1929
On September 25 Jack Gunther had a meeting in New York to conclude the organization for 1928's Combined Fund, uniting the 25th Year Class Memorial Fund and the Alumni Fund. By the time you read this you will have received from Chairmen Gunther and Redding an announcement of their program and a statement of how they intend with your help to succeed in making the College a gift of which we all will be everlastingly proud. But because they may not tell you, I will tell you who was there:
From New York-New Jersey: Jack Hubbard,Jack Blair, Bob Brinkerhoff, Harry Enders, LytJohnston, Julius Morris, Dick Robin, Jack Gunther, Gerry Sivope, Tal Babcock, Trunkie Brittan,Al Fisher, Ray Hedger, Paul Jameson, Van Jamieson, Tux Small and Art Clow. From Boston: HermLiss, Squeek Redding and Bill Andres. From Clinton (in the heart of the Commonwealth): Morton Jaquith. From Hanover: Nick Sandoe (who gets to look more and more like a member of the Class). From Cleveland: George Case. And finally, all the way from Caracas, Venezuela: Bill Coles, who still speaks American-English and wears a Rosenberg suit in spite of the Latin influences which surround his daily living.
Everybody went "home full of hope and determination. And, speaking again of our children, Father Enders and Father Andres spent a good part of the evening talking about their Smith freshman daughters, Joan and Katie, respectively. Father Robin chimed in also about his Diana, whom he had just delivered into the freshman class at Sweet Briar. As for the old man, Dick has just been elected to the office of vice president in charge of International Subsidiaries of Beckton, Dickinson & Co. As a result he spent the month of August in Brazil. The day following the meeting, he took off for Mexico City by way of Toronto.
Jack Blair took the occasion to announce that: "At 12:30 on the first Tuesday of each month, there will be a table reserved for 1929 in the regular restaurant of the New York Dartmouth Club and all members of the Class who happen to be in town at that time are cordially invited. Non-members may pay cash and serve themselves at the steam table. These are intended to be strictly informal gatherings with no speeches or extra festivities." Blair could have announced also, but didn't, that he has been elected vice president of the New York Patent Law Association for the ensuing year.
Ed How has been named manager of sales for the General Electric Company's Welding Department, Fitchburg, Mass. Immediately after graduation he joined G.E., and in 1937 he was named sales specialist for the General Electric Supply Corp. in New Orleans. Transferring to the G-E Locke Department where he was made sales manager in 1947, Ed remained there until his recent appointment. Ed has three children: Suzanne 16, Janet 12 and Edward Jr., 8.
Bill Wieler sings a happy tune:
"Going into the 25th year, and these years since 1929 have always treated me better than I think I have deserved, things really started to look up in 1938 when I returned to graduate work at Columbia to get the Ph.D. The residence completed, I began teaching in Columbia University Extension, Brooklyn College Evening Session, and Hunter College Day Session. With the oral examination for the doctorate out of the way in 1941, I settled down to a full program on undergraduate teaching at Hunter, then the largest girls' college in the country. Out of the Army in 1946, having enlisted in 1942, with the grade of captain, University Fellowship at Columbia in 1946-47 worth $1500, the writing of the dissertation, the return to Hunter in 1947, the degree in November of the same year, an appointment to the faculty in January of 1948. Things have continued in a busy vein. A promotion to assistant professor in 1951, and then in 1952, after the Bronx Division of Hunter had become co-educational, election to the job of supervising the Bronx staff in the Department of English, where we have 23 men and women teach- ing in the first five college semesters. We graduate our first class in June '54. It's a wonderful life I lead not a person in the world with whom I'd change places."
And Wally Willard seems quite content: "I am still living at the same address in Wethersfield from which I set out for Hanover in the fall of 1925. My family consists of: wife, Dorothy; and children, Henry (21), Wallace Jr. (17), Linda (10), and Friedrick (dachshund puppy, 6 months). In order to provide the foregoing as well as myself with some modest shelter and subsistence I have been in the practice of public accountancy pretty much continually since graduation. I am presently with the firm Webster, Blanchard & Willard, with office in Hartford. I see Mai Mather and Phil May frequently. I also had a pleasant reunion recently with my roommate Al Starrett who was passing through with his family en route to Georgia Tech, where he holds the position of Assistant Professor of mathematics. In the field of extra-curricular activities I guess I wrote you some time ago that I was principally occupied with sailing. This has tapered off somewhat in the last two seasons for a number of reasons, principally because my two boys who were regular crew members were otherwise occupied during the summer. I am presently without a boat, having sold my little sloop Harbinger last spring. As a stop-gap I have taken to sports cars in a modest way. We have a very active and enthusiastic group in the New England region. Although it does not take the place of sailing, it is a fascinating hobby. My elder son Henry is in his senior year at Dartmouth, majoring in engineering. Our 25 th Year program is, therefore, of special significance to me because it will coincide with his Commencement. My younger son Wallace is a Middler at Williston, and both he and I hope that he will enter Dartmouth with the class of 1959. I am looking forward very much to seeing you and the others next June."
Last September Carl Norden married Mrs. Ellen Hartt Naar. Carl is a Foreign Service officer, most recently serving as first secretary of the United States Embassy in Teheran, Iran.
The recent recommendation of President Eisenhower by Senator Styles Bridges that Chief Justice Frank Kenison of the New Hampshire Supreme Court be appointed to the United States Supreme Court calls attention to Frank's remarkably fine record of achievements in the public interest. After Frank received his LL.B. from Boston University in 1932 he entered private practice in New Hampshire. From '35 to '37 he was County Solicitor. From '37 to '40 he was Assistant Attorney General of the State. From '40 to '42 he was Attorney General. From '42 to '45 he was in the Navy, coming out as a lieutenant commander. In '45 and '46 he again served as Attorney General until he became an Associate Judge of the Supreme Court, becoming Chief Justice last year. Frank is married to the former Loretta Mary Landry and has two children, Thomas, 12, and Mary Ann, 8.
Secretary, 75 Federal St., Boston 10, Mass. Treasurer, 1728 Beechwood Blvd., Pittsburgh 17, Pa. Memorial Fund Chairman, Air Reduction Co., Inc., 60 East 42nd St., New York 17, N. Y.
