1928
Sixteen members of 1928 attended the annual New York Dartmouth Alumni Association Dinner at the Commodore on April 11. I have just talked to Bruce Lewis on the telephone and secured a list of those present: Cal Billings, Bill Embler, Esty Estabrook, Ham Hankins, Art Hassell, Gerry Johnston, Chet Kellogg, George Klein, Dick Klinck, Bruce Lewis, Phil Orsi, John Phillips, Curly Prosser, Buck Serrell, Beef Vernon, and Bud Weser.
While this meeting is being held, Johnny Scott, Red Meyers and I are attending the convention of the Empire State Petroleum Association in Elmira, N. Y. Johnny is a newcomer in the oil business, having been with a New York law firm before going in the Navy. He is now in the New York City office of Socony. Red Meyers is an independent gas and oil distributor in Elmira.
Red Edgar has been appointed assistant to the president o£ the Boston and Maine Raiload He has been assistant to the vice president of the Maine Central Railroad for the past two years.
After numerous delays, including the inability of the dispensary to find my health record, I was finally separated from the Navy in Washington on April 5. After a two-day "vacation" (spent unpacking) I resumed my job with the Van Dyne Oil Cos. It's good to be back home again.
The first point of business on reporting at the office was to inform my boss that he wouldn't see me early in June (Secretaries convention in Hanover) and for a week in July to enable Mary and me to have a few days in Hanover before the big Reunion the weekend of July 19, 20, and 21. Being a Dartmouth man himself, he wasn't upset.
Paul Kruming reports that plans for our Delayed Fifteenth are progressing as the vari ous committees dig into their tasks. By the time you read this, details will have reached you via Jack Herpel's lively '28 Campaigner, so I shall confine myself to urging you to join the '28 throng in Hanover this summer for the best Reunion we have ever had.
Curly Prosser, this column's special correspondent in Europe and later in Japan, continues as a major source of news by sending a clipping from the Chattanooga Times of March 14 telling of the decoration of Lt. Col. Bob Maclellan with the Legion of Merit for "notably outstanding service" with the Government insurance allotment division of the Army during the war.
Brig. Gen. R. P. Hueper, assistant chief of finance of the Army, pinned the medal on Bob's coat at ceremonies held in the office of his father, Robert J. Maclellan, president of the Provident Life & Accident Insurance Cos. Bob is a vice president of the same company. Gen. Hueper's visit to Chattanooga from Washington was purely to present the honor to Bob.
"Col. Maclellan," the citation said in part, "was a key figure in the planning and supervision of the insurance division during the highly important wartime period of reorganization and expansion. His great initiative, wide knowledge of operational procedures, and his wholehearted cooperation with superiors and subordinates reflect the highest credit upon himself and the military service.'
Another Lt. Col. and insurance executive, George Davis, secretary-treasurer of the Glens Falls Insurance Cos., provides us with some news:
"It is grand to be back on the job and free to say what you want once again. Incidentally, Larry Kennedy returned to his job in January as head of our Pittsburgh area after having spent a year and a half aboard the escort carrier Kwajalein. He was mustered out at San Diego and motored across country with Martha and the children. I believe they spent Christmas in a place that sounded like East Haircut,' Mo. Larry looks very well, but most of his hair blew off because he insisted on standing on the bridge without his hat on.'
John Flanagan, out of the Army, is manager of the Freeland Felt Works, Philadelphia.
Ham Hankins has moved from Miami to New York, where he is operations manager for Pan American Airways at LaGuardia Field.
Comdr. Kewp Munson departed from the Navy Department and Washington early in April and he and Betty consider themselves lucky to have been able to find a place to live in Wilmington. They are at 2 Alapocas Drive, and Kewp is back at his old job as assistant treasurer of E. I. duPont de Nemours & Cos.
Lt. Comdr. Bob Nespor is out o£ the Navy and practicing medicine again in Westport, Conn.
Lt, Dohrm Sinclair, recently separated from the Army, has settled in La Jolla, Calif., at 341 Coast Boulevard-occupation unknown. Bill Williams is out of the Navy and back in Ambler, Pa. When last heard from he was on a Navy tanker in Tokyo Bay.
Major Don Dodd, until recently in Philadelphia terminating Air Corps contracts, is now a lawyer with the Irving Worster Cos., and lives in Parkesburg, Pa. Don rose from private to major in the Air Corps Lt. Comdr. Brad Brown is out of uniform and living at 6414 N. Richards St., Milwaukee Ford Bliokley has moved from Detroit to Rochester, N. Y., where his office is located in Room 814, Temple Building Lt. Comdr. George Buckingham is out of the Navy and back at his old address: 1326 Beard St., Flint, Mich Moc Gray, formerly headmaster at Wilton, N. H., has moved up the ladder to a similar position in Bristol, N. H.
Capt. Bob Rockhill's new address is Hampton Roads Sub-Port of Embarkation, Norfolk Army Base, Norfolk, Va.
Hank Buchtel has been promoted to major in the Army Medical Corps.
Johnny Scott has informed me that Lt. Ed Rose got out of the Navy in January after two and a half years in the Supply Corps—first at Clearwater, Utah, and later at Bayonne, N. J. Ed and his wife have adopted two boys, both of whom are now about two years old. Ed runs the Leo May Department Store in Kalamazoo, Mich. Johnny says he recently received a dozen white shirts, which he badly needed (who doesn't!) from Ed, his old roommate. It seems Ed put on a little weight in the Navy and couldn't wear his shirts when he got home.
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RECEIVING CONGRATULATIONS for the award of the Bronze Star medal which he received for his outstanding work with the U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey in Germany, Lt. Col. Gwynne ("Curly") A.Prosser '28 (center) thanks Maj. Gen. Orville Anderson, left.
RECEIVING CONGRATULATIONS for winning the Legion of Merit, Capt. E. Norman Chamberlain '28 (right) thanks Brig. Gen. George I. Back, after the ceremony in the Pentagon Building in Washington.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa Treasurer, Lewis Historical Pub. Co., Inc 80-Bth Ave., New York, N. Y.
