1920
That indefatigable guy (and fine gentleman) Roscoe Elliott has lately made his annual appeal for the funds that support the activities of the Class of 1920. We trust that his words ("like the Republicans, the Democrats, the Salvation Army and the Community Chest this particular time is also my hunting season") have fallen on attentive ears and that the payment of class dues has been as energetic as their solicitation.
With listening posts like Roc's located here and there, the collection of class news is not quite the chore that it at one time may have been. From Roc we get the word that JohnnyMcAllaster's daughter Nancy is doing graduate work in biology at Tufts... that DickWatts, Lenawee County banker up there in Adrian, Mich., got to Hanover in late August, "with youngest son, trying to see all the sights and inspect the buildings" ... that Cliff Aulis really meant it when he said he had retired and that he has "had a lot of fun seeing new places and meeting fine people" .. . and that Max Moyer, still with Goodyear in Akron as manager of their Cycle Tire Department, took a recent four months' leave of absence for a tour of active duty at the Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Ala. One of the few full colonels in the Class, Max is also the grandfather of seven grandchildren, which must either be a record or border on one for 1920. Max's latest address is 2109 Braewick Circle in Akron.
Eagle-eyed correspondent Paul Richter spotted a picture of as happy a couple as you'd ever hope to see in the Boston Herald for September 14. The former Judith Davis Brooks, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Winfield Sears Brooks of Marshfield, Mass. (a town that Daniel Webster knew well) and Chet Wiley's boy Nathaniel C. Jr. were caught in a leaving- the-church snapshot after the marriage ceremony the day before in North Community Church, Marshfield Hills.
This month's illustration for the class notes is an entering-the-church picture of GovPlowman and the second of his pretty daughters. Jeanne's also was a September wedding, which took place on the second in Danbury, N. H., only 40 easily traveled miles from Hanover. That is where Gov and his wife took title to a piece of property shortly after their own marriage in September, 1924. The little place that they bought at that time has grown until now it covers most of the north slope of Ragged Mountain.
"Jeanne's marriage to Roger Deschner," Gov writes, "was, we thought, just about perfect. The Methodist service was performed by the father of the groom, Reverend John Deschner of Weslaco, Texas, who drove with Mrs. Deschner to New Hampshire. The tiny Protestant church in Danbury, over 100 years old and plainly New England in its simplicity, seemed to reflect and increase the simplicity of the vows. The bridesmaid for Jeanne was her sister Nancy and they wore, in reverse, the wedding dresses they had chosen together in 1948. That year, on June 19, Nancy married Robert Lawthers in Pittsburgh, and Jeanne, as a bridesmaid, looked angelic in pale blue.
"The wedding reception for Jeanne was held on the lawn of our mountain home. Many of our friendly Danbury neighbors joined the wedding party at the church. Dick Goddard and SherryBaketel were there to represent 1920, while Ann Genifred Lawthers, our granddaughter, born May 21, 1952, attended on behalf of the very youngest generation."
Bun Harvey's wife Dot, reporting for the family, slaps on the record a very welcome account of their Scandinavian travels during the past summer:
"We left New York the middle of May on a freighter, landed nine days later in Antwerp, and went from there to Amsterdam. Next we flew to Copenhagen, which we loved, but Stockholm became our favorite city. There we spent four days at the Grand Hotel, watching the doings at the King's Palace across the canal. After three days on a tiny boat, winding through the Swedish countryside, we stayed two nights at Gothenburg before flying to Oslo. We took a train over the mountains from Oslo to Bergen and then boarded a coastal steamer for a 15-day cruise to the North Cape and beyond, even to the Russian border. We saw the midnight sun for five nights and will never forget it. Everyone says we were very lucky, for there is often fog and mist in that part of the world. After spending almost two months, literally wrapped in every warm thing we owned (it was very cold both outdoors and indoors) we plunged into plenty of heat upon our return."
Another feeder of the news is oil baron Charlie McGoughran, rumored by the ubiquitous Sherry Baketel to have been a fellowcrasher of an Indian summer Class of 1919 party in Woodstock, Vt. Thanks to Charlie, we have the word that Frank Morey, though still resident in Glens Falls, is devoting himself to the interests of the phone company in Utica and Albany, by turns. Frank's boy Brock is working for Goodyear in Rochester, N. Y.
