1920

How would you like to hear Sal Andretta play the piano again? Watch Carl Newton manipulate a deck of cards? Swap stories once more with the tallest tellers of tales "as ever wuz?" Discover what 31 years have done to the Class of 1920? Do you want to sniff the headiest air on this planet, feel the campus grass under your feet, watch the sunshine chase the shadows over the gleaming whiteness of Dartmouth Row? Those are just some of the extras that you get for free when you sign up for Twenty's Thirtieth, June 22-24.

Your reporter has been up taking a preliminary look at the New Hampshire hills at the end of this disease-ridden winter. So these notes are being written on North State Street in Concord, only a few blocks from the Capitol where Governor Adams keeps pretty much open house. Sherm continues to crown pretty girls queen of the Granite State winter carnivals, and folks down Dover way are saying he could be vice-president if he'd turn Democrat. Farther down on State Street Dr. Tom Dudley is one of the busiest of those they talk about when they say, "Nobody's out on the streets of Concord tonight, except doctors calling on their patients." Tom sent his wife Dorothy and young son Peter to Florida for the winter; had a week down there himself in January, which may explain why he's been able to hold up his end so well back home.

At the far south end of Concord Paul Richter's family is growing up. Young Alexander is old enough to wear a Roy Rogers suit now and Martha Elsie is getting almost big enough to try taking his six-shooters away from him.

Capital City News (in the ManchesterUnion for February 19) contained an item of special interest to Dartmouth 1920. It told how Harry Worth's boy Laurance had been married on February 17 to Grace Virginia Heath, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Heath of Concord. The couple will live in Hanover while Laurance (Vermont Academy graduate, Tri-Kap and geology major) completes his studies and Mrs. Worth continues on the job as executive secretary of the Thayer School.

A Concord Daily Monitor headline for February 21 read "N. H. Winters Still SevereExpert at Dartmouth Says Amount of Snow Only Deviations." And the attendant AP story expanded the headline somewhat as follows: "It's just not so, says Professor Richard H.Goddard to those who insist New Hampshire is moving away from the 'good old days' of lots and lots of snow. .. . Amount of snow falling from winter to winter may vary greatly, he explained, but these changes are only deviations from the established mean. In 1947-48, for instance, he said the observatory recorded a 110 inch fall, second greatest in its 80-year history. ... Falls this season have been sparse."

Could the "learned astronomer" by any chance give us an inkling of what the weather will be like up there in late June? Whatever it is will suit the John Aliens, who plan, so Johnny says, to come all the way from Seattle in order "to attend the 30th, go on to New York and a few points east, and then crawl back into our shell and remain there indefinitely." This will be Mrs. Allen's first trip east of Chicago. But there is one of us Twenties who can even beat the Aliens, geographically. Ed Mating, on Midway Island, has written, "Starting to point for Hanover in June. Hope I do not get sidetracked."

Another newspaper worth quoting is the Waltham (Mass.) News Tribune for January 16:

Howard W. Whitaker, a member of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Cos. for the past 18 years, yesterday afternoon assumed duties as manager of the Waltham branch office of the insurance firm. Mr. Whitaker has served as territorial field supervisor for the New York and New England areas, has been a field training instructor and is a chartered life underwriter.

For the past eight years he was manager of the Roslindale branch office. He is a past president of the Roslindale Kiwanis Club; treasurer of the Board of Trade, Roslindale Chamber of Commerce; secretary-treasurer of the Metropolitan Managers Association; president of the Boston Managers Association, and an active member of Needham Post, American Legion, with which he has served as an executive board member.

Twenty's news-gatherers cover the waterfront pretty well, considering. Charlie McGoughran, en route by air to Houston, put down momentarily at Memphis and picked up a copy of the Commercial Appeal for February 5. Most interesting story in the sheet, to Charlie, was the account of the wedding of Miss Gertrude Russell Coors, prominent socially in Memphis, to John Dunlap SheafCer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Craig Royal Sheaffer of Fort Madison, lowa. The ceremony took place the evening of February 3 at Grace-St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Memphis, with the groom's brother Walter Sheaffer serving as best man. "They will live in Fort Madison," so the story ends, where Mr. Sheaffer is associated with his father in the W. A. Sheaffer Pen. Cos."

We have a couple of recent engagements for the record, also. Phil Gross's son Francis Philip 3d '50 will marry Margaret Thompson Eaton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Kenneth Eaton of Hamburg, N. Y. Miss Eaton is an alumna of the Knox School and of Smith College. Nate Whiteside reports the announcement of daughter Barbara's engagement on January 28 to Robert W. Harris of Hinsdale, Ill. Barbara gradauted last June from Pennsylvania College for Women and her husband to-be has an engineering degree from Cornell, class of 1948.

Here's a further word from the Windy City. Don MacKay writes that Hanover Holiday in Chicago scored another success on February 3. Among the gang that gathered at the University Club and stayed with the party from noon until late evening were Frank and KayMayer, Nate and Mildred Whiteside, Fred andDorothy Hamm, Len and Marie Davis, Frankand Margaret Corbin and Don and Ruth MacKay.

Doc Miller, whose lecture on last summer's salmon and trout fishing expedition draws 800 listeners at a crack, has now been persuaded to put some of the Miller, Sample & Cos. experiences to paper. His account of piscatorial adventure in Northern Newfoundland and Labrador appeared in the January issue of Among the Deep Sea Fishers, official publication of the International Grenfell Association.

Orator Al Foley scintillated at the annual Father and Son Dinner in Hanover, with some new and gleaming additions to his repertory of Vermont Humor.... Gerry Morse reports himself attached to the Purchasing Office of the Quartermaster's Corps, 111 East 16th St., New York, starting January 30. He will be utilizing a long experience in the field of cotton textiles... . John Carden checks in with a quickie: "Up to my neck in the car-washing machine business at 1111 17th N.W. in Washington." John's outfit is known as the Federal Washmobile Corporation. ... Grosvenor Plowman, fellow-Washingtonian at least for the time being, hopes to be at Reunion and also hopes some Twenties will find their way to his summer home on the slopes of Ragged Mountain in Danbury, N. H. ... Reuel Phillips is now located with Casey Motor Cos. in Bonners Ferry, Idaho.

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