1920
A number of the 1920 family are very active participants in Historical Societies. In North Salem, N. Y., Russ Jones is very active. Sherm Adams is a director in the New Hampshire Historical Society. And in Vermont, Al Foley has been a prime mover in the Norwich Historical Society’s acquisition of a fine new home even while he
served as president of the Vermont Historical Society. While attending our fine fiftieth reunion Almus and Frances Russell had breakfast with Senator and Mrs. George McGovern. The Senator, who received Dartmouth’s honorary Doctor of Laws degree, was one of Almus’ students at Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell, S. D. Almus, by the way, pushes a busy pen. His articles, dealing with a wide range of subjects, appear in many publications.
The Honorable Sherm Adams has donated to Plymouth State College’s library a treasured bronze likeness of himself done by sculptor Nison Tregor. Last spring Sherm was the first recipient of the recently established “Robert Frost Contemporary American Award.” This award, to be presented annually, goes to the living American who, in the judgment of the selection committee, best symbolizes the Frost tradition of hard work, individuality, and devotion to the country “north of Boston.” The Tregor sculpture was done while Sherm was President Eisenhower’s assistant at the White House.
Via a Maine correspondent we have learned that the Henry Dearborns, who summer in Kennebunk, Me., and winter in Daytona Beach, Fla., spent a pleasant three weeks in Ireland and Great Britain in September 1969. When following spring northward, Henry, continue on beautiful Interstate 91 to the Norwich-Hanover .exit and visit with us on the Hanover Plain.
Julie B. (Mrs. John) Sunderland missed the 50th Reunion due to a previously scheduled cruise up Norway’s spectacular coast and around the North Cape. The deep fiords, the innumerable waterfalls, the jagged mountains that rise sharply out of the sea are breath-taking and create a healthy respect for the intrepid Norwegians in that far north country.
Not unlike a Norwegian fiord in appear- ance is Newfound Lake, forty miles east of Hanover, nestled in the hills. Here the Hibbard Richters have a lovely little cottage, which Hib is winterizing for longer seasonal use. Hib currently resides in Augusta, Me., but spends much time at Whittemore Point on beautiful Newfound Lake.
Roger Finkbine, who follows both Dartmouth and the University of lowa affairs from his Des Moines, lowa, vantage point, has serious misgivings about football and football coaching at the University of lowa where lack of success has created much tension. How about returning to the Hanover Plain, Roger, and enjoy some Ivy League football? The 1970 Dartmouth- Princeton game at Memorial Field, October 10, should provide some excellent competi- tion, good fellowship, lots of brilliant autumn color, and a chance to renew old friendships at Pat and Nancy Holbrook’s “after-the-game” party. At the reunion class meeting in June Pat extended an invitation to all 19205.
Down in Mason, N. H., is the retirement home of Charlie and Elsa Crathern. Char- lie is often asked why he retired in Mason. The answer is simple. It is the Colonel’s an- cestral home. The townsfolk perennially keep him in the office of Town Clerk and entrust to him the care of the town’s finances. Currently he serves as vice president of the New Hampshire City and Town Clerks Association but one of my gremlins reports that he will assume the president’s role in the ensuing year. Charles and Elsa are now touring the Far East but will return to Mason in early November.
From Byfield, Mass., comes word from Ben Pearson that the snuff business isn’t in the best of health; that FDR—that man— reduced Ben to a mere 165 pounds and he hasn’t seen fit since to put on more weight. Ben is chairman of the board of Byfield’s First and Ocean National Bank and serves on several committees of the Five Cents Savings Bank—a savings bank title by the way that is a carry-over from the days when a nickel could buy a good cigar—or could it?
From the Hanover Information Booth, Bud Weymouth reports a pleasant conver- sation with Alice (Mrs. X. Durland) VanOrden who was passing through Hanover with her daughter, Mrs. David Peacock. Bud also saw Dick Southwick, ’45; Jimmy Vail, ’5O, and Josiah Welch. ’5l, all sons of 19205, who returned for their respective reunions following ours.
The Wyman Tavern in Keene, N. H., will be the scene of a commemorative meeting of the Board of Trustees of the College on October 22. The meeting is scheduled to be held in the same room where the Reverend Eleazar Wheelock called the first trustees of the College to order in their first meeting 200 years ago. This fine old Tavern has been authentically restored under expert direction. The building, which has been open to the public on specified week-days, is supervised by public-spirited residents of Keene, one of whom is Grace Bennett Prentiss, widow of our highly respected John William Pren-tiss.
Grosvenor and Genifred Plowman missed the 50th reunion to our great regret due to much business related to “Dartmouth Drawings,” a treasured copy of which each of us now possess due to the generosity of Gro and the Baker Library. Gro’s father had a very real fondness for Dartmouth scenes, campus and Outing Club cabins, covered bridges, and his beautiful etchings which the College now possesses reflect his artistic talent. At a party given by the Library for the Plowmans a number of the local 1920 contingent were present.
Regretfully we report the passing of Arthur Faitoute Gooding and John O.Dickerman in early June.
Through the gift of E. Grosvenor Plowman ’2O (1) of Portland, Me., the College has received a collection of drawings and etchings of Dartmouth scenes done by his late father, the distinguished artist, George T. Plowman. In the photo, Mr. Plowman is shown giving President Kemeny a copy of the booklet, “Dartmouth Drawings,” in which a number of the drawings in the collection are reproduced. He made his gift of his father’s works and the funds necessary for the publishing of the booklet by the Dartmouth College Library “on the 50th anniversary of my Class of 1920 and the 200 th anniversary of the founding of one of the world's great educational institutions.” George Plowman, a native of Minnesota, studied art in this country and abroad. His etchings are in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the New York Public Library, and the Library of Congress. He was the author of two books, “Etching and Other Graphic Arts” (1914) and “Manual of Etching: A Handbook for the Beginner” (1924). His son Grosvenor has been vice president of the United States Steel Corpora- tion, Deputy Under-Secretary of Commerce (1963-64), and president of the Transporta- tion Research Foundation, Washington, D. C.
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