1922 12 10 Salt Lake Telegram-Utahns in New York
From the Salt Lake Tribune 10 December 1922; page 48
UTAHNS IN NEW YORK.
BY ELSIE GREENE.
December 9--There is something uncanny about December this year. She is so different from what she has always been before. It's positively upsetting. Nothing chill and were about her. Indeed, she has borrowed some of her sister Spring's balmiest breezes while the warmth of her smile is a direct steal from the hazy Indian summer day. We open our windows inviting her to enter, wondering at our daring. We throw open our coats, breathing her deep into our lungs without a thought of the heretofore evil aftermath of sneezes and quinine. Just the same, we suspect she is none other than that sly, proverbial wolf in deceptive sheepskin claok; that when we are least prepared, she will throw aside her hypocritical disguise and blast us with her natural, icy breath.
It did us good to run into Marge Summerhays the other day. Been here a month, she says. Her smile is as refreshing as ever.
If ever a prize was offered for the busiest person in the Utah colony here, have been for the past six weeks. Yes-fesor Driggs undoubtedly would win. This Thursday night he speaks at the Cooper Union on "Retracing America's Greatest Trails." It will be an interesting talk, illustrated with lantern slides and heightened by the presence of 92-year-old Ezra meaker, the old oregon trail blazer. Directly from the meeting, Professor Driggs proceeds to the Newark broadcasting station where he will send out a tabloid of his lecture through the radio.
He has just returned from giving a series of historical lectures throughout Connecticut and has been asked to repeat them in the public schools of New York.
Scott Dalquist and Joe Fehr were visitors here last week, incident to their attendance at the Harvard-Yale game at New Haven. Since we were out of town at the time, we missed the chance of quizzing them in our best reporterial manner and are consequently unable to indulge our readers in any more interesting, intimate details other than the fact that they were here.
Dr. and Mrs. Heber Hancock are the proud parents of a baby boy. In fact, have been for the past six weeks. yesterday they had the infant blessed and named Heber Paul. Professor Driggs officiating at the christening.
Boones Jonsson says he and Ivor Sharp have a new room-mate in the person of Gibbs Langton of Utah. Gibbs' father was once professor of mathematics at Cooper Union here in New York; also, at one time on the staff of the Agricultural college at Logan. Gibbs Jr., is specializing in finance at New York University.
Em and Nora Eccles are quite comfortably located now in a little apartment on 86th street. Fortunate girls, they are planning to spend Christmas at their home in Logan and will leave New York on the 20th of this month.
Mr. and Mrs. Karl MacDonald in their usual hospitable Western manner, filled their home with guests for Thanksgiving. The Utahns among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Dick Folland, Clarence Hake and Bill Peterson.
Mr. and Mrs. David Howells, when last heard from, were enjoying the mysteries of old Spain, all the enchantments of Barcelona, Seville and Madrid.
The J. Reuben Clarks have been here over Thanksgiving holidays. Mrs. Clark left today for Salt Lake. Lieutenant and Mrs. Marvin Bennion will be here as long as the Maryland is stationed here. They are living at the Earlton apartments. Sunday, Mr. Clark spoke at the Brooklyn meeting.
Up from an educational convention in Washington, three of Utah's noted educators were in the city for several days, namely: Prof. F. S. Harris, of the B. Y. U.; Dr. George Thomas, of the U. of U., and Dr. E. G. Peterson of the Agricultural college.
Theodore Amussen, of Salt Lake, sailed several days ago for Germany.
Mahonri Young is busily at work on his sculptured friezes for the American church's soldier monument in Paris.
