1926
Speaking of meetings, as we were in last month's column, those New Jersey boys were at it again in February. Evidence to this effect was produced in the form of a paper place mat purloined from an establishment in West Orange known as Pals Cabin (apparently the scene of the uprising) and bearing the inscription: "At the Dartmouth dinner 2/10/47 of the Dartmouth C ub of Northern New Jersey the following eminent alumni were observedR. A. Jacobus Jr., J. B. Wallace, C. S. Bishop,Dr. Tony Gleason, Dutch Diehl, Harold VanDuyn, Andrew J. (Okie) O'Conner, Art Wilcox, R. E. Cleary and A. H. Watson (Princeton '26)." Nothing more—no explanation as to who did the observing or who concluded that eminent alumni were under observation. We shall have to assume that the Princeton gentleman was duly impressed with the company in which he found himself and that the observation was his.
From Pals Cabin to the Copley Plaza (who said ridiculous to sublime?) and the annual Boston Alumni dinner. Credit to I I'm Robinson for the idea of having a special '26 suite upstairs and to George Peirce and Ran Cox for the efficient execution of all arrangements when Win was called out of town 011 business to return as the festivities reached their height. Beaming Bill Barclay was up from Providence in his usual fine fettle and likewise Walt Rankin from New Bedford, EdEmerson from Exeter, Mac Ryder from Wareham, Bob Patten and Hal Marshall from Sharon. In addition to Win, George and Ran the Boston contingent included Russ ClarkDon Norstrand, Gordon Jenkins, Steve Mitchell, Hal Trefethen, Jim Sullivan, Harry Hall (dressed for head table duty as President of the Dartmouth Club of Melrose which of course inevitably made him the waiter at '26 headquarters), Joe Batchelder, Dean Chamberlain, Chet Morrison, Henry Blake, StewOrr, Bill Blanchard, Carl Schipper and BobSalinger. Twenty-four that adds up to and a goodly crowd for the makings of a highly worthwhile evening. Joe Batchelder was anticipating a jaunt with his dad to Pinehurst to sharpen up their golf games and Mac McDavitt appeared sound in wind and limb after a week's ski trip to Stowe, a rather remarkable achievement at the rate others of our vintage, and younger, manage to bust themselves up. The life of a small-town banker certainly agrees with Mac Ryder-, we never saw him look better. The same goes for Gordon Jenkins, whom we had not seen for ten years or more. Gordon has now settled here in Boston with his wife (the former Helen Whitmore of Auburn, N. Y., daughter of Nat Whitmore 'l2) and baby daughter, Jennifer, and is handling national radio advertising for the Yankee Network. We should have interviewed EdEmerson about the publicity he and the Emerson School recently received. According to the account we saw the student body of the school voted to return the Japanese flag to a display of national flags at the school and Ed referred the question to the State Department for a ruling on the propriety of such display. The ruling came back "not illegal, but inappropriate under present conditions."
Apologies to Ralph Thomas for our inadvertent failure to include him. in the previously published list of Al Louer's divisional Alumni Fund agents. Ralph will again be head man in charge of the Pennsylvania division and based on past records which he and Johnny Gearhart have produced he will be the man to beat for the league leadership.
This month we call on Tom Farwell, our genial and ever-dependable north country paper manufacturer, to rise and take a bow upon his election as President and Treasurer of the Ryegate Paper Cos. The company is located up in East Ryegate, Vt., near Wells River, whence Tom came to Hanover twentyfive years ago and thence he returned after graduation to become a key man in the paper company organization and its general manager for years past. The new honors and re sponsibilities are well and deservedly placed on Tom's sturdy shoulders.
It has been a pleasure to welcome DickMann back to his old Boston stamping grounds as well as to congratulate him upon his marriage last October to Katherine Bailey o£ Winona, Minn. Katherine attended Emma Willard and Connecticut College '26 and was as eager as Dick to return to New England, so on they came and now they are happily settled in a country home (new address: Brookdale Road, Kingston, Mass.) Dick has resumed his former association with Russell, Berg Cos., investment counsel here in Boston, and also plans to operate the several acres o£ cranberry bog which came with the new home. Kingston being close to Duxbury, the habitat of Obbie Barker, the two country gentlemen get together frequently and Dick reports that Obbie is a mighty busy architect these days.
Notes and Comments:—Ed Chaffin writes that no startling news is involved in the report of his change of address in Detroit; merely that the Saturday Evening Post, that paragon of periodicals which he represents in and around Detroit, has moved from the General Motors Building to the Fisher Building. Ed had recently visited Ed McClintock down Oklahoma way and confirms our earlier report that the latter Ed is about to become a real dirt farmer in addition to operating his ice and locker plants. St. Clair and Chaffin, known informally as the "Chintz Boys," are withholding their selection of materials to decorate our Twenty-fifth until conditions are easier and the choice of selections wider so that they can be certain to please the ladies with their ultimate selection When last heard from the middle of February Herb and,Bert Darling were about to leave for Bermuda for their vacation and were expecting to return about the 15th of March, a date we would view with considerable uneasiness after such a trip Henry Bixby of Haverhill likes variety in his winter vacation and combines skiing up at North Conway with a sojourn in Florida according to Steve Mitchell who bumped into him on the skiing end of it.
The Equitable Life Assurance Society announces the opening of an office in Lowell, Mass., under the direction of Harold Rosenberg. Hal's new address is 53 Central Street, Lowell Tom Colt writes that Ted Buckman, from whom we had not heard in years, has turned up in Richmond. Ted was on the stage at one time, later got into movie work and script writing, then served in the Army in a special section making war movies of the European invasion. At Richmond he is associated with the State Board of Education working in the field of audio-visual aids through moving pictures Ralph Gilbert's new address is 241 North Street, Burlington, Vt Canfield Hadlock, at 418 Wayne Avenue, Waynesboro, Va., is a chemical engineer for the du Pont Company Joe Taylor is teaching at Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Mass., and Carroll Peavey is now located at the Stonington High School, Stonington, Conn.
FOR '27's TWENTIETH, coming up this June, Ros- well S. Nichols Jr. will serve as Reunion Chairman.
Secretary, 140 Federal Street, Boston 10, Mass. Treasurer, 131 California Drive, Williamsville, N. Y. Memorial Fund Chairman c/o Lord and Taylor, 424 Fifth Ave. New York 18, N. Y.
ANNUAL NEW YORK DINNER, APRIL 16 HOTEL COMMODORE AT 6:30 P.M.
