1928
This has been a good month for pre-Reunion gatherings, with two "mixed" parties and two annual alumni meetings. The first party was arranged by Herb and Dot Russell and was held at their home in Suffield, Conn., on Saturday evening, January 31. Present from Hartford were: Cal and Genie Billings,Son Middlebrook, and Bun and AlmaGoodrich, Brad and Lee Parker; and from Springfield: Tim and Ginny Paige and Bob and Esther Clark (newly-weds) Georgeand Eleanor Klein came up from New York for the event. George and Herb took some pictures which we hope turn out well enough for these columns or the 25th Reunion Book.
On February 5 George Klein, our perennial dinner chairman (he's tried to resign but has been shouted down), put on a grand party at the Dartmouth Club in New York for 39 twenty-eighters. We cocktailed, ate, talked a lot about reunion and saw the 10th Reunion movies.
Present Crom a distance were: George andSuzanne Pasfield, Jack and Vera Flanagan from Philadelphia, Wes and Louise Patience from Millville, N. J., Os and Mary Skinner from Troy, Pa. From the metropolitan area: Chuck and Nona Bruder, Bill and Greta Cogswell, Bill and Betty Dietz, Irv and MickeyEngelman, Clark and Amber Harrington,Charlie and Blim Hazzard, Jack and CornieHerpel, Bob and Mildred Kilgore, Art Kneerim, Paul Kruming, Alec and Mildred Kerr,George and Eleanor Klein, Bruce and ThelmaLewis, John and Peggy Phillips, Curly Prosser,Herm and Marguerite Schnepel, Hank andEve Walker. All of those present are planning on attending the Tremendous Twenty-Fifth, and had so much fun at the party that there was talk of holding another pre-Reunion warm-up in April so that more of the wives could get to know each other.
As usual the '28 delegation had the largest turnout at the annual Philadelphia Alumni Association dinner on January 29 at the Engineers Club, when Justin Stanley '33, new vice president of the College, was the speaker. Present were: John Flanagan, Dick Frame, AlFusonie, Jack Heston, Jack McAvoy, Jack McLaughlin, George Pasfield, Wes Patience and Bill Williams.
Three more marriages to report this month what's happening to our bachelors? We'll soon have a hard time finding one at the rate they're marching down the aisle. According to our records there are only 18 who have never married out of 620. Want to know who they are, girls? Well, here they are: FredBurleigh, Roy Carpenter, Harold Fields,Johnny Frankland, John Gulian, Jim Hardy,Bill Harris, Dick Learnard, Jules Lemkin,Myles Lane, Wendell Phillips, Bill Monaco,Ed Sawyer, Ted Schwartz, Phil Sherman,Carlyle Streit, Feet Thurston and TubbyWalter.
But to get back to the Wedding Bells Department, Dick Rendell and Miss Constance Booth, London, England, were married September 17 in Caxton Hall, London. Dick, a free lance correspondent for foreign newspapers, returned last summer from Tokyo and Korea, where he was correspondent for the American Broadcasting Co. for two years. He was a platform reporter for NBC at the Democratic and Republican national conventions in Chicago. Our clipping, from Dick s hometown, Waterbury, Conn., ends with this revelation: "Mr. Rendell has appeared in British films and on the stage."
Charlie Gearhart and Mrs. Henrietta Tabb Jones of Richmond, Va., were married in that city on December 27. as forecast two months ago. The third marriage, that of Bob Clark of Springfield, Mass., cannot be properly reported until Bob sends us such essential details as the girl's name, the date, etc.
Hank Leach is starting a new business of his own February 15, to be known as Tiger Wholesale Warehouse, Inc., at 833 Benton St., Joliet, Ill. This new company will be engaged in the wholesaling of building materials to dealers. Hank resigned from Chapman & Smith Co., Chicago, manufacturers of food specialties, where he has been Production Manager since getting out of the Navy. Prior to that he was with the U. S. Gypsum Co. for 17 years, starting in November 1928. Hank says, "Having had only two jobs in nearly 25 years, such a move is a big event for me; but in spite of the many incidental problems created, Jean and I still hope and plan to attend the Reunion in Hanover in June."
Earl Fain of Dallas says Earl III is a sophomore at Dartmouth and rooming with Ed Dooley Jr., son of Eddie Dooley '26. Earl's other son, Jim, is at Deerfield Academy. Earl has been an independent oil producer in Texas and Louisiana since 1934. His wife died in 1945.
