1928
The 15th Reunions in various parts of the country June 5-7 were a great success —not as satisfying as a Hanover reunion, but a good substitute. One hundred and twenty (89 men, 31 wives) attended the larger gatherings in New York, Boston, Washington, Chicago, and Detroit.
The New York reunion was the largest, with 40 fellows and 31 wives attending the dinner at the Hotel Pennsylvania. The reunion lasted from Friday night until Sunday night. A picture taken during the dinner adjoins these notes. In it you will find:
From left to right, bottom row: Bill Heep, John Phillips, Cpl. Bud Weser. 2nd row: Gertrude Heep, Lt. Wendell Phillips, Lew Beers, Anita Beers, Os Skinner, Jean Leach, Lt. Hank Leach, Lt. (jg) Red Jenkins, Jane Willard, Ethna Pollock, Chuck Bruder. 3rd row: Paul Ahlers, Sonia Ahlers, Virg McNeil, Ginnie McNeil, Herb Russell, Mary Skinner, Mildred Maring, B. M. Maring, Pinkie Dixon, Dave Willard. 4th row: Wally Carr, Natalie Carr, Red Pelton, Lois McLaughlin, Helen Campion, Nona Bruder, Stew Hoagland, Vera Flanagan, Lou Dodge, Sylvia Brownstone, Jean Wright, Ernie Wright, Miss McCoy, Harry Jewett. sth row: Ellen Treanor, Bill Treanor, Lt. (jg) Jimmy Fowler, Ruth Smith, Joe Smith, Dorothy Russell, John Flanagan, By Dodge, Walt Brownstone, Mildred Simonds, Lt. Doc Simonds, Mrs. Herb Brown, Herb Brown, Court Keller, Millicent Heyn, Ed Heyn. Back row: Hank Livingston, John Turkevich, Ludmille Turkevich, Edna Dixon, Bruce Lewis, Mrs. Thelma Thiel, Jim Campion, Caroline Bush, Howie Bush, Fran Magenis, 'Gene Magenis, Gran Cogs- well, Bill Cogswell. Absent from picture: Lt. Roy Myers, Chris apd Delia Hackett.
In Boston a cold rainy night held the attendance down to 23. In the adjacentpicture are:
Standing, left to right: Bucky Stoler, Makey Makepeace, Wm. McSorley, Topper Robinson, Johnny Brew, Doug Pease, Babe Shaw, Fred Cheever, Craig Haines, Hank Milton, Capt. Harry Bennert, George Barnstead, Tim Paige, Ted Howard, Larry Martin, Art Lane. Setting, left to right: Johnny Nixon, Red Edgar, Al Fusonie, Don Norris, Jeff Glendenning, John Kenerson.
The Boston and Chicago dinners were each attended by nine, the Detroit affair by eight men.
Pictured at the Washington get-together are, left to right, Hartjens, Hammesfahr, Holden, Harris, Rogers, Maclellan, Dennis, Borella, and Chapin.
The Green Derby for the most news this month goes to Major Curley Prosser, Hq. A.A.F., 3D968 Pentagon Building, Washington, who writes:
"Major Jerry Pitts has come to town and while I can never reach him on the phone I understand he works on Pricing Methods in the Purchasing Division of the Army Service Forces.
"When I reach him he will be invited to join the Pentagon '28 Club whose mission is saving '28 men lost in the Pentagon. Initiation into this select group entails taking the fast growing membership to lunch. The roster to date: Lt. Col. Norm Costello, General Staff, Operations Division; Major Robert B. Clark, Bureau of Public Relations, War Dept.; Major George Davis, Requirements Division, Army Service Forces; Major Curley Prosser, Special Projects Office, Army Air Forces; and Capt. Jack Rose, Education Branch, Special Services. Bob Rockhill looked in, July 5, after a week's
leave to see how his young daughter is progressing. Bob is a private at the Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, but between Gen'l Kilpatrick, in command of that port, and a couple of other guys, I expect Bob will soon be in an Officer Candidate School.
Dick Rendell has just returned from overseas with Ist lieutenant's bars. More news after Bob Clark brings him to lunch."
One Of our victims of overwork. Woody Isham, was able to leave the Park East Hospital in New York City in mid-July after a ten-week siege. As he put it, "I was just another victim of the Battle of the Potomac." His wife says he has gained 25 lbs. and looks fine. They had been in Washington over two years, where Woody represented the Standard Register Co.
Corporal Stan Aby is now at Ft. Washington, Md. He was married June 9, 1942, to Janet Sandy and joined the Army August 3 in his home town, Minneapolis.
Jim McConnon sent in a check for the Fund, and with it a check from his father. He wrote, "My father has been interested in Dartmouth College for a long time; so he is very much interested in seeing the old school stay together during these troubled times."
Lt. Johnny Lawrence of the Army Signal Corps went overseas in a convoy which arrived in Europe in July. He brings to 22 the number of our classmates known to be overseas.
The latest addition to our Service Roster is George Buckingham of Flint, Mich., who is now a lieutenant in the USNR. We now have 83 men in the Army, 52 in the Navy, 1 in the Coast Guard and 1 in the Marines, or a total of 137 in uniform.
Dr. George McClure is a research pathologist at Grasslands Hospital, Valhalla, New York Dave McCathie is Supervisor of Cafeterias, Kellett Autogiro Corp., 58 St. & Grays Ave., Philadelphia Ed Collins of the U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service, is receiving his mail in care of that agency, Merchandise Mart, Chicago
Moose Ahlers is Assistant to the Director of Contracts, Ranger Aircraft Engines Division of Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp., Farmingdale, N. Y.
CAPT. BARNETT J. NOVA '28, on duty in Washington with the Judge Advocate General's Division.
PART OF THE DARTMOUTH CLASS OF 1928 HELD ITS 15TH REUNION ON JUNE 5 AT THE HOTEL PENNSYLVANIA, N. Y. C.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Inc., Troy, Pa
