Class of 1928
Two weeks from the time this MAGAZINE goes into the mails to you approximately one hundred and fifty '28 braves will be descending on Hanover. Most of them will be coming up over the hilltop on the road from White River Junction or over Sand Hill on the Leb road and netting a glimpse of the Library tower and the Hanover plateau, which is their reward at the end of the trails which for some of them (notably Jud Whitehead) started on the Pacific Coast and for others on the Gulf of Mexico. Checking in at '28 Headquarters, they will go through the police line-up, getting photographed for the Rogues' Gallery, receiving their uniforms and beginning one of the happiest week-ends in many a day. While the Headquarters (location to be announced in the " '28 Reunion Campaigner") will serve as the center of activities with plenty of beer always on tap, there will be baseball games, band concerts, shows, class movies, a great picnic, a copious class banquet with little speechmaking, a modicum of singing around the piano in Headquarters, some walks to old familiar spots in the near-by countryside, and a fair quantity. of "just sittirfg" with friends whom you haven't seen for five years or more. We promise you one of the greatest times of your life.
Meanwhile the class agents are working hard to get the Alumni Fund all salted away before reunion. Their record is way ahead of last year's at this time, and with your help the class will establish a new high record of 110% of contributors. Coming hard on the thrilling 99-75% record of last year, '28 will have a right to be proud of its unity and loyalty as evidenced in the Alumni Fund results. If you have not sent your check, be sure to get it off immediately.
And if you have not made your plans to take in the Tremendous Tenth, you've got to move fast. The Costume Committee can't promise you one of those snappy '2B sport shirts and hats if you have not already ordered them, because they are all made to measure and the final da'te for ordering was May 16. But you can still enjoy three never-to-be-forgotten days with the old gang if you'll make up your mind right now, 'phone the boss you're leaving to keep an appointment you made ten years ago, grab your toothbrush and a pair of white trousers, hop in the car, and head for Hanover. One more reminder: the bursar makes all reservations for dormitory rooms, so be sure you have sent him your application. To avoid being located away from Headquarters, you had better mail the bursar a check (payable to Dartmouth College) for $4 for each person coming.
A WAH-HOO-WAH
For John Phillips oil his becoming a director and assistant treasurer of the VailBallou Press, book manufacturers, with offices at 220 Fifth Ave., New York City.
For Paul Ahlers for his courageous fight against a powerful union which has tried unsuccessfully for two months to unionize his plant. Details will be found in another part of these notes.
For Chuck Bruder on being made general agent of the Singer Sewing Machine Company for Northern New Jersey and New York state.
For Lanky Langdell on his election as a delegate to the New Hampshire Constitutional Convention, as well as being a partner in a prominent New England law firm: Wyman, Starr, Booth, Wadleigh, & Langdell.
For Bill Morton on his appointment as assistant to the president of the Onondaga County Savings Bank in Syracuse, one of the largest banks in the state outside of New York City.
For Ed Heyn on his election as secretary-treasurer of the B. V. D. Corporation, New York City.
For the president of the Dartmouth Club of Buffalo, Frank Tindie.
For Jim McConnon for organizing a non-partisan group which has been successful in the elections in his home city of Winona, Minn.
For Bill Kimball, Bill Ballard, BuckSerrell, and Hunt Parrish who, finally recognizing the advantages of married life, will be married this month.
A two-column article in the New York Sun of May 3 told of the courageous fight which Paul Ahlers and his father are waging against a union drive to force unionization upon their truckmen. The trouble started two months ago, when delegates of Local 202 of the Teamsters Union, A. F. of L., tried to force the truckmen to join the union and to force the firm to sign a contract. The firm of Carl Ahlers, Inc., 168 Duane St., New York City, butter and egg merchants, is one of the largest in the city and the fight has resulted not only in the picketing of the Ahlers firm and some of its customers, but also in disturbance of the New York Mercantile Exchange, and in strike threats and legal actions against pier operators and cold storage plants in New York.
