1920
The month of May may be a month offlowers to you but to your Secretary it isthe month in which our Company holds itsAnnual Meeting of Stockholders. With 125,000 of them on the books and many ofthem seeking information of one kind or another, the month of May is just bad newsfor this fellow.
Now that spring has finally arrived and, in fact, is well along, Fifth Avenue presents a most attractive appearance from my office window. The oversize sidewalk flower pots with vari-colored petunias growing among the greenery bring an air of elegance to this old thoroughfare. New York is preparing for its annual Summer Festival. These flowers along the Avenue bring to mind the city of Victoria, Vancouver Island, where hanging baskets of flowers decorate every corner and every thoroughfare.
I was glad that Al Foley got out his TWENTY Greensheet on the subject of the Alumni Fund. His treatment of the subject should do much to relieve the confusion that has existed in some areas of the Alumni group. I would add to it only the suggestion ...if in doubt, send a check anyway!
Lee Hodgkins is returning to New Hampshire as state representative of The National Foundation and will direct the work of volunteers collecting for the New March of Dimes. For the past 12 years Lee has been state representative in Virginia and has lived in Richmond. A native of Boston, he is looking forward to his return to New England. With his new headquarters in Concord, N. H., Lee will supervise both New Hampshire and Vermont with a membership of 24 chapters. The National Foundation's expanded program now is aimed at alleviating birth defects and arthritis as well as polio.
The Jim Chilcotts are abroad and when last heard from were making the rounds of London in the company of daughter Bobby and her husband.
The Sunday editions down this way recently bore a handsome pencil sketch of the avuncular Theodore S. (Ted) Cart. The article accompanying the sketch is worth repeating: "Founder of the Atlantic Products Corporation, one of America's largest producers of luggage and golf bags. His present firm is an offspring of his old Pocono Rubber Company, started in 1934 with six employees and housed in an old church building on East State Street in Trenton, N. J. Today his plant employs over 550 people and makes products distributed all over the world. He played an important role in World War II as a member of several War Advisory Committees and Production Boards ... and has held ranking posts in the luggage and golf bag industry."
Eddie Taylor, now retired, can be located at North Fair Street, Guilford, Conn., care of Bliss. We'll be hoping to see something of the old boy before long.
Mel Merritt stopped in the office the other day and I decided after talking with him awhile that we had better both go on a diet. As a result your Secretary is struggling manfully to hold to a thousand calories per day. If you think that isn't a struggle...try it for just one day!
Dean-Emeritus and Mrs. Joe McDonald enjoyed a trip to England last fall following his retirement in June. However, Joe (Honorary 1920) is back at work ... not in Parkhurst Hall, but traveling and visiting alumni clubs. His appearance before the Philadelphia alumni is now followed by an extensive tour of the Southwest and West for Dartmouth meetings in Houston, Fort Worth, Dallas, Midland, Tucson, Phoenix, San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and San Francisco. He spoke recently at the annual social gathering and coffee hour of the girls on the College staff when some 200 delighted females rocked in their chairs, as we all do, at Joe's string of student anecdotes in his celebrated address "Trials and Tribulations of a Dean."
Other than the report of the Reunion, which will appear in the summer issue, these are the last notes that you will have to endure until the regular October issue reaches you. Of late there has been a great dearth, not to say a paucity, of news. I can only surmise that the brothers and their families have been devoting all their energies to getting ready for TWENTY'S FABULOUS FORTIETH. At any rate, we'll be back at the old stand come October. Until then, have a good summer.
Secretary,350 East 57th St.New York 22, N. Y.
Class Agent,go Iron Mine Dr., Staten Island 4, N. Y.
