1920
We start the school year with a review, in case some of the folks may have fallen behind in their home work. Turn back to the May issue of this MAGAZINE, and you find a nearembarrassment of 1920 riches, with Sinclair's vice-president Charlie McGoughran winning a well-deserved Wall Hoo Wah, with AI Foley contributing a brilliantly Foleyesque account of Hanover's Elder Statesmen, with Jim Robertson's latest dignified likeness topping a column of Alumni Council nominees, and with Paul Sample the subject of a grand article by Professor Herb West.
Came then the July issue, and again Twenty's light was shining. Perhaps for the first time in the history of the College, two members of the same class were given honorary degrees at Commencement. Pike Emory, awarded the Doctorate of Science, was referred to as"one of the world's foremost authorities on the peoples and cultures of the southern archipelagos." "When war came to the Pacific," the citation continued, "you voluntarily and largely on your own, without thought of recognition or reward, taught thousands of American fliers and our jungle fighters the practical lore of survival which often was to stand between them and death in those strange parts." President Dickey, in conferring the Master of Arts degree on Governor Shewn Adams, said, "Rarely, if ever, has this College known more pleasure or justifiable pride in honoring a Dartmouth man."
Your secretary and the Governor took their vacations at the same time, the former heading for New Hampshire and the latter away from it. But his beloved Woods were buzzing with the word of Sherm's recent activities. He and the Granite State solons fought a dingdong battle well into the summer on the question of more taxes vs. fewer government services. Economy won, which is not as surprising in N. H. as it might be elsewhere, but the day may yet come when the State's schools and roads will suffer the consequences. Then Sherm lit out for Nova Scotia, and in his absence his first grandchild, Thomas Henry Freese, was born to daughter Marion in Pittsfield, N. H. The announcement says, "His smile is wide, his cry is loud, he's made the William Freeses proud." The third Adams daughter, Jean, gave up her Ad Building job in June and will spend the next year in Sun Valley, Idaho.
Hanover, let this loud voice tell you, is about the top place for a week of vacation, even in the heat of the hottest August. DickGocLdard's observatory records will surely show new marks for sustained heat this summer, but Dick himself (spending the summer at home for a change) was meeting the weather crisis by turning a rowboat into a sailboat for some Lake Mascoma sailing. AlFoley, Al Frey and Bill Carter had chosen the more strenuous measure of fleeing the country. Not in each other's company, either. Professor Foley picked New York, where it is hoped he injected some Vermont humor into Columbia's American history courses; Professor Frey took Ann all the way to the University of California at Los Angeles; Professor Carter devoted his spare time to a study of Swift & Cos. methods in the neighborhood of Chicago's stock yards.
Cliff Aulis's brother Clint, Hanover resident, had no recent word of Cliff other than that he has returned from his California retirement, travels around as much as ever, was in Florida last winter, and puts in time at his summer place in Maine. Three generations of the Warren Turner family packed away the world's best lunch at the Outing Club one August noon hour, when Warren, his mother, and his teen-age son drove up from the old family place in Claremont. Lek Willard, Lyme Road week-ender, dragged Mrs. W. away from her blackberry jamming long enough to witness an incredible movie in Webster Hall.
Other Hanover visitors during the summer included the Almus Russells, who with son Charles were July weekend guests of Dr. Clarence Campbell and who revisited wellremembered haunts in the company of the Bud Weymouths. Dr. and Mrs. Charlie Piper came on from Chicago for a stay at the Inn, as did the Charlie McKenzies from Westminster College in Missouri.
More New England news: Charlie Sargent is the new Relief Commissioner for the Grand Lodge of Masons; address, 51 Boylston St., Boston. Charlie was with the Department for 15 years prior to his induction into the Armed Forces. Ben Ayres made a hole in one at the Worcester Country Club and had a cartoon in the May 11 Worcester Gazette devoted to the "lobsters-steaks-champagne-everything" party he threw for the other guys who were playing with him. Also Ben recently was awarded a National Life Underwriters Association "certificate of high standing." In the June 16 issue of that same Gazette appeared a feature story (with pictures of Charlie andAnn Crathern) telling about spotting striped bass from the air off Chatham, Mass., and then proceeding to catch them.
Sherry Baketel, writing from his new Union Central offices at 121 South Broad St., Philadelphia, mentions a welcome visit from Dr.Jack Lappin, who stopped off to say hello on his way back from a flying trip to Chicago. The eldest of Jack's three daughters enters Skidmore this fall. From Sherry also comes the news that Rus Keep, Secretary of the Meserole Group of fire insurance companies since 1941, has been named Vice President. The group includes Pacific, Bankers & Shippeis, and New Jersey; and Rus has been with them since the early twenties.
Gratifying item from the Daily News Record, textile trade paper: "Theodore Cart, founder and president of Atlantic Products Corp., canvas and leather specialties, was honored by the company's employes at a testimonial dinner, which served also to mark the firm's 25th anniversary. The dinner was held in the ballroom of the Stacy-Trent Hotel (Trenton) with about 300 of the 400 employes present."
Chet Smith of the Pittsburgh Press wins laurels in Stanley Woodward's new and intesting book, Sports Page. Woodward ranks Chet among the "excellent sports columnists outside New York" who "have gifts above and beyond those of the average newspaper writer."
The perpetual mating season continues for the sons and daughters of Twenty (TheFather of the Bride is becoming required reading around the Class.) Ed Wallace's Marnee Jane wore her grandmother's beautiful period gown of satin and heirloom lace when she became a June bride in the Second Congregational Church, West Newton, Mass. She is now Mrs. Richard K. Gilbert and her husband is a Syracuse graduate. Eb Wallace Jr. was one of the ushers and Eb Sr. gave the bride away Announcement was made July 17 by Mr. and Mrs. Irv Hutchins of the engagement of their daughter Barbara Ann to Mark Cromwell Hargrave Jr. of Kingsport, Tenn. Miss Hutchins was graduated last year from Wilson College, while her husbandto-be is a University of Nebraska alumnus who served in the Philippines as a first lieutenant with the Army Engineers HalBernkopf was best man for son Michael, whose marriage to Sally Jane Kurzman took place at Sherry's, New York, on June 29.
October 50th birthdays: Phil Gross on the 4th, Hank Page on the 18th, Frank McGlynn on the 19th, Bob Miner on the 23d. Silver wedding felicitations are in order for the AlCates October 4, the George Pages on the nth, the Sam Centers on the 15th and the BobMoores on the 25th.
Secretary, Blind Brook Lodge, Rye 17, N. Y. Treasurer, 1 Windmill Lane, Arlington 74, Mass. Memorial Fund Chairman, 438 East Elm Ave., Monroe, Mich.
