1928

REUNION has been the principal topic of conversation whenever '28ers have met in recent months. Interest in our Delayed Fifteenth has been mounting week by week and Chairman Paul Kruming and his capable committee predict the biggest and best reunion '28 has ever had.

Save these dates: July 19, 20, and 21.

I received in the mail today the following: "Bill Cogswell cordially invites you and the squaw to a Pre-Reunion Dartmouth 1928 cocktail party at his tepee, 315 East 68th St., New York Reservation, on Friday, the 17th of May, at 6 P.M." Mary and I hope to be able to attend.

The Reunion committee and the class officers hope that other '28ers will be inspired to give similar parties in June and July in other cities.

By the time you read these notes, usually four weeks have elapsed from the time they are written. Jack Herpel's Newsletter is much more rapid and for that reason detailed news of our Delayed Fifteenth should be, and is left for him.

The Dartmouth alumni in Philadelphia held their annual banquet on April 9 at the Racquet Club, with eight of our class there which is almost 100% attendance. Jack McLaughlin was elected vice president of the Dartmouth Club of Philadelphia for the coming year.

According to Ernie Wright, the following were much in evidence: Don Dodd, John Flanagan, Jack Heston, Jack McLaughlin, George Pasfield, Wes Patience, Bill Williams,' and Ernie.

From Phil Orsi and Curly Prosser have come clippings and an eye-witness description of the bang-up job E. Morton Jennings did in presiding at the annual alumni dinner of the Graduate School of Banking, held recently in New York with over 300 attending. As speaker of the evening, Mutt had secured Marriner Eccles, chairman of the board of the Federal Reserve System. The Bankers' Association Nezus commented favorably on Mutt's witty handling of the business meeting. Mutt is with the First National Bank of Boston.

Stretch Davis writes that he is out of the Army at last, but has to wait until the "fall term" opens before he can renew his teaching activities.

Scotty MacLeod, who spent four years in the Army and left it as a Staff Sergeant and with a Bronze Star for heroism, was married April 4 to Ella Gertrude Tomlinson in Washington. They are now living at 616 North Harrison St., Wilmington.

News sometimes travels slowly, for I just learned that Les Mason's wife, Harriette, died at Buffalo in 1944, leaving two fine boys, Robert now six years old, and Donald four years old. Both boys are living with their grandmother Mason in St. Petersburg, Fla., for the present.

Les married again, June 16, 1945, Miss Dolores Rousseau, formerly of Fall River, Mass., but now teaching at the New York State Teacher's College, Buffalo. Les, who has a Ph.D. in history from Cornell, is on the faculty of the same institution.

For news of still another '28 wedding, we are indebted to Abe Winslow '20 for a clipping from a San Francisco paper telling of the wedding of Boice Gross and Mrs. Zora Cheever Tyler in the Navy Chapel on Treasure Island on May 1. Her only attendant was her 14-year-old daughter. Boice has just been released from active duty in the Navy after over three years in uniform, and is now with a San Francisco law firm with the memory-taxing name of Morrison, Hohfield, Foerster, Shuman & Clark.

Dick Klinck made the headlines in the New York Sun on May 6 with the statement that

"three hundred million pounds of perishable food in New York city refrigeration plants is in danger of spoiling if the coal shortage causes a curtailment in electric power."

This clipping, which Curly Prosser sent, also provided the news that Dick is now vice president and secretary of the Merchants Refrigerating Co., which operates 40% of the refrigerated warehouse space in and around New York. Dick has been secretary since 1941.

Recent visitors at the Hanover Inn included the Monk Davenports, whose boy, Carleton Jr., is the first son of '28 to enter Dartmouth; the Bruce Lewises; the Walter Brownstones; and Phil Sherman.

Boston and New York sports columnists have been talking up Myles Lane for the position of president of the National Hockey League. After several months of terminal leave, following his four years in the Navy, Myles returned May 1 to his position as assistant U. S. attorney in New York. He will handle criminal cases.

