Class of 1928
If in these crisp, cool days of autumn leaves, June and reunion seem a long, long way off, don't forget that the months do roll by swiftly, and begin planning now to be in Hanover next spring. Grand PooBah Phelan is hard at work whipping his reunion aides into activity so that the complete program can be presented to you later in the year. Meanwhile just figure that the men you want to see will be back, and start a little reunion fund of your own, so that when the roll is called you won't be among the missing. One thing our leader promises us is that the wives who come will have a fine time. Gals who are interested in a grand week-end should put a little extra pressure on their husbands, so that we may have the attendance of both.
The '2B Placement Committee which we started last June has met with a very encouraging response from those who are willing to help locate jobs and those who need help locating new ones. The number of applications received is evidence of the need for such a service, and we are anxious to do all we can to aid '2Bers to find the right niche. However, we must hear from more of you men who are in contact with a great many active people and companies, because you will be able, at some time or other, to assist us in placing men.
One of the leading '2B bankers writes: "Now that the Alumni Fund campaign iswell in the background, I want to tell youhow pleased I was to see you take theinitiative in starting the 1928 PlacementCommittee. It should be an importantfactor in holding the class more closely together. Is there anything that I can do herethat will help with the work you have undertaken? If so I shall be most pleased tohear from you and most willing to do anything you think advisable."
Another '2Ber, occupying a high position with one of the big New York stores, who, incidentally, did not graduate, writes: "The idea of trying to help some of the'2Bers get placed is a swell one and promptsme to ask if I can be of any service. Themotivating force is the fact that if I wereout of a job or in the proverbial rut Iwould be very appreciative of any assistance I might find. My thought is that someof the boys are in, or interested in, retailing. Just exactly what I could do to helpI am, not sure, possibly contacting theagencies handling retail positions pluspeople in other New York stores and outof-town stores." We hope to receive many more letters like the above.
We sent out several urgent appeals for news for these columns, but only two old reliables responded, Red Edgar and BillMorton. The scarcity of news is partly our own fault, for we published 41,000 words of news about the class in the seven issues of the '2B Campaigner from May to July of this year and almost the same amount the year before. This übiquitous news and scandal sheet was sent to every one of the 413 graduates and 245 non-graduates in the class and had a lot to do with the 99.75% of contributors to the Alumni Fund of which '2B is so proud.
Red Edgar, the ace freight agent of the Boston & Maine, writes from Montpelier, Vt.: "Being only an hour and a half drive from Hanover, my wife and I have seen the Bates and Amherst games and found Hanover looking better than ever. Seen briefly, and not from speaking distance, were Jim Campion and his wife, SkipDrayton and Ken Graf. Don Solis moved from Burlington last spring down to Worcester, Mass., where he is still working for the Cities Service Oil Cos. RupeThompson, wife, two small sons, and dog left Newton May first and moved to Providence, where Rupe is now installed as assistant cashier of the Providence National Bank.
"John and Ethel Nixon came up to spend Labor Day with us. John had three great ambitions in life back in our Hanover days: to marry Ethel, have a son, and ride in the cab of a locomotive. I helped in the first by acting as best man back in 1934, the second was accomplished with no help from me, and the third I fixed up for him when he was here. He looked right at home in the cab as he rode twelve miles on the M. & W. R. R., and he descended with a beatific and gratified look. Fred Stone who was with the class one year, is practicing law in Montpelier. Joe Smith, who was married last June, is doing graduate work, at the University of Michigan this year."
Bill Morton, one of the guiding spirits at the Onondaga County Savings Bank, Syracuse, reports that Bill Jr. (age Qy2 months) weighs in at 21 lbs. and looks like a good prospect. His proud father entered him in Dartmouth for the fall of 1958 just one hour and five minutes after he was born. Johnny O'Sullivan, the other '2Ber in Syracuse, is with Crucible Steel. CalBillings drove out to Denver and points west on his vacation from the Bankers Trust Cos. in New York. Reports are filtering back which indicate that the trip was not uneventful. Wat Dickerman, of Chicago, who came East in October and dropped in for an evening, said: "Cal'svisit was a memorable occasion, eventhough entirely too brief. For me, the evening ended when Dick Pierson '27 invitedme to share a nightcap consisting of ginand milk—half and half. I've toped a fewtopes between here and Cairo, but neverexpected to run into such a mixture asthat."
"It sure is funny how these Smith girlsrope us in," writes newly wed Bud Terrio, who is manager of one of the Thayer McNeil Cos. shops in Boston. "The name wasDoris Black, of Lexington, Mass., class of1934- We expect to be neighbors of DonNorris in Melrose this fall." Bill Ford, roofing salesman in Western Pennsylvania for Bird 8c Son of East Walpole, Mass., says, "Jane and I have a nine-months-old boywhom we hope to have with us at theTenth Reunion in Hanover."
