1929
The accompanying snapshot records the gathering of the Tokyo division of '29's 20th Reunion. But let Dan Luten's letter of June 15 tell the story:
I was walking out of Fujiya Hotel at Miyanoshita in Kanagawa last Sunday morning when I saw a black sedan before me with a large green sign on it:
DARTMOUTH 1929
This turned out to be Herb Fish and wife. Shortly later Kyosuke Fukuda also turned up. So we have held an official 20th reunion and, inasmuch as everything happens earlier on this side of the dateline, I want to hear no accusations that we beat the gun. Enclosed, to substantiate the claim, is a photograph picturing, from left to right: Kyosuke Fukuda, Mrs. Herb Fish, DanLuten, Mrs. Dan Luten and Herb Fish. Herb, as earlier reports have shown, is with Caltex Oil Company (how do they spell their heathen name?) in some capacity whose exact nature I had neither time nor inclination to ascertain. [I tried to offer him (illegally, no doubt) some dollar credits on behalf of the alumni fund, but he informed me he had better and more legal channels to get in on the contribution.]
Luten is on leave from Shell Development Company for a couple of years to be an expert in this land where an expert is simply a man away from home. Have taken two hops, a skip and a jump from basic process research in petrochemicals into the midst of the most fascinating. population problem you ever saw. Japan is one of the few places on earth where no one will disagree with the position that there are too many people, where scarcely anyone will disagree with the propposition that they can't emigrate, and where most will agree that they can't possibly get enough foreign trade to make up the deficit, and where most of the Japanese appear about ready to agree that the deliberate control of population is an appropriate field of activity for the society and its government. I expect to see Japan take the lead in attacking what is the most critical long range problem of human society (at least after the $64 question, 'What is man?') namely, how many men should live on this earth? And, please, let us have no talk from Vannevar Bush, or other experts on electronics, regarding the way our productivity goes up as our numbers increase."
(And further, under date of July 17): "Kyosuke has just received a letter from Dave Cogan to the effect that the latter is due to be in Tokyo and points south (Kure, Hiroshima, Nagasaki) looking for delayed effects on eyes from atomic bombing, on behalf of the ABCC (Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission). This is to be in August. I have it in mind to call this instigation for another meeting of '29, which already outnumbers any other class in Tokyo and, so far as I know, in Japan. In such event I will keep it in my mind, if circumstances permit, to supply you with a photograph of the '29 Club of Tokyo."
Art Rydstrom was elected to the Board of Trustees of the University of Denver at a meeting of the Colorado conference of the Methodist Church held last June. It is now just about a year since Art resigned as Senior Vice President of the Bankers' Trust Company of New York to join the Boettcher Organization in Denver, becoming Vice President of the Boettcher Foundation and Director of a number of Boettcher interests.
Dr. John H. Cornehlsen Jr. of San Francisco State College has been appointed to the faculty of the Department of Guidance and Personnel Administration at New York University School of Education. He will assume the duties of a full professor of education.
The New York Times of September 26 carried the note that Charlie Gaynor's "LendAn Ear" was registering its 325th performance that evening, and last Sunday evening, October 2, selected skits and songs from the show were the main attraction of a television program.
That good scout, Bob Monahan, of Hanover, N. H., constant,forwarder of news, has
sent in a very interesting newspaper story from the New Hampshire Sunday News of June 25 headlined "Race For Natural Gas; Two Concerns Propose Fuel Line Into New England", wherein it is reported that Dudley W. Orr, prominent Concord lawyer, is an incorporator and director of the newly-organized New England Natural Gas Pipeline formed for the purpose of competing with the Tennessee Transmission Company for permission to build a pipeline from the oil fields to New England.
Other news from Hanover has it that Wally Wilson's wife and daughter spent a few days at the Inn last August and that Mike Sherman paid a visit late in Septemberprobably couldn't resist the chance to stop by and take in a football practice.
It is with great regret that we report the death of Paul E. Haftler last June. An obituary notice will appear in the next issue of the MAGAZINE.
'29 REUNION IN TOKYO: The Twentieth in June called out this loyal group: (I to r) Kyosuke Fukuda, Mrs. Herb Fish, Dan Luten, Mrs. Luten, and Herb Fish.
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