1920
Minding his own business up in the remote fastnesses of the Berkshires, G. Frank Lord has been making out very well indeed. Fritz, who is secretary and treasurer of Wheeler & Taylor Inc. of Great Barrington, has been elected first vice-president of the Massachusetts Association of Insurance Agents. This honor comes to him after 15 years in his present position, a spot that he picked on a propitious New Year's Day, following a ten years' apprenticeship with the Travelers' of Hartford. When he is not working up a real estate or insurance deal, Fritz keeps busy as secretary of the Pioneer Credit Corporation, secretary of the Mountain Sand and Gravel Co., and vice-president of the Pioneer Investment Corporation. He has a Dartmouth son Fred, now at Harvard Business School, and a daughter Melissa, who has become Mrs. Frederick McCandless of Baltimore.
Gerry Baron of Columbus is another who has served a long stretch in the real estate business. Gerry's letter-head shows his membership in the Columbus Real Estate Board, the Ohio Real Estate Association, the National Association of Real Estate Boards and the National Institute of Real Estate Boards. He has just recently started on a three-year term as a trustee of the Columbus Board. Family-wise, Gerry has established some kind of record for an olding gentleman, by acquiring one adopted daughter when he married Mrs. Betty Harms McColm late in 1950, and then proceeding to adopt a second daughter in April, 1951. The family has picked a new place of residence at 2414 Sherwood Drive in Columbus.
The enthusiasm and light-heartedness of Johnny Carden is going to be much missed by those Twenties who were fortunate enough to know him well. He was a man of courage and unfailing optimism. Not infrequently he had to contend with recurrences of a heart ailment which first sidelined him in 1943, but he and his wife "Happy" stood off these attacks with remarkable poise and fortitude until the final one struck in October. A sketch of John's life appears in the back pages of the MAGAZINE.
To the best of our secretarial knowledge, John Carden's death brings the living membership in 1920 below the 400 mark for the first time. As of December 18, 1951, there were supposedly 399 of us left—207 graduates and 192 who did not complete the college course. Many of these, however, are long unheard from; too many have slipped away into the category of "whereabouts unknown." The Smiths, with eight still listed on the Class roster, have a long lead over the rest of the pack. Next in line, tied with three of each, are the Harrises, Johnsons, Moores, Pages and Pearsons.
These Smiths have a happy way of sticking together. Red Smith of the New YorkHerald-Tribune paid his respects to our own Chet Smith, pride of the Pittsburgh journalistic fraternity, in a reminiscent piece about the World's Series, written on December 19. As the third game of the Dodger-Giant pennant playoff series was drawing to its close, the rest of the press box was sadly conceding that a game Giant's ball club was through. Not so Chet. When Thomson came to bat in the ninth, with two on and three runs needed to win, Chet Smith said to Red Smith, right hopefully, "If they pitch to this guy, he could belt it right into those seats." All 399 members of the Class of 1920, no matter where they may be hiding, surely know what happened, and in so happening made the year's prize prophet and prognosticator out of the Pittsburgh Press sports editor.
Twenties are carrying their share of the load, as usual, among the alumni associations around and about the nation. Abe Winslow, perennial secretary of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Northern California, remains in office, and so do Chuck Garnsey as secretary of the Southern Florida Association and FrankMoulton as secretary of the North Country Association in New Hampshire. Serving their first terms this year are Ken Fenderson, president of the Florida Alumni Association (St. Petersburg); Roc Elliott, president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston; and Carl Newton, president of the Dartmouth Lawyers Association of New York. Up in the Northwest, the Class has taken complete charge, at least for the time being. JohnBeranek is this year's president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of the State of Washington (Seattle) and Bill Farnham is president of the Inland Empire Dartmouth Alumni Association (Spokane). Reg Miner, 1921 secretary, reports generously that GeorgeMacomber is a big behind-the-scenes operator with the Charles River Dartmouth Club (Wellesley). According to Reg, George did one of his typical telephone roundups for a recent club powwow, with the result that 1920 walked off with the prize for the largest delegation present.
An Al Cate bulletin says he and Helen are happy about Al Jr.'s marriage to Claire Margaret Balmforth on October 12 in Needham, Mass. "We received some slight advance warning," Al Sr. writes, "but the event took place when we were in Maine for the weekend. It was followed by a wedding trip to Daytona Beach in the same station wagon which carried Al and a friend on a 12,000 mile trip around the country a year ago." Young Al, a carpenter, still can toot the trombone, and plays with the Needham Symphonic Orchestra and with various Dixieland groups at house party weekends. His wife is a recent graduate from Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing.... BeardsleyFoster reports daughter Barbara following in her mother's footsteps as a freshman at Smith.... According to the Providence Journal, Ralph Koelb, still in Barrington, R. I„ is now a grandfather, with the October 19 arrival of Randall Hammond Koelb in Dearborn, Mich.... Ben Pearson is celebrating the advent of Robin Ruth Pearson, his first granddaughter.
Forby Forbush, Pasadena resident and father of a Rose Bowl beauty of a few years back, gives us the latest on himself and his family. Forby continues in the employ of the world's largest bank (so we've heard), the Bank of America, while his family makes a multiplegrandpa out of him. Daughter Barbara Helen, now Mrs. Herbert Kalmbach—and a lawyer's wife as soon as husband Herb passes the California bar exams—is the mother of two children, the latest arrival being Lauren Ann, born November 22. The other two Forbush daughters are Virginia May, who became Mrs. Jack L. Wilkinson on November 2, 1950, and continues to live in Pasadena; and Marjorie Ruth, a senior at Pasadena City College. Forby is in the corner of Louis K. Gough, of American Legion Post #13 in Pasadena, readying him up as a candidate for National Commander of the Legion this coming year.
Sherm Adams and Al Frey both enjoyed grandfatherhood for the third time in recent months. Janet Frey's latest boy, William Slade Harte, named after his great-uncle on his maternal grandmother's side, saw the light of day on August 27. Soon, like his older brother, he will be wanting to get to Dartmouth in a hurry and play some energetic football against Princeton. Jean Adams Hallager has named her first-born (as of December 14) William Sherman, but the Governor disclaims any conniving or campaigning in connection therewith. Sherm's boy Sam, youngest of the four Adams children, is at St. Paul's in Concord, as previously reported: "continues to ski and play hockey," according to his father, "and, as far as I am able to discover, his conduct is at least average, though his scholarship seems to have some possibilities of improvement.
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