1928
Believe it or not, boys, it's only a little over two months until Reunion. It's time you were making definite plans to be in Hanover on Friday, June 17 at noon, or earlier if you can make it.
Two weeks ago your Executive Committee swung into action at the call of President RedEdgar. Meeting at the Dartmouth Club in New York were Red, Rupe Thompson, MylesLane, Bill Morton, George Pasfield, PaulKruming and your Secretary. We actually spent several hours going over reunion plans and other class affairs.
Prexy Edgar had the reunion schedule well arranged as the result of his special trip to Hanover the week before. By getting there early he had been able to sign up the most desirable places for all our gatherings-the Outing Club House, the Colonial Room and Hovey Grill in Thayer Hall, etc. The Committee made no changes, but did add several events.
The first scheduled event after checking in at the '28 dormitory (where our tent and beer will be ready) is the Softball game with 1929 at 3 p.m. Red was instructed to issue the challenge and did so in the following letter to 1929's secretary, Bill Andres:
"We feel that the superiority of 1928 over 1929 has been proved in so many ways that there is not much left to be done. However, the proposal that we engage in a further test of this in Softball has been made. Therefore, if you are able to get together nine able-bodied men who can lift a bat and with the inclination to test their skill, we invite them to meet with a few selected representatives from 1928 in front of the Senior Fence at Hanover on Friday afternoon, June 17, at 3 p.m., so that we can open our Delayed Twentieth with the satisfaction of beating 1929."
The challenge was promptly accepted by 1929 with a feeble show of bravado.
The next event on Friday will be a cocktail party and buffet supper at the Outing Club House, starting at 5:00. This will include wives and we are assured that the Outing Club House will be ours for the entire evening. At 8 p.m. there will be a brief interruption to attend the President's reception, always a delightful affair. At 9:30 the Alumni dance starts in College Hall. Those who prefer may stay on at the Outing Club House.
Saturday morning there will be a Class meeting at 10 o'clock for the election of officers and transaction of business, followed by a Class picture at 11 -.4.5.
At noon the men will attend the Alumni luncheon as guests of the College, and the wives will have a private luncheon at the Hovey Grill in Thayer Hall.
Saturday afternoon we will hold an outing at Storrs Pond, with softball, swimming, beer. At 6:00 a Class sing at our tent, with that famous tickler of the ivories, Jack Herpel, at the piano.
The Class banquet later in the evening will be in the Colonial Room at Thayer Hall, where we held our banquet in 1946, and will be attended by the wives. Afterward those who wish v attend a performance by the Dartmouth players, returning afterward to the festivities in the '28 tent.
The reunion costume will be simple, inexpensive and comfortable. Bill Heep, Ed Heyn and Paul Kruming are serving on the costume committee.
Wives are urged to attend this reunion. At our early reunions wives may have wondered what to do with themselves while their husbands were at a stag dinner, and then what to do with their husbands thereafter. These annoyances have been done away with at the Twentieth—wives are invited to all gatherings except the Alumni Luncheon on Saturday.
The business of calculating the reunion tax is a pretty speculative proposition. First of all, we are required to estimate the number who will attend the reunion, and in the second place we are required to arrange a program and provide for costumes, the supper, banquet, and outing on the basis of the probable attendance. You can well appreciate that any guess that comes even close is pure coincidence.
All this leads up to one simple request. Will those of you who expect to attend the reunion please let me know at your earliest convenience? A post card will do, if that's all you have time for. There will be no obligation involved, and the object of this request is simply to determine the approximate number who may attend. We understand that it may be a little too early for you to make a definite commitment, but if you are planning to come back and there is a fair likelihood that your plans will materialize, we should like very much to know it. Naturally, the greater the number in attendance, the smaller will be the Class tax.
The first man to declare himself definitely to be on hand in June is Craw Pollock of Omaha who says, "Just returned from a long eastern trip which took me down to Florida. I did not have much time to do any 'reuning' but am looking forward to June. I am doing my best to talk the local contingent (GilSwanson, Dick Walker and Emil Shukert) into making the trip also and hope I am successful.
Attending the annual Dartmouth dinner in New York at the Commodore on January 26 were: BillCogswell, Mai Halliday, Art Hassell, Jerry John-ston, Roy Myers, Barney Nova and Frost Wilkinson.