The Ahlers employees have been with the firm for eight to fifteen years and have consistently refused to join the union in spite of persistent intimidation. Mayor LaGuardia's labor advisor, Nathan Frankel, offered to hold a secret ballot on whether they wished to join the union, but the union answer to this proposal was "no." Unable to obtain relief from the State Mediation Board, the State Labor Board, the federal and district attorneys, and Mayor LaGuardia, Mr. Ahlers has declared his intention of continuing the fight, even though he has to obtain an order of replevin every few days to force warehouses and piers to release merchandise, and his trucks have had to go out under guard. The only solution in sight is that the unfavorable publicity which the union is receiving may force it to desist, particularly in view of the fact that Local 202 is already under indictment for racketeering.
In answer to the question about how the Wagner labor act is affecting our classmates, we might point out that LewHutcheson and his father, who own the Peerless Woolen Mills in Georgia, have gone through three hearings before the National Labor Relations Board and have resisted orders of the Board's examiner based on one-sided hearings. LaneDwinell and his father, who own the Carter & Churchill mill in Lebanon, N. H., have fought off several attempts of outside C.I.O. organizers to sign up their employees.
Dana Condon, steamship agent for the United Fruit Co. in San Jose, Costa Rica, writes: "Sure wish I could be with you allfor the Grand Tenth, but the distance isan important factor in my case, and atthat season of the year there is no hopeof getting aicay for the length of timenecessary. 1 was in Hanover last July forthe first time since June, 1928, Mid theplace has sure changed.
"Howard Peterson '09 and Ernest Griswold 'ii were among the cruise passengers of the SS Antigua of the Great WhiteFleet here recently. I got hold of HenryKeith '23, and we had a good old Dartmouth reunion in the tropics with 100%attendance for the country. That shouldbe some kind of a record." His daughter Joan, now four years old, is the first class baby born outside the United States. Dana has been with the United Fruit Cos. since graduation. He has an amateur short wave radio station, and holds high rank in the local lodge of Masons.
Barrister Bob Hankins is one of the most popular young bachelors in Providence, belongs to the very best clubs, and is ranked No. 1 squash player in Rhode Island for 1938 Charlie Fleischer is sales manager for the A. & P. stores in the Pittsburgh district Stu Hoagland is manager of the C. P. Hoagland Co., printers and book manufacturers, which is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year. He was a campaign manager for the Democratic party in his district and is now superintendent of bills for the New Jersey legislature. He is coming to Reunion Coming all the way from Texas for Reunion is Chet Haltom, secretary and advertising manager of Haltom's Jewelry, Inc., of Fort Worth Dick Lee is now with P. R. Mallory & Company, Indianapolis (metallurgical products and radio parts), as assistant to the vice president. He and Rosemary have a daughter, also named Rosemary, born November 13, 1937.
Those of you who have found it thrilling to race down mountain sides on skis will want to take up the new sport of foldboating, which is rapidly capturing the East. Your scribe had his introduction to the sport when he took an eight-day trip down the Inn and Danube Rivers from Innsbruck to Vienna two years ago in what was then Austria. Using the same ingenius "faltboote" or foldboat, he shot the rapids on the Housatonic River between Falls Village and Kent, Conn., on a recent Sunday, and found them very exciting. If you know of a swift river, tell us where it is and we'll tuck our rubber kayak under our arm and try it out, with you as a guide.
On.June a Dr. Howard Paul Serrell and Miss Elizabeth Margarita Noble, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Noble, will be married at the bride's home on Round Hill Road, Greenwich, Conn. On June 18, Hunt Parrish, Hamilton, Ohio, lawyer, is getting married at Fair Haven, Vt., a typical New England village, just 60 miles from Hanover. Our informant, HankWalker, couldn't remember the young lady's name, but he did recall that Hunt had said it would be a great thrill if some of the boys and their wives could drive over for the ceremony. Unofficial reports have it that the date of Bill Ballard's wedding is June 9, in Springfield, Vt. Bill's engagement to Miss Elizabeth Flanders of Springfield was announced last month. Bill is an assistant professor in the biology department at Dartmouth. Bill Kimball, an assistant professor in the Thayer School, will leave soon for Portland, Oregon, to be married there June 22 to Margaret Sheppard of that city. This June rush to the altar leaves the ranks of the bachelors sadly depleted.
SEE YOU AT REUNION!
As prepared , Tucker, Anthony & Co. 120 Broadway, New York '28 UP
