1928*
The first '28 meeting on the Pacific Coast was held the night before the Dartmouth-Stanford game, with Jud Whitehead, Tavey Taylor, Bob Reid, Johnny Lyman, Jack Rose, Curt Bird, and Ted Baehr coming from all parts of the state of California to be present. Mort Crowell '29 and Frank McEntee '29 heard about the 1200 feet of movies of '28's reunion that were to be shown, so they attended, and, like everyone else, enjoyed themselves. Tavey Taylor deserves a hand for organizing the party.
In response to our query as to what a staunch old New Englander like Charley Proctor was doing in California, Charley writes that he is in charge of all winter sports activities in Yosemite National Park. This includes skating rink, toboggan slides, dog team, sleigh rides, ski school, ski tows, retail sports store, ski house restaurant, rental of skis, skates, etc., etc., and all competitions in skiing and skating. It is a real job and must have kept him plenty busy getting everything lined up for the holiday season. Charley says, "Most of my efforts will be spent in developing and running the ski program, but anything else that goes wrong in the sports department will be my fault, so I guess I'll be busy." Just before writing us he had skied down from Badger Pass, where the ski activities are held. Certainly wish we had some of that fine dry powder snow nearer to New York.
Dave McCathie, the laird of Schenectady's Hotel Van Curler, continued the open season on swooning bridesmaids and hiccoughing ushers on October 14, when Alice Griffith of New York went the Last Aisle with him. This is very pleasant and whatnot, but it also means that Our Dave simply cannot read in bed anymore if the good Frau wants to turn off the light, unless he has mastered the Braille system. And that's something you young people don't figure into your budget.
The casual way some of you men treat marriage has us aghast. We're thinking particularly of Bob Marshall of Rutland, Vt., who was married March 5, 1938, and never wrote us or said a word about it. Mrs. Marshall was Mildred Agnes Cheney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Cheney of Rutland. We might have missed this big news story altogether if we had not bumped into Art Holden smack in the center of the Grand Central Terminal at midnight recently. Art had been down from North Plymouth, Mass., testifying in a trial for his company, the Plymouth Cordage Cos. Never having seen many pheasants in these parts, we enjoyed hearing about the superabundance of them in North Dakota, where he and his wife spent their vacation hunting.
It's a girl at the Fred Stone's out in Kenilworth, 111. Fred, who is personnel director of the Harris Trust in Chicago, writes, "I might just as well have been at reunion except for the fact we were anxiously awaiting the arrival of our third. Very pleasantly it turned out to be a girl and nicely supplemented our two boys. I'm really beginning to feel as though I am a family man now." Does anyone else have that feeling?.... Hank Milton and Gladys of Reading, Mass., have a girl born early in November; Gladys, if Hank hasn't quieted down enough to write us, won't you tell us the name and date?. . . .Warren Burding reports from Philadelphia that William Dart Burding arrived July 7 to play tag with sister Barbara, now past the two-year mark. The Burding family is definitely on the up and up While we're on the subject, we really should prove that we can give you up to the minute news by reporting that the Art Lanes of Boston are infanticipating.
Jerry Warner has left the safety of the American Embassy in Tokyo and is now U. S. consul in Taihoku, Taiwan, Japan, where he and Rella have learned how to dodge bombs At last reports, George and Paula Bell were still playing golf and gardening in Tsingtao, China, much less concerned about the war than you and I are. George is manager of the Tsinan area for the Standard-Vacuum Oil Cos. He and Paula have a girl, aged three, and a boy just thirteen months old.
We wish to extend the sympathy of the class to Art Hassell, whose wife died November 13, leaving a daughter, Virginia, and to Dick Klinck, whose father died recently in his sixty-second year. He was vice president of the Manufacturers Trust Company of New York.
Dick Wallis writes from Whittier, Calif., "After having counted for two years on seeing the Dartmouth-Stanford game, I have to go to Texas on business and won't be able to get back in time for the game. Hope, however, to get East in January or February and see some of the fellows. Things have been going very well for us. Have been down in Southern California for two years as district sales manager for the Cleveland Tractor-Company and like the job very much, although both Betty and I are looking forward to the time when we can move out of this land of make-believe for the East, where we can get some snow, sleet, mud, etc.—anything but the unnatural monotony of this desert country. This job keeps me traveling most of the time, and as a result I haven't been to any alumni meetings since I came out on the Coast in spite of several firm resolutions to do so."