Capt. Roy Dickerson has been discharged after four years in the Army. At the time of his release he was public relations officer of the Office of Dependency Benefits, Newark, N. j.

Wayne Van Orman has been elected an assistant secretary of the Bankers Indemnity Co., Newark, N. J Dusty Griffin, who worked for Curtiss Wright during the war, is now a statistician with the Hunter Packing Co., East St. Louis, Ill.

We have told you how Fred Burleigh's work in staging plays and musical entertainment all over the Pacific area won for him a field commission. He has recently resumed direction of the Pittsburgh Playhouse. A clipping from the Pittsburgh Press furnishes a lot of information which Fred has been too modest to send us:—

In Burleigh's first five years at the Playhouse (before he went into the Army in 1942), the subscription lists grew from a few hundred to more than four thousand. By following his policy of giving the public what they want, he built the audience to a size which makes it compare favorably with any similar theatre in the country. Only the Pasadena Playhouse and the Cleveland Playhouse rank higher in national prestige and they do so chiefly because their plants are superior in size and facilities.

Burleigh was graduated from Dartmouth, spent a year in Poland studying the theatre on a fellowship from the Kosciuszko Foundation, and returned to this country to get a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale. While at Yale he became associated with Alexander Dean, a New York director and prominent stock producer. Together they launched a summer theatre venture in Cohasset, Mass., called The South Shore Players, which became one of the outstanding "barn theatres" of the country. Burleigh has been the director and co-producer since 1930, except for his stretch in the Army.

Many famous actors and actresses worked in Burleigh's stock company, .... and Sinclair Lewis and Thornton Wilder became actors under his direction. Lewis gathered sufficient material to write a novel about summer stock.

Following the completion of his work at Yale, Burleigh was appointed director of the Civic Theatre of Indianapolis, being selected from among 50 applicants. He went there in the fall of 1934 and was highly successful in the subsequent three seasons. He prevailed upon his associate producer of college days, Charles Gaynor, to write an original musical revue. This policy of presenting an original revue each season continued while he was at Indianapolis and after he came to Pittsburgh in 1937.

Others recently released include: Vic Hartjens, ex-Navy lieutenant, who is back in Darien, Conn., after a month's vacation in Florida Former Lt. Comdr. Parker Noyes, lifetime resident of Salem, has moved to 847 Hale St., Beverly Farms, Mass..... Capt. Bob Rockhill is on terminal leave, and living at 69-09 108th St., Forest Hills, N. Y.

The housing shortage caused one '28 veteran to change jobs. Horace ("Brownie") Brown took a job with Johnson & Johnson in New Brunswick, N. J., in January after his release from the Navy. He could not find a place for his family to live and having been away from Dorothy and their two children for 26 months, he decided they meant more to him than another job away from home. So he resigned in February and took a job in Detroit, where Dorothy has been living during the war. He is with the Stran-Steel Division of the Great Lakes Steel Corp., Penobscott Building, Detroit. He says they are the builders of the Navy Quonset hut and have a tremendous amount of civilian business—principally warehouses and barns.

Lt. Col. Bob Clark spent his three-months' terminal leave basking in the sun in Alexandria, Va. On May 1 he went back with his old outfit, the Strathmore Paper Co., West Springfield, Mass., as advertising manager. When he went in the Army in April, 1941, he was advertising manager of two Strathmore subsidiaries. Like everyone else I've heard from, Bob is coming to our Delayed Fifteenth.

I'll be seeing you in Hanover July 19, 20 and 21.

'28 UP FOR THE 15TH!

SHOULD AULD ACQUAINTANCE be forgot, Hoyt Thompson '28, left; and Len Bohasseck '28 of Chicago look over the unbearded faces In '28's Green Book in preparation for their delayed 15th reunion next month.

Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Go., Troy, Pa Treasurer, Lewis Historical Pub. Co., Inc 80-Bth Ave., New York, N. Y.