The Boston Alumni Association dinner on February 9 at the Statler brought out the following 28ers: Howie Bush, Red Edgar, Bob Gray (at head table as newly elected president of Nashoba Valley Dartmouth Alumni Association), Mutt Jennings, Jules Lemkin, Bob MacPhail, Wes McSorley,Makie Makepeace, Don Norris, Jack Phelan, EdSawyer and Rupe Thompson.
Buck Serrell was appointed Director of Surgery at Greenwich (Conn.) Hospital on February 23, filling a position left vacant by the death of Dr. J. A. McCreery, whose assistant he had been for 12 years. Buck graduated from Cornell University Medical College and served his internship at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover. His practice is limited to surgery.
Al Bishop is superintendent of schools at Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Ted Meltzer, who hasn't been heard from in years, writes (in response to a request for information for the Directory): "I have been doing newspaper, radio and foreign correspondence for the past 15 years—with two and a half years out as a public relations officer in the air force. Now 1 m in public relations for the Military Government here in Frankfurt. I'm married and we have a small daughter Francoise, aged one and a half. At the moment, the family is living in a Paris suburb and I commute twice a month. I haven't been in the States for four years, so it will be interesting to get the class directory and see what 1928 is up to."
Roy Myers is teaching at New York University and living at 48 West 12th St., New York.
Ed Lockett has just returned to his home in Washington from a trip to China. He is doing free lance writing—economic report work, some magazine stories and a few speeches.
Deo Granger has taken a new job—as manager of the Wire & Cable Division of the U. S. Rubber Cos. in Buffalo. He had been with the General Cable Cos. for the past 18 years.
Chuck Goodman is a member of the board of directors of the National Association of Manufacturers, and president of the American Finishing Cos. of Memphis.
Ed Purnell is manager of the Central Western Division of Bligh-Palmer & Cos., public relations counsel, Chicago.
At our last New York meeting, Red Edgar told of a recent suit in New Hampshire against his railroad, the B & M, in which the plaintiff was represented by Lanky Langdell's firm, the railroad by Ken Grafs firm, and the case was heard before the Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court, Jack Goodnow.
Dick Klinck, vice president of the Merchants Refrigerating Cos., spent a month in Rio de Janeiro maiing a survey of refrigerated warehousing for the Brazilian Government. Kay and their eightyear-old daughter Louise flew down to join him for ten days. Their oldest son Donald is a sophomore at Dartmouth, and their twin sons Stephen and Stanley are in high school and hope to follow Don's footsteps.
Jeff Glendinning is assistant chairman of the Red Cross drive in Lawrence, Mass. Jeff is director of public relations for the Arlington Trust Cos. in Lawrence. He has a son, 12, and a daughter, 10. Craig Haines has sent a clipping from the Boston Traveler which has a large picture and biography of Monty Wells, "champion hurdler, high jumper and golfer, the new schoolboy State Meet track director. His golf records include three aces and a streak of 27 consecutive fours."
You have all received the '28 Directory shortly before this issue of the MAGAZINE. I hope you will look it over carefully and send me any corrections. The discouraging thing about publishing a directory is that it is not 100% accurate for more than a short time. A few days after the Directory was printed, I received the following changes of address: Charlie Gearhart has moved from Denver to Washington, where he is manager of the New York Life Insurance Company's office, 806 15th St., and an active apartment hunter. Matt Leonard has moved from Los Angeles to 941 East 5th St. South, Salt Lake City..
Geographically the Class is distributed about the same as it was in our freshman year, except that New York City, with 130 men, has displaced Boston as the leading center of '28 population. Greater Boston has 116 men. California has made the greatest percentage jump, with 25 now as against 8 in 1924.
Jack Phelan has just written me about "Richard III" which is now playing in New York after a most successful run in Boston. The actor-director, incidentally, is Dick Whorf, who is married to Johnnie O'Sullivan's wife's sister.
Had Cantril, Princeton professor of psychology, was a recent visitor in Hanover. Jim Walsh of Contoocook, N. H., is busy with farm building construction. His wife Nola writes the "Country Woman's Daybook" which appears monthly in the Country Gentleman and also has articles in American Home and Farm Quarterly.
See you in Hanover June 17th!
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Cos., Troy, Pa.
Treasurer, Providence National Bank Providence, R. I.
Class Agent, 101 So. Salina St., Syracuse 1, N. Y.
