1920
Performing the class chores and guiding its destiny from 1975-1980 are the following: Adams, Amsden, Bowen, Curtis, Felli, Merritt, Myers, Newton, Kel Smith, Snedecor, Tillson, Ungar, Whiteside, and Hazel Macomber, members of the Executive Committee. Elected officers, also ex-officio members of the Committee, are President, Charles F. McGoughran; alternates for President James C. Chilcott and Erwin C. Miller; Secretary, William A. Carter; Treasurer Albert W. Frey: Head Class Agent, John S. Mayer; Newsletter Editor, Allen R.Foley; and Bequest Chairman, H. Sheridan Baketel, Jr.
A bulletin from the State of Maine says Al and Hope Frey in late June visited Ann Hodgkins in South Bristol where Ann resides in the summer months. With Ann at the time was none other than Hazel Macomber who had hied over from Hanover to visit her old friend.
A letter from Paul Richter informs us that Paul is leaving Concord, N.H., to take residence with his daughter after September 1, 1975 at 4901 South Fairfax, Littleton, Colorado, 80120. Paul's son, in his last year of veterinarian study in Canada, will accompany Paul on his flight to Denver. Paul has been hospitalized in Concord for many months. It is good to know that he has improved sufficiently to make the flight to Denver. Concord and the Dartmouth Club of that area will have lost a devoted and sincere booster and friend. A good flight and a happy landing, Paul.
On July 9 we had a happy surprise - luncheon at The Jolly Roger with non other than Joe Brewer who was en route to San Francisco to a librarian association meeting but stopped by to visit with a Phoenix relative. Joe looked very trim. He gave me a glimpse of his most interesting life: Oxford and London for five years after our graduation in 1920; President of Olivet College in Michigan for many years; then studied library science at Columbia University, following which he took what was intended to be a year's appointment at Queen's College as librarian and that led to a permanent appointment which expired only after he reached the age of retirement. After retirement he has travelled much - Italy being his favorite spot - and pursues his interests in art and archeology. Occasionally he slips quietly into Hanover while visiting old friends in the Brattleboro, Vt., area. An old friend of the late Frank Lloyd Wright, he saw on this visit two of Wright's architectual contributions to the Arizona State University's campus: the Grady Gammage auditorium and the Music Building which houses the University's large music department. Together we visited the new Arizona Biltmore hotel - designed by the Frank Lloyd Wright Associates under the aegis of Mrs. Frank Lloyd Wright - and drove around the area in Phoenix where the Wright Associates are planning a major development within the city for the Talley Industries, current owners of the Arizona Biltmore. Incidentally, Joe Brewer is a very live and a very enjoyable person who quietly keeps up his many interests - among them Dartmouth.
The Loon Mountain post-reunion rendezvous in June was a striking success. Forty 1920s participated: the Whitesides; the Cratherns; the Ungars; the Hutchinsons; the Eb Wallaces; the Bowens; the Dalrymples; the Snedecors; the Earl W. Thomsons; the Carters; the Ted Mardens; the Lombards; the Spaldings; the Charlie Sargents; Len Davis; Frank Morey; Doris Richardson; Sherry Baketel, Jr; Anne Mack Schnirel; Lucia Morrill; Dot Harvey; Al Foley; Hazel Macomber, and, of course, the Adams. And from the Class of 1921 came the R. C. Batchelders. Among the featured entertainment was Al Foley's Vermont wit; Murray Clark's Trading Post in North Woodstock with a ride on the White Mountain Railroad and a visit to Clark's Americana; a bus ride over the beautiful Kancamagus Highway with stops at special scenic areas; and finally the gondola ride to the top of Loon for a fine luncheon, with Ted Warden leading the close harmony.
Jack Mayer, his committee, and the many workers in the vineyard are to be congratulated or their 1975 Alumni Fund efforts and results, resident Kemeny agrees, for in a letter to our Prexy McGoughran he wrote "Because of the loyalty and dedication of Jack Mayer, your Head Agent, and others who worked so hard to make this year a truly memorable one in terms of Reunion Giving Programs, the Fund not only achieved its goal of four million dollars, but actually went considerably over it." The dedication of Dartmouth men to Dartmouth knows no bounds! May it never change.
On June 22 the Honolulu Star-Bulletin &Advertiser carried three excellent photos of Kenneth P. Emory, Bernice Bishop Museum anthropologist and graduate of Dartmouth College, together with an intriguing story of the 78 year-old student of South Seas mankind. It seems that Ken is planning, come October, a visit to some of his old haunts in the Dartmouth and New Hampshire area. He said he couldn't make his 55th Reunion in June - and we missed him - because his proposed later trip was all he could afford in a single year.
Probably one of the people he is most likely to visit in the Hanover, N.H., area is Armstrong Sperry, the author, with whom he will reminisce about the fancy dress ball both men attended when their four-masted schooner put down anchor in a convenient Tahitian bay. Ken went dressed as a pirate and encountered a "beautiful mademoiselle dressed as the Egyptian Nefertiti."
Declaring to himself that such a beautiful French-Tahitian person could only belong to the field of archeological research, Ken proceeded to court and marry the young lady some 50 years ago. All of which leads to the deduction that the proposed October trip must be in celebration of 50 years of great happiness with Nefertiti, alias Marguerite. Congratulations are in order. Marguerite and Ken. We salute you.
Adios, amigos.
Secretary, 2549 East Beryl Ave. Phoenix, Ariz. 85028
Treasurer, Dresden, Maine 04342
