1928*
The final figures on the Ernest Martin Hopkins 25th Anniversary Campaign were remarkable, both as to the grand total, and the performance of our Class. Thanks to the excellent work of Class Agent Paul Kruming and his 20 assistants, '28 was the largest and youngest class to achieve 100% of contributors. We have 409 living graduates, and 411 members of the Class contributed. This marks the seventh year '28 has led all the younger classes in percent- age of contributors. We secured 99.7% of our money objective, missing 100% by only 19.50. Let's give a Wah-Hoo-Wah for Paul Kruming! And another for his Assistant Class Agents: Beers, Bruder, Bush, Canton, Cronin, Edgar, Emery, Herpel, Jennings, Lawrence, McLaughlin, Magenis, Makepeace, Middlebrook, Middleton, Morton, Orsi, Pollock, Rogers and Schnepel. Let's give ourselves a slap on the back with some degree of satisfaction for having done our best at a time when it was needed; and pull up our belts in anticipation of what's ahead. (Psst—Don't look now, but I think our 15th is approaching.)
Our 16 classmates in the Army, Navy and Marine Corps continue to lead your Secretary a merry chase. In the July 25 is- sue of the '28 Campaigner we listed them with their up-to-the-minute addresses. Since then many of them have been trans- ferred so we'll run over the list again.
We finally located Arnold Van Benschoten in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. After his years in the consular service abroad, most recently in Antwerp, it is not surprising that the Navy called him to active duty in February as a Lieutenant (jg) in the Naval Reserve.
PENSACOLA IS O.K.
Corp. Herm Schnepel writes from Fort Barrancas, Florida, that he is hoping for an early release. He is attached to a coast artillery anti-aircraft unit which is charged with the defense of Pensacola. He says the post has an air-conditioned theatre, bowling alleys, library and excellent bathing facilities.
Clint Goodwin, who was associated with the Cleveland law firm of Griswold, Leeper, Miller & Corry, writes: "I enlisted in the U. S. Cavalry (107th Regiment) in January after serving two years in the National Guard. I was re-enlisted as Staff Sergeant and my job is to collaborate with the S-2 Officer of the Regiment, whose job it is to dig up all the information about the enemy. We expect to go to Arkansas for two months' maneuvers and then to Texas and Louisiana. We are called a horse- mechanized troop because we can move our hordes in portees and the entire Regiment can move on wheels. I presume I will be in until January, after serving my year."
Pvt. Hank Graupner and Pvt. Jerry Luellen are at Ft. Jackson, S. C.; Herm in the 9th Co. of the 13th Infantry and Jerry in the 56th Signal Battalion. At last report, Corp. Bill Monaco was driving a tank around Ft. Knox, Kentucky, as a member of Co. C, sth Battalion. Other '28ers in the Army are: Lt. Heinie Buchtel, Ft. Sam Houston, Texas; Lt. Bob Clark, Office of Chief of Ordnance, Washington; Capt. Norm Costello, West Point, N. Y.; Capt. George Lee, address unknown; Pvt. Walt McKee, Ft. Jay, New York City.
Lt. Al Kitts is in the Ist Marine Division, Quantico, Va. The following four men are Lieutenants (jg) in the Naval Reserve and now on active duty: Sam Bassett, St. Louis; Chuck Hazzard, Naval Hospital, Brooklyn; Bill Hunt, Newport, R. I.; and Hal Simonds, 3rd Naval District, New Rochelle, N. Y. If we have missed anyone, or made any mistakes, please tell us right away.
How does a class secretary get all the news which appears in this section of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE? If you think it just naturally rolls in, a mighty chorus of secretaries' voices will tell you you're wrong. To get news, we have to write a pile of letters every week—and then hope for some replies. However, if occasionally we receive a letter like the following from Jack McLaughlin, we feel our efforts are not in vain: "Dear Os: Quite a bit of psychology, enclosing a stamped envelope so that a reply is practically mandatory.
"Well, Os, it has been a great summer! In July, Lois and I attended a clam bake at the Middle Haddam, Conn., Chowder and Marching Club, Curtis Middlebrook, Proprietor. Also dancing in attendance the same week-end (and I do mean dancing) were the Pollocks, Bruders, Carrs, Cam- pions, Beers, Johnny Cronin and Bud Weser, and the Middlebrooks and McLaughlins, of course. A great time was had by all (they tell me). Weser won the croquet singles, with Cronin runner-up.
