1920
News Item: The three-man nominating committee which is readying up for Twenty's 35th Reunion consists of Gerry Stone, chair- man, assisted by Hal Clark and Carl Lenz. Their job is to put together a slate of eleven nominees for the class executive committee, which will serve from our 35th in 1956 to our 40th in i960. The committee accepts its assignme. with proper seriousness. Suggestions are solicited; will be welcomed and carefully weighed. Make your sentiments known to Chairman Gerald Starr Stone, 2 Broadmoor Road, Scarsdale, N. Y.
All members of the committee should be in tip-top shape after varied and relaxing activities in recent months. Gerry went farthest afield. Set off for Hawaii in the late spring, in order to celebrate, in Frances' fine company, (1) their 25th wedding anniversary year, (2) their daughter's recently established residence in Honolulu, where her U.S. Navy husband is stationed, and (3) a parental 80th birthday in Atlanta, Ga., which provided an appropriate first stop on the circuit. Carl's early summer travels took him, as usual, to Europe. He checks in annually on the Kennecott agents in England, Spain, Italy and Switzerland, but this year he added Denmark for good measure. Dorothy went along and kept him off the airlines, slowing him down this once to whatever knots-per-hour the speedier liners achieve. Dr. Clark's practice limited him to the continental U.S., but he reports the fishing off the coast of Maine as rewarding as ever.
Whether we're getting old or sophisticated or rich, we certainly have sightseers in plenty amongst us. Kel Smith doesn't keep us adequately informed, but the word seeps through that he spent the month of June in Switzerland. In June of '54 Italy was home base for the Smiths. Eddie Bowen and Virginia flew the Atlantic sometime last spring: picked up a Hillman car at Havre; toured France, Italy, Switzerland, and Germany; sold the car in Paris and came back home.
Some final addenda to the subject of travel in general.... The Don MacKays appear to have restrained themselves this year, for their annual postcard came in July from The Essex and Sussex at Spring Lake Beach, N. J.... The Al Freys made it back to Hanover o.k., but still sigh at the recollection of being "Comfortably nestled on the shores of Lake Atitlan.... The Latin American excursion was, to coin a phrase, out of this world. Ten weeks of unadulterated pleasure - full of sunshine and sights.".... Roy Rub el, according to fellow-secretary Ernie Earley '18, "beat the sizzling heat by spending a month at Lake Louise and Banff, came back cool as a cucumber to his air-conditioned office.".... In Hawaii, where Gerry was tempted to retire to a beachcomber's existence, the Stones got wind of Ken Emory's latest activities, attended one of his lectures, and afterwards made the proper pitch for our 35th in Hanover. Ken (Pike's) lectures these days are on the subject of Hawaiian petroglyphs, which (for you uninitiated) are rock carvings - "the island of Hawaii having proven to be the paradise for petroglyph seekers, with lava flows and sidewalls of lava-tube caves covered with writing."
Our Swampscott. Mass., contingent of RogPope and Phil Kitfield has checked in and brought itself up-to-date on the class records. Phil, who must have a headache trying to figure which Massachusetts highway should first be restored after the ravages of the floods, writes that the ancestral home where he was born has now passed into other hands and the Kitfield family is newly installed on the Swampscott (Atlantic Ocean) waterfront - 21 Rockyledge Road. The word from the Pope family is of the marriage of "our last kid, son John," who was wed in June to Virginia Starr of Kennett Square, Pa. Rog and DickSouthwick "had a nice visit with George Page at Walpole a month ago and found him in fine spirits" as he makes headway toward mobility following his leg amputation.
Irv Blaine of the Blaine Co., advertising agency of Attleboro, Mass., has joined Knight & Gilbert, Inc., of Providence as vice president. ... Ben Ayres came into possession of a silver tray in June, as he reached the 35th year milestone of his connection with State Mutual Life Assurance Co. in Worcester.... HankHayes, long-time resident of Rochester, N. Y., now is near neighbor of a certain energetic and controversial figure, having made a new home for himself in Independence, Mo. Hank is connected with Alster & Associates, Inc., Photogrammetric Engineers, who according to their letterhead carry on "Accurate Topo- graphic Mapping by Stereoscopic Methods."
Chuck Garnsey, Twenty's .(and the Southeast's) new Alumni Council member, got back to Hanover for the Council meeting in June. It was a real homecoming for him - the first in 35 years - and he made the most of it. Chuck will be our class listening post in Florida for many years to come; may even be the sparkplug one of these days for an off-year reunion of Twenties in his neck of the woods. In the argot of more nautical men than your secretary, the Council feels it's good to have him aboard. In Hanover, among many other activities, Chuck especially enjoyed a visit with honorary classmate Ernest MartinHopkins.
Until this summer we had three honorary classmates, the others being Dean Joe MacDonald, and Sherry's father, Doctor Baketel. Now there are but two. Those of us who knew the Doctor well, as so many of us felt we did, sincerely mourn his passing July 7 at his home in St. Davids, Pa. Sherry, writing in affectionate and affecting terms about his father, said:
"It was a wonderful knack, wasn't it, to be so easily accepted by people of varying ages? Something to strive for, I think - and Dad was as interested in his adopted class, I guess, as either you or I. Whether it kept him young or he was a youthful guy, I don't know. Anyway, it was wonderful."
Twenty's recent losses also include two of the original members of the Class. The deaths of Paul Canada and Bill Sussdorf, both victims of cancer, are regretfully reported in the In Memoriam section of this issue. The Class also grieves with Carl Mills, upon learning that his wife's long battle with a paralytic condition ended in Richmond, Va., late in June. Colonel Carl's year-old activity, as a regional manager of the Vehicle Service for the Postmaster General, brings him into occasional contact with Sherm Adams.
Our Sherm, long since hardened to the ebb and flow of the political tides, took the bitter with the sweet through the long summer months. The nice things that happened to him especially deserve recording here. He received the Pettee Memorial Award from the University of New Hampshire in June for "outstanding service to the state." Crockett, Washington Star cartoonist, portrayed the Presidential midsummer tour of northern New England as "Sherman's March" and Leon Anderson of Jim Langley's Concord (N. H.) Monitor and Patriot insisted that Sherm "almost stole the show. ... He showed up with Bermuda shorts, a fireman's red shirt, what looked like lumberjack socks rolled down over a couple of new golf shoes, along with a hat the nature and condition of which nobody could describe. We did not look directly at Adams for fear of blindness." More seriously, Sherm cheered many of us with his June 9 statement to the National Sales Executives at the Waldorf-Astoria that "this Administration will never involve American youth in a futile and avoidable conflict."
As an earlier issue of the MAGAZINE has pointed out, Charlie McGoughran was the moving spirit of a most significant gathering that took place in Hanover June 23 and 24. As chairman of the advisory committee of the Dartmouth Economic Research Council, which under Tuck School aegis quietly carries on investigations into the effective functioning of our economy, Charlie headed up a top-level group which discussed ways and means of "Broadening the Base of Stock Ownership." Mel Merritt was a guest and a much interested observer. Mel, incidentally, took his first crack at the Senior Golf Championship of the United States in June and was one of an extremely limited number in Class E (55-59 years) to turn in a gross score of better than 160 for the 36 holes.
Robert N. Wallis '19, treasurer of Dennison Manufacturing Co., Framingham, Mass., has been elected national president of the Controllers Institute of America for 1955-56.
Secretary, Blind Brook Lodge, Rye 17, N. Y
Treasurer, . South Duxbury, Mass.
Bequest Chairman,
