1928
The Class of '28 really did itself proud in the Alumni Fund drive last spring. The details have been told in the class newsletter, but we just feel like talking about our record-breaking performance. The way everyone pitched in and helped was really inspiring, particularly in the last ten days, when 166 gifts were received. We ended up with more contributors, and gave more money, than ever before—and won our first Green Derby! A long Wah Hoo Wah lor all of you who helped and for BillMorton for his wonderful work in his first year as Class Agent.
Our next Hanover reunion will be held in June 1944 rather than next spring. This is not news to those who read the April issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, but for those who didn't we call,attention to the fact that the Alumni Council voted last spring to adopt the new plan of reunions. At our first post-war reunion last year there was universal approval of the idea of returning with classes with which we were in College. The new plan will delay our Twentieth for one year, but no change will be made in our Twenty-fifth Reunion.
A PACIFIC COAST REPORT
These notes are being written in Los Angeles, partly to give up-to-the-minute news of our Southern California delegation, and partly because I didn't have enough news to fill these columns before I left on my vacation.
Yesterday, Mary, Scotty (aged five) and I were entertained by Jack Rose at his apartment in Hollywood, where we enjoyed the splendid view of the city. Jack is working on half a dozen things, and is as full of pep and vitality as he was in College. He is in the process of concluding negotiations for an independent feature production which he hopes to release through RKO. He is also working on an original story for Paramount, is involved in the development of a theatre in his home town, La Jolla, not to mention a radio program for the Protestant Church.
Jack exhibited two scars on his face, received at the La Jolla beach club while showing his old roommate, Gil Swanson of Omaha, and Gil's brother-in-law, Senator Fulbright, how well a native Californian can ride a surf board. Jack rode the wave in beautifully,. but just as he was at the peak of his performance, the wave threw him flat on his face, against a life rope with the aforementioned result.
This evening we had a pleasant but all too brief visit at Clark Blyth's home and enjoyed meeting his charming wife and two of their four children. Peter and John, twins, are 17, another son is 15, and Jane is 14. Clark, who served two years in the Navy, says son John joined the Naval Reserve and took a cruise this summer.
Clark is in the auditing department of Fox West Coast Theatres and spends about twothirds of his time traveling.
A talk with Les Benioff revealed that he has left the fur business and is now proprietor of the Davis Sportswear Store in Los Angeles. Les got out of the Navy last November after four years' service.
Bob Heald, reached on the phone at his home in Burbank, said he has an electrical contracting business with an office in Monterey Park. He served three years as a Chief Warrant Officer in the Sea Bees, taking part in the assault on Okinawa with the 70th S.B. battalion.
Jack Lyman was away on his vacation, so I missed seeing him. He is president of the Dartmouth Club of Southern California and, when he isn't busy arranging Dartmouth dinners and luncheons, works for Dwyer-Curlett & Cos., a real estate and insurance firm.
I missed connections with Woody Isham,Bob Reid, and Curt Bird, but learned that Woody has left the California Telephone Cos. and is back with Sunset-McKee Standard Register Cos.
Thanks to George Klein for this account of a summer '28 party:
"On the only perfect day in June, a dozen '28ers trekked 40 miles out on Long Island, near Jones Beach, to accept Bill and Fran Cogswell's invitation to a beach-and-patio party. Besides our hosts, there were Chris and Dell Hackett, complete with a new Pontiac; Bud and Mildred Maring, all the way from Jersey; Park and Eleanor Estabrook, who just acquired a 100-acre farm in Pittsfield, N. H., for future refuge from Metropolitan New York, atom bombs, etc.; Cal and Genie Billings, with baby Willie, who stole the show. Eleanor and I made it an even dozen. Guests brought themselves, bathing suits and bottles, but the Cogswells did the rest, including an immense ham and a turkey. Bill's son, Clay, who dwarfs Bill, helped us all have a thoroughly delightful time."
The Kleins took a trip through Canada and the Gaspe Peninsula in August.
A card from Avignon from Jack Phelan says Pearl and he and Martha and Jackie are having wonderful time touring England, France, Switzerland, Belgium, and Holland.
'2B was well represented at the Dartmouth Club of Springfield dinner meeting in June. Present were Topper Robinson, Tim Paige,Bondy Bond, Ken Cuddeback, Bob Byrne,Hollis Carlisle, Don Benjamin, and BobClark. After helping to arrange to hold the dinner at the Longmeadow Country Club, as a member of the Board of Governors, Ed Lyman was unfortunately unable to attend.
Joe Merrick has recently gone into business for himself in Springfield, making cutting dies for the printing industry. The name of his company is the Merrick Steel Rule Die Company.
Bob Clark has been appointed Manager of Advertising and Sales Promotion of the Strathmore Paper Cos. He is continuing as advertising manager of the Old Colony Envelope Cos., an associated company. The Bruders have a son, their first boy and second child, born in May.
'28 TURNOUT IN CONNECTICUT
At the Connecticut State annual Dartmouth banquet, also last May, Cal Billings reports the following '28ers present: Bill Watson, surgeon in New Britain, Rappie Bavier, with U. S. Rubber Cos. in Naugatuck; Lawson VanRiper, his brass company donated solid copper ash trays for all present; Square Lundgren, looking just as young as ever; SteeleSmith, $1-a-year man with Smith Lumber Cos. in Waterbury; and Marty Bergin, '28-'29, undertaker in Waterbury.
Red Myers, Charlie Kammire, and I attended the first meeting of the Dartmouth Club of the Southern Tier, held at the Mark Twain Hotel in Elmira on August 19. I served as temporary chairman until the constitution was adopted and officers elected. The new club includes alumni in the southern tier of counties in New York and the northern tier of Pennsylvania.
Buck Serrell has been elected president of the Greenwich (Conn.) Medical Society for the coming year.
Milt Hoefie, with Peggy and young Frank, spent three weeks at the Lake Morey Club near Hanover this summer. Milt is on the surgery staff of both the Methodist Hospital and the Norwegian Hospital in Brooklyn.
Myles Lane pitched for the Department of Justice Softball team in New York all summer.
In the last ALUMNI MAGAZINE, ErnieWright's name was omitted from the list of six members of our class exhibiting at the American School Superintendents Convention in Atlantic City. The E. A. Wright Cos. ("Our 75 th Year") exhibited diplomas.
Judy and Bill Mcßoberts announce the birth "of Francis William on June 8 in Bermuda.
BEACH PARTY AT BILL'S: Part of the 1928 party at Bill Cogswell's on the beach at Point Lookout, L.I., in June. Those shown are, left to right, Genie Billings, host Bill Cogswell, Eleanor Estabrook, unknown baldy, Park Estabrook, Bud Maring, Cal Billings, Mildred Maring, George Klein holding Willie Billings on his shoulders, and Eleanor Klein.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa. Treasurer, Providence National Bank Providence, R. I.
