1920

Laddie Myers had an odd accident. He got up quickly to answer the phone not knowing his foot was asleep. It buckled under him and he broke a bone so he has been hobbling around with a cast. Perhaps by this time he has shed the cast. He does a good job at passing news on for you, telling about Bing Whitaker in Reddington Beach who has recently been made commodore of the Bath Club Yacht Club of which he has been a member for several years, and Gugger Fiske who has been made head of the entertainment committee at Seminole Hill Villas, and that he is having Doug Storer '21 as the speaker at one of his monthly meetings.

Sherry Baketel had a prize seat at the Princeton game. He flew up from Philly and ran across Dick Welch who took him back to the airport. Sherry tells of seeing Jim and Ruth Chilcott and the Paul Samples at the Princeton game; also Jack andMargaret Mayer who were just returning from Charter Day festivities in Hanover, and Bill Carter who is now spending much of his time working out reunion plans for us all - which is good!

As of January 1, Frank Morey calls himself an ex-politician. He is planning on Hanover in June. In fact, I doubt if he has missed a single reunion since graduation.

We learn that Tink and Esther Lombard were at the Princeton game and also that they have a grandson who is making a name for himself in prep school football and together with high scholastic honors they are hoping he may make Dartmouth.

Clippings were received about the death of Hal Bernkopf and Elizabeth replied to a note of ours saying that his suffering and gallantry were beyond belief. I quote from her note "Harold was most interested in his own scholarship fund at Dartmouth, which actually had been started by Phillip Jackson '43 as a thank you for some assistance Harold had given him when he was entering as a freshman. Phil wondered how he could ever repay the favor to which Harold replied 'Don't - if you are ever in a position to do so, pass it on to some other youngster,' and twenty years later he started this scholarship fund in Harold's name. Harold was very touched by the gesture and has contributed to it ever since including some gifts for his 70th birthday last summer and now his family and friends are giving to the fund in his memory."

Henry Page, although not intending to be anti-social has not kept in touch. However, although he was in Hanover only one year his love for Dartmouth is still as strong as ever. The last we heard he was with the National Bank of Perry, N.Y., and had retired about a year ago, finding himself busier than ever and liking it. We are hoping he will be back for Reunion and get reacquainted with his old classmates.

Another not heard from for some time is Don Teel. He doesn't give much news about himself except that he cannot get back to Reunion. We have a long list of those who are planning and hoping to be back in June but the Reunion Committee must by this time have more official information from reply cards which our Honorable Al Foley will soon be releasing in his TWENTY editorial.

I had a call from our neighbor Clyde Bidwell recently who luckily came back from Vermont earlier than usual this year, missing the record snowfall.

Dick Southwick has been silent for some time but we hear that he expects to be back for Reunion and then we will catch up on his news.

According to Bing Whitaker '20 seems to hold a record attendance at the St. Pete Dartmouth Club luncheons with Myers (Laddie that is) Sigler, Pick Hill, Gugger Fiske, and Whitaker being the dependable regulars and it is hoped that Fenderson will soon be back with them again.

Wallie Schinz doesn't give much news of himself but sends Best Wishes to you all, and being on the Board of Directors of Augustana College he is keeping abreast of today's campus activities remarking "I don't recall the Class of '20 demanding a lot of 'student rights.'"

A Christmas card from Mrs. Philip Frazier (Susie) lets us know she remembers you from last Reunion and sends her best wishes. Dorothy Sampson's Christmas card was a picture of her very cozy new home across the river in Norwich where she seems to be happy and adjusting well to her new life without Sam; and George is at Amherst and doing well. And speaking of Christmas cards - we don't have a mantel over our fireplace here in Florida so we had a frame made with chicken wire set in it for our cards to be hung over the fireplace, and thanks to you all who sent so many and such beautiful and colorful cards - it made a beautiful display with reminders of '20.

An excerpt from a nice note from DukeBellen who bought a condominium apartment recently at Palm Beach: "Although I attended Dartmouth only a couple of years - actually graduating from Wharton School after World War 1, I have a nostalgia for Dartmouth that was never propagated at the University of Penn. My wife, Trudie, and I confidently plan on joining you lucky people who graduated from Dartmouth, for the 50th Reunion of 1920."

When Hank Spero paid his dues he wrote: "Never did $6.00 bring back so many dividends in happy memories when the world was reasonably sane," and the same nostalgic sentiment seems to be written between the lines of many similar notes being received at this time with '20s/50th so close upon us.

Remember and plan for the three big days June 12, 13, and 14 and there is still no better slogan than Jerry Stone's of last reunion "It's later than you think." If he were here today he'd urge you all to "Let's get together - come June"!!

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