1928
Six '2Bers attended the annual dinner of the Philadelphia Alumni Association on March 28: John Flanagan, Dick Frame, Jack Heston,George Pasfield, Bill Williams and ErnieWright. At the business meeting before dinner, Jack Heston gave a complete report as Alumni Council member from this district and was nominated to serve another two-year term. Wes Patience, who couldn't be there, was given a vote of thanks for handling all the mailing for the Philadelphia Alumni Association. For the first time in many years, '2B failed to have the largest delegation present, being outnumbered by '47. The boys hope to get record back next time with the help of Jack McLaughlin, Jack McAvoy, Don Dodd,Dan Hatch and Wes Smith.
Tom Carroll reports that he ran into ElDrake in the lobby of the Nether'and Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati and had several enjoyable visits during the ensuing weekend. In recent months he has also seen Mutt Jennings, Lawson Van Riper and, several months ago in Washington, Chuck Bruder. Tom is vice president of the Vulcan Copper & Supply Cos. in Cincinnati, and business trips have taken him all over the United States and Canada in the past year. Tom is active in the YMCA and is on the Advisory Board of the Collegiate Preparatory School for Girls. He and Catharine have two children, Tom, 14, and Abigail, 12. George Davis has been elected a trustee of Skidmore College—think of what an advantage he would have had 25 years ago if he could have used the title then! George has been treasurer of the Glens Falls Insurance Cos. since 1940, and recently added "vice-president" to his title.
Stew Hoagland writes, "After fighting it for over 20 years, I am a commuter. I must say that it doesn't seem a great hardship to sink into my paper in the morning and get that over with before I reach the office. And I will be at Bound Brook at. least one day a week, which takes the curse off a bit.
"I am devoting quite a bit of my free time to my job at the Hospital, which I took in December (President of the Board of Trustees, Somerset Hospital, Somerville, N., X Ed.). It is by far the most satisfying outside job I have ever had and things seem to be going along well. ... It is a 175-bed (adult) hospital and thus a fairly big operation, the largest business enterprise in Somerville, as a matter of fact.
"Now that I am here I will get to more of the class dinners in New York."
Stew is in the advertising and sales promotion department of Interchemical Corporation, 67 West 44 Street, New York. He and Bea have three children and live in Bernardsville, N. J. Their oldest, Mary, is a sophomore at Wellesley, and Carl is in his third year at Holderness School, Plymouth, N. H.
Arnold Van Benschoten has returned to Japan for the third time. He has been there most of the time since 1946, when as a Navy officer he was in Military Government. After becoming a civilian again he went back to be in charge of a large city. He was home from July to October 8, when he flew to Japan. Van is now working for the Air Force at Johnson Air Base as Management Analyst, Office of the Comptroller.
Harry Stone, Treasurer of the International Harvester Credit Corp., has traveled over most of the United States and Mexico in re- cent months. His hobby this past winter was curling. He says, "We had a very pleasant eve- ning with Craw Pollock and his wife several months ago. Most of my contacts with '2Bers have been with those in the banking fraternity. On occasions I have seen Rupe Thompson, Larry Martin, Mutt Jennings and Brougham Wallace, to mention a few. Recently, on a West Coast trip, I spent a very pleasant hour with Max Carlson in Seattle."
Dana Condon, assistant general manager forUnited Fruit Cos. in Havana, responded to our request for information on how it seems to be in the middle of a revolution. He says,
"It took only 1 hour and 16 minutes to do the pal dirty work, with operations starting at 2:35 A M I am without a doubt the most unlucky man who'ever lived. I have literally slept through the bjEeest hurricane and the only revolution we have #: in Cuba in Ae past seven years
"It was pretty rugged here in the city all that Hav with tanks rumbling through the streets, bursts of machine gun fire and trigger-happy soldiers, marines and police everywhere with those nasty nointed things that spew sprays of lead looking for target practice. I drove down through the whole mess to the other side of the city about 8 A.M. to endeavor to 'continue business as usual. My boss did the watching while I did the driving and as long as we kept moving at a reasonable speed, did not tarry or look too nervous or suspicious, they allowed us to proceed. Very few actually got hurt much and only two killed. We permitted one of our ships with 96 cruise passengers to enter the nort at 5 P.M. the same day, but did not let them go ashore that night. It was all quite interesting—and it saves the expense of an election, you know."
A full-page interview with Si Simons, illustrated by a large picture of Si welcoming Miss America of 1952, appeared in the Boston PostMagazine of January 27. We're indebted to El Drake for remembering to send it along. Si is the top banana (Boston Post's phrase) at the Waldorf-Astoria, where his official title is executive assistant manager. Wish we had room to reprint some of the article and the picture.
Wat and Eleanor Dickerman are back at the University of California, Berkeley, after their year in Germany and Turkey, where Wat was making studies of adult education. Wat says, "We are using some of our spare time learning to play guitars. When we were at the University of Minnesota we used to have jamsessions at our place, but haven't been able to locate any other beat-up but still interested jazz musicians out here yet."
Clark Blyth moved February 1 to Mexico City, where he is a manufacturers' representative. For 23 years he has been with Fox West Coast Theatres, in Los Angeles. His son Bob is in the Air Force at Sheppard Field, Tex., and the other three children are in college: John, a senior at University of Montana; Pete, a senior at U.S.C.; and Jane, a freshman at Colorado College.
Woody Houghton, who returned his questionnaire in mid-March, says his year-round hobby is "trying to earn enough to keep the Collector of Internal Revenue in the manner to which he is accustomed." His son Sandy is a sophomore at Cornell (Engineering) and Bob, 17, is a paratroop mechanic in the Air Force in Japan. Woody is assistant comptroller of the Provident Institution for Savings in Boston.
Wally Carr was elected to the School Board in Ridgewood, N. J., in February. He ought to know a lot about Ridgewood schools since he has lived there 40 years, and Penny is in sixth grade and Patsy is a junior in high school. Wally is vice president of the North Jersey Trust Cos. in Ridgewood.
Bud McKenney, owner of Theater of the Sea between Miami and Key West, says his six-year-old son Kenny now swims with the porpoises just as you saw Jack Herpel and Bud doing in the picture we used a year ago. Bud says, "The porpoises are perfectly harmless, in their way—if you pet them they are nice—otherwise they will beat the hell out of you."
Ed Heyn hasn't moved, but the name on the door in the Empire State Building is no longer B.V.D. Corp., it's now Erlanger Mills Corp. He and associates sold the B.V.D. trademark to another mill in order to expand their Southern textile interests.
Jim and Helen Campion have another grandson, James Walsh Campion IV, who was born on St. Patrick's day Buck Serrell's wife Mig won the grand prize of the Garden Club of America on the closing day of the International Flower Show in New York for the best flower arrangement... . Lolly Carpenter is Chief of Publications for Johns Manville Corp., New York.
Travel Corner:—Gene Katz left in April for a trip to South Africa Howie and CarolineBush will tour England, Scotland, France, Switzerland and Austria in June and July.... Brougham and Claire Wallace are heading for Europe this summer Your secretary and Mary are leaving the end of April with their car and three children for six weeks on the Continent.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Cos., Troy, Pa. Treasurer, 2 Princeton PI., Montclair, N. J. Class Agent, Fahnestock & Cos., 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York 20, N. Y.
