroe,. Mich., and the Pete Potters from Rochester, N. Y. The rest of us had it a little easier, the Popes, Elliotts and Macombers rolling upfrom Boston after a half day's work Friday, while the Dick Pearsons were resolutely smashing their way through from the south. Frank Moulton shut up his Littleton law office for the week-end, and the Hanover contingent of the Harry Sampsons and Al Foley played host graciously as they never fail to do.
What did your Executive Committee execute? It elected Pete Potter as the new ClassAgent, to fill the sizeable shoes of the redoubtable AI Foley—and at the same time it persuaded A 1 that life would be empty indeed without a continuation of the Green Sheet, Twenty, as only he can put it together. Pete comes to his new assignment with a lot of fund-raising experience. There in Rochester he was four times chairman of war bond drives, besides heading the local advertising group in work for the Community Chest. He has done business on a nation-wide scale in the American Heritage campaign (Freedom Train and all) carried on by the Advertising Council, and he's had plenty of experience as, an assistant agent in the Alumni Fund drivesof the past. More power to him for the future! He will start right in exploring and analyzing: the record of our Fund participation and will be promptly cooking up ways and means tomake our showing better. A "steering committee" and an enlarged staff of assistant agents figure in Pete's plans for spurring 1920 on in the Green Derby.
George Macomber reported the first stepshe has taken to investigate the class disposition toward off-year reunions. He gets considerable encouragement on this score from other nearby classes; and shortly he will be framing a questionnaire to help discover how 1920 feels about the whole matter. If you have some thoughts of your own in the meantime, about where and when such get-togethers might be held, and how they would be conducted, send in your ideas to George at his home, 20 Lovewell Road, Wellesley 81, Mass. Hazel will help George size your notions up for whatever they may be worth.
The Executive Committee terminated its formal deliberations with a sitting vote of thanks to the Reunion Committee for managing a Thirtieth Reunion which remains a happy memory. "No complaints at all" stands as the verdict on that one.. .. Less formal in nature was the committee's solicitous phone call to Eddie Bowen of Loudonville, N. Y., for a cheering word on the health and happiness of Georgette, the queen as well as the goat of last June's festivities. Georgette continues in fine fettle, all will be glad to know.
... Jack Potter came along with his parentsfor the Woodstock week-end and lent a really helping hand in all manner of ways, from chauffeuring to picture-taking. Jack is just now finishing up at the business school of the University of Missouri, after some preliminary years at the University of New Mexico.
. .. John Beranek allowed himself real latitude for his first trip all the way East in a good many years. He made family visits in Minnesota and Wisconsin and was planning an equally deliberate return to the Northwest.
Out of the Woodstock convocation came belated but interesting news of events dating all the way back to last June. Joyce Hodgkins, daughter of Lee, was married on the 27th, becoming Mrs. John Graydon Legg in King's Chapel, Boston. Naturally, the return of the Hodgkinses (now loyal sons and daughters of the Old Dominion, suh) to their old-time Back Bay haunts brought out an enthusiastic gathering of Twenties. The George Macombers and the Eb Wallaces gave a steak roast for the bridal party the day before the wedding, and the Mugs Morrills entertained at a luncheon on the great day itself. The AlPalmers—-who, by the way, have a son enjoying undergraduate life at the University of Miami in Florida—stopped by for the wedding and later spent some few days renewing acquaintances in The Hub. ... Wedding bells pealed later in the summer for Eb Wallace Jr., who is doing a turn with the Air Force and is on duty in Japan.
Many of us have happy reunion recollections of the Sel Macks and of the youngest member of their family, who helped to keep us from feeling too acutely the growing-old pains of the early fifties. So it is a sad task indeed to report the death of Sel early in September. A fuller story about him appears in the back pages of this issue. He was a little guy with a lot of courage, who wanted so badly to renew his associations with Dartmouth that he made the trip back in June after as tough a siege of illness as anybody could hope to weather.... Just as these notes are being written comes the word that BobLoomis of Philadelphia was the untimely victim of a thrombosis in midsummer. An account of his life will be prepared for the December issue.
A September letter from Jim Frost speaks appreciatively of "a grand good reunion." Jim has just started his second year in the central office of the; Connecticut State Department of Education. He is Associate Consultant in Audio-Visual Education, and in that capacity is exploring the prospects for educational television, with programs for adults as well as for schools in the offing, as soon as channels are allocated and funds are provided. Jim is, he says, "now four grandfathers, in common with some of our brethren." Quentin, fifth child in the Frost family, has now reached the eighth grade and has for a companion there adopted sister Karen, who has just recently joined this large and loving family.
One reason why Al Foley vetoed his own continuation in office as Class Agent was his assumption of the chores of leadership in the Great Issues course this college year. He prepared for his new duties with a summer cruise on the U.S.S. Wisconsin, the full details of which are reserved for privileged readers of the class Green Sheet. Also, as guide and counselor concerning any possible pitfalls of his new office, Al has last year's course leader, Bill Carter, to rely upon. Bill handled himself well when the Chicago Tribune correspondent paid his annual pilgrimage to the campus; came through, in fact, with colors flying as "a pleasant and affable man wearing a tweed jacket."
Those of us who found something happily familiar about Paul Sample's cover for the September issue of Holiday magazine will appreciate the word on the subject contributed by Mrs. Bunny Harvey. Dot, with an assist from Bun, is the owner of the Sample original which was auctioned off at reunion. She says Holiday's has much the same scene, but is done from a different location, with two figures in the foreground replacing the three smaller ones that appear in the Harvey watercolor. "I really like our picture better," says Mrs. Harvey—and that would seem to leave everybody happy.
AT MOUSE MANOR: The guest house on Gov Plowman's estate at Danbury, N. H„ is the scene of festivity for (I to r) Dick Goddard '2O, Gov Plowman '2O, and Al Dunn '2l. Paul Goddard '55, Dick's son, snapped the picture soon after the '2l Reunion in Hanover last June.
Secretary, Blind Brook Lodge, Rye 17, N. Y.
Treasurer, 1 Windmill Lane, Arlington 74, Mass.
