1928
Red Edgar was elected vice president-assistant to the president of the Boston & Maine Railroad" last June, which looks like a tremendously important advancement from where we sit. Red, who has been assistant to the President for the past six years, started his railroad career on the B & M in 1929 as a clerk in the freight traffic department. He is president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston.
Prentice Bradley has been elected vice president of the Massachusetts State Association of Architects, a branch of the American Institute of Architects. He is a partner in the firm of Bradley & Gass, in Pittsfield.
Another New Hampshirite was in the news recently papers all over the country used an Associated Press picture of four New Hampshire delegates entertaining the Republican convention with some barbershop harmony, while holding straw hats with Ike's name in large letters. Lane Dwinell of Lebanon was one of them. Lane is running for the New Hampshire Senate. He has been speaker of the House of Representatives and had been spoken of as a possible candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, until the field became crowded.
Lanky Langdell of Manchester was also a delegate, in fact a clipping from a Fitchburg, Mass., paper says he was the principal speaker at an Eisenhower rally in Fitchburg, where the reporter also remembered that Lanky had been a star center on the Dartmouth basketball team and made the All-Eastern team.
We had hoped to use in these columns a grand picture which El Drake sent us of Eisenhower conferring with two of his top advisers Gov. Sherman Adams 'go of N. H. and Art Vandenberg. The editor reported that he was running a short feature on Dartmouth men who hold important positions in both camps, so please turn to the front of this issue. Art was head of the Citizens-for-Eisenhower organization in the early stages of the campaign, and immediately after the convention Eisenhower named him his Executive Assistant.
Tavey Taylor, San Francisco attorney, has been appointed to the Larkspur-Corte Madera school board to fill an unexpired term. The Taylors and their three children live in Larkspur. ... Dr. Fred Dugdale has been appointed chief of the physical medicine rehabilitation at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware. He has been chief of surgical service at the Fort Thomas, Ky., VA Hospital. Dug and Alda have two daughters, Marilyn, age 11, and Susan, born last August.
Howie Chapin, formerly marketing manager of the division, is now general manager, Birds Eye division, General Foods Corp., New York.... Jack Burr, whom we haven't heard from since Ed Abbott's '2B cocktail party in Chicago in 1946, is assistant district manager for the U. S. Rubber Cos. in Milwaukee. He and Mary have a son, John Timothy, who is 13....B. Altman 8c Cos., New York, have appointed Art Hassell divisional merchandise manager of furniture, rugs, lamps and bedding.
Two of our classmates have married in recent months which is more nuptial notes than we've had in several years. Rill Cogswell and Mrs. Greta Kittell of Winchester, Mass., were married March 28 at Hanover. Attendants were Miss Nancy Kittell and Clay Cogswell, Bill's son, who is a senior at Dartmouth this year. Bill and Greta are living in Pelham, N. Y., which makes Bill a commuter for the first time in the 24 years he has worked in Wall Street and environs. Bill and Fran were divorced last winter.
Don Norris and Mrs. Carolyn Williams Gordon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph H. Williams of Braintree, Mass., were married June 28 in Braintree. Carolyn is a graduate of Wheaton College and Katherine Gibbs School in Boston. Don is treasurer of the John A. Lowell Bank Note Cos. of Boston. His first wife died in 1947. He has three children, Richard 16, Stephen 14, and Margaret 8.
While many '2Bers are raising grandchildren, Tom Talbot says he is just starting his family. His first child, Harry, was born Jan. 12, 1951 and the second, Tom Jr., only a few days ago, on Aug. 25. Tom and Fae moved from Philadelphia a few weeks ago now live in the San Fernando Valley and like it very much in spite of the earthquake which greeted their arrival. Tom is still in the same type of work he is an attorney in the claim department of the Ohio Casualty Insurance Cos. in Los Angeles.
Jack Herpel's picture appeared in the papers in June in connection with his appointment as General Personnel Supervisor of the New Jersey Bell Telephone Cos.
After a two-year leave of absence during which he checked up on higher education in Germany for the State Department, HerbSensenig is back in Hanover teaching German. He and Mimi spent a busy summer getting their Norwich farm and garden back in production. They found that while their house was closed, someone broke in and stole all their sterling silver. To their dismay they learned that their theft insurance policy doesn't cover silver. Both their boys rode in the Norwich Fair in July and Billy won three prizes with his horse. The Sensenigs brought over two German girls, aged 15 and 19, whom they are sponsoring. Hella, the younger one, is living with them and the other girl is with the Paul Samples. Just before returning, Mimi received her Ph.D. degree in psychology from the University of Munich.
The 25th Reunion Chairmen, Jim andHelen Campion, dropped in to see us in Troy in May on their way to Philadelphia, but we were then on the high seas. Mary and I and our three children all enjoyed our twomonths' trip through Holland, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland and France. We were particularly sold on the advantages of travelling by car rather than trains and would be glad to go into details with anyone who is thinking of going to Europe.
Another '2B visitor, who found us at home, was Harold Fields on his way to Hanover. He is an Associate Professor of History at Michigan State College Among summer visitors to the Hanover Inn were: JohnnyO'Sullivan, Chris Norman, Leo Boyle, Thornton Klaren, Curly Prosser, Hadley Cantril,Bill Morton, Jack Heston, Fran Young, and Chuck Bruder.
The class will be sad to hear that DeoGranger died in June. Details may be found in the In Memoriam section.
Start making plans now for that very important 25th Reunion next June.
MEDICAL CONSULTANT: Dr. Albert W. Kitfs '28, a pediatrician, has been appointed regional medical consultant for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, for the Northeast section. He will work with state representatives on patient care. Formerly he was in practice in Salisbury, Md.
DARTMOUTH DAYS REVIVED: Dick Lougee '27 (I) visits his classmate Frell Owl, superintendent of the Chippewa Indian Reservation at Red Lake, Minn., and Frell's wife and daughters: Mary, Gladys, and Frella.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa. Treasurer, 2 Princeton Place, Montclair, N. J.
