1927

The big news last month was the wonderful dinner held at the Dartmouth Club in New York on Thursday, April 27. Al Lagacy and his committee are to be congratulated on the fine work they did and the large number who turned out for this very enjoyable affair. Some 58 were present and this constitutes the largest gathering of our class ever held outside of Han- over and was even larger than the number we have had at one or two reunions in Hanover. Several members came from some distance, including your very busy and hard-working Class Agent, Coggy Broer, who came on from Toledo; your Treasurer, Gus Cummings, up from Pittsburgh; Executive Committee Member Bob Williamson and ye scribe from Boston.

Vic Duplin came on from Pavis, Ohio, where he is doing research work for Babcock and Wilcox. Vic claims the distinction of having the first grandchild in the class, David Fricke, who is now six months old. He has a daughter, Joan, age 21, a son, Phillip, 16, and a daughter Marjorie, 13. Vic's hobbies and activities include golf, fishing and minerals. He is a member of the American Ceramic Society and the American Crystallographic Society.

Walt Lashar also travelled some distance to attend the dinner, having come from York, Pa., where he is production engineer for American Chain and Cable Company. Walter 3rd is in the Class of 195 a at Hanover; and he has two daughters, Lucy, 18, Sally, 16, and another son, David, age 11. Walt's principal hobby is golf and he serves his community as President of the York Welfare Council.

A recent release of the Foreign Service of the Department of State says that Norris Chipman, foreign service officer, has been transferred from Paris to Rome as First Secretary and Consul. He has been assigned to Paris since the Fall of 1944. Other posts at which he has served since he was commissioned in the Career Foreign Service in October, 1928, include Riga, the State Department, Moscow, Cairo and Kingston.

Mr. Chipman was born in Washington, D. C.; was educated at Friends School and Central High School there, Dartmouth College, A.B. 1927, and the School of Oriental Languages in Paris where he received a diploma in the Russian language. His home address is 3330 N St., N. W., Washington, D. C.

Hank Bayles, whom we had the pleasure of seeing at the dinner in New York, is now engaged in the general practice of law at 55 Liberty Street, New York City. Hank, who has remained single, has for some time been an associate counsel to the Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York in the Liquidation of banks and foreign services. His hobby is ornithology or, as he puts it, "looking for rare birds."

George Friede took an interesting trip last winter through Mexico covering 2500 miles in three weeks. The Portland (Ore.) Journal of April 2 carries an interesting article together with a number of pictures by George and entitled "I Covered Mexico By Bus."

The afternoon of the New York dinner we had an executive committee meeting at the club attended by Coggy Broer, Bob Williamson,Gus Cummings, Al Lagacy and Joe Russakoff and Ros Nichols. Committee members Nelson O'Rourke of Daytona Beach, and FrankCoulter of Los Angeles and Cug Daley of Chicago were unable to attend.

At the meeting we had an excellent report from Coggy Broer on the progress of the Fund and we discussed plans for the 25-year Gift, which campaign is headed by Gus Cummings, and plans for the twenty-fifth reunion to be headed up by Ros Nichols. Latest reports from the fund are-that we are doing well in relation to previous years, but we still need more contributors and more increases in contributions.

Nels O'Rourke reports that both Russ Blanchard and Rudy Preuss paid them short visits in Davtona Beach this winter. They also had Pete Cummings, Gus' older boy, with them for a few days during the spring vacation.

Frank Coulter is still West Coast Manager for the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, with headquarters in Los Angeles. His son Lee is a sophomore at Dartmouth.

Charlie Bartlett has been elected to the Alumni Council from the New England States district. Charlie graduated from Harvard Law School in 1930 and engaged in private practice until 1933 when he became Assistant U. S. Attorney for four years. From May, 1942 to December, 1945 he served in the Navy with the rank of Lieut. Commander. Since 1946 he has been a partner in the Boston law firm of Ely, Bartlett, Thompson and Brown. He is a director of W. L. Douglas Shoe Company and a trustee of Dedham Institution for Savings. He also served as President of the Boston Alumni Association in 1948-49.

Visitors at the Hanover Inn during April were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mix and family of New Haven, and Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Davis and son Bill from Upper Montclair, N. J.

Paul O'Connell has been made a director and Vice President of the Worcester Community Chest. Paul is chairman of the Budget Committee to serve until 1951.

The marriage of Ted Swanson to Mrs. Dorothea Sprau Mahan was recently announced. They were married on March 25 at the Congregational Church in New Canaan, Conn. Ted is President of Theodor Swanson and Company, Inc., New York City. They are living at ,'530 East 86th Street, New York.

We regret to report that our classmate, George Ritchie, died suddenly in New York City on March 6 at the age of 46.

Herbie Howe, who lives in Bronxville, is superintendent of the New York State Depart- ment of Labor. He has recently been appointed assistant director of that department and claims that he has no hobbies, but devotes all his time strictly to business. We regret that we did not have a chance to hear his mellow tenor voice at the dinner, since for some reason we did not get around to any singing.

Stuart Ensinger is married and lives with his wife and daughter Jane, age 11, and son Murdock, age 14, in Madison, N. J. He is assistant trust officer of the Bankers Trust Company at 16 Wall Street. Stuart's hobbies are golf, sailing and scouting.

Norman Swift and his wife Ruth have two youngsters, Donald, age 14, and Debbie, 10. They live in Dobb's Ferry, N. Y. Norman is Committee Executive for the National Association of Manufacturers in the Time and Life Building at 14 West 49th Street. His spare time from business he devotes to his interests in history, scouting and nature.

Reg Vincent lives in Berkley Heights, N. J., with his wife and two youngsters, a son, age six, and a daughter, age three. Reg is in the banking business and is also director of the Boy Scout Camp Committee and a Director of the Civic Association.

Van Ingham lives in New Brunswick, N. J. He is Assistant to the Dean and Director of the New Jersey College of Agriculture and Agri- cultural Experimental Station at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He has three children, Sandy, age 11, John, seven, and Micky, five. Among his activities, he lists editing ooks, most of which we believe have to do with experimental work carried on at his place of business.

Let's not forget the final date for the Alumni Fund is June 30. Why not make our part 100%. Have you sent yours yet?

THE DELEGATION FOR THE CLASS OF 1928 willingly shells out for Memorial Fund Chairman Pasfield and Class Agent Flanagan, at the annual meeting of Philadelphia alumni on April 13. Left to right are: Dick Frame, Wes Patience, Jack Heston (newly elected member of the Alumni Council), Bill Williams, George Pasfield, Ernie Wright, John Flanagan, and Jack McLaughlin. Wright and McLaughlin are past presidents of the Philadelphia association.

Secretary, 501 Boylston St., Boston 17, Mass. Treasurer, Box 1927, Pittsburgh 30, Pa. Class Agent, Pine Hill Farm, West River Rd., Perry sburg, O. .