1920
"In and Out of New England with the Pearsons" can be the caption to set off this batch of notes. Three times since last May we nose-for-newsers have been back and forth, in and out of the Granite State; but the finest of parties came at the very beginning of the warm weather stretch, on May 8 in Room 14 of the Hanover Inn. Class and club officers were then convening in Hanover, and no better excuse was needed to bring Agent StanNewcomer all the way from Monroe, Mich., and Dal Dalrymple (Melrose, Mass., club secretary) up the pike from Melrose. Dal, who has only to don the proper headgear to make like Harry Truman any day of the week, brought Marguerite with him and pretty well sparked the party.
Not counting such welcome added starters as Rog Wilde '21, Bill McCarter '19, and new Dean Arthur Upgren of the Tuck School, the early May get-together really got together Twenty's Hanover contingent. There were the Al Freys (Anne looking her very finest), the Pat Holbrooks, Al Foley, the John Amsdens; Bill Carter, taking it relatively easy since his recent exit from Norwich politics; El Stewart, Sammy Sampson, perennial or- ganizer of all such gatherings; Frank and Katheryn Moulton, then house-hunting but now comfortably located in Hanover, if our reports are both accurate and reliable. Honorary classmate and dean Joe MacDonald lent cheerful dignity to the occasion. Robin Pearson poured the drinks and cheered on the contenders and will welcome the opportunity to do more of the same for Twenty, any time and any place. Amid the pouring Moulton and Sampson were named co-chair- men of 1920's 35th Reunion, scheduled for 1956.
Absent and truly missed on the occasion were the Bud Weymouths, the Dick Goddards, and the Paul Samples. Bud was helping out with the final closing of the Clark School, just then taking place; Dick's homestead did not respond to Sammy's frantic phone calls; and Paul was temporarily out of reach. A drive across the river, to his beautiful home with its view of the countryside he has done so much to make familiar, later established contact with him.
Pat and Rita Holbrook were in an understandable state of excitement because son Dave, Babson Institute graduate, was at that moment somewhere on the high seas en route to Hawaii and Japan. The question of whether he and Pike Emory would exchange greetings in Honolulu is still unanswered in the secretarial notes. Elmer Stewart likewise had family news to report, he having flown to Denver for the wedding last spring when his Olympic skiing daughter, Ruth Marie, became Mrs. Leo Rademacher. John andEdith Amsden could report of their daughter Katherine that she has a good job teaching physical education at Sweetbriar College in Virginia. John's continuing responsibilities as president of Mary Hitchcock Hospital seem to rest lightly upon him, for he looks huskier and healthier than he has for many years. Since interviewed in Hanover, he and Edith took a transcontinental drive to the Pacific Coast. John accepted an honorable mention award for Mary Hitchcock at a September 1 session of the American Hospital Association's annual meeting in San Francisco, the same being for a handsome pictorial report of progress in 1952.
Green sheet editor AI Foley was warming up for a new assignment, since he was to have the honor of opening the Hanover Holiday program in June with a talk on "The Changing Frontier." The program predicted accurately that "a deft blending of humor and instruction coupled with a thorough background on the subject will make for an extremely interesting and entertaining lecture." The "deft blending" (with accent on the humor) was doubtless what the tax associations of northern New England were looking forward to when they engaged Al's services for some chit-chat at their annual banquet in the mountains on October 2.
A visit to the Arlington hilltop home of the Roc Elliotts disclosed hitherto unsuspected talents on the part of this accomplished couple, Roc operating on the Hammond organ in the spacious living room, which also houses a grand piano, and Dolly permitting a peek into her studio where she paints and performs other feats of decoration. From them came the welcome news of the Charlie Goodnow family of the older boy in the Army, a second son who catches and hits home runs for Winchester High, and a daughter who is an airline hostess.
Again, before the summer was over, PaulRichter reminded us that "Twenty will always receive a warm welcome at Huntley Acres" (on Lake Waukewan in central New Hampshire). Maintaining his good sales record for National Life Insurance Company of Vermont, Paul qualified for this summer's regional conference of field representatives at New Ocean House in Swampscott.
Cum laude in the class of '53 was the late Frank Johnson's son Merrill, now back in Hanover for his second year of Medical School. According to his mother Peg, "he lives in Wigwam Village with his very charming wife and eighteen-month-old daughter Dana, currently a belle in the training-pant set in Hanover." Peg mentions what she calls her phenominal luck on vacation, when she "got the bestest and the mostest of the basses, which I really consider better than being the hostess with the mostest." Welcome word has also been received from two other fine ladies whose husbands were honored members of 1920. Isabel Morse, widow of Bob, writes that her 13-year-old son hopes for eventual admission to Dartmouth. And Victoria McDonald, who like Don was always a Twenty booster, tells us of her continuing interest in the Class.
Rachel Adams, who could not go to Colo- rado with Sherm, has made good progress toward recovery and has been discharged from Walter Reed Hospital in Washington. Another happy word from the Adamses tells of the arrival of a third grandchild in the family of daughter Marian, whose husband is Bill Freese '45 of Pittsfield, N. H. Martha Adams Freese, who was born around the first of August, will get plenty of attention from her red-headed brothers, Tommy, aged four, and Dana, two.
At the end of the hot weather Craig Sheaffer made it plain that one Washington summer was enough for him and resigned from his post as Assistant Secretary of Commerce. "I had expected to stay into next year," Craig wrote, "but I am completely convinced that the change is better made now so that my successor may have the advantage of two or three months' indoctrination in the work prior to the opening of the new session of Congress." His boss, Sinclair Weeks, expressed himself as "sorry beyond measure that you find it necessary to leave."
Merited recognition, as reported in TheNew York Times of September 30:
Clinton C. Johnson, a vice president of the Chemical Bank and Trust Company, received the decoration of Officer in the Order of Orange Nassau at a luncheon held yesterday by the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce in the United States, Inc. Ambassador H. J. van Roijen presented the decoration on behalf of the Queen of the Netherlands for his efforts in promoting better business relations between the United States and the Netherlands.
FLEET AND TWENTY: A group of '20s got together in Hanover last May for an occasion called "racy" by Class Secretary Pearson. Present were (l to r), back row: Bill Carter, Pat Holbrook, John Amsden and Elmer Stewart; middle: Dick Pearson, Class Agent Stan Newcomer and Al Foley; foreground: Frank Moulton, Dal Dalrymple and Al Frey.
Secretary, Blind Brook Lodge, Rye 17, N. Y. Treasurer, 1 Windmill Lane, Arlington 74, Mass. Bequest Chairman,
