1928
A number of newspaper clippings have accumulated during the summer. On top of the pile is a picture of Paul Kruming that appeared in the New York Times when he was elected president of the Association of Export Advertising Agencies. Paul is president of the National Export Advertising Service, Inc.
The Washington Star says that Dr. Howard M. Payne, Washington physician, was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Tuberculosis Association at its annual convention in Buffalo, which he attended. Howard, who lives at 321 Elm St., N.W., is head of the tuberculosis annex at Freedmen's Hospital and is past president of the Medico-Chirurgical Society. A native of Washington, he graduated from the Howard University Medical School.
The Wilmington News says:
Lewis S. Munson Jr. has been reappointed assistant treasurer of E. L. duPont de Nemours & Co. He recently returned to his post as manager of the treasury division of the company after more than two years in the Navy. A native of Washington, D. C., and the son of Lewis S. Munson, former manager of the duPont Chambers Works, Mr. Munson was first employed as a clerk in the treasurer's department of the company during vacation" from College.
Larry Kenney has been transferred by the Glens Falls Insurance Co. from Pittsburgh to take charge of the State of Illinois, excluding Cook County and the suburban Chicago territory. Larry went with this company following his graduation from Tuck School. After a year in Ohio as a special agent he was assigned to the western Pennsylvania field, where he remained until he was commissioned in the Navy in July 1943. His headquarters will be at Peoria, Ill.
Mai Halliday has resigned as Associate General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, in Washington to resume the private practice of law in New York City, as a member of the firm of Meleney, Ryan & Halliday. Clarence Meleney of this firm is a member of Dartmouth '13.
Commenting on Mai's departure from the Board, Chairman Paul Herzog said, "No one on the staff can excell his record of twelve years' uninterrupted and unselfish devotion to duty. He has helped to administer and enforce the National Labor Relations Act throughout this period; his work has left its mark on the case law of the United States."
Mai first entered the labor relations field in 1934 when he was appointed attorney of the first N.L.R.B. From his initial position as attorney he was successively appointed Regional Attorney at Boston, Senior Attorney, and Principal Attorney in the Litigation Division. He has argued Board cases in all of the United States Circuit Courts of Appeals and, the Supreme Court. In July 1939 he was promoted to Assistant General Counsel and in September 1943 to Associate General Counsel. In these positions he was in charge successively of the Board's trial work and litigation. Finally, his last position has been over-all supervisor of the Board's Legal Division.
Jerry Warner is second secretary and consul on the United States Embassy staff in China, serving under General George C. Marshall, personal representative of the President. The latest issue of the Foreign ServiceList, a Department of State publication, lists Jerry as a "Class 5" foreign service officer with a salary of $5600, plus extras. (Working for the government is like living in a glass house).
Jack Kenerson has suggested that a blueprint of the class Reunion picture which appeared in the last issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE would be helpful in identifying everyone. It's an excellent idea, Jack, and I'll be glad to send a copy to anyone who writes for one.
Harking back to Reunion, Jack and Fran's room on the ground floor of Richardson was broken into and their refreshments and some other things stolen. The culprits weren't caught, but Jack thinks they were some kids who were hanging around the dormitory.
The Reunion committee reports a loss of $175.73 on Reunion, a shock which is cushioned somewhat by the fact that we made a profit of $503 on pur previous reunion.
Cal Billings reports seeing Topper Robinson in East Deerfield, Mass., right after Reunion. Topper was unable to get up to Reunion although he had been through Hanover the week before on business. He has three children, the oldest one going to a girls' college, the middle boy to Deerfield Academy. Topper still shuttles his crushed stone around all over New England on Red Edgar's B & M.
Ham Hankins, operations manager for Pan American Airways at La Guardia Field, moved September 1 to Beach Ave. & Sound View Drive, Halesite Post Office, Huntington, L. I.
The only '28er still in the Army (other than Col. Norm Costello U.S.A.) is Major Bob Reed, whose new mail address is 2729 Hudson Blvd., Jersey City. Bob left the stock brokerage business in New York in August 1942 to join the Air Corps. He is still single.
Jim Hubbell, last heard from in 1939, reports he is living at 1321 East 56th St., Chicago 37, 111 Al Clarke has moved to 176 Haskell St., Cumberland Mills, Maine.
Dick Frame has been having a siege of infection in one of his eyes and spent a week in Hahneman Hospital just prior to Labor Day. Dick's troubles did not come singly, either, for his father had a stroke in Pascagoula, Miss., about the same time Our sympathy to Ken Robbie in the loss of his mother who died in Plainfield, N. J., September 5.
Jack Cook, who got out of the Navy as a lieutenant commander recently after over three years in uniform, now lists himself as a stamp dealer, at 109 N. Dearborn St., Chicago. Previous to being commissioned, he worked for A. T. & T. in Chicago for fourteen years.
Summer visitors reported by the Hanover Inn include Mr. and Mrs. George B. Pitts, Jamestown, N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs. Brougham Wallace Jr., E. Orange, N. J.; and Mr. and Mrs. William W. Ford, Glenshaw, Pa.
Harry Stone of Chicago says Elly Jones cracked two or three vertebrae on his vacation to Colorado and has been in a cast ever since. He slipped playing indoor baseball-made the mistake of thinking he was as young and agile as in college. He is getting along well and should be out of his cast soon.
Harry also reports that Ed Abott has changed advertising agencies, and is now in charge of radio work for his firm.
Canton Street in the village of Troy, Pa. (population 1200), boasts its own "Dartmouth Row." Bob Case '46 lives at 274 Canton St., Henry Van Dyne '12 lives next door at 276, next to him at 278 lives Tom Morris '50, and his next door neighbor at 280 is your secretary. Troy claims to have more Dartmouth men per square foot than any place outside of Hanover!
Coining '28 Events.
October 12, combined Dartmouth-Penn luncheon at the University before the game.
November 2, '28 picnic lunch outside the Yale Bowl before the game. Time—12:30. Place—the yard of the fire house on Yale Avenue. (Yale Avenue is the street at the gate by portal 30). Bring your own food and refreshments. '28 UP! Son Middlebrook, chairman.
November 16, '28 picnic lunch before Cornell game—time and place to be announced. Os Skinner, chairman.
November 23, smoker at Dartmouth Club of New York night before game.
A FAMILY TRADITION is underway as Bruce W. Hazelton, son of Bob and Margaret Hazelton '27 enters Dartmouth this fall.
NEW CLASS OF 1928 OFFICERS, elected at this year's Hanover reunion, include (left to right) Myles Lane, vice president; Red Edgar, president; Rupe Thompson, treasurer; and Os Skinner, secretary.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa. T|reasurer, 208 Bowen St., Providence 6, R. I.
