1920

From the Diary of a Traveling Secretary. April s—Between trains at Albany .... Talked to various wives and children on the telephone, but couldn't find a classmate home for dinner by 5:45. Bowling night for Johnny McAllaster, who, as secretary of the local Dartmouth Club, has been trying to drum up trade for an alumni dinner. John's daughter is a Milne High School sophomore now, and Mrs. McA. runs a Girl Scout troop which not long ago had Ned DeRouville's daughter in it. Ned and his good wife, as reported by daughter Anthea, have been spending some time in Worcester, Mass., getting ready to establish the Deßouville family there permanently. Mrs. George Noveck, speaking for the Albany Novecks, bewails—and with justice!— the housing shortage, which bids fair to deposit the Noveck family on the sidewalk almost any minute. George, it may be remembered, finished up at M.1.T., but makes his living in the same office with Johnny McAllaster and maintains undiminished loyalty to Dartmouth.

April 9—Big evening in Chicago, already covered in its essentials by the April 25 issue of "Twenty." Perhaps age builds its own rosecolored glasses, but to these eyes the Mid-West contingent looked in marvelous shape. Dana Eaton had just finished a brief, non-serious bout in the hospital; his jaw was still jutting and his New Hampshire Yankee humor still functioning. Dana's daughter will be ready for the University of Chicago in the fall. On the score of younger-generation education, here are some additional items fresh from the Windy City: (1) Attendance of Nate Whiteside III at Kimball Union Academy gets the elder Whitesides back to New Hampshire oftener than used to be the case; (2) Frank Corbin's older daughter is a sophomore at Radcliffe (Ray McPartlin and family please note), while the younger one is finishing her freshman year at Mount Holyoke—"exactly the right places for both," says Frank; (3) a daughter of Hank Spero may redress our EastWest balance by enrolling in California's Stanford University, come fall; (4) the MacKay family will retain direct contact with Hanover, via the third of their troop, who is scheduled to be back on the campus in September; (5) Dr. Charlie Piper's daughter Kaye, late of the WAC, and her new husband, a recently demobilized service man, becameamid some local fanfare—the first GI pair to re-register at the University of Chicago.

Fled Hamm, Hersh Chandler and Don MacKay were the prime movers in instigating the Chicago turn-out. All are in fighting trim. Laddie Myers is another who refuses to look his age, in spite of the adventurous life he was living through the war years. Hersh and Mrs. Hersh spent their latest vacation in Kingston, Jamaica, in March. They flew down on what they called a "freighter," a converted paratrooper plane, and it was an exciting introduction to flying for Mrs. Chandler.

Ed Hasbrook of Green Bay, Wis., is always ready for the question that's invariably asked him, and his answer is, "Yes, he owns a small piece of the Green Bay Packers." If he didn't, he probably couldn't go on living in Green Bay. Len Davis, like Nate Whiteside, is just lately back from a tour of the East: first, the American Management Association's convention at Atlantic City, then a quick look at the Davis boyhood haunts in Penacook, N. H. Len's boy is one more who will be knocking at the gates in Hanover next September. Former Chicago resident A1 Steinbrecher is said to be putting his well-known photographic talents to good use down in Tucson, Ariz., where he holds the title of official rodeo photographer.

April 13—A bare pause for breath in Detroit. Muir Lind promises to be 011 hand in Hanover for Reunion. His job with the big Hudson store involves what he calls "Resources," with special attention to infants' and children's garments and piece goods. Muir chases all over the country—he may be in Milwaukee one week and out on the Coast the next. His first daughter Peggy Gene is in her third year at Wheaton, while Elizabeth Anne may be ready for an eastern college this coming fall.