It was Charlie also who sent along a most impressive story from the Journal of Commerce, telling about "a former advertising man who undertook a 'gamble' in what he believed the country's ill patients needed in the way of modern therapy and what a pharmaceutical company can really do with some modern concepts and 'plain hoss sense.' " JimChilcott is the man who has seen his company gross ten times the sales volume of 10 years ago. It has been done by shifting from liquid malt extract specialties, in which they gained fame many years ago as The Maltine Co., to the development through research, under the new name of Chilcott Laboratories, of drugs for the relief of man's most persistent and painful ills. The company can take pride in the rapidly growing number of "firsts" it has scored, offering both hope and help to sufferers from asthma, thyroid complications, biliary disorders, hemorrhoids, hypertension and angina. Early this year the acquisition of Chilcott Laboratories by Warner-Hudnut, Inc., assured world-wide distribution and continued expansion.
Sal Andretta, Assistant Attorney-General of the United States (in charge of Administration), did the honors at lunch during a recent secretarial visit to Washington. Sal is in great shape. Under the Hoover Reorganization, insofar as it has been worked out by Congress, he holds one of the top jobs for career men in the whole Civil Service. He functions in the much-talked-about "Little Cabinet"; and the experience he has acquired under a succession of sevein Attorney-Generals, starting with Homer Cummings of Sal's own native Connecticut; guarantees to that branch of the Government a continuity of operation that is recognized as essential, no matter who's "in" and who's "out." Sal is married to the former Pat Collins, herself a shining legal light and a member of the Attorney-General's Committee on Citizenship.
Art Pierce of the Pentagon could not be roped in this latest Washington Roundup. He was enjoying a vacation in northern Maine, where the fish wouldn't bite but the weather was wonderful. ... Ted Weis got to California and back by automobile during his summer vacation, and in the process "stood up" with Ted Jr., who was married in Palo Alto August 2... Al Folef "delivered the major address as only he can deliver it," according to the Dartmouth Club News' account of the Long Island Alumni Association fall dinner September 9..... A full-page advertisement in the Detroit Free Press for October 14 told "What's really new about Lennen & Newell," Among other things it said: "Our president, H. W.(Hike) Newell is a tough-minded business man who combines a vast experience in management, selling, and marketing with sound copy judgment —and the good sense to let the creative mind work its own mysterious ways."
Word only recently reached the College that Jean Paul Freeman died in his native Great Falls, Mont., early in April 1948. He was a successful and respected attorney there, the son of a former mayor. Because he spent only freshman year at Hanover and owed allegiance to two other colleges, nothing had been heard from him for many years. But the report furnished by Ax Warden '19, owner of the Great Falls Tribune, indicates that Freeman was in the tradition of Twenty's great athletic luminaries. He played varsity football at the University of Michigan and was ranked as one of Montana State's all-time allstars when he played center while completing his law course there.
1920 Fund Contributors
203 Gifts (Participation Index 74.6). Total gifts: $9,658.25 (80.2% of objective). WALDO B. POTTER, Class Agent.
