1928
Bill Morton has been elected a vice-president of the Onondaga County Savings Bank in Syracuse, one of the largest upstate savings banks, with deposits of more than $60,000,000. Bill went with the bank in 1934 as assistant to the President and since 1939 has been treasurer. His principal hobby last year (and we hope this year) was quarterbacking our class to victory in the Alumni Fund Green Derby—over the prostrate forms of 1927, 1931, 1930, etc.
Our classmates are getting married at the rate of one a month. Latest convert is BobClark, who married Elizabeth Pynchon Isherwood in Westfield, Massachusetts, on February 14. Bob is advertising manager of the Strathmore Paper Company of Springfield, Massachusetts.
Fran Young is now a Commander in the Navy, and has been on active duty in the Naval Intelligence Office in Chicago since last May. He reports having enjoyed hearing President Dickey speak at the Chicago Alumni dinner last month.
Appointment of Jack McDonough as manager of the Albany Hotel, Denver, has been announced by Thomas P. Campbell '18, president of the Campbell Investment Corporation, owners of the hotel. Jack has been with the Campbell Investment Company for four years assistant secretary and treasurer, and also as assistant manager of the Albany. Prior to this connection, he was with the Colorado National Bank.
Gordon Lowe is a lawyer in Oklahoma City with offices in the Hightower Building.
Don Lowe, who gave up teaching to work for Douglas Aircraft and Eastern Aircraft during the war, is now teaching at Rutgers Preparatory School, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Clint Goodwin is chief of the Loan Service and Claims Department of the Veterans Administration Office in Columbus, Ohio.
Our news this month seems to lean toward hotelmen. Jack Waller is on the staff of the Mira-Mar Hotel, Sarasota, Florida. GeorgeBoughton reports a good season at his Colony Hotel at Delray Beach, Florida, despite the decrease in business a little further south in Miami.
Larry Sleeper will be with the Squaw Mountain Inn on Moosehead Lake, Maine, again this summer. He and Helen have two children, Martha, five, and David, three.
The warm reception which '28'ers get at the Waldorf from Manager Heinie Williams and Assistant Manager Si Simons has made their establishment the focal point for all '28'ers visiting New York.
Jack McAvoy, class president in our freshman and sophomore years, is the owner, with his father, of the McAvoy Vitrified Brick Company in Phoenixville, Pa. Jack and his wife have three children. George Pasfield, who builds houses around Philadelphia, reports that Jack has helped him out on a number of occasions.
Merrill Whittemore has left the Guaranty Trust Company in New York for the Union National Bank of Charlotte, North Carolina.
A Paris dispatch to the American newspapers, on February 23, stated that Albert HadleyCantril, Professor of Social Psychology at Princeton, had been picked as director of a forthcoming project to determine the influences leading to international understanding on the one hand and of aggressive nationalism on the other. The project is sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization, and will be known as the "Inquiry into the Tensions Affecting International Understanding." Had's group will cooperate with the universities and research centers of the 41 member states in the UNESCO.
For those of you who don't read the front pages of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, I'd better report that Alberto Thompson has been appointed Chief of Technical Information by the Atomic Energy Commission.
Thanks to Herrn Schnepel, we have the following account of Dartmouth men at the American Association of School Administrators 74th annual convention at Atlantic City, February 21-26.
"Jack Kenerson held down the Ginn & Co. booth across from our Compton Booth. Joe Smith usually running things for Rand McNally & Com' pany, was absent due to important engagements in upstate New York. Ted Granville-Smith, space salesman for the Nation's Schools, a monthly magazine for school administrators, was at their booth. Eddy Flanders, usually at the Compton Pictured Encyclopendia booth (and the main reason I am with Compton) was confined to his home in Manchester, New Hampshire, with a bad cold.
"A Dartmouth luncheon was held at the Claridge, on February 24, for all Dartmouth men at the convention, with Professor Ralph Burns, head of the Education Department at Dartmouth' presiding. Among the 22 alumni attending were Ort Hicks '21, with M.G.M., Jim Clark '30, Controller of University of Connecticut, and A 1 Codding '21, of Harper Bros."
Al Fowler says the only '28er he sees much isBud Ranney, his neighbor in Lakewood, withwhom he has done a bit of skating this pastwinter. Al reports that Bud is doing a swelljob as drama critic for The Cleveland Press.
A clipping from The New York Sun shows a handsome guy named Bill Heep standing with iVtiss Dorothy Shaver, president of Lord & Taylor, and Mrs. Aleida Van Wesey, vice-president of the same company, at the opening of the Lord & Taylor branch store at Scarsdale. Bill is managing director of this new branch, which has 300 employees.
Another clipping at hand reveals that JackCarson was elected vice-president of the Central Ski Association. He was active, and successful, early in the winter in getting financial support around Chicago for the U. S. Olympic ski team.
The press also reports that Fanny Brice's "Baby Snooks" program has been cancelled by General Foods after an eleven-year run. The axemen who made the joint announcement were Howard Chapin, sales and advertising manager of General Foods' Jell-O-Division, and Sylvester Weaver '30, vice-president in charge of radio for Young & Rubicam.
Fred Davis is the author of a new mystery thriller, Thursday's Blade, published by Crime Club.
Recent visitors to the Hanover Inn were Mr. and Mrs. Dick Sullivan of Lawrence, Massachusetts, and Jud Moulton of Needham, Massachusetts.
Lew Hutcheson's oldest boy is attending the McCallie School in Chattanooga and wants to go to Dartmouth next year. Lew, who won the U. S. skeet championship in 1941, isn't doing much competitive skeet shooting now. He and Jean are going to Sea Island for a vacation in May.
CHEZ LUI EN PARIS: Bob Stevens '27, who has completed twenty years in the foreign service of General Motors, is now manager of the company's division for France. He is shown here with his young daughter Diane at their Villa de L'Etoile, Vancres- son, France.
Secretary, ... Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa. Treasurer, Providence National Bank Providence, R. J. Class Agent, ... 101 So. Salina St., Syracuse, N. Y.
