1920

Twenty's Man of the Month may well be Al Howard, Republican, who moved into a vacant seat in the West Hartford, Conn. Town Council late in October, by vote of the Council itself. His predecessor, a Democrat, resigned his post and headed West; and Al's election may perhaps be presumed to reflect the changing complexion of politics in central Connecticut. According to the West Hartford Weekly Independent (circulation a rather substantial 5350) Al has been active in local Republican affairs through thirty years of residence in the town. He has been head of the A. E. Howard and Sons insurance agency in Hartford since 1928.

One of our Women of the Month comes from Connecticut also. Marian Foster, Beardsley's wife, has been nurturing her civic enthusiasms in the affairs of the Y.W.C.A. and turns up now in two posts of national significance. Marian is treasurer of the National Board, Y.W.C.A. of the U.S.A., and is chairman of the executive committee for the association's Centennial Observance and Celebration, which will take place in 1955. Sharing the news spotlight with her, in a quite different capacity, is Mrs. Clint Johnson, who may have been the first wife of a Twenty to send a ship careening down the ways. Annabel (Mrs. Clint) served as sponsor for the GeorgeLivanos, described by the New York Times as a "29,300-deadweight-ton tanker," and splashed champagne on its bow "under leaden skies and during a chilling drizzle" at Quincy, Mass., October 30.

Grace Prentiss, John's widow, has written a much appreciated note, which most certainly should be shared with all the Class. She says: "The kind sympathy of all John's friends has made everything much easier for me. I tried to encourage John to join in his class affairs and to attend reunions, but he was so completely devoted to his little family and home that it was very difficult for him to go. And after his first illness in 1944, the effort was one of the steps he had to avoid. As class secretary, will you kindly convey to the Class of 1920 the heartfelt thanks of my son Bill and me."

Contemporaries of Bill Prentiss are two other sons of Twenty who constitute our delegation to Dartmouth's Class of 1957. Embarking on the great adventure as freshmen are James C. Parkes II (commonly known as Creighton) and George O. South wick. The former, guard on a good freshman team, is Jim Parkes' only son, while the latter is the second of the Dick Sonthwick boys, to earn the honor of admission to Dartmouth.

Here are some reflections of a distinguished gentleman by the name of H. M. Somers, addressing the annual meeting of the American political Science Association last September on the subject of "Bureaucracy and the Change of Administration":

The new Administration is experimenting with a plan which has been widely discussed among political scientists for several years, the establishment of a relatively informal chief of staff for the White House in the person of the Assistant to the President, Sherman Adams. While Governor Adams has been subjected to a quantity of criticism from Congressmen and others who have felt unnecessarily blocked off from the President or have been disappointed by what they considered a slow response to their demands at the White House, he appears to be popular and appreciated within the staff and by the President. The contrasting views are simply opposite faces of the same coin. Adams has assumed a not unfamiliar role to intimate presidential aides, that of whipping boy for the aggrieved.

Bud Weymouth is not sufficiently communicative, in the opinion of the secretary, but the tenor of a letter recently received from him would seem to indicate a back-to-tlie-soil movement for the erstwhile schoolteacher. Bud still writes from Hanover. His October dispatch said: "Alice and I have bought a home, with some good land, on Greensboro Road, just three miles from the Hanover post office. When Twenty men were in their collegiate heyday, this road was the main road to Leb. Although the house is very much in Hanover, our mail address is Lebanon. Stop by sometime."

Newly honored by the regional alumni associations are Carroll Hill, this year's president of the Florida Alumni Association, and DalDalrymple, secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Melrose, Mass. Still functioning as efficiently as ever are Ted Fellowes (president, Dartmouth Alumni Association of Tucson), AbeWinslow (secretary, Dartmouth Alumni Association of Northern California and Nevada). Chuck Garnsey (president, Dartmouth Alumni Association of Southern Florida), Frank Moulton (secretary,, Dartmouth Club of New Hampshire's North Country), and Bill Farnham (president, Spokane and Inland Empire Dartmouth Alumni Association).

