1928
Seventeen '28ers attended the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston dinner on February 27. Thanks to the nose for news of my peripatetic boss, Henry Van Dyne '12, who also attended the dinner, I have a list of the '2Bers present: Fred Cole, Ed Flanders, Al Fusonie, Jeff Glendinning, Bob Gray, Craig Haines, Jack Kenerson, John Lawrence, Julius Lemke, Ed Lilley, Larry Martin, Wes McSorley, Bill Murphy, John Nixon, Don Norris, Jack Phelan and Dick Sullivan.
Don't miss the picture in an adjoining column of Ed Abbott's cocktail party at his apartment in Chicago. Missing from the picture are Cal Billings, who took the picture, and Chuck Davis and Hoyt Thompson, who held the lights.
Eighteen years out of College we are to celebrate our Fifteenth Anniversary! Paradoxical, isn't it, but at least it will make us feel younger to be known as the 15-Year Class. (Remember how decrepit those old-grads of the class of '13 seemed to us in June, 1928!) Mark down the dates: July 19-20-21.
President Paul Kruming has appointed the following committee chairmen: Costumes, Bill Heep; Housing, Bill Kimball; Entertainment, But Weser; Finance, John Cronin; Photography, Dick Frame. Other committee appointments will be announced here or in the '2B Campaigner.
To give the boys a chance to talk over Reunion plans, Paul and Bruce Lewis are planning a series of small cocktail parties in New York in the near future and one large dinner for '28ers and their wives prior to Reunion. A regular class dinner is scheduled for March 20 at the Dartmouth Club.
Paul says "Ted Baehr is in more ads, Jud Whitehead is in New York and Barney Nova is with a new law firm." The name of the firm is now Weisman, Grant, Nova & Doskow, 295 Madison Ave., New York.
Lanky Langdell returned February 1 to his old law firm in Manchester, N. H.—Wyman, Starr, Booth, Wadleigh & Langdell.
Thanks to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, lists of alumni visiting the Hanover Inn are sent regularly to the class secretaries. During February Dr. Milt and Peggy Hoefle spent ten days there and Berthold and Mrs. Stern three days. In January, Lanky and Judith Langdell, and Gene and Fran Magenis and family (Jackie, Maureen and Gail) were there for twelve days; Dick Canton and Herb and Dot Russell were there for shorter periods.
Major Art Vandenberg's terminal leave is up March 31. I talked with him the other day and he says he is going to spend the balance of the year working for his father's reelection to the Senate from Michigan, and then is not sure what he will do. He has been in the Army four years.
Tom Talbot dropped in my office at the Navy Department on his way from Florida to Cleveland after a nice vacation. His terminal leave expired March I—after over five years in the Navy during which he rose from lieutenant (junior grade) to commander.
Tom started out in the District Intelligence
Office. Philadelphia, but tired of the inactivity and switched to a Beachmaster's job. He saw real action on Okinawa, where he landed one and a half hours after H-hour and was in charge of a lively section of the beach for six days.
Tom is not going back to his old position with the London Guarantee & Accident Co. in Philadelphia. He is looking around and meantime helping Gladys' mother in her restaurant at 2412 Euclid Heights "Boulevard, Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
Jack Armstrong also changed jobs on returning to civilian life after 44 months in the Navy. He was formerly assistant cashier of the Bryant Electric Co., but has taken a position as advertising assistant with the Reuben H. Donnelley Corp., 407 East 25 St., Chicago.
Vic Hartjens, who was with an electric appliance firm in Connecticut before the war, plans to look for a distributorship of some durable goods in the Washington, D. C.-Virginia area, at the end of his terminal leave. He called me up on his way through Washington to Florida with Mary and Peter to scend a month on a key 60 miles south of Miami.
Horace Brown decided not to go back to his job as plant manager of a- shovel factory in North Easton, Mass., and took a position with Johnson & Johnson in New Brunswick, N. J. He was a lieutenant commander when the Navy returned him to inactive duty on January 7.
