1920
Greetings and cheer for a brand new year from your Executive Committee, starting with John Beranek en route to Victoria, 8.C.: "I am about to visit Mr. MacEwen, whose residence is officially Edinburgh, but who can be found most of the time ensconced upon the shelves of Her Majesty's liquor stores in British Columbia. We enjoy his company. Occasionally we permit Mr. Guiness to join us. Mr. MacEwen's ale with a dash of Mr. Guiness' stout make a journey to Her Majesty's Dominion well remembered." E. C. member Rog Pope reminds us that the waves breaking on his Swampscott shore "are still damn purty." .41 Foley, "terribly pressed with the Great Issues course," says, "teaching history will seem a relief." With his return to "Cowboys and Indians" will come, we trust, a rapid succession of pungent Green Sheets.
Others of Twenty's governing body check in as follows. Frank Moulton: "The north woods remain as friendly and generous to me as ever, and the winds that blow through them carry the same invigorating elixir. Although I am probably the only lawyer in the state of New Hampshire who has no shingle displayed on the outside of his building, sufficient people from far and near locate my lair so that my usual daily routine in the office begins at 8:15 a.m. and ends about 9:00 p.m." ... Roc Elliott reports the ALUMNI MAGAZINE bill paid and a balance in the bank sufficient to keep that wolf Service Charge from the door ... Craig Sheaffer enthusiastically endorses the selection of Stan Newcomer as our new class agent And Harry Sampson signs his note of cheer, "Given under my hand and seal, in the last of the reign of Harry Truman and in the presence of young George W. Sampson, marking also the ascension of one Sherm Adams."
Here are other welcome salutes from other good guys. From Tommy Thomson: "I had a good summer. Went to California the day after the Army meet here and worked with the Navy Olympic contenders for six weeks. I saw Dick Kimball several times and had lunch at the Long Beach University Club which he runs. He has been well and seems to be doing a good job there. I've quit coaching cross country and am devoting all my time to track. We have some pretty good material to work with. Few will ever be champs, but a lot of them will always be messing around up close enough to garner points." From BenPotter: "Saw Sherm Adams and his wife when they stopped off in Rock Island with the Eisenhower party during the political campaign." From Eric Stahl: "The Stahl family is pretty well scattered for a change. Edith, the younger daughter, is a freshman at Wells College, Aurora, N. Y. Mary Jo, the older, is carving out a career for herself in San Francisco. Mary and I drove her out there a swell trip."
From Rus Keep: "The years roll on, but health is good and spirits high, particularly since the election. Son Junior, Dartmouth '51, is now at Harvard Law. Living in Huntington, I accept fate by daily going to New York via Long Island R.R. to job as V.P. of Pacific Fire Insurance Cos." From Wally Schinz: "I spent the first six months of this year in hospitals and only recently returned from the Mayo Clinic, where I had a no-good gall bladder and a load of stones removed. Feeling great again and regaining lost weight, too, fast." And from Ken Hill '25, brother of our Buttons, whom he calls Ev (middle name Everett): "I visited Ev and Eva in the quite new dream house they had built in Rutland, Vt. That's what I call living all the modern conveniences, including five minutes to work, and yet in the country seeing mountains on three sides (Pico Peak, Killington, Salt Ash, etc.)."
From the ladies, God bless 'em, there are New Year's greetings also; and one that carries a message of courage to warm us all comes from Anne Mack, widow of Sel. Attending University of Buffalo Law School and expecting to hang out her shingle in 1955, Anne has to keep all her notes in her head for the time being because of a broken arm sustained in an auto accident last summer. Here's part of what she says:
"My youngest girl Eleanor is a freshman at Vassar, having won two scholarships totalling $800 a year for four years. Bill is a sophomore at the University of Rochester, where he is receiving $950 a year for four years' scholarship, so I can manage them both even with my being at law school.
"Life is pretty empty without Sel. He was a wonderful person, quiet, retiring, never pushing himself in any way; but everyone who met him loved him. I'm very grateful to the Class for the part they played in making the Thirtieth Reunion so pleasant for Sel. You were all so helpful without letting him realize that you were waiting on him."
