1920
Now that Stan Newcomer has retired undefeated. as the all-time, record-holding class agent for 1920, it is proper to look with respect at his final season, the 1956 Alumni Fund campaign which came to a close in July. Aided by a corps of equally hard-working assistants, Stan maneuvered the class to a new high mark for dollars and perhaps also 101 participation. Not only did 1920 s contribution exceed by a satisfying margin the highest quota established in our history; better yet those dollars flowed in from 256 members of the Class, the largest number in recent years. This steadily increasing participation has been all the more remarkable because our class roster inevitably contains fewer names from one year to the next. And so it is fitting that Stan should take the helm, by vote of the newly elected executive committee, as the first class chairman in 1920's history.
The long service to Dartmouth and to 1920 of the late Roc Elliott was suitably acknowledged late in June with the presentation to his widow Dolly of a beautiful painting by Paul Sample. The idea originated with some of Roc's special friends in the Boston area and snowballed as subscriptions came in from classmates all over the country. Dolly has written, in appreciation: "Paul Sample's painting of Dartmouth Row is beautiful and Roscoe would have loved it in our home just as I do. You couldn't have made a better choice, for it is a reminder of many, many happy times as well as of the loyalty and appreciation of Roscoe's classmates."
Even during the vacation months interesting things continued to happen to Twenties. .. . Paul Richter was appointed a Republican campaign manager in New Hampshire, to direct a grass roots appeal for funds to keep the Einsenhower administration (including Sherm Adams) on the job in Washington for another four years. Press accounts of Paul's new activity also made mention of his recent election as president of the Greater Concord Council of Churches.... Tudor Bradley, long connected with the Massachusetts Division of Employment Security, moved up in June from his post as manager of the Taunton office to that of supervising manager of the larger Brockton office. He had been in Taunton since 1938, but became a resident of nearby Berkley five years ago and there finds himself within convenient commuting distance of his new assignment in Brockton. Always active in community affairs he was last year's president of the Taunton Family Service, Inc. ...Tom Ainsworth, who has been one of Twenty's few Texans for the last seven years, looks forward to his pending transfer to the Surgeon General's Office in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in Washington. Doctor Tom will be in charge of the Commissioned Officers Reserve Program.
Jim Robertson, after fourteen years with Watkins Cleaners and Furriers of Portland, Maine (Jim is executive vice-president of the firm), has gained national recognition within his industry by his election as a director of the National Institute of Drycleaning. Jim is active in Masonic and Kiwanis circles in Portland.... Charlie McGoughran, in addition to his many other ways of serving Dartmouth, has accepted election to the Executive Committee of the Friends of the Dartmouth Library.
There are domestic matters to be reported involving Twenties, their children, and their grandchildren. Special congratulations are tendered to Charlie Warbasse, who was married on July 6 in Christ's Church Methodist, New York City, to Miss Melba Carpenter of Larchmont, N. Y. The bride, a graduate of lowa State University, had been teaching English and journalism at New Rochelle (N. Y.) High School. "Tranquillity Meadows" is the appealing name of the home the Warbasses will occupy in Suffern, N. Y.... Ned Shnayerson's daughter, Mary Ellin, was married on July 14 to Louis John Isselhardt of Scarsdale, N. Y., a graduate of Trinity College. Mary Ellin went to the George School in Pennsylvania and Connecticut. The ceremony took place in the Riverdale Presbyterian Church, New York City David, George Page's boy, is now a full-fledged M.D., upon graduation from Yale Medical School in June. He is interning at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York.
Jim and Grace Parkes are happily proud that their daughter Jess (Mrs. Courtland Van Rensselaer Halsey Jr.) has presented them with a fourth granddaughter, Katharine, born last April 13. Katharine's three sisters are six, three, and two years of age. Now that these girls' father is in possession of his Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania, he has moved the tribe to Amherst, where he joins the English faculty this fall. Previously Mr. Halsey had obtained his Master's degree from Rhode Island State University and had done some English teaching there.... George Vincent, who aspires to the grandpaternal leadership of the Class, chalked up a total of ten as his score at reunion time, three grandsons and seven grand- daughters. Will the challengers for George's lead kindly present their credentials?
Gerry Morse, who worked for his father's firm during his first 22 years in business, was as devoted a son as any record is likely to disclose. A bachelor, Gerry spent every evening with his father during the year-long illness which preceded his death on May 2. Since that time Gerry has been living at the Dartmouth Club of New York.
The way The Rochester Times-Union put it, "The Waldo B. Potters were responsible for a gay and successful party last evening (June 15) in the garden of their home on Clover Road." Guests of honor were Ozzie and Harriet, TV stars, but their spotlight was shared to some degree by guests Marion Folsom, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Major General "Wild Bill" Donovan, wartime head of the OSS, and a great gathering of topnotchers in the advertising business. The party was only one of Pete's strenuous activities during the boiling hot days of the U.S. Open golf tournament, held in Rochester and brought to the rest of us over TV under Eastman Kodak auspices.
Although Pete's hometown assignment unfortunately coincided with reunion time, the Popes, Swezeys, and Hal Bidwells got in some springtime European travel and still made it back home before the June 10 deadline. Hal wrote from Hannover, Germany, which he called a good town in spite of its unnecessary extra "n": "Traveling by Linjebuss from Rome to Stockholm with a plane to England. Meeting my wife and married daughter in London and flying back home. See you at reunion." Which he did. Rog Pope at about the same time summed up the Pope-Swezey Grand Tour: "Having quite a whirl. Much impressed with scenery in Switzerland. Follies, Lido, Crazy Horse Saloon in Paris, good for low blood pressure. Austria and Italy still coming up. Back to Paris and home for reunion." Rog earned another vote of thanks from the Class for acting as caretaker of 1920 funds between the time of Roc Elliott's death and the June election of Al Frey for a term as class treasurer.
Two more members were lost to the Class with the passing of Bob Moore in May and of Bug Blaine in July. Walk Fielding, longtime business associate of Bob's, has provided the details of his career; and Lyon Southworth, devoted friend of Bug's, made known his own expression of loss to other Twenties who had been especially close to Bug in and out of college. Obituary notices for both, and also for Jim Stark, who died earlier in the year, appear in the In Memoriam section of this issue.
Secretary, Blind Brook Lodge, Rye 17, N. Y.
Treasurer, Tuck School, Hanover, N. H
Bequest Chairman,
