1928
With vacations over and football season at hand, the class of 1928 enters the 21st college year since its Commencement, a year which will culminate with a reunion second to none. In case you've forgotten, this will be our delayed Twentieth—postponed under the new and popular plan for reunions.
Our record in the Alumni Fund campaign was magnificent—the best our class has ever achieved. We set a new all-time high in participation for the larger classes, reaching 97% of our participation index with 474 contributors, and collecting $12,157 or 111% of our objective. Again the class thanks BillMorton and his assistants for the tremendous amount of their time and effort, and for the ability displayed in organizing and administering one of the most effective campaigns any class ever had.
With the conclusion of the annual minutes of the 1928 Mutual Admiration Society, let's get down to the news.
It is with deep sorrow that I report the death of By Dodge on July 10 in New York. He was sick with nephritis just about a month; two weeks before his death Lou was told there was no chance of his pulling through. He leaves four children, ages 11, 8, 2 and 1 year.
Hani Fisher, John and Vera Flanagan, HamHagar and Bob Rockhill represented the class at the funeral.
Roy Meyers made headlines on August 24 when he and another U. S. Military Goverment official were released by the Russians after having been detained for 18 days. Their detention was the longest in the recent series of arrests of Americans.
Roy, who is deputy chief of the political affairs division of the U. S. Military Government's Civil Affairs Division, said they were "well treated, if you like cabbage." They were kept in a private house in Gotha guarded night and day.
Roy said: "As far as I am concerned, we never were inside the Russian zone when the Soviet troops jumped out and arrested us. We were just up to look at the border.
"The Russians had a fine time going through my possessions. I collect pieces of paper and they spent hours studying all the stuff in my pockets—the telephone numbers and all that stuff—and they must have thought it very important."
Ken and Cynthia Cuddeback announce the arrival of Elizabeth Poland Cuddeback, born May 14. Rupe Thompson was one of the ten new directors of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad elected August 12 when Frederic C. Dumaine, Boston financier, took control.
Bill Embler was appointed secretary to New York State Comptroller Frank C. Moore on July 1. Bill is widely known throughout New York State as editor of The Taxpayer, official organ of the Citizens Public Expenditure Survey Inc.
Jack Rose and Mel Shavelson have been hired by Paramount to work on the script of Bob Hope's next comedy, "Easy Does It."
John Nixon wins a Pine Needle Cluster this month for his report on the reunion of the Boston branch of 1928.
"A crowd numbering some 25 gents and ladies gathered Wednesday evening, May 19 at the Hotel Manger to enjoy cocktails, a nice dinner and a Hanover moving picture. The affair was under the aegis of our president, Red Edgar and wifeCharlotte.
"Among those present were Dick and Nancy Barnstead, Ernie Bessette, Monk and Ginny Davenport, El Drake, Skip Drayton, Craig and Eleanor Haines, Jack and Fran Maury Makepeace, Larry Martin, "Fashion Plate" Norris, Doug and Dorothy Pease, Jack and Pearl Phelan, Howie Rogers, Bucky and Madeline Stoler, Fran Thurston and yours truly with wife Ethel.
"The meeting was held under my old 1928 wall banner that I had thought was moth meat years ago. Seemed strange to think that twenty years had passed by."
Howie Bush has been transferred from New York to the home office of the Employers' Liability Assurance Corp. in Boston. Howie has been with the company in New York since graduation. In 1946 he was appointed assistant resident manager in New York.
Kennebunkport, Maine, has suddenly blossomed out as a center of attraction for '28ers, due principally to the fact that George Boughton has bought the former Breakwater Court Hotel, which he has renamed The Colony. George had a phenomenally successful first season with this large hotel. Since 1935 he has owned and operated The Colony at Delray Beach, Florida.
George and Isabelle Slawson spent a twoweek vacation at The Colony in August. Hermand Marguerite Schnepel stopped on their way to Quebec and made it a sixsome for dinner with the Slawsons and George and AgnesBoughton.
Joe Smith sent a picture of The Colony and says "It's quite a layout. I've been at York Beach, just South of Kennebunkport, with my family for most of the summer. Saw JerryGoodwin recently. He is the superintendent of schools at Hatfield, Mass. John Frankland is now with the Hotel Canandaigua, Canandaigua, N. Y., and has given up teaching."
Jack Waller was another resident of Kennebunkport this summer—working for the OldFort Inn"
AI Lathrop is now purchasing manager ofUnited Helicopters Inc., Palo Alto, California.
Since last talking with you it has been my good fortune to have been to Hanover twice and to have seen a lot of our classmates here and there. The secretaries' meeting in the middle of May was, as always, a grand affair, and I enjoyed spending a couple days with Bill and Bobby Morton, who were there for the Class Agents meeting. Bill and I were mighty proud at the main banquet when Sid Hayward announced that Ed Atkinson had been selected as the Best Club Secretary. He read a citation detailing Ed's outstanding achievement as secretary of the alumni group in Columbus, Ohio, and said that a Ticknor print would be sent to him. Ed was unable to be present. Bill Morton received the Best Class Agent award in March, so '28 has taken 50% of the alumni awards this year.
In June the Alumni Council meeting took me back to Hanover, on the weekend after commencement. Mary and Scotty, age 6, went along. At a party at Herb and Muni Sensenig's in Norwich we saw Bill and Betty Ballard and other old friends from '27 and '29. Bill and Betty Breyfogle, newcomers to Norwich, were to have been there but were unable to come at the last minute.
The last two weeks in August we spent in Cape May, N. J., where we saw Otto and Florence Sokol several times. Otto taught school until 1934 when the depression forced salaries so low that he resigned and bought a grocery store in Cape May, where Florence lived before their marriage. He has all the very latest equipment, including two "radar" cookers which cook a hot dog inside the roll, which in turn is wrapped in cellophane.
Marguerite Schnepel also wins a Pine Needle Cluster this month for writing about the '28 dinner in New York on May 21 at the Dartmouth Club: "We had a very good time at the '28 dinner—20 couples there (I can't begin to tell you who), a very delicious dinner, Jack Herpel at the piano and any number of whiskey tenors around before the end of the evening. I do remember the Kleins, Slawsons,Kellers, etc. Fortunately there was another groom there (Weser) so we didn't get an awful ragging throughout the evening."
From a picture which Dick Frame sent me I have jotted down the men in attendance: Bill Treanor, Herm Schnepel, George Klein, Bill Cogswell, Bud Weser, Jack Herpel, Bill Heep, Warren Burding, Court Keller, George Slawson, Bud Maring, Park Estabrook, Art Kneerim, Alec Kerr, Ernie Wright, John Flanagan, Paul Kruming, Dick Frame and one other hidden by Court Keller's wide frame. Allene Prosser came without Curly, who was in Washington. George Klein, New York dinner chairman, deserves a big hand for running such a successful party, and the Wrights, Flanagans and Frames a wah-hoowah for coming over from Philadelphia.
Don't forget to send your check for class dues to Rupe Thompson.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Cos., Troy, Pa. Treasurer, Providence National Bank Providence, R. I. Memorial Fund Chairman, 31 Wynnewood Rd., Wynnewood, Penna.
