Class of 1928
1928's TREMENDOUS TENTH-only six weeks away!
Does that make you sit up and take notice that the days are slipping by? That this peerade you can make only once in five years fs sneaking up on you fast? That in seven weeks it will be all over for another five years—until 1943?
If you haven't returned your questionnaire, do it now, saying you will meet the gang June 17. Don't you realize you may be a spavined old cripple five years hence or down in South America—or on the Supreme Court—or something? And yet you're postponing a decision on going to Hanover next month! Why take such chances? The Costume Committee must know your decision immediately, so that the proper number of costumes may be ordered. This is the last call—so get going!
Of the 105 questionnaires returned as these notes are being written on March 10, 80 are from '28ers who would not miss the TREMENDOUS TENTH under any circumstances, 10 are doubtful, and 15 can't come. Up-to-the-minute returns will be published in the "'28 Reunion Campaigner." The most interesting feature of the above 80 replies from men who are coming to reunion is that only 8 thought wives should be left at home. The Reunion Committee has arranged such an attractive program that the wives just don't want to miss it.
Hollywood tycoon Jack Rose blew into town last month and spent a hectic fortnight shuttling back and forth between conferences and whatnot. We saw him at lunch at the Dartmouth Club; with him were Ted Geisel '25 and Munroe Leaf, author of "Ferdinand the Bull," which Walt Disney is now producing. Jack, who has been head of the story department of the Disney Studios for two years, had been sent East to confer with authors. He has not lost any of the infectious enthusiasm which was characteristic of him in college, and is very convincing when he talks about the tremendous future possibilities of animated pictures. If you have a smart brother just graduating from college, write Jack about a job for him, because he wants young men he can train in the business. Incidentally, Ted Geisel, better known as "Dr. Seuss," who does the famous Flit ads and also two cartoons a year for the Alumni Fund, is the author and illustrator of a grand book called, "And To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street." You should all buy it for your children or your friends' children; I've bought thirty copies and am still buying them. Rose will be in Hanover for Reunion and expects to claim the prize for coming the longest distance, He disclaims any credit for "Snow White," since that picture was under way a year before he joined Disney, and he has been busy with the regular schedule of short pictures.
I have requests for a copy of the '28 Aegis and "Dartmouth Verse 1925." If you are willing to sell your copy please write. . . . . We are also looking for addresses for Eugene B. Ramey, Loren G. Stevens,Stewart C. Wright, Charles Page Stearns, and John A. Ullman. Can you help us? .... Roy Myers is a professor of Romance languages at the University of Texas Charlie Dickinson writes that he is coming back to Reunion, his first visit to Hanover since 1929. He has been busy mining and selling coal in Charleston, W. Va Maurice Gray, headmaster of the Hopkinton (N. H.) school district, will attend Reunion.
As forecast in the last issue, the wedding of Paul Reginald Kruming and Miss Mary Wadsworth Lummus was performed on March 31, in the Church of the Heavenly Rest, New York. They left for a six weeks' honeymoon trip through Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, and what used to be Austria. Mary is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julian Louis Lummus, of Charlotte, S. C. We'd like to give you a little description of her, but when we asked Paul all he could say was, "What a girl!"
Chris Norman and Mary are receiving congratulations on the arrival of Paul Chase Norman on March 28, at the Amityville (Long Island) Hospital. Now that the suspense is over, Chris will be able to devote more time to his duties as an Alumni Fund agent Two '28ers are at the University of Chicago: GeorgeWheland (just back from a year at Oxford and Cambridge on a Guggenheim fellowship) is an instructor in chemistry, and Wat Dickerman is in the department of education Henry Scherp says nothing of a world-shattering nature has happened this year at Rochester, where he is lecturing to the University of Rochester medical students Dr. Bob Byrne of Hatfield, Mass., was seen trudging up and down Mt. Washington in a blizzard on April 3 along with a couple thousand others.
Jack Carson and Fred Stone, class Alumni Fund agents in Chicago, will be aided and abetted this year by Paul Cutler. With three such live wires on the job, the Chicago area should give New York, Philadelphia, and Boston a close race. ...... In response to a request for slogans to be carried in the Alumni Parade, John McGrath suggests, "We've Been Through the Wringer for Ten Years." Chet Kellogg suggests, "Just Boom Babies!"
Hurlburt Walker, who has been in Boston with the Universal Credit Cos., has been made office manager of their branch in Portland, Me., where he is located at 69 Walcott St Herbert W. Brown, after being "lost" from our files for some time, turns up at the Travelers Insurance Cos., 130 Clinton St., Brooklyn, N. Y Sain Gifford, is a paper merchant with the Shapiro Paper Corp., 350 Hudson St., New York City, and lives in Jamaica Bob Andrews, one of the few artists in the class, has moved to Sugar Hill, N. H.: our last address for him was Charleston, S. C.
Art Stebbins has moved from Waterville, Me., to Colchester, Conn George Hedges has moved to 5922 Magnolia Ave., Chicago Phil MacKown is now working for the Equitable Life of N. Y., at 120 South La Salle St., Chicago, and lives at 930 North Boulevard, Oak Park Earl McGrath has moved from Buffalo to 2301 Cathedral Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C GerryLuellen has moved to 524 Church St., Bound Brook, N. J.
ALUMNI FUND CAMPAIGN OPENS
In the midst of the excitement of Reunion plans, we must remember that the Alumni Fund campaign is now under way. Last year we were just one contributor shy of making a 100% record. '2B had the largest number of contributors to the Fund-412. In percentage of contributors we were nth, in percentage of objective we were 34th. This year we must increase the amount of each gift in order that '28 may win the Green Derby contest. Send your check in NOW.
As Prepared by Tucker, Anthony & Cos. 120 Broadway, New York, N. Y.