Adams, Sherman Ainsworth, Thomas H. Allen, John G. Amsden, John P. Amsden, Kendrick M. Auger, Emile Ayres, Benjamin W. Baketel, H. Sheridan, Jr. Baketel, H. Sheridan, Sr. Barnes, Aldrich B. Baron, Gerald S. Bennett, Philip E. Beranek, John G. Bernkopf, Harold E. Bidwell, Harold F. Birch, Ledyard H. Bowen, Edmund J. Bowerman, Paul Bradley, Tudor W. Brewer, Joseph H. Brotherhood, John O. Bruce, Earl H. Campbell, Ralph E. Canada, Paul McA. Carr, Wesley G. Cart, Theodore S. Carter, Joseph E. Carter, William A. Cate, Allan M. Center, Samuel R. Chandler, Horatio H. Cheney, Elliott W. Chilcott, James C. Clark, Harold E. Conway, Stanley Corbin, Franklin N., Jr. Cotner, Russell M. Crathern, C. F. H., Jr. Curtis, Edward M. Davidson, Thomas B. Davis, Lendall B. Davis, LeBoy S. Dearborn, Henry W. Deßouville, Edward M. Dewey, Maurice A. Dow, Robert B. Dudley, Thomas M. Earle, Arthur H. Elliott, Roscoe O. Emory, Kenneth P. Farnham, William H., Jr. Farwell, Claude C. Farwell, Robert R. Felli, John C. Fellowes, Frederick G. Fielding, Walker Fiske, George A. Foley, Allen R. Forbush, Zenas B. Foster, F. Beardsley, Jr. Frey, Albert W. Frost, James W. Garnsey, Charles T. Gault, Warren S. Glines, Thomas J. Goddard, Richard H. Gooding, Arthur F. Gordon, Maurice Graves, Stephen M. Greeley, Philip H. Gross, F. Philip, Jr. Hamm, Frederick B. Hardy, F. Kenneth Harvey, Murray C. Hayes, Henry H. Hayes, Richard L. Hill, Carroll E. Hill, John E. Hitchcock, Howard A. Holt, John W. Holway, Lowell H. Horton, Roger A. Hutchins, F. Irving Hutchinson, Paul L. Johnson, Clinton C. Johnson, Stephen W. Jordan, John Z. Kay, Paul D. Keep, C. Russell Kimball, Richard S. Kitfield, Philip H. Koelb, Ralph H. Koski, Elmer J. Lappin, John J. Lawson, Archibald, Jr. Lee, Francis H. Lenz, Carl K. Lind, Muir W. Lindsay, Edwin B. Lindsey, Joseph 8., Jr. Loeblein, Trueman T. Loehr, George R. Lombard, Marshall L. Love joy, Lawrence E. 1 Lord, G. Frank McAllaster, John P. McDonald, Joseph L. McGlynn, Frank E. McGoughran, Charles F. MacKay, Donald H. C. McKenzie, Charles W. McLeran, Donald O. Macomber, George H. Maling, Edwin A. Marden, Frederic T. Mayer, Frank D. Mayer, John S. Maynard, Leroy E. Merritt, Melville P. Miller, Erwin C. Mills, Charles B. Mills, Herbert H. Millspaugh, Theron L? 1 Miner, Robert J. Moore, Robert H. Morey, Frank B. Morrill, Olney S. Morse, Gerald S. Moulton, Francis G. Myers, Edwin E. Nash, J. Newton Newcomer, Stanley J. Newall, Herman W. Newton, Carl E. Oakley, Berford S. Osborn, Albert D. Page, George E. Pearson, Benjamin Pearson, Richard M. Pfeiffer, Arthur E. . Phillips, Hosea B. Pierce, Arthur E. Plowman, Grosvenor Pope, W. Potter, Ben H. Potter, Waldo B. Powell, James C. Richardson, Norman B. Roberts, Ralph S. Robertson, James E. Rogers, Donald A. Roland, Phillips H. Rollins, Henry B. Rubel, Roy L. Russell, J. Almus Sabourin, Ferdinand H. Sackett, George S. Sample, Paul S. Sampson, Harry W. Sargent, Charles H., Jr. Sheaffer, Craig R. Shoninger, Richard A. Sigler, Wendell P. Sinclair, William H. Small, Lyndon F. Smith, A. Kelvin Smith, Arthur F. Smith, George D. Smith, Lloyd E. Smith, Wade W. Snedecor, Spencer T. Southwick, Richard C. Southworth, Lyon Spalding, Kenneth W. Spero, Henry Stahl Eric C. Steinbrecher, Albert H. Stern, Edwin M. Stickney, John W. Stillman, Allen P. Stone, Gerald S. Stratton, Samuel S. Sullivan, William 8., Jr. Sunderland, John E. Sweet, Robert V., Jr. Swezey, Carroll M. Teel, Donald P. Thomson, Arthur D. Thomson, Earl J. Tillson, Ernest F. Tobin, Gregory J. Tracy, William E. Turner, Warren O. Ungar, Leo M. • r Vail, James D., Jr.1 Van Orden, T. Durland Vincent, George F. Wallace, Eben Watts, Richard P. Weis, Erwin T. Weymouth, Burdette E. Whiteside, N. H., Jr. Wiley, N. Chester Wilkie, John V. Willard, Leslie T. Winslow, Basil L. Winter, George F. Worth, I. Harry Youmans, Charles L. Yuill, Ralph W. MEMORIAL GIFT FROM: 1 Widow, Mrs. Mary WMcGaw.
JUST BEFORE THE VICTORY: The Class of '19 enjoyed its annual football luncheon at the DOC House before the Rutgers game, bringing luck to Hanover. Shown in the picture (I to r): Lou Cody, Emily Gale, Norm Jeavons, Jane Cody, Vera Raible, Greif Raible, Ruth Jeavons and Chet Gale.
FATHER AND THE BRIDE: Gov Plowman '20 and his daughter Jeanne are shown about to enter the church at Danbury, N. H., where Jeanne was married on September 2.
WALDO B. POTTER '20, who began his direction of 1920's Alumni Fund efforts in the 1952 drive.
Secretary, Blind Brook Lodge, Rye 17, N. Y. Treasurer, 1 Windmill Lane, Arlington 74, Mass.
