1929
A meeting of the Executive Committee was held in New York on a Friday evening late in September. The most important items of business were the fixing of the class dues at $5.00 for the current year and the selection of Phil Mayher as Chairman of the Reunion Committee for the 20th Reunion in June 1949. You have already received the bill for the dues including the subscription to the MAGAZINE. Prompt remittance will be appreciated and a note or two of news or better still a letter such as many of you have already written accompanying your check will be welcomed by the Secretary.
Ed Coddington writes "I am now located at Lafayette College as head of the history department. With its all men student body and its location on a hill Lafayette reminds me greatly of Dartmouth. What more could a Dartmouth man want? Since many of them have certain fine qualities, teaching history to coeds can be recommended. For a change, however, I am glad to have none but men in my classes. We are still in the agonies of moving. To obtain even an insignificant extension cord for a lamp involves one in a major enterprise. Otherwise the family is well and my two daughters, 10 and 13 years old, are growing up much too fast."
Harlan Taylor is in the midst of launching, his new business, the Taylor Exploration Company with headquarters in Houston, Tex. Harlan is a ranking Geologist specializing in oil and for years has been with the Petty Geophysical Engineering Company exploring for oil in the Southwest. He reports a surprise call from Cy Worth who is also to be located in Houston, Tex.
Al Downing was married on May 14 to Marie Butler in Houston, Tex.
Al Wiegel is the Treasurer of Wiegel's Incorporated of Lawrence, Mass., Caterers and Restauranteurs.
Cleve McKenna says "I haven't seen a '2ger in years save for last spring when I spent nearly a week with Walt Kirkpatrick and Edith in Cleveland. He's attorney for an Auto Insurance Company there. Yike Burgess and his wife came up from Akron for an evening's merriment, so that makes 1946 the biggest Dartmouth '29 year since I graduated. Yike, by the way, is with one of the big rubber companies. As for personal statistics: Married (wife Alice) with two daughters, Pat (11) and Polly (7). A home owner, thank God, having built the last non-priority house in western Pennsylvania in the early days of the war. Owning one's home is an important thing these days. Am advertising Manager and Director of Vanodium-Alloys Steel Company. We're a relatively small company making High Speed, Alloy and Carbon Tool Steels."
Hal Beloin writes "This is my first word in a long, long time and so, briefly, a history for the last few years. Still alive in New Britain, Conn. Married Kathleen Dunrigan in 1935 and have three children, Gail, 10, Philip, 6, Class of 1962, and Judith 5. Presently Assistant District Director, Connecticut O.P.A. (please don't mention meat). Expect to go into Real Estate and Insurance within the very near future by Act of Congress."
Win Vollmer is getting out of the Navy in January after three and one half years of service. He plans to continue as a civilian the same work he has been doing in the Navy, Research in Endocrinology at Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland.
George McLachlan says that he hasn't much to report but then reveals the rare news that he has bought a new house. This one is in Newtown, Conn.
Bob Sparks is Field Representative for Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., traveling the western Connecticut territory.
George Lane sends us "Just a word to keep you up to date. After 14 years in banking business I left to come with The Plastic Wire & Cable Corp. as Personnel Manager on January 16, 1945. It is a new Company, organ ized in October 1943 for insulating all types of wire with plastic instead of rubber. I have never worked so hard and such long hours in my life, nor have I ever enjoyed work as much. Every department head is under 40. The Company has expanded beyond the fondest hopes of any of us. We now have about 330 employees. Our family consists of my wife, Emily, son Lee, who will be 14 years old next week, daughter Nancy, 12 years old and yours truly. Lee entered High School this fall. I guess we'll have to admit we're getting older. He had more A's on his report card than I got in eight years of high school and college, I believe."
From Joe O'Leary we hear "Not much news to mention about myself; since reunion I have been living quietly and keeping my nose to the grindstone during these closing months of the OPA. I am still with that organization, but probably not for much longer."
