1928
Our congratulations to Max Carlson on his election to the presidency of one of the biggest banks in the country. Additional details will be found in an adjoining column.
Thirteen '28ers attended the big annual Boston Alumni dinner February 4, at the Statler. Larry Martin, vice-president of the association, was at the head table. At the '28 table were: Skip Drayton, Red Edgar, BobGray, Craig Haines, Ted Howard, Ed Lilley,Bob McPhail, Wes McSorley, John Nixon, DonNorris, Ed Sawyer and Dick Smith.
In spite of a minor blizzard in New York on January 21, twenty-two members of the class managed to reach the Dartmouth Club for the first '28 dinner under the aegis of our new Dinner Chairman, George Klein.
Present were: Ted Baehr, Cal Billings,Chuck Bruder, Bill Cogswell, John Cronin, ByDodge, Irv Engelman, Park Estabrook, ChrisHackett, Mai Halliday, Court Keller, ChetKellogg, George Klein, Paul Kruming, BruceLewis, Bill Morton of Syracuse, George Pasfield of Philadelphia, Craw Pollock of Omaha, Curley Prosser, Topper Robinson of Greenfield, Mass., Beef Vernon and Bud Weser.Dean Bill Kimball also dropped in—he was down for a Thayer School dinner.
This was Craw's first New York dinner since he moved to Omaha and the chickens. Omaha has a '28 delegation of four: Craw, Gil Swanson, Dick Walker and Emil Shukert. The first three claim that Shuke is the most successful man in the class—his business is real estate, the industrial kind, and he's working on his second million. (Class Agents, please note.) It was voted to hold the next dinner at the Dartmouth Club on Wednesday, March 17.
Myles Lane is being congratulated on the following item from The New York SundayNews of January 18:
"Tammany Leader Sampson is getting the choicest bit of patronage that has come his way since he took over the leadership of the Democratic Party in New York County—the Commissioner of Licenses, a $12,500 job. Sampson's fortunate candidate for the post is Myles Lane, Assistant U. S. Attorney, who hails from Carmine De Sapio's district. Lane, a former Dartmouth football star, served four years in the Navy, where he moved up from lieutenant to commander."
Lanky Langdell's picture appeared in Time,Life, and many newspapers in January as one of a group of leading Republicans in New Hampshire who held a draft-Eisenhower rally in Manchester. A few days later Ike put a crimp in the boom by refusing to be a candidate.
"$85,000 East Bay Robbery" was the 8-column front page headline on the clippings which "Abe" Winslow '20, efficient secretary of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Northern California, sent me. A gunman posing as a phone company employe, forced JudWhitehead's wife and a maid into a closet of their home in Piedmont, and escaped with a 10-carat diamond ring worth $50,000, a platinum bracelet studded with diamonds, $20,000; two diamond clips, $12,000; jewel-studded wrist watch, $1500; gold clip, $500. At the time of the robbery, Jud was at his Oakland office of the Jud Whitehead Heater Co.
Mai Halliday and Clarence Meleney '13 have formed a partnership for the practice of law under the name Meleny & Halliday, with offices at 420 Lexington Avenue, New York. Mai specializes in labor relations matters.
John McGrath became general merchandise manager of the Lindner Co., Cleveland, on February 1. For the past four years he has held a similar position with George Wyman & Co., South Hend. Ind.
An announcement just received secondhand tells of the marriage of Julia Becker Conn and Ed Abbott on July 5, 1947, in St. Paul. They are now living at 87 E. Elm St., Chicago.
Dick Klinck's son, Donald, is a freshman at Dartmouth, the second '28 son to get in. WesMcSorley's son, Dick '50, was the first.
Dave Wittard has returned to the home office of. the Prudential Insurance Co. in Newark, after two years in Cincinnati. He is living at 25 Park Ave., Rumson.
The thermometer registers exactly 26 degrees below zero tonight (as it has for a number of nights in the past month), and so it is pleasant to think of Ernie and Jean Wright going swimming every day at Palm Beach for the next two weeks. It's very convenient to be able to visit friends down there at this time.
Jerry Pitts just got back from a week at Palm Beach. Why Palm Beach, Jerry, when George Boughton's Delray Beach is a better place to stay!
Bruce and Thelma Lewis, on the other hand, felt the need of more strenuous exercise and spent a winter vacation skiing (that's what they said) at Skytop in the Poconos.
A letter from Harold Rugg, Assistant Librarian, informs me that Bruce has given the library copies of Who's Who in Engineering and Who's Who in New York with instructions that both be marked as the gift of the Class of 1928. Bruce is the publisher of these books.
Al and Edna Fowler of Cleveland visited the Dickermans in Berkeley, California, last year. Wat sold Al on California and claims Al was even going to petition Mother Bell for a transfer.
Had Cantril is the subject of an article in The Princeton Alumni Weekly. The author describes him as
"a tall, pleasant professor who looks like a Ray Milland with glasses Under the desk-glass in his sound-proof sanctum in the School of Public and International Affairs building rests a personal note from Franklin D. Roosevelt thanking him for advice furnished during the war." Had has written three books: The Invasionfrom Mars, The Psychology of Social Movements, and Gauging Public Opinion, and is working on another.
Bill Goudy has left Union Carbide to become Public Relations Manager of Rayonier, Inc., 122 East 42 St., New York, largest producer of wood cellulose used to make rayon and cellophane.
Ed Atkinson is an account executive with the Harry M. Miller, Inc., advertising agency in Columbus, Ohio, and is secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Central Ohio. He says the nearest '28er is John Stewart in Mansfield, 60 miles away. Ed and Flo have three girls.
Jack Armstrong is manager of the service department of W. M. Welch Manufacturing Co., Chicago. He and Gertrude have a son, John Wayne, delivered, incidentally, by a Dartmouth doctor, Si Burge '31.
Roy Myers writes:
"Still in Berlin and enjoying it.... in a way. It is naturally fascinating, especially since I'm right in the middle of the 'politics' of it. I expect to come back to the States for a visit in the Spring, but note that our 20th will not be held until 1949."
Jerry Warner is U. S. Consul at Tientsin, China, where Rella and their four children have been with him since October, 1946. Jerry says the snow there is too dirty to be much good—full of that Gobi dust. He expects to be home on leave this year.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Cos., Troy, Pa. Treasurer, Providence National Bank Providence, R. I. Class Agent, 101 So. Salina St., Syracuse, N. Y.
