1928
Sad news is reported in the In Memoriam section of this issue. Howie Chapin died at his home in New York where he had been most of the time since he suffered a stroke early this year. His loyal devotion to the class and the College will be greatly missed.
Myles Lane is convalescing from an operation performed August 24 at the New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston for the removal of a benign tumor from his spinal cord. The New York Times quoted the surgeon as saying, "A complete and permanent recovery should take place." Myles is expected to be in the hospital two weeks and will return to New York to enter private law practice. From 1951 until three months ago he was United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
The only event to mar our absolutely perfect reunion was Jack Rose's fall, which turned out to be more serious than anyone thought. Leaving the brightly lighted class tent for a dorm room, Jack stepped off a 15-foot retaining wall and ended up in Hitchcock Memorial. (The wall is now protected by a railing.) He was bruised and fragments of glass from his shattered glasses entered his face. Beef Vernon drove him to New York Monday and when he arrived in Washington, Navy doctors at Bethesda discovered he had broken his back in two places. He was put in a body cast and then it was almost curtains when internal complications set in. After five weeks in body casts at Bethesda, he is now back at his Navy Department office, gets about with the aid of a brace and a cane, even drives his car, and expects to be as good as new in four months. Jack has probably had a hard time convincing friends who were not there of the truth he was perfectly sober. Unfortunately, as Jack Herpel said in the Cam-paigner, any old grad who slips, stumbles or even sneezes hard is considered to be plastered.
While we're on the subject of reunion, won't all of you who took pictures of individuals or groups please send me prints for the class album. Do it now while it's easy to find the negatives, or better yet, loan me the negatives. Howard Payne, Rupe Thompson,Bill Cogswell and Cal Billings have sent us all their prints, which are wonderful mementos of reunion.
Twenty-one sons of '28ers were accepted for admission to Dartmouth this fall, a record high for our class. Accepted were: Wayne Andrus, Samuel T. Bassett, Clyde R. Brownstone, Richard B. Canton, Bruce Cutler, Robert T. Dennis, Peter O. Dietz, James R. Donnelley, Robert T. Grey Jr., Mac Donald C. Heston, Carl G. Hoagland, Frank B. Hoefle, Edward M. Jennings 3rd, David Kittell (Bill Cogswell's stepson), Richard D. Mann, Richard K. Norris, Peter R. Stoler, David C. Thompson (Rupe's son; his other son, Peter, is a sophomore), Kenneth and Robert Tyson (twins), and Richard L. Van Riper.
Ambie McLaughlin, Alan Downing and Craig Haines joined a host of other New Englanders in honoring the Boston & Maine Railroad and our distinguished classmate, RobertM. Edgar, at Littleton, N. H., on August 1 on the 100th anniversary of the first train into Littleton. The celebration was arranged by the Newcomen Society and our Red was the guest of honor and principal speaker. Lane Dwinell was attending the Governors' Conference on the West Coast and couldn't be present. Ambie is very active as a speaker for "This is New Hampshire, Inc.," a new booster organization for the state. He has acquired a fine head of white hair, and Alan has lost some hair and put on some weight, but other-wise they are much the same as they were twenty-five years ago, Craig reports.
Warren Burding was elected vice president of the Lever division of Lever Brothers Cos. early in June. He will be in charge of domestic marketing of Lever consumer soaps, synthetic detergents and shortening. Previously he was in charge of the Good Luck margarine division.
A few days ago Stew Hoagland was named manager of corporate advertising and promotion by the Interchemical Corp. Since 1938, he has been with the company which makes printing inks, industrial finishes, textile colorants and other chemical coatings. Up to now he has been editor of the R-B-H Dispersions, a divisional publication.
Had Cantril has been appointed to Princeton's oldest endowed chair and is now "Stuart Professor of Psychology." In April he was made chairman of the Department of Psychology.
Jerry and Rella Warner and three of their four children left San Francisco August 31 on the SS President Wilson en route to their new home, Bangkok, Thailand, where Jerry is First Secretary at the Embassy. Their oldest child, Arthur, is staying in Washington, D. C., to finish high school.
Paul Knowles expects to move in September to the new house which he has been building in Delray Beach, Fla. His address will be Pelican Lane... . Hank Leach has moved into a new home at 956 Black Road, Joliet, Ill.... The Hanover Inn reports the following summer visitors: Mr. and Mrs. L. Paul Edgar, Mr.and Mrs. Frank Barry, Mr. and Mrs. RobertM. Edgar, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gow, and Mr.and Mrs. William Morton.
Jack Waller, who has been manager of Sprucewold Lodge at Boothbay Harbor, Maine, this summer, will become manager of George Houghton's Colony Hotel, Delray Beach, in September, thereby bringing the '28 population of that town to three. Florida visitors please note.
Another '28er has moved to Florida Gordon Simons, after nineteen years with the Waldorf Astoria in New York, where he rose to the post of executive assistant manager, has left the hotel business to take up a real estate venture on Santa Rosa Island in the Gulf of Mexico, seven miles off the coast of Pensacola. He is in partnership with his brother-in-law, Morrison Ritchie of New Haven, building and renting beach homes, four of which were completed July 1 in the settlement known as Villa Primera. His mail address is Gulf Breeze, Fla.
At the annual meeting of the Council of the American Physical Society, John Turkevich was elected to fellowship in the Society. ...Bob and Esther Clark announce the birth of Robert Browning Clark 3rd on July 30.... Bill Cogswell's stepdaughter, Nancy Kittell, was married August 1 to James T. Martin Jr. in the Old North Congregational Church, Marblehead, Mass.... Paul Kruming and his guest from the Westchester Country Club, Red Gristede '31, won the Silver Spring Country Club's annual member-guest medal play tournament in Ridgefield, Conn., July 25 and 26. Didn't know you were so good, Paul!... Mary and I had some very enjoyable weekends this summer when the John Flanagans,George Kleins and Bill Cogswells honored us with their presence at our cottage on Mountain Lake, near Troy.
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CLASS PREXIES OF '28: Past and present presidents pose at their 25th reunion picnic last June at the D.O.C. House. L to r: Jack Phelan, Rupe Thompson, Red Edgar, Jack McAvoy, John Phillips (newly elected), Os Skinner (a secretary who crashed the picture), and Al Fusonie. Ex-President Paul Kruming was busy with the class auction at the time.
Secretary. Van Dyne Oil Cos., Troy, Pa.Treasurer, First National Bank, Boston, Mass.