Frank Morey heads this month's list of marriage announcers with the news that his son Brockett was married August 1 at Orwigsburg, Penna., to Margaret Zulick, daughter of the late Arthur Zulick, Dartmouth '18. Brock and Margaret are both graduates of Lycoming College in Williamsport, Penna. The groom works for American-La France Co. in Elmira, N. Y., and is in a position to work up a nice deal on a fire truck for anybody who needs one. His father's civic interest in recent years has been in library work. After serving for a period as vice president of the public library in Glens Falls, Frank won election in October to the presidency of the Trustees' Section of the New York Library Association. By force of circumstances his business headquarters are now in Albany, but, says he, "I just can't bring myself to the point of moving from such a nice little city as Glens Falls."

Flushed from their Thanksgiving retreat, a magnificent suite in the Buffalo Statler, Pete and Neen Potter gave with the news of son Jack's marriage September 12 to Joanne Winne, a graduate of the University of Rochester. Jack himself, now a salesman, but previously remembered as an excellent bartender at Twenty functions, got his diploma from the University of Missouri. Of the two Potter dotters, the elder, Mrs. Sylvester, is responsible for Pete's having a grandson Stevie, a year and a halt old and doing fine, thanks. Younger daughter Janie has settled down after a year in Paris and is rounding out her senior year at Middlebury.

Summit, N. J., witnessed the marriage on August 22 of Ben Farnsworth's daughter, Ellen Elizabeth, who became the bride of Robert Reed Douglas, a Seton Hall graduate. The ceremony took place in the Community Unitarian Church and Ben escorted his daughter to the altar. Both Mr. and Mrs. Douglas are employed by the General Drafting Company of Convent, N. J., where Ellen utilizes the talents she developed at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts.

A November bride was Joyce, daughter of Carl and Dorothy Lenz, who was married on the seventh to "the boy next door," Henri van Bemmelen of nearby Hartsdale, N. Y. The wedding took place at the Hitchcock Memorial Church in Scarsdale. Joyce attended the Masters School and the Parsons School of Design in New York. Her husband, a 1949 graduate of Cornell, took his degree in electrical engineering and is employed by the Shell Chemical Company of Union, N. J. The young couple have set up housekeeping on Staten Island.

There was a good turnout for the first class dinner of the New York season, held at the Dartmouth Club November 12. Twenty-one in all: Phil Gross, George Sackett, Sherry Baketel, Arch Lawson, Dan Bender, Jack Mayer, John Felli, Bill Mezger, Tom Glines, Hal Bidwell, Prugh Sigler, Marshall Lombard, Roy Davis, Beardsley Foster, Hal Clark, Rus Jones, Lek Willard, Gerry Stone, Carl Newton, Spence Snedecor and Dick Pearson. Among those who sent regrets were Pete Potter and Jim Parkes, en route to Hanover for the football weekend, Bob Van Iderstine of Baltimore, Tom Davidson, away on a hunting trip, and Joe Brewer, celebrating his wedding anniversary. CarlMills, Roc Elliott, and Stan Newcomer couldn't make it either, from their various points of the compass, but wrote that they were sorry.

Charlie McGoughran and Freddy Hamm had a November reunion all their own in Chicago, from which Charlie brought back the good news that Fred is making fine headway after a very tough siege of illness. The Hamms will head for Florida around the first of the year and will spend the winter there.

THE SELLING END: Russ Jones '20, vice president of the advertising firm of Cunningham and Walsh, is shown selling gingerbread mix in Stuyvesant Town, during his allotted week in the year when, according to agency procedure, personnel must work where the clients' products are sold.

Secretary, Blind Brook Lodge, Rye 17, N. y.

Treasurer, South Duxbury, Mass.

Bequest Chairman,