1928*
During the past few weeks there have been '28 reunions in Boston, New York, Syracuse, and San Francisco, but inasmuch as these notes have to be in Hanover the 10th of the month preceding publication, we can't tell you much about the Syracuse meeting the week-end of the Cornell game and the San Francisco meeting in connection with the big West Coast Pow-Wow. The class reunion movies, greatly improved by the addition of 40 titles and 75 feet of color film contributed by Wally Carr, were sent to Bill Morton in Syracuse and later to Tavey Taylor in San Francisco, who were in charge of the gatherings in those cities Tavey lias been admitted to the bar in California and is looking for a law firm that needs a bright young associate. He thinks he will be located in the southern end of the state. ... .Incidentally, there are 16 of our class living on the West Coast: George W. Lee and Maxwell Carlson in Seattle, and the other 14 in California: Tavey, Jud Whitehead, and Boice Gross in San Francisco; Bob Reid in Santa Monica; Richard G. Wallis in Whittier; Charlie Stearns in Santa Barbara; George C. Bird, Dave Foster, Jack Rose, and Eugene Ramey in Hollywood; Clarence Clark Blyth, Ralph T. Howey, John J. Lyman, and Donald M. Young in Los Angeles.
There were 20 at the '28 reunion at the Hotel Sheraton in Boston after the Harvard-Dartmouth game. Jack Phelan and Gene Magenis were in charge of the arrangements and report that everyone had a good time. The reunion movies were shown. Present were Jack and Pearl Phelan, Gene and Frances Magenis, Don and Barbara Norris, Rupe and Eleanor Thompson of Providence, Red and Charlotte Edgar of Concord, N. H., Jack and Frin ICenerson, Dick and Janet Canton of Worcester, Larry Martin and Miss Naomi Walton, Harry Jewett of Washington, D. C., and a young lady whose name slipped our mind, Bob MacPhail, and Hank Milton. Barbara Norris is just recovering from a serious illness, and this was her first class reunion in a long time. Rupe Thompson had good stories about the tidal wave; his bank sent him out of town with the whole bookkeeping department, whose electrical apparatus was out until the bank rewired up to the second floor.
When a '28er produces his third offspring he invariably is accorded a rousing salute in these columns. When nine pounds of Robert Foster Kenerson appeared on the scene it was an event worthy of some very bold type, but Jack was so busy welcoming the new member that he forgot to write and tell us the news. Robert is Jack and Frin's second boy, but Mary Lou, their eldest, is still giving the orders Johnny Johnson, still an important cog in the National Labor Relations Board in Philadelphia, has a daughter born in June. Johnny survived the ordeal with the assistance of kindly friends in Philadelphia Dick Frame, Philadelphia's leading photographer (his physiogomy now disgraced by a mustache), had three pictures on exhibit in the last National Photographic Salon, which is something of an accomplishment in his profession Fred Cole has left National Broadcasting and is now in business for himself in Boston; we're waiting for him to tell us what kind of business Charlie Stickney, efficient secretary of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Eastern Pennsylvania, tells us that Bill Williams of Ambler, Pa., has moved to Reading, Pa., that he drives a car all painted up with signs reading "When It Rains It Pours"—obviously Morton's salt Clif Dwinnell has moved to 75 Pinckney St., Boston Clint Goodwin's new address is 3544 Lynnfield Road, Shaker Heights, Ohio Marcus, the Fifth Avenue (N. Y. of course) emerald vender, now has three of those Bill Okie display windows with a resultant augmentation of bemused sidewalk gapers.
After a trip to Alaska to take movies for future lecture work, Bill Harris has gone into hibernation again, in Swampscott, Mass. He has been commissioned by Dodd, Mead 8c Cos. to rewrite another book for them, due to the success of the one he did for them last year. This time it's on the West Indies. Bill is scheduled to lecture on the S.S. Bremen's cruise around South America this winter Another traveler to far places, Jim Hardy, ought to have interesting tales to tell when he gets back to New York next spring. He has been doing what a great many of us would love to do, and that is taking a leisurely 18-month trip around the world, stopping as long as he pleases at any place that takes his fancy Except when suffering from epidemic Rooseveltitis, Wendell MacEachran is a happy contented citizen of Kansas City, where he is a divisional sales manager of the Sealright Cos.; the poker games at the Dartmouth Club in New York have never been the same since "Mac" left Bob Foster is with Glore, Forgan, & Cos. in Chicago Dusty Griffin, busy St. Louis realtor, has moved to 3932 Lindell Boulevard Ken Robbie, a salesman for the International Folding Paper Box Cos., has moved to 625 Belmont Road, Ridgewood, N. J Jack Cook is a commercial representative of the A. T. & T. at 311 W. Washington St., Chicago.