Jim Gillard has been in private practice in Muskegon, Mich., for a year, limiting his work to obstetrics and gynecology. He says his fourteen-months-old son Robert "naturally is a grand healthy boy." We neglected to chronicle previously the arrival on June 10 of Eleanore Lee Goudy in New York. Her father, Bill Goudy, is in the advertising department of Union Carbide and Carbon Cos.
Whenever you or any of your friends are driving in Maryland, be sure to stop at Ace Anthony's Country Gentleman Tea Room on Route No. 1, nine miles north of Bel Air and six miles south of Conowingo. Ace says, "The gas station and tea roomkeep me busy. It's an outdoor life and Ilove it." Phil Orsi and wife spent a few days in Hanover in October and took in the Amherst game. They report that there were so many new buildings in Hanover that they had to devote a lot of time to sight-seeing. George Coyle is active in politics in New Britain, Conn. He was corporation counsel from 1933 to 1935 and is now attorney for the Home Owners Loan Corp. We hear rumors that he is going to run for mayor one of these days.
Ev Field's marriage on June 26 to Miss Katharine Penn, of Hastings, N. Y., has not been previously reported in these notes, due to our misplacing Jack Kener-son's letter when writing last month's notes Jack and Frin came down from Winchester, Mass., for the wedding, at which Jack was best man. Jack says, "Bud Weser and Hammie Hammesfahr wereboth there, as well as Hammie's good wife,Gracia. Ev has acquired a remarkable girlfor a wife and his outlook is rosy, for hehas just received a promotion with Mc-Graw-Hill which will keep him inside andabout New York from now on. In addi-tion, he just won a Ford car on the HouseBeautiful raffle in White Plains. My delayin answering your letter has been due tothe excitement incident to the arrival lastspring of Edward Hibbard Kenerson 2d,named after his granddaddy 'O3. Then ourlittle girl had chicken pox, abscessed ears,and measles in that order Here'slooking forward to reunion next year." Jack is with Ginn & Cos. in Boston.
Dan Hatch and family living at 87 Scotland Road, Reading, Mass. We were misinformed when we reported Dan's business connection last month; he is with the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Cos., 87 Kilby St., Boston.
Johnny Cronin spent the summer in Nantucket; he is one of the few remaining bachelors in the class. Bud Weser, another elusive bachelor, spent three weeks in Bermuda recently. Bud is an active member of the board of governors of the Dartmouth Club and helped select the new quarters. Thornton Klaren, his brother, Karl Klaren '23, and their wives, spent a month touring Norway, Sweden, and Denmark last summer. They agree with us that Copenhagen is just about the most pleasant city in Europe. Thornton is very busy as president of the Jonathan Handy Cos. dealing in iron, steel and heavy hardware in New Bedford, Mass.
The first New York dinner this fall was held at the Dartmouth Club, October 21, practically the last function to be held there before the move to the new clubhouse on 37 th St. One whose presence was missed was Craw Pollock, now working in Wilmington, Del., since the DuPont Cellophane Cos. headquarters were moved there. Craw commutes to Drexel Hill, Pa., and lives only a block away from the J'ack McLaughlins.
Speaking of '2Bers living near each other, Roy Milliken and Ed, Heyn have lived in the same apartment house in Scarsdale, N. Y., for over a year. Coming home from work on a late train recently they saw Bob Kilgore and his infant son, David Watts Kilgore, entering the same house. It developed that the Kilgores had moved into an apartment directly across the hall from the Millikens.
We saw Hammie Hammesfahr with his million-dollar smile at a cocktail party given by Conde Nast. Bill Okie was there, but in the crowd we couldn't locate him. Our powers of description pale before those of Lucius Beebe, of the HeraldTribute, so we will let him describe the party: "Conde Nast, premiere party-giverof Park Avenue, is a host whose summonses to cocktail levees have about themthe urgency of a royal command. Onvarious occasions he can corral congressesof theatre folk, literary luminaries, musicaficionados, cafe celebrities, foreign dignitaries, or old-time cave-dweller carriagetrade, and sometimes he mixes them alltogether for Morris dancing on a monsterscale in his celebrated Park Avenue penthouse. Last week he entertained forLucien Lelong, the high-toned couturierfrom Paris, etc, etc." Hammie had little time for us, since, as he said, he had to circulate and keep the beautiful women and distinguished guests amused. Hammie is in the advertising department of Conde Nast publications, and cocktail drinking is just part of his job. Nice work, if you can get it.
As prepared Tucker, Anthony & Cos. 1 ao Broadway, New York
