1928*

A special delivery letter from Editor- in-Chief Sid Hayward points out that we have been running considerably over our allotted space every month and asks us to trim sail a bit. We're glad to cooperate, Sid.

It is a sad duty to record the death of another classmate, Bob Hankins, who died January 24, the fourth member of our class to pass on in the past twelve months. Ben Swisher, also a lawyer, died in the same way eight months ago. Further details of Bob's death will be found in the Necrology at the back of this issue.

When a '28er reports three children we think it's pretty exciting, but when Jack and Madeline McGrath produce their fourth it's time to break out the cham- pagne or something. Peter Richard McGrath arrived January 21, 1939, making the McGrath score two girls and two boys. With some fear of contradiction, we make the statement that Jack heads the largest '28 family. Who's next?

Walt and Ethel Simpson announced the birth of William Hesselbrook Simpson on January 21, 1939; their first and we hope not the last A few days later we received a clever announcement of the arrival of Miss Judith Barnstead, born January 30, 1939, at Baker Memorial Hospital, Boston; Dick now has three daughters, and no Dartmouth candidate yet.

The past few weeks have been outstanding for the number of important honors that have been accorded to '28ers; the boys deserve a Wah-Hoo-Wah! Noteworthy indeed is the election of Bill Morton to the position of treasurer of the Onondaga County Savings Bank in Syracuse, one of the largest savings banks in New York. In addition to being a busy assistant treasurer for several years, Bill has been one of our hardest-working Alumni Fund agents, thereby knocking the props out from under some of you men who would like to say you are too busy to serve as a class agent.

Another big piece of news is that Paul Ahlers has been elected general manager of the Union Terminal Cold Storage Co. in New York, one of the largest factors in the cold storage and refrigeration business in the United States. Brougham Wallace, an officer of the Guaranty Trust Co., and Paul were elected to the board of directors. Paul was connected with the engineering department of the Curtiss-Wright Airplane Co. both in the United States and Chile after graduating from Dartmouth. For the last several years he has been an officer of the importing firm of Carl Ahlers, Inc., in New York.

Cornelius Turner has recently been made superintendent of schools in Leicester, Mass Class Treasurer Bruce Lewis was elected a director of the First National Bank of Nutley, N. J Lew Hutcheson of Larchmont, N. Y., was fifth in the all-bore championship in the Eastern open two-man skeet shoot at Morristown, N. J., on January 29 Ken Turner is back in New York, working for Montgomery Ward downtown and living on Riverside Drive A recent issue of Life contained a number of pictures of Senator Vandenberg and a discussion of his chances of getting the 1940 Republican presidential nomination. One of the pictures shows our own Arthur Jr Willis Mitchell, after finishing his graduate work at Bellevue Hospital in New York, started his own practice at Wiscasset, Me., on January 27; good luck, Willis!.... The American Brass Co. is promoting Lawson Van Riper April 1 and moving him from New York to Waterbury, Conn.

We had the rare pleasure of hearing a '2Ber's voice on a national hook-up on Sunday, January 22, when Chris Hackett took part in a spelling bee between five Vassar undergraduates and five members of the Dartmouth Club of New York, over WEAF. The big news in this event is not that Chris knows how to spell, but that the depth and pleasing quality of his voice created a sensation. After Chris had successfully spelled "bachelors," "planetarium," and "priesthood," (only to fall on the next round on "asseverations") radio listeners heard the production manager say to the announcer, "Hear that voice? He's an announcer!" To which the announcer replied, "Yes, I've been listen- ing to it." We understand hundreds of letters poured in on NBC asking that they take Chris on their staff. Chris recently left the advertising business, and for the past two months has been a salesman in New York for the Scott Paper Co..... On January 19 your Secretary made his radio debut, but received no fan mail. The occasion was the annual dinner of the Horace Mann alumni at the Hotel Biltmore, New York, at which, as president, he presented the Horace Mann Award for Distinguished Achievement to Dean William F. Russell of Teachers College. Other speakers who were introduced by your scribe were Rockwell Kent, the artist, and John Kieran, the star of "Information Please."

Max Carlson left the Marine Bancorporation and accepted, on October 1, 1938, the position of credit manager of the National Bank of Commerce in Seattle. He and Willadee introduced Deane Carlson on February 1, 1938. Max is secretary and director of the Wynooche Timber Co., Hoquiam, Washington, in addition to his duties at the bank George Davis is a trustee of the Ist Presbyterian church of Glens Falls, N. Y., and a director of the Glens Falls National Bank & Trust Co. .... George and Agnes Boughton are living ab-the family's hotel, The Colony, Delray Beach, Fla. George is secretary-treasurer of Boughton Hotel, Inc. He attended the Cornell University Hotel School in 1937, the same school from which Heinie Williams, assistant manager of the Waldorf Astoria, graduated some years back. Other '2B hotel men include Si Simons, also an assistant manager at the Waldorf Astoria, Dave McCathie, proprietor of the Sun Dial Inn, Port Jervis, N. Y., and Larry Sleeper, manager of East Bay Lodge, Oster- ville, Mass.

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Topper Robinson is president o£ the Greenfield, Mass., Chamber of Commerce, as well as vice president, assistant treasurer, and general manager of the Greenfield Broken Stone Co.; he and Alice were very much in evidence at the 10th reunion. They have two girls, aged ten and two, and an eight-year-old boy Upty Bartlett is the Rockford, Ill., agent for the New England Mutual Life Insurance Cos., and is also a director of the Rockford Consolidated Newspaper, Inc Ben Benson has been a director and secretary-treasurer, since 1931, of the Regal Paper Co., of Pulaski, N.Y., manufacturers of paper napkins, waxed paper, and toilet paper; Ben is also a member of the board of education of the Pulaski Academy and Union School Jack Cook, of A. T. & T.'s Long Lines Commercial Department, Chicago, is a stamp dealer and philatelist on the side, specializing in British Colonials. .... Good old Cabin & Trailer Ken Cudde- back has been president, since 1934, of the Western Massachusetts Winter Sports Council, and from 1935-37 was a director of the U.S.E.A.S.A. Ken is customer service supervisor of the Pittsfield Electric Co... Our sympathy goes out to Art and Janet Lane, whose baby son died shortly after birth at the Phillips House in Boston, December 28 Dr. Paul Serrell, of Greenwich, Conn., had a head-on collision on the Merritt Parkway recently; fortunately he was unhurt.

Secretary, Tucker, Anthony & Co. 120 Broadway, New York, N. Y

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