King Badger tells us "I am now Assistant Professor of Literature in the College of Practical Arts and Letters, Boston University. Resigned from Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa., last July and came here in September. Dick Verrill '40 is in my department at B. U. Don MacKaye '26 dropped into introduce himself and welcome me to New England. Hope to meet some of the other boys and renew old friendships with '29ers who live around Boston and South Weymouth."
Bob Hazard as he puts it waxes autobiographical. "I was grateful to be able to flee from Martin's at the war's end, though my chore there was enlightening and somewhat fascinating. But heaven help the poor souls who have to spend a lifetime in an industrial plant. I had hoped to be a builder again, but I am a poor hand in the black market, so I perished the thought and settled down to establishing a very peaceful and restful business blowing things up. I advertise myself as a 'licensed explosive engineer,' and I specialize in blasting stumps, ditches, rock and such sundry things as people may want demolished or disinterred. As an occupation, it is glamorous and moderately profitable and quite without prestige. Someone told me the other day that I am no longer to be found in Poor's Directory or in Who's Who in Business, which is a fate somewhat less than death. I am currently the president of the Dartmouth Club of Baltimore, but that organization is nevertheless rallying spendidly from its wartime languish. Time was when a half dozen of us were all that were about for the monthly dinners, but now we are up to twenty-five and turning out in greater numbers every month including Jacobson and Burton, but our sleuths haven't caught up yet with Ed Walsh."
Lenore Goldsmith, Charlie's wife, writes from Rockville Center that Charlie is away on an extended trip for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which will include Hawaii, Fiji Islands, New Zealand, Australia and Hollywood (his first visit there) returning around the end of November.
Marvin Braverman has opened his own law office in Washington where he will specialize in practice before departments and agencies of the Federal Government. Marv is an old hand around Washington having been Counsel for the railroad division of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Assistant General Counsel for the Defense Plant Corporation and more recently Assistant to the Administrator of the Civilian Production Administration.
Charlie Shaeffer is back at work with the appliance division of General Electric at Bridgeport, Conn. He has two sons, Charlie Webster, bom August 14, 1943, and Peter Burnap, born March 26, 1946. Charlie sees Reed Banks quite frequently. Reed is Personnel Manager of Vought-Sikorsky in Bridgeport. He is married and has a son, Reed. At the Connecticut Alumni dinner last spring Red Kimball and Dinny Dinsmore were on hand both looking and behaving well.
Bill Morgan, that old sea dog, has left International Paper and is now with the Bryant Paper Company in Kalamazoo, Mich.
Woody Woodbridge reports good news about Panos Georgopulo, currently one of Washington's restauranteurs supreme. His establishment "Chicken-in-the-Ruff" is a prime outlet for Woody's Bragpatch broilers. Panos is married to Jacqueline Willoughby of Washington and has a son Andrew Peter born early last summer.
Dick Robin tells this good story about a class luncheon held in Los Angeles last May in anticipation of reunion "Fran McEntee helped me in phoning the '29 delegation in the L. A. area for a lunch in connection with the regular Dartmouth lunch: Al Floyd, City Attorney of Lynwood, Calif.; Jack Allen, General Manager of the Hollostone Co.; Bill Keyes, recently out of the Navy and enjoying Southern California; Ed Abbott, F.8.1. The six of us started at the Biltmore Grill and after a few beers, bourbons, martinis, the talk veered around to who had the greyest hair, the least hair, the biggest paunch, the most children. We overwhelmed the Los Angeles lunch group and it was arranged that we have a separate '29 table. When I stated that my business plans would allow me to make the Hanover Reunion, all were envious but unable to do much about those 3000 miles. However, Fran McEntee suggested the group make a cruise in his boat and since it sleeps eight, it was agreed that it be a stag party. They will leave on July 19. Dick Rogers, Ed Plumb, and Bill Davenport all made noble efforts, but were prevented from attending the lunch, but I have an idea they will be hard to keep away from the Reunion in Catalina."
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