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There will be a gathering of the Twenty clan at the University Club in Chicago at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 27. Testifying to the forethought that the local boys have given to the matter, this notice goes into type weeks in advance of the event. Thus it gives every loyal Twenty within phoning, driving or flying distance of Monroe & Michigan ample time to arrange his affairs, stall off all other pressures, and get himself in the mood for an evening in the Loop. Whoever you are, wherever you may be, send in your reservation to Laddie (known as E. E. to the U.S. Mail) Myers, 135 South LaSalle St., Chicago, Ill,
Reunion pots are boiling elsewhere than in Chicago. Best change-of-heart item that has come to hand recently is the word from fardistant Johnny Allen (Seattle, Wash.): "Kay and I have changed our minds and decided to attend the reunion if we possibly can. I only get two weeks' vacation this year, but by flying all the way we can take in the reunion, have some time in New York and visit my old home town in lowa on the way back." The welcome carpet will be spread out for the Aliens from the Inn Corner to Reunion Headquarters.
Henry Hayes lists our 35th as "certainly my greatest hope," and he too writes from a fairly far distant spot, four doors down the street in Independence, Mo., from the retirement home of a fairly well-known ex-president. On a December return trip to his former home in Rochester, N.Y., Henry "attended a Dartmouth luncheon, saw Irv Hutchins, spent the rest of the afternoon sampling his Scotch and talking about reunion. He had some foolish notion about going to Europe at that time, but could be he will change his mind." Supplying requested details on his new and interesting career, Henry gives out as follows:
"My present activity is in aerial mapping and surveying work, but although flying is part of it, I don't get into the air except for a trip now and then on the commercial lines. Most of my traveling is done by car. I am Midwestern field representative for Alster & Associates, Inc., covering Missouri, Kansas, lowa, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Arkansas, parts of Texas and outlying points to the West and North. My contacts are with the city fathers, planning directors, city and county engineers, public utilities, pipe line companies, and consulting engineers.
"Photogrammetry is a fairly new field, widely used wherever large areas are involved and where special purpose maps are needed. It was estimated, not too many years ago, that it would take 100 years to adequately map this country. Now, with the methods being used, this can certainly be cut 50% to 75%. We have many calls for large scale maps for engineering purposes that are not available from the Govt, agencies, and that is where a company such as ours comes into the picture. It is most interesting work. I spend a good deal of time on missionary selling, but it is very rewarding when we land a job such as we did for the Air Force at Colorado Springs."
Paul Richter has to get the Boston Latin School 40th Reunion off his hands on April 7 before he can square away for the Hanover festivities. In the process of spark-plugging the former, he hauled some entertaining recent history out of Charlie Stevens, fellow Latin Schooler. Charlie took a semester leave-of-absence from his Rutgers University post a year ago and did the Mediterranean region with his wife and son, taking a look at Spain, Portugal and North Africa. Morocco made him a present of a trick infection but American doctors later relieved him of it. Son David, now looking around for the proper college to enter next fall
. . is six foot three, weighs 185, and has just completed a winning season at varsity football as a running end and pass catcher for Highland Park (N. J.) High School. This brought him election as left end on the all-county team. He is now pivot, as you can imagine, on the varsity basketball team, waiting for baseball to come up. Strange that I should have spawned so successful an athlete."
Other Richter correspondence brought him the word from Art Smith of the HartfordCourant that Warrie Gault's boy Webb also works for the Courant. Art himself, a hospital case last summer, says sensibly, "I'm back practically full time, tho' I have ceased to feel that the paper would fold up if I didn't show up every day as I had done for about 33 years." This attitude would be rightly applauded by insurance man Ben Ayres, who by now has set off with Ellen for a couple of months at Palm Beach.
Ben Potter suffered a tragic loss in Decernber when his wife Margaret passed away. Mrs. Potter supplemented Ben's career as publisher of the Rock Island (Ill.) Argus with constant activity of her own in church and civic affairs. The Community Chest, the Garden Club, St. Anthony's Hospital, the Y.W.C.A., the Family Service of Rock Island and other good causes all engaged her interest. By strange coincidence, her own mother died in nearby Monmouth within a few hours of Margaret Potter's passing.
Ken Fenderson made the "Good Morning ' column of the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times on January 16, the occasion of his 30th anniversary as legal counsel for Florida Power Corp. ...Jim Parkes, president of the Board of Governors of Riverview Hospital, was the recipient of the 1955 Outstanding Citizen Award granted by the Red Bank (N.J.) Kiwanis Club. Since Jim's election as board president in 1949 the hospital has grown from a 39-bed to an 85-bed institution. Plans are now under way for a new wing which will increase the number of beds to 150 Ruth and Don MacKay re- port: "We have bought a small house (with a smaller guest house) at Fish Creek up in Door County, Wise., where we'll be summering and hope to see you."
Al Foley has again hit the Chautauqua trail. He was an early January speaker before the Business and Professional Women's Club of Brattleboro, Vt., then did the oratorical honors at a meeting of the Woodstock Historical Society on January 22... .Doc Miller gave a talk in December to Worcester Lodge of B'nai B'rith on "How to Live with Your Heart."
Family Stuff: Forby Forbush rang in with a count of six grandchildren at Christmas time. ... Bun Harvey, heading south with Dorothy for a stay of several months, announced the December arrival of twins (boy and girl) in son Bob's family. This makes a total of nine grandchildren in the Harvey entourage Tom Dudley's boy, Thomas Minot Dudley Jr., who attended University of Virginia Law School after graduation from Dartmouth, is now engaged to Miss Dudley Webster, a student at the University of New Hampshire and daughter of an English professor there.
The Wakefield (Mass.) Independent carriedwelcome news about a classmate in a story thatappeared December 28:
Charles H. Sargent Jr., relief commissioner for the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts, was honored during the annual installation of officers for the year 1956, at the Masonic Temple, Boston, with a distinguished service medal, presented to him by the grand lodge of New Hampshire. The medal, known as the Jeremy L. Cross award, the highest recognition for distinguished service to Free Masonry which the Granite State can bestow, was presented by the New Hampshire grand master, Leslie F. Murch.
Mr. Sargent has been the Massachusetts grand lodge relief commissioner since May 1949. Previous to World War II, during which he served for 5½ years, he had been affiliated with the grand lodge service department for 15 years. As relief commissioner, he has had many contacts with neighboring and distant grand lodges and his work with the New Hampshire jurisdiction was highly praised in the presentation speech.
Encouraging word from the Frey-Foley 35th Directory team indicates that they are about to start typesetting, as of February 1. Did you answer the questionnaire of last fall, giving you the opportunity to set the record straight on your home address, nature and place of business, names of wife and children? If not, get this minimum of basic information to either Albert W. Frey, 35 School St., Hanover, or Allen R. Foley, Box 315, Hanover, without further delay, and leave it to them to set the matter right by the arduous process of proof correction.
Secretary, Blind Brook Lodge, Rye 17, N.Y.
Treasurer, 52 Bay View Drive, Swampscott, Mass.
Bequest Chairman,
