1928
It is with deep regret that we report the death of Dick Chapman, on September 9, at the Yonkers General Hospital. For the past ten years Dick had worked for the New York firm of George F. Hardy & Son, consulting engineers. A necrology notice will appear in next month's issue.
Announcement has been made by Mr. and Mrs. Dayton Colie of South Orange, N. J., of the engagement of their daughter, Marguerite, to nerrn Sclniepel of East Orange. They will be married in November. Marguerite is a member of the Junior League of the Oranges, and a graduate of Vassar. She is associated with William Morrow & Co., publishers, in New York. Herm, who served with the Counter Intelligence Corps attached to the 87th Infantry in General Patton's 3rd Army, is now New Jersey representative of F. E. Compton & Co., publishers.
The newspapers of September 27 carried an item which caused concern among members of our class. It read,
"John F. Neary, 40, of 729 Main St., Hamilton, Mass., was severely injured today, when his car went out of control and rolled over three times on Route 128, near Peabody, Mass. Police, summoned by passing motorists, found Neary pinned in the wreckage and were forced to use bars to extricate him. He was removed to the J. B. Thomas Hospital suffering from brain concussion, head injuries and lacerations. Police said he was unable to explain how the accident occurred."
Craig Haines reported two days later that Johnny's wife had said there was no concussion and that John had already been discharged from the hospital. However, he was badly shaken up, and the car is a total loss.
For the past year and a half John has been doing advertising and publicity work for the Reid & Hughes Co., which owns department stores in Salem, Mass., and Norwich, Conn., and whose president is Howie Haley. At the time of the accident, John was driving back from their store in Connecticut and apparently fell asleep.
Another note from Craig, whose helping hand is much appreciated by your secretary, adds the following news:
"Just a hasty note to let you know that on September
IX, Mori Jennings was elected an assistant vice-president of the Bank.
"Back in June I bumped into George. Holbrook, who is the proud father of seven offspring (5 to 2, in favor of the girls). He is now vice-president of the Holbrook Grocery Company, Keene, N. H.
"Jack Sugde-n has been transferred back to Boston and is now in charge of a new business office for the Telephone Company which has been opened in Mattapan. He already has a house in Milton. In other words, the Sugden luck is still with him. Jack has two children."
"The Bank" referred to above is the First National of Boston, for which Craig also works. Despite the efforts of the officers and typists of "The Bank" to give their new assistant V. P. a less plebian nickname, he'll always be Mutt Jennings to us.
Jack Herpel dropped around to see me while passing through Troy, but I was then in California on my vacation. Jack has moved from Dunnellen to Old Morristown Road, Bernardsville, New Jersey. Please write him about yourself and classmates, so he can start producing again those literary masterpieces which we all enjoy so much.
Speaking of vacations, when we stopped in Santa Fe, I tried to locate John L. Hay, better known during his three years with us as "Napoleon" Hay. I found that he had just sold his house and moved to 1537 Selby Ave., Los Angeles 24, California. He served in the Army in Texas and in Alaska, then, after his discharge, went to Venezuela for an oil company for a while.
In Tulsa, I tried unsuccessfully to find Philo Grimes and R. Gordon Lowe Jr. Philo, whose business is handling investments, had just left his office a few minutes before I came in. Gordon's address was in the same block, and I was ushered into the office of the head of the Legal Department of the Gulf Oil Corp. That Mr. Lowe, however, was Gordon's father, and he said that his son was practicing law in Oklahoma City but hadn't gotten around to notifying the College of his change of address.
The only other '28er on our route home was Ed Atkinson in Columbus, Ohio. I tried to call the Kendall Co., but it wasn't listed, so all during lunch I tried to think of the name of the Kendall subsidiary for which he works. We were in Pennsylvania before I remembered it is the Lewis Manufacturing Company in the Bauer & Black Division of the Kendall Co.
