1920
As Stan Newcomer gets ready for the Alumni Fund drive down the stretch, it seems like the best possible time to pay our respects to the gang working with him in pursuit of the 1920 quota for 1955. As these notes are written, the outlook is promising, but we can't afford any last-minute easing of the pace. Here are the boys "who are "putting all they've got" on Dartmouth and Twenty: Ben Ayres, Hal Bernkopf, Eddie Bowen, Hal Clark, Ken Fenderson, Gugger Fiske, Al Frey, Phil Gross, Buttons Hill, Clint Johnson, Rus Keep, Phil Kitfield, Mugs Morrill, Frank Moulton, Laddie Myers, Norm Richardson, George Sackett, Charlie Sargent, Art Smith, Dick Southwick, Ken Spalding, Bing Whitaker and Abe Winslow. If you meet any one of them on the street, he'll accept your check right then and there. More power to a good crew that keeps the blood surging in our class agent's veins!
Stan paralyzed his wrist muscles penning 365 long-hand notes of encouragement, one for each day in the year and one also for each living member of the Class whose address remains known to the Alumni Records Office. In addition he chipped in an item or two for this news mill. Jim Chilcott sent his regards (via Stan) to the Class from Amsterdam (the old one in Holland, not the new one on the banks of the Hudson). And Roy Youmans filled in some more of his story for us when Stan visited him at his beautiful home in Cuba.
"It's on a point from which you can see the whole shoreline of Havana itself (reports Stan). Apparently it was a former president's home which, in one of the revolutions, was burned down and then taken over by a real estate company which developed the area. They have a private beach, and all in all it's a wonderful situation."
Further news on Roy is in two installments: 1) The variety and versatility of his literary career is evidenced by three of his book publications which have come to hand. One, Medieval Menagerie, is a handsomely illustrated collection of fables and legends related to the ornamentation of Gothic churches of the Middle Ages. Another, Witches Ride Brooms ...to Brush Their Tracks Away is a story for youngsters "about a most remarkable conversation overheard in the Land of Nonsense. A third, which you have to know Spanish to read is a Diccionario de Apellidos Castellanos and on this one, hot off the Cuban presses, our author friend turns up disguised as Ruiz Arquero. Recent item #2 relating to the Youmans family concerns daughter Janine, whose marriage to Mr. John William Todaro was to take place on Sunday May 15, in Iglesia del Corpus Christi, with a reception following at the Country Club of Havana. The wedding invitation, incidentally, was the first ever seen by this reporter which conveyed its happy message in two languages, Spanish on the left and English on the right.
By now Chuck Garnsey will have discovered that his recent election makes him one of the elder statesmen of the Alumni Council. (1936, believe it or not, is now the mid-point of the alumni body.) But congratulations are all the more in order, and the Aiken (S. C.) Standardif Review phrased them thus: "Miamian Charles T. Garnsey was chosen as South Florida's first member to the worldwide Alumni Council of Dartmouth College." Chuck fills the slot of Chattanooga's Joe Lane from the neighboring Class of 1921.
The Raleigh (N. C.) News & Observer is another journal of that same region which comes occasionally under our editorial scrutiny. On our annual visit to Raleigh a year ago the paper enlivened our breakfast hour with the report that Charlie McKenzie was to be the new president of Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Va. Charlie went on the job last July and was formally inducted into office with the usual impressive ceremonies on April 15. Again, on our 1955 stopover at Raleigh, the News & Observer (like many other papers on April 1) proved not inattentive to the affairs of 1920. Drew Pearson, as you may remember, chose April Fool's Day to say very seriously:
"Sherman Adams, the ice-blooded little Yankee who sits at Ike's right hand as assistant president, has emerged as second most powerful man in America. This is because Ike is away a lot and delegates authority a lot. Adams is such a quiet operator the public has heard little of him, yet he has replaced New York's ex-Governor Tom Dewey as the power behind the President.
Sherm must have felt at home at the Washington dinner in February, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the United States Forest Service. His old friends in the American Forestry Association and the Society of American Foresters made a natural move in asking him to address the 700 persons attending the dinner. Sherm relieved the minds of many by pledging the Federal Government's continuation of the "public use" conservation policy established fifty years ago by Gifford Pinchot.
Continuing to play his part in keeping the governmental wheels in motion is Sal Andretta of the Attorney General's staff. Sal feels good about Dartmouth these days, as he always has. During the winter he made his first trip to Hanover in several years in order to attend the annual father's and son's dinner and was by no means surprised to find AlFoley lined up as the featured speaker for the occasion. Al has been on the speaking circuit through the winter and spring months. He will be playing his customary part in the Hanover Holiday program of mid-June and will double for the Class of 1930's special reunion program, talking about "The World and the College Since 1930." A topic of considerable length and equal breath, Professor Foley, if we may presume to say so.
Phil Gross was spotted in faithful attendance at the Class Agents' annual briefing in New York. He caught the Glee Club concert in Rye also, as did Charlie McGoughran,Gerry Stone, Dick Pearson and doubtless other Twenties who were systematically keeping their lights under a bushel. At the Toledo concert, Stan Newcomer reports that FrancisTrent put in an appearance, after a fairly long period of rustication
Secretary Charlie McGoughran has turned out as handsome, well-organized, and enlightening an annual report as any stockholder could ask for. Its map showing location of pipe lines, refineries, etc., has gone into the Macmillan permanent files as a top sample of cartographic excellence.... Hank Dearborn has resigned as Boston district sales manager for Sylvania Division of American Viscose Corporation. Hank had been with Sylvania since 1936; before that he was associated with Henrietta Mills, Caroleen, N. C., and with the Providence (R. I.) Drysalters Company. According to the announcement, he and Mrs. Dearborn "plan to travel extensively and then return to a new home in Maine." ... LedyardBirch got his picture in the New York Times several months ago. Formerly with the Bowery Savings Bank of New York, Pop has joined the newly merged firm of Ruland & BenjaminEarl & Calhoun, Inc., as vice president in charge of its mortgage department.
The annual sociable and clambake of Twenties in Hanover took place in Room 225 of the Hanover Inn early in the evening of May 4. Attendance was pretty well up to par. New member Art Pierce, local school superintendent, was welcomed to the gathering, contributing the interesting piece of news that his school administrative duties carry him north and east into the towns of Lyme, Orford and Enfield. Others who added to the prevailing good cheer were the Bud Weymouths, the John Amsdens, the Harry Sampsons, the Bill Carters, the Joe McDonalds, DickGoddard and Al Foley. The Dick Pearsons stood guard on behalf of the Inn management. Necessarily absent, but sadly missed, were the Al Freys, afloat on their freighter somewhere between Peru and Mink Brook; the PaulSamples, Paul being a mild victim of some local distemper; the Frank Moultons, on account of an urgent case which the squire is conducting over at Plymouth; and ElmerStewart, who had a previous engagement. For further details, kindly consult some forthcoming issue of 1920's Green Sheet, A. R. Foley, Editor.
As these notes are being hammered out on a hospitable typewriter in Crosby Hall, the RocElliotts are starting north from Duxbury to attend the annual class officer meetings and so are the Dal Dalrymples, who will protect the interests of one of the alumni clubs in the Boston area. Paul Richter has just this minute made his way down the street, on business bent, having stopped by at Dick's House to find George Page coming back in grand shape from a tough operation. All's quiet and happy, folks, on the upper reaches of the Connecticut.
Secretary, Blind Brook Lodge, Rye 17, N. Y.
Class Agent, 438 E. Elm Ave., Monroe, Mich.
