1928
At reunion last June everyone hoped there would be frequent opportunities to get together before our twenty-fifth reunion. The live-wire Philadelphia delegation immediately started talking up a big party following the Dartmouth-Penn game on October 1. Inasmuch as these notes won't reach you in time, details are being sent by mail to all '28ers in a wide area.
If you are attending the Princeton game remember that outside Portal 20 is the meeting place for '28ers between the halves.
The end of the summer is a hard time to write these notes. Few letters have been received and we're in that awkward period when Jack Herpel's and Johnny Neary's burst of editorial frenzy has already brought you most of the red hot news via the '28 Campaigner.
Not to be outdone by those pun-loving quipsters, we determined to dig up some news of our own, and utilized a vacation trip to Maine to visit every '28er on our route. Mary and I had a cottage near the beach at Saco for a week and made excursions in all directions. The first was to George and Agnes Boughton's hotel, The Colony, at Kennebunk Port, which was only 15 miles away. We were just a couple of days too late to see George and IsabelleSlawson, who had left for New York after their annual vacation at The Colony. After a grand dinner in the dining room looking out on the ocean, we were easily persuaded to join George and Agnes at a square dance they had arranged for their guests. George invited Jack Waller to join us, but he was busy at the Old Fort Inn, which he manages. The two hotels are only a block or so apart. We dropped in later in the week to see Jack but he was away for the afternoon.
While in Portland we were fortunate to see all three '28ers listed in our directory: PopWalker, AI Clarke and Dick Learned. Pop Walker was busy at his office—he has been branch manager for the Universal Credit Co. since 1940. He and Mary live at Yarmouth, a few miles north of Portland. They have a daughter 12 years old and a son, 8.
AI Clarke was interviewing a prospect for admission to the Portland Junior College when we arrived. Another visitor to the administrative office turned out to be DickLearned. Dick was there when I telephoned, and A 1 suggested he wait. Dick has left the radio station in Portland and plans to return to teaching this fall. He is unmarried and lives with his mother in Freeport. A 1 showed us around the campus—he is instructor in history and government, and has taken on additional duties as director of admissions. He and Annette have two girls, aged 15 and 5.
That afternoon we drove to Kennebunk Port to visit the Red Sanborns at their delightful summer home on the ocean at Turbat's Creek just a mile or two from town. Red and Fonty have three children: Anne 14, Patsy 12, and Scott 8. Red spoke of a farm across the creek which he works summers, but on cross examination the "farm" turned out to be what in Pennsylvania would be called a garden. Red is an instructor in math at Andover Academy, a position he has held since 1928.
Taking pity on a secretary in search of news, Fonty revealed that her cousin Woody Houghton has been appointed assistant comptroller of the Provident Institution for Savings, of Boston. Woody has a son going to Andover this fall.
The next stop after leaving Maine was Westport Harbor, Mass., where Rupe and EleanorThompson have a summer home. Rupe is coming to Philadelphia October 1 to preside at the class Executive Committee meeting which will be held during the reunion after the Penn game.
Dr. Lougee, secretary of the class of '88, has sent a news item about Robert L. Clark, son of one of his classmates. Bob has been transferred from the Bureau of the Budget in Washington to the newly established National Security Resources Board. He is now director of the Office of Manpower, and five other offices.
Honie Westhaver was appointed Duluth, Minn, district manager for the American Steel & Wire Co. in July. He has been general superintendent of the company's Donora, Pa., plant.
Ev Field has sent a clipping from the Retailing Daily stating that Ken Graf, of the Manchester, N. H., law firm of McLane, Davis, Carleton & Graf, is a member of the board of directors of French & Heald Co., furniture manufacturers.
Joe Tidd has announced the arrival of Douglas Stowell Tidd on July 9. He and Margaret also have two girls, aged 10 and 8.
Cal Billings moved to Hartford, Conn., on September 1, where he opened an office for the George M. Billings Cos. at 36 Pearl St. He bought a house at 58 Rumford St., West Hartford, from Ken Weeks '26.
Ham Hagar, formerly with the First National Bank of New York, has formed the Whitehall & Publishing Cos., 52 Broadway, for the purpose of financial research and investment counsel.
Phil Orsi, of Manhasset, was elected treasurer of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Long Island at the annual business meeting of that organization.
Art Gow was recently elected a director of the New Haven Savings Bank. Art is vice president of the Seamless Rubber Co. in that city. John Gulian said at Reunion that DankFolsom is doing free lance writing, mostly children's books for the Whitman Publishing Co., Racine, Wis. His wife also writes.
Present at the round-up of Dartmouth men in Connecticut last May were Bunny Good-rich, who works for the Travelers Insurance Co. in Hartford, Steele Smith, an officer of the J. E. Smith Lumber Co., Waterbury, and CatBillings.
Herb and Mimi Sensenig and their two sons spent a weekend in August with us at our cottage on a lake near Troy. They were on their way from Norwich, Vt., to Arizona, where they will spend the winter. This is Herb's sabbatical semester.
Bruce Lewis writes, "Last week I had to make a trip out west and rested a day in Wilmette. Harry Stone heard I was there and looked me up. I spent a couple of hours at his home and met his wife, Ann, and their three children. Lovely home and swell family."
Ken Cuddeback has been appointed manager of the Amherst district of the Western Massachusetts Electric Cos Al Fusonie, director of personnel for the Collins & Aikman Corp., has moved to in E. Marthart Ave., South Ardmore, Pa Dave McCathie has moved to 165 Jennifer Lane, Grassy Sprain Heights, Yonkers, N. Y.
Jack Kenerson tried to see Carl Moody recently when he was on Cape Cod. Jack writes, "Carl has been highly successful as a turkey grower in his old home town of Bourne. While I missed seeing him I had a nice visit with his wife. He has one child, a boy, about five years old. I haven't seen Carl since we roomed on the same floor at South Fayer."
John Skinner has a son, 21, who is a staff sergeant in the Army of Occupation in Germany.
Among those fortunate enough to visit the Hanover Inn during the summer were: Mr.and Mrs. Ed Abbott of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs.Ernie Bessette of Marblehead, Mass., Mr. andMrs. Chuck Bruder of Ridgewood, N. J., Mr.and Mrs. Maurie Cogan of Cleveland, Mr. andMrs. Harv Fisher of Great' Neck, N. Y., Mr.a7id Mrs. Don Solis of Canton, Mass., Mr. andMrs. Jim Montague and son of Dorset, Vt., Mr. and Mrs. Bill Sreenan of Concord, Mass., Mr. and Mrs. Paul Knowles and son of Boxford, Mass., and Mr. and Mrs. Rem Kinne of Albany, N. Y.
We ask you all to (1) get the class dues to John Phillips early; (2) Send me some information about yourself or classmates.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Cos., Troy, Pa. Treasurer,2 Princeton PL, Montclair, N. J. Memorial Fund Chairman, 33 E. Wynnewood Rd., Wynnewood, Pa.