Monty Wells has a new address: Young's Cabins, Lantona, Florida. He has taught physics at Brookline, Mass., High School since 1931 and coached successful track teams there until stomach ulcers forced him to give up coaching in 1943. He retained his old love for track by officiating at track meets, from the national championships on down to local dual meets. Last year he was president of the New England Track & Field Officials Association.
Roy Carpenter has moved from New Jersey, to Putney, Vermont.
Rib Foster, who has been in the investment business in Chicago since 1928, has moved to Dallas, Texas, where he is with Blyth & Co.
Edward S. ("Kelly") Wright is a grocer in Newcastle, Maine.
Chet Goulding, formerly with Union Carbide in New York, is now working for Remington-Rand Inc., 1240 Huron Road, Cleveland, and lives at 17325 Archdale Ave., Lakewood.
Steve Davis is with the Meadow City GasCo., Las Vegas, New Mexico.
Spin Paeff has returned to New York after ayear with the Denver Symphony.
John L. Clark '88 of Exeter, New Hampshire, wrote last summer the first news wehave had of his son in some time:
"I am addressing you as the secretary of '28 to give you a bit of information about Robert LincolnClark, which you would probably never receive from him. He is at present in Geneva, Switzerland, acting as adviser to the U. S. delegation at the International Labor Conference. He was for nine years connected with the U. S. Employment Service but three years ago resigned his position as Chief of the Service Division to accept another in the Bureau of the Budget. His connection with these two departments explains in part why he was chosen for the mission. He left Washington by plane June 15 and returned July 13."
Spencer Piatt has taken a position with the Bureau of the Budget in Washington.
Irv Engelman and Sylvia have a. daughter, Claudia Beth, born August 13.
Chuck Bennet is in New York now as advertising manager of a new magazine which Street & Smith are putting out this fall. Martha writes that they were sorry to miss the Cogswell party, but hope to see some '28ers at the Dartmouth-Yale game. They live on Old Stone Road, Darien, Conn.
At the Oxridge Dog Show in September, Gerry and Mary Johnston's Champion Marshmellow of Marydane won first prize in the Great Dane class.
In looking over the catalogue of Hillyer College, Hartford, Conn., Curley Prosser discovered that Bunny Goodrich has been an instructor in chemistry in the Evening Division since 1941. He is a statistician with the Travelers Insurance Co.
In reporting that the General Foods Corporation was dropping its television program, the newspapers said, "Howard M. Chapin, head of the corporation's television committee, says that the change results from a decision to undertake an extensive research program in television."
Phil Or si concluded in June the two-year graduate study course conducted jointly by the American Bankers Association and Rutgers University—the same course Mutt Jennings finished a year earlier. Phil's thesis sounds like a sure cure for insomnia, "Administration of Trusts—the Investments of Which are in Closely Held Corporations."
Curly Prosser is receiving his first public experience in the field of labor negotiating, having been appointed arbitrator in an overtime wage dispute between the National Broadcasting Company and the Radio Writers Guild.
Among the regional chairmen appointed in this fall's drive to raise money for the Hopkins Center Project from people who did not go to Dartmouth are: Rhode Island, RupeThompson, Providence; Nebraska, DickWalker, Omaha; East Coast Florida, GeorgeBoughton, Delray Beach; Glens Falls, N. Y., George Davis.
Among the guests at the Hanover Inn in September were: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Carroll, Cincinnati; Mr. and Mrs. Howard Chapin, New York; Paul Knowles and sons, Boxford, Mass.; W. A. McSorley, Arlington, Mass.; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Rickenbaugh, son and daughter, Denver; Mr. and Mrs. HenryScherp, Rochester, N. Y.; Dr. Frost B. Wilkinson, New York; Mr. and Mrs. Curtis E. Wilson, Hillsboro, Ohio.
Have you mailed your check for the Class dues to Rupe Thompson?
TWENTY-EIGHT GOES SOUTH OF THE BORDER: The two gay cabaleros shown with their trusty steeds are Gil Swanson of Omaha, and Jack Rose of Los Angeles, during a recent vacation jaunt to Tijauana.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.
Treasurer,
Providence National Bank Providence, R. I.