Are there any hams in the class besides Dana Condon? Just in case you don't know, hams are licensed radio amateurs, and they break into print every so often by hearing an S. O. S., broadcasting the Louisville flood, or something similar. Write to Dana, who is the United Fruit Company's manager in San Jose, Costa Rica. A letter just received from him gives a good idea of life in Central America: "I have never seen a month quite so wet as this one, and we always expect plenty of rain every day during this season of the year. But we have never had a hurricane here in the mountains. You fellows in New York and New England got a good taste of what a tropical hurricane means. That freak of nature seems to cling to the ground very well and does not as a rule hit at any altitude above sea level. We are just starting to export our new coffee crop on a big scale, and that keeps me traveling the country over five days a week making arrangements for shipments over both our railroad and on our ships. We have 14 competing steamship lines on the two sides of this country. I don't mind their competition, but my delicate spot lies in the fact that the other railroad running from San Jose to Puntarenas on the Pacific side, which is in direct competition with ours, is owned and operated by the Costa Rican government. It is not too difficult to take business away, but to do it in such a way as to avoid offending local officials, is what makes me sit up nights. But when I rub them the wrong way too far, I expect to receive a transfer to some other country. But those things are to worry about when they come along. Life is really too short to spend time worrying about anything." That's a good philosophy of life, Dana, wish I could follow it more closely than I do.
Myles Lane was one of several former Dartmouth football stars who played some sort of a parlor game of football with former Cornell stars for the benefit of radio listeners over station WOR the evening of November 10 Dave Foster has owned and operated a Shell service station at Highland Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood for the past year; business must be good, because he has a family started, and has built a new home in San Gabriel, just four miles from Pasadena's Rose Bowl. Dave reports he has an acre with berries, oranges, avocados, lemon, etc. It's a good thing California didn't pass the fgo-Every-Thursday plan or we'd all be out there to live Treasurer Bruce Lewis' wife, Ernestina, was chairman of the successful Red Cross drive in Nutley, N. J., last month Lew Beers was recently promoted to the staff of the General Commercial Supervisor of the N. Y. Telephone Cos. at 140 West St., New York City; Lew lives at the Dartmouth Club We are indebted to Dave Menard for sending us the list of officers of the American Chemical Society, which shows .two '28ers among the local section officers: John Turkevich is chairman of the Princeton, N. J., Section, and Alberto F. Thompson Jr. is secretary of the Northeastern Section. "Turk" is working in the Frick Chemical Laboratory at Princeton, and A 1 at the Eastman Chemical Laboratory at M. I. T.
Our class president, Al Fusonie, was elected president of the Dartmouth Club of Waterbury, Conn., a month ago; Al teaches German and coaches at the Taft School in Watertown Harry Davis is master of public speaking at the Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn., and has produced a number of very creditable plays; during the summer he is with a theatrical group at some Massachusetts shore resort. . . . .Don Lowe is camp director and teacher at Camp Ropioa, Harrison, Me.; since this address just came to us we assume it is an all-year camp John Noeltner is a window shade manufacturer at 406 Connecticut St., Buffalo, N. Y. .. . .Vedder Hughey's new address is 526 Auburn Ave., Buffalo McGraw-Hill's star salesman, Ev Field, has moved to 26 Randolph Road, White Plains, N. Y. . . . .Chuck Goodman is with the American Finishing Cos., Memphis, Tenn Ellie Jones has moved to 1893 Burton Ave., Highland Park, 111 Tim Paige has moved to 111 Warren Terrace, Longmeadow, Mass Les Mason is now a history instructor at St. Lawrence University, Canton, N. Y„ and he and Harriette are getting ready for a cold winter, inasmuch as Canton is 100 miles further north than Hanover; Les expects to finish up the work soon for his Ph.D. at Columbia.
Orchids to Jerry Pitts, of United CigarWhelan Stores, for being elected a director of D. D. Bean & Sons Cos., East Jaffrey, N. H. This company is one of the big manufacturers of book matches. Jerry is also a director of the New York Wine and Liquor Guild Harry Jewett's father, Dr. Frank B. Jewett, has been awarded the 1939 John Fritz Gold Medal, highest American engineering honor, for "vision and leadership in science, and for notable achievement in the furtherance of industrial research and development in communication." Dr. Jewett is vice president of the A. T. & T. and president of the Bell Telephone Laboratories
Herb Brown has a new job with the U. S. Fidelity & Guaranty Cos., 75 William St., New York City Charles A. Davis has moved to 750 Clinton Ave., River Forest, HI Speaking of engineering prizes reminds us that the new catalog of the Thayer School of Civil Engineering has just come to hand, with a page devoted to the winners of the Thayer Society Prize, established in January 1928. The first award went to Tim Paige in June 1928, for his essay on "Traffic Congestion and Relief," and the second award, in June 1929, went to George Pasfield for his essay on "The Moffat Tunnel.".... Gordon Graham is directing, five times a week, a dramatic show broadcast for General Mills by N.B.C. from their New York studios Nick Carter's brother Gordon is a freshman at Dartmouth Wanted by your Secretary—a '28 Greenbook—cash will be paid.
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