1920
Chairman Moulton has fired the first round for reunion, and we hope that Frank's Christinas greeting brought back to him a flock of firm reservations for June 22-23-24. He has a husky corps of range riders working on the round-up with him, hoping to lasso such strays as are not inclined to come along with the herd. George Macomber serves as chief expediter in the Boston area. Charlie McGoughran, Gerry Stone, Rus Keep, Tom Davidson and Dick Pearson make up the team for New York City and environs, while TedCart will talk things tip in what's left of New Jersey and all of Pennsylvania. Southwestern New England is the province of FreddyBuschmann, who operates out of Westfield, Mass. Ted Weis will stir up the animals in Ohio and Michigan; Laddie Myers in Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and lowa.
"Consult your nearest dealer," if you have questions to ask, suggestions to make, or reservations to report. Interest of any kind in what Al Frey, with academic exactness, terms
"Twenty's Thirty-first Fifty-one" is more than welcome. Other additions to the corps of rabble rousers will be reported shortly, so that we can be assured of adequate needling of each and every customer.
One of the important business items of Thirtieth Reunion will be the election of new officers, including the 11-man Executive Committee. If you are grooming some candidates, file their names with the Nominating Committee—Norm Richardson, Al Frey and George Page, chairman. When accepting his assignment several months ago, George wrote, "It is tourist time, so I'm looking for news froiji some of the brothers, who stop in to have a check cashed and find out where the liquor store is located." The former mayor of Bellows Falls still presides over his Men's Quality Clothes emporium there, but may have been contemplating the wider political opportunities that the Granite State offers when he recently moved across the river into a fine home in the beautiful town of Walpole. Brother Page advises: "Send plenty of suggestions, so that Frey will not install all of his type (tin) in office or try to change the Class Flower to Four Roses."
AI Frey, incidentally, has himself been installed in an office which he predicts will freeze his youthful countenance in the grim mask of old age. The American Marketing Association, at its December convention in Chicago, designated A1 as managing editor of The Journal of Marketing, the Associations quarterly, for the coming year.
Taking his whooping-up job with happily proper seriousness, George Macomber engineered a December 28 free-for-all at the Wellesley Country Club; then steered the whole gathering to a post-prandial celebration at his hilltop home a couple of miles from the club. By our count there were 19 couples and five singles who broke bread and hoisted glasses in this outcropping of holiday cheer. Here they are, in characteristic disorder: Bun Harvey, right at home on the scene of youthful golfing triumphs; Marguerite and Dal Dalrymple, who requires no bodyguard but needs only the right hat, tilted at the right angle, to appear in the image of Harry G. himself; Ellen and Ben Ayres, who takes on new distinction with his admission of brief boyhood residence in Concord, N. H.; Martha and Dick Southwick, proud grandparents (as are the Rog Popes) of Richard Pope Southwick, six months old and said to resemble his paternal grandfather; and Margaret and George Vincent, no mean grandparents themselves.
The Paul Hutchinsons and the RaynorHutchinsons were at the party, as were the Chet Wylies, the Harry Worths, the BingWhitakers, the Eb Wallaces and the RocElliotts. Red Tillson brought his wife Gwendolyn, and also the news of a 17-month-old grandchild in their family, the son of Bob Tillson, Dartmouth '49. AI Cate answered the roll call, but Helen was presiding at a shindig in their Needham home, where daughter Patricia's engagement to Kenneth E. Mayo, Worcester Tech '51, was being announced that very evening. Patricia is a sophomore at Connecticut College. Mary Goodnow, according to her parents, the CharlieGoodnows, likes Colby Junior College very much and especially admires the easy commuting from there to houseparties in Hanover. Son Ward is on the dean's list at University of Maine.
The occasion gave Gugger Fiske a fine opportunity to warm up for reunion cheerleading duties. Hodgson House boss, Ken Spalding, trimmer than ever, discovered that MugsMorrill has been in possession of one of the Hodgson products for 22 years, no less, with no complaints. Hildegarde Spalding came to the party and so did Lucia Morrill, as charming a young mother as any class can boast. Katharine Richter was on the arm of hus- band Hib, winner and still champion in his Brookline district, which is again sending him as a representative to the Massachusetts legis- lature. Fellow-Brookline-citizens Hal and LizBernkopf take comfort in Hal's new appear- ance of calm and poise, acquired, he assures us, "from longer hours and harder work." Son Mike has followed his father's footsteps by embarking on a merchandising career with Altman's in New York. Grace and Phib Bennett modestly reported "no news," but somebody else pointed out that Phib had come direct from an all-day conference with Boston's mayor, who needs the Bennett brains to help in solving his off-street parking problem. The evening's festivities were rounded off by Hazel, Harvey and George Macomber and by your secretary, whose "rounding" qualities were remarked upon more often than seems necessary.
Missing from the Wellesley gathering was Charlie Crathern, who extended greetings by phone from Detroit to as many as could get their vocal chords connected with the Macomber speaking-tube. Scout Lee was even farther from home. Scout was married in Arlington on December 2 to Alice O'Connell and the newlyweds were honeymooning in California. Mose Coleman, although absent from this particular party, had been spotted by some of his classmates earlier in the month at a Charles River Dartmouth Club gettogether.
No press dispatch of this winter season could be more interesting to the Class of 1920 than the following, which appeared on the sports pages of every self-respecting newspaper in the United States:
"Zack Jordan, a University of Colorado sophomore, is the 1950 punting champion of major college football with an average of 48.2 yards for each of his 38 kicks. The Coloradoan's average wiped out the ten-year-old standard of 48 yards set by Owen Price of Texas Mines. Primarily through Jordan's footwork Colorado also won the team kicking laurels with an average of 45.1 for 54 punts."
Zack Junior's old man must have been happy to read those clippings. If ever we have read about an All-American in the bud, this is the boy. Let's keep an eye on him for the next two years.
And here's an All-American fashion note, sent to the remotest corners of the country by the AP on December 12:
"There will be no high hats at Gov. ShermanAdams's second inaugural three weeks hence. The Governor disclosed today that he and the new executive council have agreed on wing collars, cutaways, black shoes, but gray homburgs. To insure uniformity, the Governor will provide the ties."
Newly elected president of the Beta Theta Pi Club of Philadelphia is H. Sheridan Baketel Jr Student leader of the Lehigh University band is El Cheney's son Ward, accomplished clarinetist and no disgrace to his old man when it comes to mathematics and other kindred academic subjects.
Secretary, Blind Brook Lodge, Rye 17, N. Y,
Treasurer, 1 Windmill Lane, Arlington 74, Mass.
Memorial Fund Chairman, 438 East Elm Ave., Monroe, Mich.