April 18—Pleasant hour with Art Hale and Kel Smith in Cleveland. Art is a sure bet for Reunion. He's counting on taking a whole month off at about that time, driving East in leisurely style and doing the thing up right. His work with the Internal Revenue Office is varied enough to be interesting: he can stay most of the time in his home neighborhood of Cleveland and Akron, and yet take an occasional jaunt—for the sake of variety—to Canton, Lima, Toledo or Sandusky. With a nephew already married, Art considers himself the next thing to a great-uncle. Kel Smith wouldn't elaborate a whole lot on what had recently been disclosed about his scientific attainments. He gives luck and friends a lot of credit. Says he started the now-thriving Cleveland Industrial Research back in the early '30s with only one sure client, a company in which he himself owned an interest. In the course of time the client, Lubrizol, practically "swallowed the counselor." Now you'd better have Lubrizol or something very like it in the neighborhood of what we used to call your "rear-ex," or you'll most likely be in trouble. Kel and his wife live in Shaker Heights.

Back at the home place there was some welcome mail. Don Harris, rounding out his fourth year of night work for the B. and O. Railroad in Cranford, N. J., provides the latest bulletins on Wade Smith, Bill Bishop and Ab Osborn:

Wade and Bertha left Bellows Falls around April 15 and have been staying in West Palm Beach; they are returning to Vermont about May 15, to try and get some new Buicks to sell. Son Warren, Dartmouth '47, an officer in the Navy, is stationed at Miami Naval Patrol Base until he gets out in midsummer. Bill Bishop tells me, if he could only get the paper, he could fill more orders than at any time in the 20 years he's been in the business. Ab Osborn is practically the whole works in the handwriting business, now that his brother is inactive.

Pictures in the Paper. Very good likeness of Joe Brewer in .Househould Magazine of Topeka, Kansas, for March. "If there is any American more versatile," says the accompanying article, "we editors have never heard of him." Summarizing his career as "editor, publisher, college president, librarian, hotel proprietor, gardener, cook," the story winds up on a mouth-watering note: "Dr. Brewer is an authority on herbs—not only the growing of them but their use in cooking. Actually he's one of the best cooks whose dishes we've ever tasted." There was a Bachrach photograph of Barbara Baketel in the New York Times for April 2. As the class paper has made known, Miss Baketel will be the bride of Thomas Cathcart Leonards Jr., air pilot with the rank of first lieutenant in the Marine Corps. Important as this is, it shouldn't be allowed to dim the light of her old man Sherry, whose election to the Alumni Council as representative from District II has just become generally known. Sherry joins with Roc Elliott to give the Class two representatives on the Council, probably for the first time in our history.

Miscellany: Dr. James J. Hennessey, whose name has too long been missing from the record, turns out to be consultant to the Hartford (Conn.), Health Department and chairman of the diagnostic and research committee of the Hartford Tuberculosis and Public Health Society. Recently discharged from the Navy Medical Corps, where he held the rank of lieutenant commander, Jim has-returned to the staff of St. Francis Hospital in Hartford. .... Carroll (Pick) Hill is the new secretary of the Dartmouth Club of St. Petersburg, Fla. Ned Shnayerson's boy, who should be out of the Navy any minute now, has a "high priority" with the Admissions Office at Hanover and equally high hopes for becoming a member of the freshman class in the fall Jean Fraisier, long lost from the school called Avon Old Farms in Connecticut, which was turned into an Army hospital, moved just a few miles north to the select Westminster School in Simsbury, where he continues to teach French and Spanish. E. M. Stern Jr. of Briarcliff Manor, N. Y., a name spotted on the Westminster roll of students, sounds like Adie's boy, rounding out his preparation for Dartmouth A1 Lake, Lieutenant Commander in the Naval Air Force, is mustered out and back home in Hampstead, N. H New and permanent address for Ben Farnsworth is 180 Main St., Madison, N. J.—a good town to call home for a fellow who had worries on that score back in early 1945 We can say thanks to Willard Aborn, 1893 Secretary, for the word that Frank Hutchins, son of Irv and grandson of Arnold '93, has been located at Camp Butman, N. C., after 18 months of foreign service with the OSS. Frank married Jean Bahn of Rochester, N. Y., a Wells College graduate.

Secretary Blind Brook Lodge, Rye, N. Y. Treasurer, 1 Windmill Lane, Arlington, Mass