1928

Harry Gere has been appointed Advertising Manager of the National Fire Protection Association, a non-profit technical and educa- tional organization whose office is at 6Q Batterymarch St., Boston. Harry says, "I didn't leave New England for New York as planned way back in December—l'm still a Boston boy! Hope to see a number of '2Bers in my travels, both in New York and Chicago."

A Chicago isolationist newspaper noted for coloring its news says Senator Vandenberg is working to have his son Arthur H. Vandenberg Jr. succeed to his Senate seat. In line with its policy of attacking all those who disagree with it, the paper headlined the article "Ability to Dictate His Successor Doubted." It is quite an honor, Art, to be attacked by the Colonel.

Harry Jewett and Mrs. Alice Chambers are being married April 15 in Brooklyn, N. Y. Alice is the widow of a Marine Corps officer and has a 10-year-old daughter. Harry has bought a house in Shoreham, 10 miles east of Port Jefferson. He is a patent engineer for Associated Universities, Inc., which operates the Brookhaven National Laboratory at Upton, Long Island.

Myles Lane's name was on the front page o£ the New York newspapers last month when he secured indictments against 34 New York business men for income tax evasion. The Government's civil recovery is expected to reach well above $4,000,000.

Ed Purnell is manager o£ the Central West Division of the Buffalo Fire Appliance Corporation, and lives in Chicago .... Dave McCathie is manager of the Bronxville Field Club and is living at 12 Blair St., Bronxville, N. Y Court Keller is vice president in charge of sales for Blair, Rollins & Co., New York City. The merger of Blair & Co. and E. H. Rollins & Sons means he now, has 100 mouths to feed.

Si Gedge is Division Industrial Engineer with the American Steel & Wire Co., Joliet, 111. He and Genevieve have two boys.... Charlie Hazzard is assistant attending urologist at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York .... Don Giles is a trust officer of the Bankers Trust Co., 16 Wall St., New York. Lew Terry is assistant sales manager of the Professional Equipment Co., New Haven. He has remarried—his second wife being Carol Burns, a graduate of Lasell Junior College.

Fred Dugdale is chief surgeon at the Veterans Administration Hospital at Fort Thomas, Ky John Harlow, Tucson contractor and nurseryman, is chairman o£ the board of trustees of the local Congregational Church .... Having just completed a term as president of the Milton (Mass.) P.T.A., CraigHaines has been elected president of the Men's Club, First Parish (Unitarian) in Milton .... Chick Davis has been appointed an assistant cashier of the First Boston Corporation—he is in the New York office.

John Phillips has sent Publishers' Weekly of March 18 containing an article by HowieMoss on direct-mail selling for booksellers. Howie is an account executive with Green-Brodie, an advertising agency.... ChappieWright must be afraid he will be a third of a ghost if he communicates with us directly, but in any event the news has seeped down to us that he is now assistant district manager of the Pennsylvania Employment Service, 426 Bucknell St., Pittsburgh.

Art Hassell has been appointed merchandising manager of B. Altman 8c Co., New York .... Stew Hoagland is a member of the Board of Managers of the Raritan (N. J.) Savings Bank, a trustee of the Somerset Hospital, Somerville, secretary and a director of the Somerset Press, Somerville, but his main job is advertising manager of the R-B-H Dispersions Division of Interchemical Corp., Bound Brook, N. J Barney Nova is a partner in the New York law firm of Multer, Nova & Seymour, and since 1946 has been a Tax Commissioner for the City of New York.

Ham Hagar, who started his own investment management business last year, has moved from New York to Polk Drive, Sarasota, Fla Vic Hartjens is a salesman for the Alexander Distributing Co., Washington, D. C., wholesalers of electrical appliances ....

Joe Merrick is foreman of the die department of the Holyoke (Mass.) Sales Co., paper converters .... Fred Stotie is a member of the Kenilworth (111.) Village & Park Board

Sam Sammis has been transferred to the New York office of the U. S. Rubber Co. at Rockefeller Center, and is living at 9 N. Church St., Scarsdale, N. Y.

Mary Virginia Lewis, Bruce's daughter and, incidentally, the "class baby," is a student at the Womens College of the University of North Carolina .... Roger Sundeen's twins Janet and Roger are at the University of New Hampshire .... Loren Stevens' daughter Margaret is a junior at Stanford. Steve is advertising manager of the National Cylinder Gas Co., Chicago .... There are now 15 sons and daughters of '2Bers in college.

Walking through the Waldorf-Astoria lobby recently (after failing to find the '28 directorate of the hotel), I bumped into Bob Clark, who was giving the old college try for Strathmore Paper at a paper industry convention. Bob had lunch with Si Simons, Executive Assistant Manager of the Waldorf, and had a great time going over old times at Hanover. Si reports seeing Jud Moulton, Counsel for New England Tel & Tel, who was attending a conference arranged by A. T. & T.

While in Miami in March I enjoyed talking with Ken Beal and Cliff Dwinnell. I spent some time in the new buildings at the University of Miami, where Ken is registrar. The university had 2500 students in 1946 when Ken assumed his present position—it now has 11,000 students. Cliff was in New England all last summer—thought he'd have to have an operation, but was relieved to find it wasn't necessary. His trouble is high blood pressure.

Mary, Scotty (age 7) and I flew over to Havana where we had a wonderful time with Dana and Verna Condon. At their suggestion we had arranged our visit to coincide with Havana's mardi gras, a gala two-day affair which we were fortunate to be able to watch from the balcony of the American Club on the Prado. Dana and Verna entertained us royally and drove us wherever we wanted to go. Dana is assistant general agent for the United Fruit Co. in Havana—he has worked in Costa Rica and Cuba for the same com- pany since graduation. He has two attractive daughters who resemble Verna. Joan, the first '2B child born outside the United States, will enter Dickinson College in the fall. Both girls speak and write Spanish like natives and neither has ever seen snow.

REUNION IN HAVANA: Verna and Dana Condon '2B (left) with Mary and Os Skinner '2B in front of the Condons' house during their March get-together.

Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa. Treasurer, 2 Princeton PL, Montclair, N. J. Class Agent, 415 Green Lane, Roxborough, Phila., Pa.