Grace Newcomer writes that Maxine, DanaEaton's widow who has so many friends in 1920, is now living at 70 East Cedar St. in Chicago.... Dot Harvey reports on the family: "Bob has gone into the business, seems to be doing well, and likes it very much. We have two new granddaughters: Bob's third arrived on October 20 (Laura Harvey) and Jane's in Detroit on September 21 (Nancy Baldwin). We now have four granddaughters and one grandson.. . Ann Frey sets the record straight on behalf of daughter Janet, whose latest child, William Slade Harte, was said (secretarial surmise) to have been named after a maternal uncle. Fact is, the young man takes his name from a Dartmouth greatgrandfather, William Slade of the Class of 1884.
Hazel Macomber, "wife of the world's worst letter-writer," gives us the dope on pre- and post-election excitement up Wellesley way:
"We were up to our necks here, with Eisenhower headquarters in our own house. Supposed to be temporary but became permanent, with two phones and 6 to 12 or more workers every day for two months women, college girls, high school girls and boys but with satisfactory results, a local record in the vote for Eisenhower."
The Macombers and the Paul Richters were among the 2000 who feted Sherm Adams in Manchester December 18; and so was AI Foley, who has guaranteed a graphic account in a forthcoming issue of Twenty.
Probably the recent news photo that Sherm liked best was the one of his family reunion at Thanksgiving time. Besides Sherm and Rachel there were present all three daughters and son Sam, plus two sons-in-law and two grandsons. The Governor was holding Thomas Henry Freese, aged three. Roscoe Drummond of the Christian Science Monitor thinks Governor Adams looks like a preacher a fine one and he has a 'Sunday punch.' The speeches he delivered for the absent General Eisenhower in the New Hampshire primary were strong and hard-hitting. He was the calmest man on the Eisenhower train, but because he wasn't rushing about smartly it didn't mean he wasn't doing things. He was. Somehow I can see Governor Adams figuratively dropping bits of uranium around Washington where it will do the most good." And. fortunately, we have an ally in the person of Steve Stevens, 1901 secretary, who from his own Washington location can portray for us the devastating effects of Sherm's explosions.
Lincoln, N. H., fellow-townsman of Sherm, Ted Marden, continues to share the unqualified local pride in the new Presidential assistant. Ted wrote from a busy household: "Barbara, our younger daughter, is being married December 20 to George Pasichuke, N.H.U. '48, assistant principal of Littleton (N. H.) High. Barby herself was N.H.U. '49." Other Twenty daughters entering into or contemplating matrimony are Marjorie Ruth Forbush, whose father is Zenas, and who was married to Alan William Wells of the U.S. Navy in Pasadena on July 25; and Meredith Moore,Bob's daughter, a graduate of Dana Hall and Sweet Briar, who is engaged to James H. Lynn, an M.I.T. man with three years' service in the Navy to his credit.
The Boston Globe reports that Phibby Bennett was elected vice president and a member of the Governing Council at the annual meeting of the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers held in Miami.... According to the Staten Island Advance our Jack Mayer is chairman of the Staten Island office for coordination of recruiting and public information for the civil defense program. Jack, a reserve colonel, is commander of the 305 th Anti Aircraft Artillery Group. He served as chairman of a military manpower committee for Staten Island, encouraging enlistment services.... Via the Lynn Telegram-News we have news of a talk there by Phil Kitfield, chief engineer of the Massachusetts Department of Public Works, outlining plans for proposed state-wide expressways, including an east-west toll road to New York.
The sudden death of Ran Eddy, in Boston on December 3, is recorded with regret in the back pages of this issue.
A BUSY ALUMNUS: J. Lee ("Dutch") Bausher '2l, leader in the hosiery industry in Reading, Pa., was class chairman for the 25th reunion gift to the College. Among other distinctions he has been a Trustee of Boston University, has an authoress wife, and four children.
Secretary, Blind Brook Lodge, Rye 17, N. Y Treasurer 1 Windmill Lane, Arlington 74, Mass.
