1928

Cuddie Gardner and five associates announced the formation on February 5 of Lloyd Advertising, Inc., and the opening of its offices at 209 Washington St., Boston. For the past 12 years Cuddie has been an account executive with the Bresnick & Solomont agency in Boston.

John Gordon is serving on the Dartmouth alumni interviewing committee in Northampton, Mass. He has been reporting Northampton news for the Springfield Union since college, has a son who is a senior in Northampton high school, and a daughter, age ten.

Prentice Bradley, Pittsfield, Mass., architect, won a $250 honorable mention award in a nationwide home design contest conducted by the National Association of Home Builders and Architectural Forum, and announced in March. Brad designed a three-bedroom house featuring sliding windows of thermopane design and his award was for the use of glass. His wife Dorothy is an accomplished musician and conducts the music at the First Baptist Church in Pittsfield.

John Hay's 19-year-old son Peter recently had a bad automobile accident at the University of Arizona, where he is a freshman, but is recovering. John has worked since college for construction companies, and this has taken him mostly to South and Central America, and the southwest. One of his last jobs was in Troy, N. Y., which he quit because it was "too civilized." (Dick Schmelzer and Wes Wood please note!)

Ten-year-old Spinoza Paeff Jr. was injured seriously in a coasting accident in February in Brookfield, Conn., where he and his parents were visiting friends. His skull was fractured and an emergency operation was performed at Danbury Hospital. The Paeffs live in New York City.

Paul Ahlers, executive assistant to the general manager of the Fairchild Engine Division of Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp., has two new responsibilities—Director of Customer Relations and Security Coordinator. That Paul has tackled the last named job with vim and vigor is readily apparent if you study the pictures adjoining these notes.

Frank Tindie was elected president of the YMCA of Buffalo on February 20, and SamMagavern was elected assistant treasurer. Frank has served on the board of directors as a vice president and treasurer for the last four years. The oldest of Sam's five children, James, hopes to make the class of '55.

The mid-winter letter of the Friends of the Dartmouth Library lists two '28ers as substantial benefactors of the library. Hod Carver, a member of the Executice Committee, bought for the library several rare books, for its Robert Frost collection. Paul Cutler gave valuable old books, including English biographies and early Parlimentary journals.

Once a year the College publishes an address list of Dartmouth alumni officers '28 is unusually active, with 13 members listed: Bill Morton, Jack Heston and Dick Walker on the Alumni Council; John Harlow, president of the Tucson club; Lawson Van Riper, 2nd vice president of the Connecticut association; Jack Zellers, president of the Bridgeport club; Dick Sullivan, president, and Jeff Glendinning, secretary, of the Lawrence, Mass., club; GeneMagenis, president of Southeastern Massachusetts association; Creighton Hart, president of the Kansas City club; Bill Embler, president of the Albany club; Ed Atkinson, secretary of the Central Ohio club; and Barney Norton, president of the Vermont association.

Recent Hanover Inn visitors include the Cantrils, Langdells, Hestons, McConnons,Kinnes, Mortons, Herb Russells, and OllieAndrus, Red Sanborn and Red Edgar. Red Edgar, incidentally, had his picture and an interview in a recent issue of the New Hampshire Sunday News, and the caption under the picture said, "youthful assistant to the president of the Boston & Maine." The same adjective was used four more times in the article to describe Red.

Bruce Lewis' son Ralph is a freshman at Bucknell. Bruce's father, founder of the Lewis Historical Publishing Cos., died in January.

... Art Vandenberg has returned to Grand Rapids, Mich., from Brazil, where he represented the Rockefeller's International Basic Economy Corporation, due to the illness of his father. ... Red and Frances Myers have another son, Lewis Crary Jr., born February 20. Their older boy, John, is 11.

Topper Robinson attended the Freshman Fathers Weekend in Hanover in February and reports seeing Bill Kimball, Curley Sadler and Jim Campion.

Barney Norton wrote that he couldn't get down from Vermont to the class dinner in New York March 6, "as we are busy with Jr., born 42 hours before I was 45 years old." Barney and Ellen are now in the four-offspring class, the others being Arthur, 13, Jean, nine, and John, seven.

Don Dodd wrote that he wouldn't be able to come to the same dinner because out of the blue he had just been ordered to a week of active duty, March 4-10 at Middletown, Pa. He is a major in the inactive reserve of the AAF, and says, "I hope that, after one look at me, they will lose interest."

Twenty-three turned up for the class dinner at the Dartmouth Club in New York on March 6, of whom ten were from out of town. Present from the city were: George Bell, Bill Cogswell, Ted Baehr, Court Keller, Sam Sammis, Don Solis, George Klein, Walt McKee, Phil Orsi, Jerry Johnston, Jack Herfel, Clark Harrington, Bruce Lewis. From out of town were: Jack McGrath, Detroit; Topper Robinson, Greenfield, Mass.; Red Pelton, Olean, N. Y.; Joe Smith, Coxsackie, N. Y.; Herb Russell, Suffield, Conn.; Jack Heston, John Flanagan and George Pasfield, of Philadelphia; Cal Billings, Hartford, Conn.: and your Secretary.

It was voted to invite the wives to the next New York class dinner and to have it on Friday, May 18. Further details later, but mark the date down on your calendar now!

SECURITY GUARANTEED: When Paul Ahlers '2B was given the responsibilities of Security Coordi- nator for the Engine Division of Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp., jovial office mates saw 1o it that he was properly equipped. Ahlers, who is executive assistant to the general manager, got into the spirit of the thing, as these pictures prove.

SECURITY GUARANTEED: When Paul Ahlers '2B was given the responsibilities of Security Coordi- nator for the Engine Division of Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp., jovial office mates saw 1o it that he was properly equipped. Ahlers, who is executive assistant to the general manager, got into the spirit of the thing, as these pictures prove.

Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Cos., Troy, Pa. Treasurer,2 Princeton PI., Montclair, N. J. Class Agent, Freeland Felt Works, 4105 Freeland Ave., Philadelphia 28, Pa.