1928
New York 20, N. Y.
'28 was certainly in the limelight February 26, when Red Edgar was elected president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston, and Myles Lane was a principal speaker, at the 88th annual meeting of that venerable society, the oldest Dartmouth alumni organization. Nice going, Red and Myles!
Sixteen members of the class were thereour largest turnout, according to class records. We're obliged to reliable Jack Phelan for a prompt report:
"I have been commissioned to report to you on the attendance of the members of the class of 1928 at the alumni dinner at the Hotel Statier last night. At our particular class table we had 11 men, including: Craig Haines, Fran Young, Ed Sawyer, Topper Robinson, John Nixon, Makie Makepeace, Mutt Jennings, Julius Lemkin, Bob Grey, Howie Bush, Jack Phelan.
"At other tables were Wes McSorley, Bob MacPhail and Red Sanborn. At the head table we Were very well represented by Myles Lane and Bob Edgar, who was elected at the meeting as president of the Alumni Association for the next year.
"I have no particular news to report in regard to any of the individuals who were present, as there seems to have been no change in their status or history since last reported by
you." Bud Ranney, drama critic and movie-theater columnist for the Cleveland Press, took office in January as a member of the Lakewood Board of Education. Lakewood, a part of the metropolitan Cleveland area, is a city of 68,000. How he got elected is quite a story. He decided to run for the non-salaried post at the last minute, and found himself in a race with four other candidates (two of them incumbents) for three vacancies. It was his first experience in running for public office. He wrote his own literature, got a good campaign committee together, and away he went. He not only ran first on the ticket on November 6, but got more votes than any other Lakewood municipal candidate, including the mayor. He's in for four years. His wife Dorothy Mae is very active in P.T.A. work and collaborates with Bud in some writing. Their oldest son (they have three) attends Lakewood High and is playing forward on the junior varsity basketball team. He's 6 ft. 2 ins., and played end on the football team.
The political pot is boiling and Art Vandenberg is doing a lot of the stirring. The papers stated that he was thinking of running for the Michigan Senate seat now occupied by Senator Moody, a Democrat: then at a press conference in Detroit he said he would hold off his decision. Art is head of the Citizens-for-Eisenhower Committee, with headquarters in the Marguery Hotel, New York, and has had his picture in the New YorkTimes twice and also in the Saturday EveningPost, March 8 issue. Lane Dwinell, speaker of New Hampshire's House of Representatives, is a candidate for delegate-at-large to the Republican national convention. He is favorable to General Eisenhower.
Speaking of politics, Sam Dennis, a newcomer to the game, reports that he ran for City Council in Falls Church, Va., on the platform of civic virtue and got soundly beaten. Sam is with the E.C'.A. in Washington as chief of the Progress Branch, Statistics and Reports Division. He went to Geneva last September as a member of the U. S. delegation to the U. N. Second Regional Meeting of European Statisticians.
The data on Walt McKee has finally reached us—the girl he chose after looking around for 24 years was Miss Gilese Ory of Brussels. They were married August 17 in Christ Church, New York.
Phil Sherman has completed all his credits for his master's degree at Tufts—needs only a seminar this summer for it. Phil is owner and director of the Dartmouth Tutoring Bureau in Hanover.
Stew Hoagland has been elected president of Somerset Hospital, Somerville, N. J. He has been a trustee since 1936.
Do you have any movies of our undergraduate days, commencement or reunions? If so, dig them out and send them to us. We're anxious to borrow as many films as we can get to show at our 25th and at class gatherings before reunion. Wes Patience started the ball rolling by sending me 200 feet of excellent pictures of our commencement, taken by his father. We'll welcome 8 or 16mm film and will guarantee to take good care of it, and return it promptly after reunion.
Wes is controller of the Millville Manufacturing Co., Millville, N. J., and says he hasn't been anywhere except to take his daughter to a camp for girls at Lake Morey. His hobby is a unique one, in '28 that is,—raising gladiolas.
Art Holden is threatening Paul Kruming's position as the No. 2 traveler in the class. Art recently returned from a trip to Brazil, Chile, Peru, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba and Jamaica, whereas Paul stayed pretty close to home, making trips to Mexico and Puerto Rico. Art is a partner in the importing firm of R. L. Pritchard 8c Co., 90 Wall St., New York. He and Grace have the same hobbies—hunting, fishing and golf.
Hal Moody writes from Hillsboro, N. H., where he is Superintendent of Schools: "Dick is in his second year at Dartmouth. Bud, 18, may be a freshman next fall. Kay and I are running Camp Wynona on Lake Morey at Fairlee, Vt., summers. We'd be glad to see anyone up that way in the summer." His questionnaire discloses another unusual hobby: "Jewelry and gem cutting."
Chris and Eileen Livingston, and their children, Jane, 6, and Christopher, 4, have returned from Tokyo and are living at 21 Longvale Road, Bronxville, N. Y. After more than 20 years in the Orient, Chris is now in the New York office of his company, California Texas Oil Cos. For the past two years he has been assistant general manager for the company in Japan. He reports seeing Herbie Fish in Japan. Herbie is also with Caltex.
Craw Pollock says, "We see a lot of the Dick Walkers, Gil Swansons and Emil Shukerts— the entire '2B population of Omaha. Saw Fred and Elizabeth Stone in Chicago at a dinner party—he is a top exec of International Harvester. My travels take me from coast to coast and Canada to Mexico." (Have you tried Swanson's canned chicken?—adv.) Craw and his three girls are members of the Omaha Figure Skating Club. We have three other enthusiastic figure skaters in the class—SnookPasfield, Maurie Cogan and Bud Ranney.
Makie Makepeace, assistant treasurer of the A. D. Makepeace Cos., Wareham, Mass. (one of the largest cranberry growers in the country) says his winter hobby is taxes, summer hobby—earning money to pay taxes. He and Anne took a trip to Virginia, stopping off at the fabulous Roy Milliken Manse outside Reading, Pa. Some months ago Roy converted his barn into a stocking factory—he still is not crowded for space as the beautiful old mansion is about the size of Dartmouth Hall.
Son and Esther Middlebrook report that Lois McLaughlin was a recent visitor. Son says he spends the winter thinking about fishing, and then fishes all summer. ... Joe Merrick has moved from Holyoke, Mass., to Los Angeles, where he is with the A & B Steel Rule Die Cos. Joe is another avid fisherman.
Hank and Frances Walker are sailing for Naples on March 12 and are taking a car along. They'll return from Southampton on April 30, getting back to their home near Carmel, N. Y., just in time to start work on the garden, Hank says.
Paul Annable has sold his Danbury Advertising Agency in Danbury, Conn., and taken an executive position with the Heyman Hardware Co.
Let's help Bill Cogswell and his hard-working corps of assistants by mailing our Alumni Fund checks early.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Cos., Troy, Pa Treasurer, , 2 Princeton PL, Montclair, N. J. Class Agent, Fahnestock & Co., 30 Rockefeller Plaza:
