1920
Women and children first, we tell ourselves, as we set forth upon our ninth secretarial year. So.... we welcome into the Twenty family Mrs. Mario Ciullo, who became Mrs. Paul Hutchinson at a wedding ceremony in the Unitarian Church, Marblehead, Mass., on July 18. Also, we extend cordial greetings to the new Mrs. Arthur earle, who was formerly Mrs. Cynthia Dryden KUser of Mine Mount, N. J. The Earles were married at the home of the bride on June 20. According to press reports, the hutchinsons will live in Newton Highlands, Mass., and the Earles will divide their time between New Jersey and New Hampshire.
Two second-generation weddings rate special mention. For the second time in class history, 1920 had a double share in the ceremony when James David Vail '50, our own jimmyFail's son, was married to Frank Corbin's daughter Margaret. These nuptials took place in St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Evanslon, Ill., on May 16. Margaret's sister Marie (Mrs. John P. Harding Jr.) came on from Vermont to be matron of honor, bringing along her daughter Marcia, who played the part of flower girl and was thus belatedly revealed as the first Corbin grandchild. Dr. John Heuss. rector of New York's Trinity Church, performed the ceremony. Frank gave his daughter in marriage, while the bride's brother Franklin N. Corbin III '51 led the team of ushers. The local newspaper's account, mentioning a bridal dinner given by young Jim's mother Mary (now Mrs. Foster McGaw) and her husband, ended on the cheerful note: "Mr. and Mrs. Vail have taken an indefinite wedding trip west."
From Al and Helen Cate we have the announcement that their daughter Patricia became Mrs. David Phares McKay on August 22. Patricia attended Connecticut College and was graduated from the Nursery Training School of Boston in June. Her husband got his diploma from Oberlin after service in the Army, attended Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, and is now on the faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Shortly before the wedding the father of the bride flew to Hanover in his newly acquired Cessna 140 and played two indecisive sets of tennis with Professor Frey. "Ownership (of the plane) is fun after 21 years of renting them," says the adventurous airman.
Systematic coverage of marital affairs within the Class leads us next to grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Yes, honorary classmate Dr. Baketel reminds us, writing from his home in St. Davids, Pa., that the fourth of his great-grandchildren, James Baketel Leonards, was born to Sherry's daughter Barbara on July 31. The Leonards' three sons and their one daughter are "all very good looking blondes," according to the Doctor. The boys have been entered in their respective Dartmouth classes by their proud grandfather, despite the fine University of Pennsylvania connections of their father, who may be graciously and quietly biding his own time.
Lydia Ann Southwick, born as far back as last February 28, is the second child of the first all-Twenty union (Southwick-Pope). Lydia's father, our Dick's son, is Dartmouth '45.....By a roundabout route comes the word that Zack Jordan is also again a grandfather, his second grandson having arrived late in 1952. Zack's daughter (Mrs. Robert Tucker) lives at Newport, R. I., where her husband is stationed at the Naval War College. She has doubtless saved for her sons' later enlightenment the Look magazine article of last spring, "The Young Stay Young at Dartmouth" by John Lardner, which attributes two-sevenths of Big Green football greatness to 1920 in the sentence: "Dartmouth football, though purified, keeps warm its traditions and memories, involving Sonnenberg,Jordan, Shelburne, Oberlander, Dooley, Lane and Cunningham."
Zack himself is one of the Twenties GerryStone saw on his trip west late in the spring. Our 35th, says Zack from his desk in the Advertising Dept. of the Denver Post, is a reunion he won't miss, provided only that it will be a guaranteed deal also for Jake Gorton,Jim Robertson, Tommy Thomson, FreddyHamm and Laddie Myers. Laddie, whom Gerry also saw on his tour, is already sold on all remaining reunions. Ted Fellowes had Gerry for lunch at his home in Tucson. He is rightfully proud of his three sons, one a Dartmouth graduate and the other two enrolled in the Naval Academy. Always thirsty for news of the Class, Ted reported occasional visits with fellow-townsman Al Steinbrecher and with Bob Fish '18, who drummed eccy into so many resistant '20 skulls after World War I. At the far end of his trip, in southern California, Gerry put in a phone call for DickKimball and learned that he was in the hospital for a minor operation.
Pete Potter was another late spring traveler. His jaunt to Europe involved ranch wagon transportation from southern Italy northward, through France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Belgium and England. Pete and Neen both had a wonderful time. Their only Dartmouth news concerned Drew Dudley, who was a youngster under foot in his old man's store when we were in Hanover. As evidence that he is now grown to man's estate, Drew is at present Directeur des Services de I'Information, pour I'Europe de la Banque Internationale pour la Reconstruction at le Developpement in Paris. (Kindly insert your own accents.)
For those who did not make a proper study of the MAGAZINE'S July issue, Sherm Adams' citation upon the award. of his Doctor of Laws degree deserves careful review. It's a real good one. Sherm of course had a previous honorary degree from the College when he was Governor of New Hampshire. His picture, inevitably, appears in this one issue four separate times, thereby perhaps setting some kind of record for an alumnus. Also to be combed from the July pages was the news that LowellHolway's boy, just now graduated, won the Fred DeMeritte Barker Fellowship and will go to Harvard to do graduate work in nuclear physics.
Before our Sherm left on his June academic travels, which also included a good speech and an LL.D. degree at St. Lawrence University, he had callers at the White House in the form of Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Campbell. Ralph was in town to conduct the Operative Clinic at George Washington Hospital and Medical School. The most interesting articles about Sherm since our last report were published in the May 10 issue of Parade (Boston Sunday Post) and the May 24 issue of The Rhodeislander (Providence Sunday Journal). Both carried cover pictures of the Assistant President, the former in a brown study, the latter in the choir robes of his early youth. Rumors are rife, of course, about Sherm's next moves. He got back to New Hampshire again at the time of Senator Tobey's funeral; told a reporter then that Rachel's health is improving, but that she still has some distance to go for a return to her best form.
Gerry Morse is now with Gilt Edge Fabrics, Inc., a New York concern with a mill in New Bedford, Mass Hike Newell, new Tuck School Overseer, was shown in dignified but mellow mood, in the August 1 issue of Tide, toasting his board chairman Philip Lennen of Lennen & Newell on the occasion of a 66th birthday Jim Chilcott's company was one of those cited by the Journal of Commerce in May for substantial and well integrated pharmaceutical research.
DOUBLE '20 WEDDING: Father-of-the-bride Frank Corbin '20 (l) gave his daughter Margaret in marriage to James David Vail '50, son of the late James D. Vail '20 and Mrs. Foster McGaw, on May 16 in Evanston, Ill. Mrs. Corbin is at the right.
Secretary, Blind Brook Lodge, Rye 17, N. Y. Treasurer, 1 Windmill Lane, Arlington 74, Mass. Bequest Chairman,