Bill Rohlffs, who got tired of New York City six years ago and moved his family to Eugene, Ore., writes, "The only event of interest in our lives to date has been our decision to lead the balance of them in Oregon. Pulling stakes at 40 wasn't easy, but I can heartily recommend life in the wide open spaces to those who might have claustrophobia. Carol, our eldest, was graduated from the University of Oregon in 1951 and is now the wife of a Coast Guard ensign and mother of a five- months-old red-headed hell-on-wheels who goes by the name of Douglas Warren Smith. Lyn is a sophomore at Oregon State. After five years with projects totally unrelated to my lengthy life insurance experience, I returned to the fold and am now trying to protect the lives of Oregonians with New York Life insurance."
Don Norris' 14-year-old son was seriously hurt in an auto accident in November and is still in the hospital. He was in a coma for a week and is now undergoing operations on his hips, both of which were broken.
Bud Mann has been elected a director of the Norfolk County Trust Co. He is president of Buckley & Mann, Inc., Franklin, Mass., dealers in reworked wool.. . .Paul Ahlers has been elected Vice Commodore of the Edge- water Yacht Club in Northport, Long Island, which gives a pretty fair idea of what the Ahlers family does with its spare time.
Howie Bush had his picture in the Boston papers on January 29 on the occasion of being made deputy manager of the Employers' Liability Assurance Corp., Ltd., in charge of underwriting. This is the English parent Company; he still is vice president of the two American subsidiaries.
Lane Dwinell's picture appeared in New Hampshire papers on January 8 following his election as president of the state Senate. Formerly Speaker of the House, Lane now holds an office which carries in fact, though not in name, the Lieutenant-Governorship of the state. Last June he was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Commercial Science by Suffolk University, the first '28er to receive an honorary doctor's degree. On a recent motor trip to the West Coast he saw John Harlow in Tucson, John Lyman in Los Angeles and Tavey Taylor in San Francisco. He frequently sees Mutt Jennings, new treasurer of the New England Council, and LewHutcheson, of New York. Lane is our only classmate prominent in politics above the local level, now that Art Vandenberg has resigned his position as appointments secretary for President Eisenhower due to his health.
Win Taylor's daughter Nancy married J. H. Jaffer Jr., Yale '52, last July; Carol Lee is a sophomore at Vassar; and Win Jr. is at Westminster School. The Taylors live in Bedford Village, N. Y., and are coming to Reunion. Win is a vice president of J. Walter Thompson Co., where he plans and writes advertising.
Barney Norton, owner of a feed and lumber business in Vergennes, Vt., had a good answer for my question "Highlights of the last 25 years."
"I have run the gauntlet of all the offices and committees, business, civic, religious and social, that a small town businessman has to do. Some have been statewide in scope, but one and all they leave me cold. Dartmouth offices include Assistant Class Agent for many a year and chairman of Interviewing Committee. Senator Saltonstall once made the corny remark, 'I believe in Harvard and my family.' I will alter the good Senator's quotation and say, 'I believe in my family and the Class of 1928.' "
Barney and Ellen have four children, from 16 to 2 years old, and of course are coming to Reunion.
Honie and Mona Westhaver are coming to Reunion from Salt Lake City, where Honie is Vice President and Manager - Utah Operations, Columbia-Geneva Division of U. S. Steel Corp. He says,
"Since leaving College I have acquired the nick-name of 'Larry' as 'Honie' proved too difficult to explain. Enjoy living in the West - fine climate, fine people, and the opportunity for easy access to recreation on the West Coast, Mexico and many scenic areas in the inter-mountain states."
Marty and Margaret Bergin and their children are coming to Reunion. Marty is a mortician in Waterbury, Conn. One son went to Harvard for two years and is now in the Army, another enters Harvard next fall, their daughter is in her third year at Westover. .
The response to my appeal for family pictures for the 25th Reunion Book has been marvelous - in less than two months you have sent in 152. Writing up the biographies has proved to be more of a task than I reckoned, so there is still time for you to send me that photo I've been hounding you for, if you get it taken right away. Some sort of recognition for the best picture and the largest family should go to George and Lib Holbrook of Keene, N. H., whose seven children ranging from 18 to 7 years of age are all in the picture and all looking happy. George and Lib are coming to Reunion.
Keep a weather eye on Jack Herpel's and Johnny Neary's '28 Campaigner (as if you needed any urging!) for up-to-the-minute Reunion plans, and ...
'28 UP FOR THE TERRIFIC TWENTY-FIFTH June 12-13-14
HARTFORD CLUB LUNCHEON: '28ers took the attendance prize at the regular Hartford Dartmouth Club luncheon. L to r: Herb Russell, Bun Goodrich and Cal Billings.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa,
Treasurer, 2 Princeton Place, Montclair, N. J.