"A few weeks later Middlebrook gave concrete evidence of a condition that all of us have suspected for a long time—he entered his second childhood by coming down with the good old-fashioned case of mumps. Before this, however, Middle- brook, single-handed, landed a 12 lb., land- locked salmon at Lake Memphremagog, Vermont-Canada of Northwest Passage fame. Unfortunately, this can only be attested and sworn to by the writer and a Canadian guide named Joe, both of whom are thoroughly unreliable, I assure you.
"A few weeks later, the otherwise calm serenity of the Bruder-Carr week-end at Fire Island was upset by a devastating disaster that descended upon them in the form of the above-mentioned McLaughlins and Pollocks. I remember isolated instances of this week-end much more clearly, because we were near the ocean and the water was very invigorating and uplifting.
"Hope to be up Troy way one of these days and shall stop in to see you." Thanks a lot, Jack, for the "letter-of-the-month"— and Mary and I sure hope you'll come to See us. That same invitation goes to all '28ers who travel this way, and for your guidance, Troy is not far from Elmira, N. Y.
We've been very busy of late—what with gasoline rationing and Honest Harold Ickes trying to scare people about a gasoline shortage but forgetting the railroads' 20,000 idle tank cars. But in spite of everything we managed in the last three months to remodel a house. Never having done any building, it was an education, although a bit nerve-racking at times. If you don't believe there are serious shortages of consumer goods, just see how long it takes you to get delivery on an electric water heater or certain kinds of hardware!
Cal Billings says he really enjoyed his vacation from the Bankers Trust Co., this year, and, believe it or not, spent his two weeks putting two coats of paint on his homestead in Deerfield, Mass. He says, "I visited Topper and Alice Robinson in Whately, Mass., where they have been living in Alice's family home and gradually fixing it up into something pretty fancy— restored real old fireplaces, landscaping, etc. They will be married 14 years on November 26th—now have Ann, 12, Harry, 10, and Ellen, 4. Topper invites any of the lads going by to stop off and have one with him. Whately is a fine old hamlet, just west of the main road between Northampton and Greenfield." For the past ten years, Topper has been General Manager of the Massachusetts Broken Stone Co. in Greenfield.
Our deepest sympathy goes to Hammie Hammesfahr and Bill Treanor, whose fathers died recently.
Eino Algot Johnson, better known to you as Mike, was granted a doctor of philosophy degree by Yale in June. Dr. Johnson is an instructor of physiology, biology and physics at Bulkeley High, Hartford, Conn. He is the third member of Hart- ford's public school system to hold this doctorate. He has studied at Harvard and Yale, doing work in physiology and anatomy and with the problems of "logic and epistemology in the philosophy of natural sciences and education." In simple words, Mike, what is "epistemology"?
Roger Sundean had the great pleasure of being sworn in as Attorney and Counselor-at-Law on June 25. He has been enrolled in the Dartmouth Lawyers and makes another lawyer in the Class. Since graduation Rog has worked for the brokerage firm of De Coppet & Doremus, in New York City.
HOLD-OUTS
For some time past whenever we receive a fat white envelope we think as we open it "Who will it be this time: Langdell, Lane, Cronin, Weser or Wright?" We received only one such envelope this summer. It read: "Mrs. Albert Bennett Dodson announces the marriage of her daughter, Alberta Dodson Hindley, to Mr. Ernest Apelles Wright 3rd, on Saturday, the twenty-sixth of July" in Philadelphia. The Wrights are now "at home" at 6928 Cresheim Road, Mount Airy, Philadelphia.
for the record, and in case you didn't read all your seven issues of the '28 Campaigner, there were three '28 marriages since we last wrote these notes: June 7, Ken Turner and Fidelia Waite; June 14, Carl Lundgren and Martha Cleaver; June 17, Bill Watson and Jane Coburn.
Bill Mcßoberts has just gone to Fair- banks, Alaska, to take up his position as assistant district sales manager there for Pan American Airways.
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