1928
The Rev. David L. Jamison of St. Davids, Pa., has been elected an honorary member of the class of '28 by unanimous vote of the Executive Committee. Gordon Jamison, his son, was killed in action July 26, 1944, on Guam while with the 3rd Marine Division. Gordon's mother and a brother, Lee '25, also survive him.
Two other members of the class were killed in the war, Jack Shoyer and Ed Wheatley, but their fathers preceded them in death.
Jack Goodnow has been appointed Chief Justice of the New Hampshire State Superior Court. Jack was a lawyer in Keene from his graduation from Harvard Law School until the Governor appointed him to the Superior Court in 1943.
Eighteen men sat down at the '28 table at the annual dinner of the New York Alumni Association on April 16 at the Hotel Commodore. President Dickey was the speaker.
Present were: John Flanagan, George Pasfield and Ernie Wright from Philadelphia, and from New York: Ted Baehr, Howie Chapin, Esty Estabrook, Mai Halliday, Art Hassell, Myles Lane, Bruce Lewis, Budd Maring, Bill Morton, Barney Nova, Phil Orsi, Curly Prosser, Bob Rockhill, Herm Schnepel and Beef Vernon.
All the New York papers ran the picture of Henry Williams recently when he was appointed manager of the Waldorf-Astoria. It's a home-coming for Heinie, who was a room clerk at the new Waldorf-Astoria when it opened in 1931. When he resigned in 1940 he was Executive Assistant Manager. He is a graduate of the Cornell University Hotel School and most recently has been manager of the Boca Raton Club in Florida.
All '28ers stand an excellent chance of get- ting a room at the Waldorf if they give a little advance notice, because both top positions there are now held by classmates. Heinie's right hand man is Si Simonds, Executive Assistant Manager, who has been surprising a lot of us by finding rooms when they were impossible to secure elsewhere.
Bill McBoberts, acting Station Manager for Pan American Airways at Hamilton, Bermuda, writes:
I arrived here last May and immediately fell in love with this beautiful hunk of coral and also with a young lady tourist, Judy Higgins, from Flemington, N. J. After a summer of courting on the moonlit waters and beaches I finally persuaded the young lady to stay with me on this wee island. We flew back to Flemington in September and were married, returning immediately to Bermuda for our honeymoon.
Ham Hankins is my immediate superior, but I have had only one chat with him and that was when I was in New York for a conference last January.
Am afraid you have my Navy record a bit confused. I was never on active duty although I was stationed at the Naval Operating Base at Kodiak as Operations Manager for Pan American's contract operation out on the Aleutian Chain. I later served in the same capacity at Anchorage, Alaska, until the PAA contract with the Navy expired. I was commissioned a lieutenant (jg) but remained on inactive duty.
I have an extra bed if any '2Bers should get stranded here.
Honie Westhaver, general superintendent of the Donora Works of the American Steel & Wire Cos., has been elected president of the Monongahela Valley Country Club.
Paul Kruming arrived in New York May 1 on the Queen Elizabeth after a business trip through Africa and Europe. He spent a few days in Brussels with Walt McKee, who is General Manager of Remington Rand's Belgian subsidiary. Walt is due back in the States May 17 for a month and can be reached at Remington Rand Inc., 315 Fourth Avenue, New York.
In his absence, Paul was elected treasurer of the Export Advertising Association at its annual meeting in New York.
George Davis writes from Glens Falls:
Glens Falls has for 25 years run every spring the Eastern States Basketball Tournament. This year one of the eight teams entered was that of Staunton Military Academy where Harry Dey '27 is Director of Athletics. Harry brought a fine bunch of boys and succeeded in getting in the finals where he was defeated by Englewood High.
One of his players was Bob Spears who is a son of Doc Spears of football fame. Young Bob is 17 and regarded as the outstanding prep school football prospect of the year. Harry says that he is the best prep school back he has ever seen and that in addition he is going to Dartmouth in the fall of 1948.
Harry and I drove over to Hanover on Saturday and had a visit with Tuss McLaughry. Harry of course was the center of attraction and I sort of tagged along but enjoyed the visit. We also saw Sid Hayward and Al Dickerson. The latter was buried under the biggest pile of applications imaginable. Selecting 600 freshmen out of 5V2 tons of applications is about the most discouraging job I know of.
A two-page spread of pictures in a recent issue of Liberty depicted the hobby of GerryJohnston and Mary, which is raising great Danes. Mary owns champion Gerhardt, and Marydane Kennel pups sell for $5OO. The kennel cost $6000 and was built on the New York side of their property to get it out of exclusive Wilton, Conn., where all dog kennels are prohibited by law.
Joe Smith writes: The largest group of '28ers seen recently was at the big meeting of American school superintendents in Atlantic City in March. Among the exhibitors were five from our class: Jack Kenerson of Ginn & Co., Ted Smith of The Nation's Schools magazine, Ed Flanders and Herm Schnepel of F. E. Compton & Co., and myself.
I am still trying to cover all the schools in New York state outside of New York City and five counties along the Pennsylvania border. This is my 10th year in the educational division of Rand McNally & Co.
I usually spend one night each year at the Inn in Canandaigua where John Frankland lives, and we chat until the wee hours. Frank Tindle has entertained me in Buffalo on numerous occasions. There is always a warm welcome from Marty Heifer '27, now Superintendent in Massena.
Myles Lane, assistant Federal attorney for the New York District, was the speaker at the annual dinner of the Rensselaer County Bar Association at the Troy Country Club recently.
Jules Lemkin is one of the merchandise heads, and a director, at Barnard, Sumner & Putnam Co., Worcester. He spends his weekends in Lowell where with his mother and brother he still runs a specialty shop, Lemkin's Inc.
Jules says he spent a pleasant evening recently in Worcester with Johnny Waters, who was a featured speaker at the New England Industrial Advertisers Association annual dinner. Johnny is Advertising Manager of Sylvania Electrical Products.
It's sometimes risky business not attending meetings. I missed one recently and was elected chairman of the American Petroleum Institute's District Public Relations Committee for Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia.
Paul Annable called up the other day from Williamsport, Pa., where he had flown from Danbury, Conn., on business.
Recent visitors to the Hanover Inn: HerbRussell and Dot, Had Cantril, and Jud Moulton.
Don't forget that the Alumni Fund closes at the end of this month. Bill Morton is shooting for a record this year. Let's back him up and make it the best ever.
LOCAL MEMBERS OF THE 1928 CLAN: A recent snapshot of Hanover '28ers, left to right, Prof. LaurenSadler, Prof. Herbert Sensenig, Jim Campion and Prof. Frank Connell, finds them in the Inn Ski Hut.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa. Treasurer, Providence National Bank Providence, R. I.
