1928*
The past month has been a good one for the Class: the checks for MAGAZINE subscriptions have been coming in very satisfactorily. That old water polo player, BudOsborn, writes what we hope you all feel: "I want to tell you how much I enjoy reading the 1928 notes in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE." Letters like this are always welcome, but especially so when accompanied by news items.
Bud Osborn goes on to say: "I suppose it's old stuff, but being now the father of one I still can't get it through my head that anyone else has ever gone through the experience! She was born August 29, is very beautiful like her mother, and is named Barrie." Bud is Vice President of Economics Laboratory Inc., St. Paul, Minn., manufacturers of cleansers and floor wax. He was recently saddled with the Presidency of the local Sales Managers Association, which gives him another chance to victimize a helpless audience.
Lauren Sadler and Laura announce the arrival of their second child, Margaret, on Nov. 27. Curley is an Assistant Professor of Physical Education at Dartmouth.
Paul Annable and Jane announce the birth of a daughter, Jane, on Dec. 5 in Danbury, Conn., where Paul is Manager of the; Genung & Campbell department store.
Some of us had suspicions, but few fully appreciated just why Larry Sleeper was acting so queerly the past six months or so. The mystery was finally cleared when Mr. and Mrs. Arthur B. Staples announced the marriage of' their daughter, Helen Louise, and Larry on Dec. 28 in Boston. Larry is Assistant Manager of the East Bay Lodge, Osterville, Mass., which is on Cape Cod.
We are indebted to Larry Martin, urbane Assistant Cashier of Boston's National Shawmut Bank, for much of the New England news in this issue, not forgetting that thanks are also due to HowieRogers and Fran Young.
Jack Phelan did some speech making for his law partner, former State Senator Henry Parkman Jr., in the latter's unsuccessful campaign for U. S. Senator. David I. Walsh went back in again, but Parkman turned in a very good performance.
Lanky Langdell did a great deal of work in the campaign for Dr. Robert O. Blood '13, the successful candidate for Governor of New Hampshire.
Frank Thurston is with the Central Engineering Department of the American Woolen Co. and does a good deal of travelling on special management jobs especially at the mills in Pittsfield, Me., and Norwich, Conn.
Rupe Thompson is an enthusiastic supporter of Providence where he is Assistant Cashier of the Providence National Bank. He is in Boston fairly frequently.
Hank Milton is a salesman for American Cyanamid Co., covering most of New England. He has recently acquired a new home in Reading, Mass.
Dick Welch is Manager of the South Boston branch of the National Shawmut Bank and is doing very well.
Fran Young has gone into the law business for his own account and is located at 53 State St., Boston. He has just returned from a trip into the wilds of Kentucky. Fran is one of the few remaining bachelors in the Class. He lives in Cambridge and is., we hear, quite a golfer.
Don Norris and family are living in Braintree, Mass. Don is Treasurer of the John A. Lowell Bank Note Co., Boston.
Gene Magenis is New England Manager for the E. A. Wright Bank Note Co., of Philadelphia, of which Ernie Wright is Vice President. Gene says Bill Sreenan and Jack Collins still reside in their native North Adams, Mass. Bill has a part in the defense program by being on the local draft board and Jack is proprietor of a wholesale tobacco store.
Al Kitts is a resident physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and contemplates locating perma- nently in Boston as a baby specialist.
Haze Sturtevant is doing well in the North Country. He is a lawyer in Plymouth, N. H., and has made a good reputation as District Attorney of Grafton County, the county in which Hanover is located.
We have occasionally bumped into BobMacPhail in New York. Bob is an entrepreneur and has been shuttling back and forth between New York and his home in Boston on a big business deal.
Johnny O'Sullivan, a former Bostonian now in the Sales Department of the Crucible Steel Co. in Detroit, writes: "I never dreamed a year ago that we would have to tell our salesmen to pass up orders! The situation borders on the critical on some of our specialty items like aircraft steels and we are frankly going hell-bent-for- election Helen and I have two boys- Jerry is eight and the proverbial tornado! Kevin is almost three and more on the calm side, fortunately."
Fred Stone, Personnel Manager of the Harris Trust and Savings Bank in Chicago, writes: "In answer to your appeal for news, I scurried around a bit and was able to dig up a few facts about our local '28ers.
"Jack Carson is still the busy barrister, in fact so busy that he doesn't think he'll be able to take a winter vacation! He reports that he is not too busy, however, to spend a good deal of time skiing. It looks like skiing in the winter and sailing in the summer for him—not bad sports! Jack said that Lin Gray arrived in Chicago from Wilmington, Del., recently, has settled down in La Grange Park, and is with the Corporation Trust Co.
"Bill Alford is a neighbor on our Bth floor of the Harris Trust Building. He is with Harris Hall & Cos. and active in the distribution of prime investments. Except for his graying locks he looks about the same as when he used to run the 440 or 880 a number of years back.
"Paul Cutler is also a resident of the Harris Trust Building (Chapman & Cutler, lawyers). Paul says there isn't anything new with him, but I know he kept busy with his attractive growing family of three children, two girls and a boy."
Fred enclosed his and Elizabeth's Christmas card bearing a photograph of their two boys and a girl and the latest arrivals in their family—seven robust Dalmatian puppies.
George Bell, of the Standard-Vacuum Oil Co., Tsingtao, China, writes from Washington, D. C.: "I left my typewriter and other belongings in China, so you see I hope to return. My home leave was due so I sailed from Shanghai Nov. ao on the S.S. Washington together with a handful of men also going on leave and about 1400 women and children evacuees. That is too many women and children for a peaceful voyage. My own wife and children went home a couple months ahead of me so I was without my usual protection. However, I survived and expect to make the return journey in May. Whether I can return with family depends entirely on international circumstances quite beyond my powers to control or even to forecast.
"Your guess is as good as mine as to who is winning the war in China or what may happen. It's the darndest mess you ever saw I note from the November issue of the ALUMNI MA'GAZINE that you have me listed as a survivor of the bombardment of Tsingtao. The 'bombardment' consisted of a couple bombs dropped by the Japanese about half a mile from my house early in January, 1938. (How the newspapers exaggerate! Editor's note) It was all done in a certain spirit of fun because the Chinese forces had already withdrawn. Tsingtao has been monotonously peaceful ever since. I guess we were lucky. Almost everyone I know in China was mixed up in the war more or less seriously although casualties were few. I am happy that I have no lurid personal tale to relate. I hope to see some of the '28ers in the next few months."
A card just received from Jerry Warner from Taikohu, Japan, says: "Rella and I are still on deck but don't know for how much longer." Jerry is American consul there.
Harv Fisher, Manager of the Trade Report Department of Dun & Bradstreet New York City, has moved to 27 Windsor Road, Great Neck, Long Island.
Your Secretary and Assistant Secretary were very pleasantly surprised recently when Wally Carr of Ridgewood, N. J., dropped in on his way to Rochester. Dartmouth men are few and far between in this part of Pennsylvania, and it's a treat to see one. Wally is Director of the Educational Thrift Service, which sponsors thrift campaigns in schools.
On a visit to Rochester we called on AlWilley who is a lawyer with the firm of Remington & Remington. Al gets his winter exercise out of bowling and is secretary of the Rochester Ad Club Bowling League. Al has two daughters.
Myles Lane was chairman of the dinner committee for the Dartmouth Lawyers Dinner on Jan. 23 at the New York Athletic Club. Myles is an Assistant U. S. Attorney in New York; having had considerable experience in the civil division, he has now transferred to the criminal division.
Secretary, Troy, Pennsylvania
