1928
Seven sons of '28ers are members of this year's freshman class, as against five last year. They are: Edward (Ronnie) Campion, of Hanover; John N. Connell, of Hanover, but for the past year a resident of Hiroshima, Japan, where his father, Tax, was doing research for the U. S. Government; Stephen B. Davis Jr., of Las Vegas, N. M.; Earl Fain III, of Dallas, Tex.; James L. Magavern, of Buffalo; John G. O'Sullivan, of Summit, N. J.; and Peter C. Thompson, of Providence.
Hank Buchtel, Denver surgeon, was the organizer and a member of the eight-man team that made the first ascent of Mt. McKinley by the hazardous "West Buttress" approach. The expedition, led by Brad Washburn, spent more than a month on the 20,270-foot Alaskan mountain, which has been climbed only six times previously, all by one route up the northeast side. The New York Times of August 21 carried a long story about the climb and a photograph. Hank, long-time leader of the Colorado Mountain Club, has scaled all 52 of the 14,000-foot peaks in Colorado. His hobby started while in college, for in 1927 he climbed the Matterhorn, Monte Rosa and other peaks in the Swiss Alps.
Herb Sensenig, who is in Munich on a twoyear leave from Dartmouth as Education Adviser for the State Department, wrote on August 28:
"Through you I learned that Wat Dickerman would be over as a visiting consultant this summer. I kept informed on him and while our boys were at camp, Mimi and I took our Ford and went up to Wurzburg. Somehow we met him and Eleanor. I found them at the station, luckily so small that a pair of stray (and civilian) Americans were easily recognized. Wat had a cold, and I a crick in my back, but we had an enjoyable time, nonetheless, including some work on adult education. In the evening we drove to Nuremberg, where we spent the night, and the next day up to Bamberg and down to Munich. At that point we parted. The Sensenigs went on leave to Lake Atter in the Salzkammergut and the Dickermans to Garmisch, where Wat wrote his report. We heard nothing from them for several weeks, then last Thursday they reappeared in Munich and had us out to dinner at a very colorful little restaurant. Now they are in Berchtesgaden, enjoying life. We expect to see them in a month, when they return here before going to Ankara. Wat is going to do some work for the Turkish government, then return to his duties as assistant professor in the Extension Division of the University of California, in Berkeley.
"My work goes on at a good clip—seems to increase all the time, as the German university people know I'm around. We are homesick for Dartmouth and our Norwich farm, but this experience is well worth it."
Bill and Fran Cogswell sent us a card from Italy on August 27 which read: "Came over to Ireland on the Mauretania August 1, then to London after Dublin, to Paris where we picked up a French Ford which we drove to Dijon and Annecy in France, over the Alps to Milan and Venice and so to the Italian Riviera. Back to Paris via Nice, Avignon and Tours. After eight days there, home on the Queen Mary September 15."
El Drake resigned as assistant principal of the Newton (Mass.) High School effective September 1, at which time he started with Scholastic Magazine as director of field services. In this new position he will work with Dr. John Studebaker, formerly Commissioner of Education for the United States. El taught in Montclair, N. J., and Des Moines before going to Newton in 1935.
Tim Paige is resident engineer for construction of the Wesson Maternity Hospital in Springfield, Mass.... Merrill Hodsdon has been appointed commercial supervisor in the Commercial Public Relations Department of the New York Telephone Co. He has served for the last three years in the lecture bureau, and has been with the Telephone Company since 1929. He and Grace have two sons, Bill, an employe of the New York Telephone Co., and Edgar, a Mamaroneck high school student.
Herrn and Marguerite Schnepel have another daughter, Ellen, born June 17. Their first child, Marguerite, is two years old. They have moved to a house at 11 Glenside Road, South Orange, N. J.
Ruf Munsell was awarded his Ph.D. degree from Ohio State University on June 8. He is on the faculty at the University of Connecticut. ... Dick Sullivan received his Master of Science degree from the School of Library Science, Simmons College, Boston, in June. He has been head of the Lawrence (Mass.) Public Library since 1938.... Ed Collins got his M.A. from New York State Teachers College at Albany, on June 17 and decided on further studies, so he attended the Boston College summer session to take six hours of French.
Attending the Alumni Council meetings in Hanover in June were our two members, JackHeston and Bill Morton, with yours truly one of the "past members" who are invited to attend all meetings. Jack and Bill were appointed to the important Committee on Admissions and Schools, with Jack named as chairman.
After the Council meetings I dropped in on Curly and Laura Sadler at their home in Norwich for a nice visit. Curly is Assistant Professor of Physical Education at Dartmouth. On the way south I stopped to look up C. F.Fitzgerald in Wilder, Vt., where he has been in the radio business. He had just moved to Florida, pulling up stakes after living 40 years in Wilder. He is unmarried.
Jim and Helen Campion's 25th wedding anniversary was celebrated at a dinner and dance given by 25 friends of theirs at the Hanover Inn Ski Hut on August 14. Among those present were Son and Es Middlebrook, who flew up from Hartford for the occasion, Dan and Sally Drury '26, Kay (Laycock) McKennan '26 (Bob was in Canada fishing), and Bill and Margaret Kimball.
Ham Hagar is now with J. C. Newsome & Co., 120 Broadway, New York, members of the New York Stock Exchange.
Cal Billings reported in July: "George andEleanor Klein were up a while ago to visit us and we invited Bunny and Alma Goodrich for the evening." Bunny and Cal are secretary and treasurer, respectively, of the Dartmouth Club of Hartford. The Kleins visited your secretary and his family at their cottage near Troy, and then drove on to see Esty andEleanor Parkhurst on their farm at Pittsfield, N. H.
Barney Nova has been appointed a director of the Brooklyn Jewish Community Council, according to a clipping from the New YorkTimes with Barney's picture. In addition to his law practice, Barney is a City Tax Commissioner, a director of the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn and chairman of the hospital trustees division of the United Hospital Fund.
Hollis Carlisle is co-chairman of the Springfield, Mass., community chest drive in October.
Had Cantril, professor of psychology at Princeton, spent the summer in Hanover doing research at the Hanover Institute. Others who stopped for a few days at the Inn: Ollieand Ellen Andrus of Devon, Conn., Chuckand Nona Bruder of Ridgewood, N. J., Jerryand Alberta Cetrulo of Newark, N. J., Georgeand Suzanne Pasfeld of Wynnewood, Pa., and Jack and Lucena McLaughlin of Philadelphia.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa. Treasurer, 2 Princeton PI., Upper Montclair, N. J. Memorial Fund Chairman, 33 E. Wynnewood Rd., Wynnewood, Pa.