Dave Menard has just accepted a fellow- ship at the Mellon Institute for Industrial Research in Pittsburgh; he and Montana hate to move away from New York and miss all the skiing we're going to have (?) around here this winter A1 Burleigh bought a house recently at Packanack Lake, N. J., eight miles from Montclair, and lives there all year round. George Smith, who lives nearby at Pines Lake, tells us A 1 was captain of the Packanack Lake tennis team and pitched for the soft-ball team. A 1 works for Commercial Investment Trust in Newark We received a few weeks ago a handsomely engraved card from Bonwit Teller reading, "You are cordially invited to our Annual Stag Party in honor of the opening of the '72 l' Men's Club, Christmas gift fashion showing modeled by Leading Lovelies of Stage, Screen, and Magazine, Cocktails, Admission by Membership only." John Powers' most ravishing girls modeled nightgowns amid deafening applause, aided and abetted by Vic Borella, Jack McGrath, and your Secretary. Jack, who is assistant to the general manager of the store, was responsible for our being invited to join the Club, and Vic and I hope to keep up our membership.
A 1 Lathrop sent Treasurer Bruce Lewis his check for $8.50 recently and added, "I haven't been subscribing to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and am getting quite a kick out of it." We hope you are to, and that you will mail Bruce your check immediately if you have not already done so. His address is County Trust Building, 14th St. and Bth Ave., New York, N. Y.
JUST 13 YEARS AGO
Myles Lane, with 18 touchdowns and 108 points, leads the East in the matter of individual scoring on the intercollegiate gridiron, Tryon of Colgate is second with 103 points, and Oberlander is third with 72 points At the end of this glorious 1925 season, the sports editor of the Boston Herald asked each Dartmouth player to name the outstanding play of the season. MacPhail thought it was Fusonie's catch of an Oberlander pass, when he was surrounded by four Cornell men. Hooker Horton said it was the side-line pass, MacPhail to Lane, scoring our last touchdown against Chicago Varsity football letters are awarded to Fusonie, Lane, MacPhail, Phillips, and Reece Soccer letters are awarded to Kitts, Lawrence, Makepeace, Marx, Merrick, and Zanger.
Twelve pugnacious '28ers answer Coach Eddie Shevlin's call for boxing candidates: Baehr, Bush, Douglass, Haarer, Helmick, Howard, Kenney, J. W. Mason, Nightingale, Norman, R. J. Sullivan, Wallis Although the trustees have voted to start construction of a new college library immediately, they are having difficulties finding a suitable location The D. O. C. has arranged free skiing instruction for freshmen and sophomores with the following '28ers among the instructors: W. P. Kimball, G. K. Sanborn, Cuddeback, and Buchtel.
The most wildly enthusiastic and vociferously appreciative audience ever to crowd into Webster Hall greets Paul Whiteman, the Imperial Wizard of Jazz, and his orchestra. The Dartmouth's slightly imaginative reviewer says the rendition, for the first time in Hanover, of "Rhapsody in Blue" causes students to break windows and rip up floor boards. . . . .We have whizzed along to January 8, 1926, and 60 candidates for the track team have turned out, including the following sturdy 'sBers: Alford, Bell, Carson, Connell, Edgar, Gow, Glendinning, Keith, McAvoy, Magavern, Moody, Nova, Moss, Patience, Phillips, Ranney, Robertson, Serrell, Slawson, Smith, Thompson, and Wright The basketball team, including Langdell, Whittaker, Heep, and Zanger, leaves for the first league game. .... President Hopkins announces gift of $150,000 by Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Hall for a health house in memory of their son, Dick Hall '27 Believe it or not, but out of the 41 contestants from this continent and Europe for ski-jumping honors at Carnival in 1926, the fearless class of '28 has more entries than any other class. The intrepid birdmen are Proctor, Gardner, KillKelley, Bond, and Whittemore.
Secretary, Tucker, Anthony & Co. 120 Broadway, New York
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