1928
Dick Klinch is now with the First National Bank o£ Boston in their Factoring Division, doing sales development work. He works closely with Mort Jennings and Craig Haines in the bank. For the present he is keeping his home in Summit, N. J.
Dick's oldest boy Donald is a senior at Dartmouth and just became engaged to Miss Joan Webster, of Summit and Holyoke. Stephen and Stanley, the first twins in the class, are at Summit high school and looking forward to entering college in the fall. Louise, Dick and Kay's youngest child, is ten.
Dick has worked in New York City since graduation, first with the Irving Trust Co., and, since 1940, as secretary of the Merchants Refrigerating Co.
Tax Connell has written Snook Pasfield. from Japan, where he is on leave from Dartmouth to help the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission establish a clinic and laboratory. He says the work is most interesting. He has Katherine and their son John with him. Sam Dennis has brought his family back from Paris, where he worked for some months for the Economic Cooperation Administration. Sam is in the Recovery Progress Branch, Division of Statistics & Reports of the ECA, 800 Connecticut Ave., Washington.
Jerry and Rella Warner left Yokohama June 4 with their four children, Arthur 13, Betty 11, Anne six, Debby four and a half and Rella's mother, and two months later arrived in Washington. On the way they visited a lot of interesting places: Hong Ko,ng, Manila, Angkor Wat in Indo China, Singapore, the Pyramids and Paris, to name just a few. Jerry is on the Japan Desk at the State Department. Rella thinks it was about time, after 20 years in the field: Windsor, Tientsin, Mukden, Tokyo, Formosa, Kobe, Buenos Aires, Chungking, Nanking, Tientsin and Tokyo again.
Nick Winn is now a teacher of English at Florence State Teachers College, Florence, Ala. For the past 20 years he has been an instructor at the Tennessee Military Institute, Sweetwater, Tenn. He and Harriet have two children, Rachel, nine, and. Nick IV, aged eight. Nick says he is greatly interested in reading to keep abreast of the times, saving stamps and collecting Indian artifacts.
Cal Billings, who gets around Connecticut a lot, stopped in to see Doc Stebbins in Colchester, but learned from his brother that Doc has been teaching in the Hamden, Conn., high school for the past la years. He is married and has three sons. This is the first news we've had of Doc since college.
Eino Johnson is associate professor of science at Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, N. M. He has just spent two years in Mexico, the first organizing a school system for an American corporation colony, and the second as a member of the faculty of Mexico City College. Doc has his Ph.D. from Yale.
Al Bishop resigned recently as assistant superintendent of schools at Oak Ridge, Tenn., to accept a similar position at Minneapolis. Al went to Oak Ridge in 1943 as personnel supervisor for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation. Two years later he took the school position, being in charge of building, plant operation, purchasing and other administrative functions in a system which has seven schools and 7,000 children.
Howie Moss moved to Oak Ridge the same month A1 left. Howie is assistant chief of the publishing branch of the Technical Information Division, Atomic Energy Commission. He has been in the publishing business since college, most of the time in New York.
El Drake, director of Newton (Mass.) Junior College, is much in demand by other communities for advice on evaluation and revision of curricula and planning of new schools.
Clippings from newspapers all over New England indicate that Bill Harris is having a busy and profitable winter lecturing and showing his new colored movies of South America, the Scandinavian countries, and the Lands of the Mediterranean.
Hal Pierce has moved from Caracas, Venezuela, where he was assistant manager for E. R. Squibb & Sons, to Lima, Peru. This is a welcome change since his wife, Maria, is a native of Lima.
Jerry Goodwin is now superintendent of schools at Agawam, Mass., coming from a similar position at Hatfield, Mass.
While in Cape May, N. J., for a teachers meeting, Herm Schnepel dropped in to see Otto Sokol, who owns and runs a prosperous grocery and meat store. Otto and his wife would be glad to see any '28ers who get to Cape May.
Craig Haines sends a picture from the Boston Hei aid, showing Bill Sreenan, vice president of the Middlesex Savings & Loan Association, Somerville, togged out in ancient finery for the bank's 60th anniversary celebration.
Our apologies to Jack Waller for stating in a recent issue that he had accepted a teaching job. Jack has been in the hotel business continuously since college, and is now manager of the Vineta Hotel, Palm Beach, Fla. The misinformation came from a clipping about a Jack Waller who is a member of another class at Dartmouth.
December visitors at the Hanover Inn: The Hank Miltons of Boston, the Chris Normans of New York and Red Edgar of Boston.
John Turkevich's father was elected Metropolitan, or Primate, of the Russian Orthodox Church in North America by 500 delegates from the United States, Canada and Alaska, who met in New York in December. His official title in the church will be Metropolitan Leonty. The church has been completely autonomous since 1924 when it broke all ties with the mother church in Russia. It has 300,000 members.
Buck Buckingham's daughter Susie is attending William Woods College at Fulton, Jim McConnon's daughter Ann is a sophomore at Carleton College, and his son Tom is a freshman at Dartmouth. Tom is 6' a" and 185, and very much interested in swimming and track. Jim says:
As far as my own activities are concerned, thev don't seem very interesting. I am continuing to be quite active in the National Agricultural Chemicals Association, of which I am a director. Our field of insecticides, fungicides and weed killers is a very rapidly changing one, due to the many synthetics I continue to hunt, to. fish for trout and fly-fish for small mouth bass as I have the time to.
"Bob Tweedy fs a very active fisherman and hunter He is very much interested in the biology of fishing game and spends quite a little time with the men in the Fish & Wild Life Service of the U S Department of Agriculture here in Winona. The headquarters of the big game refuge which extends from St. Paul to Rock Island on the Mississippi River is here in Winona, so there are quite a few good men here.
"Have you any track of Walter Scott? I saw him once during the war, when he was a captain in the Air Corps and was stationed at the Pentagon."
HOWARD M. CHAPIN '28, formerly Director of Advertising for General Foods, has been promoted to the newly created position of Marketing Manager for the Birds Eye Division of the company.
IN TRIBUTE to Myles Lane '28, Chief Assistant United States Attorney in New York City, the Grand Jury hearing espionage cases last August passed the above resolution praising his work.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.
Treasurer, 2 Princeton PL, Montclair, N. J
Memorial Fund Chairman, 33 E. Wynnewood Rd., Wynnewood, Pa.