Five classmates who were released from the Army recently are not going back to their previous positions and are currently looking around. -Dan Hatch, formerly with the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Cos., is temporarily living at 503 W. Poplar St., Griffin, Georgia. Hank Graupner, formerely in the manufacturing business in Brooklyn, is living at 7 Gracie Square, New York. Harry B. ("Stretch") Davis, formerly professor of dramatics at Southwestern College in Memphis, is conducting his survey from 447 East 65 St., New York. Phil Sherman, former owner of the Dartmouth Tutoring Bureau in Hanover, last reported his headquarters as 1793 Beacon St., Brookline, Mass. James B. McCoy,' formerely in the insurance business in Burlington, N. C, is now living at 2664 Grand Concourse, New York. Mac won the Bronze Star for "heroic achievement" in combat and also has a Presidential Unit Citation.
"Stretch" Davis received an Award of Merit when he was discharged as a staff sergeant, for "outstanding accomplishment in the performance of duty."
Jack Phelan has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal "for meritorious service in connection with military operations against the enemy from February 1945 to August 1945." Jack had previously received the Air Medal and a Distinguished Unit Citation. He has announced the opening of an office at 5 3 State Street, Boston, for the general practice of law in association with two of his pre-war associates.
John Turkevich received a Certificate of Service and a silver lapel pin from the War Department for his contribution toward the development of the atomic bomb as a research chemist. He spent 21 months working on the atom bomb program in the Frick Chemical Laboratory, Princeton.
Jack and Anita Barry adopted a six-months old boy on March 3 and have named him John James Jr. Jack is on duty in the contract termination section of the Navy's Bureau of .Supplies & Accounts in Washington.
Curly Prosser was separated from the Army Saturday, March 2, at the Pentagon and on Monday, March 4, started to work for his old firm, McCann-Erickson, in New York. He will be promoted to the rank of colonel on May 1, and will remain on active duty until his terminal leave expires on June 14. He will be the first colonel in the class.
Curly was awarded the Army Commendation Ribbon by Maj. Gen. Orvil Anderson for "meritorious service" with the TJ. S. Strategic Bombing Survey," in a ceremony at Gravelly Point, Virginia, on February 19. The citation read, in part: "As Deputy Chief of Intelligence you took over much of the work of reorganizing the Section for operations in Japan and in this organization showing great resourcefulness and executive ability. In Japan, as Deputy Chief of Intelligence, you supervised, with fine results to the Survey, the important field work of the Section, the personnel of which composed one third of the Survey. Over and above your regular duties you made extended trips covering all the Regional Headquarters of the Survey at Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Osaka and Nagoya At Hiroshima your alert intelligence and personal initiative in interrogating Japanese officials resulted in the acquisition by the Survey of the official Japanese documents dealing with the damage done by the atomic bomb." Curley had previously received the Bronze Star Medal for his work with the Survey in Europe.
Wayne Sturdevant is Assistant Manager of the Midwest Region for the National Association of Manufacturers, 231 S. LaSalle St., Chicago.
Johnny Johnson is Personnel Director of the Ingersoll Steel and Disc Division of the BorgWarner Corp., Kalamazoo, Mich.
Lt. Bill Hobson, after a tour of duty in Japan as part of the Military Government, is back with J. P. Morgan & Co. in New York.
Amby McLaughlin, Marine Corps major, was demobilized early in February and has returned to Littleton, N. H Comdr. Parker jacobson and Lt. Comdr. Red Jenkins have also been demobilized, but their latest addresses have not been received.
After two years of the Battle of the Potomac, I am about to start my terminal leave and return to Troy, Pa., and the oil business.
It's been a long, long time since our last reunion! See you in Hanover July 19-20-21.
THE CLASS OF 1929 has a place of honor next to the President's Table at the Boston Dartmouth Alumni Dinner on Feb. 27. The orator (center left) who seems to be losing out to the photographer is Bill Andres '29, Class Secretary.
Secretary, LT. COMDR. Van Dyne Oil Cos., Troy, Pa.
Treasurer, Lewis Historical Pub. Co., Inc. 80-Bth Ave., New York, N. Y.
