1928

Bequest Chairman,

Well, here we go again - the summer sabbatical spree is over and the editor's deadline comes sneaking up on us. You'd think that after seventeen years a guy could bat this stuff out with no effort at all. We can if we have the news, but what causes the gray hairs is worrying about getting the news. So won't all of you (that means wives too) help out by writing us about yourselves, your families and any classmates you see or hear about.

Bob Grey took over September 1 as superintendent of the Connecticut State Reformatory in Cheshire. In announcing the appointment to the $12,000 post, the chairman of the reformatory board of trustees said the trustees interviewed eighteen applicants "and we have obtained the best qualified man available."

For the past twelve years Bob has been superintendent of the Shirley, Mass., Industrial School for Boys. Before that he was a teacher, school principal, and, starting in 1934, a training supervisor at the Shirley school. He is a former president of the National Association of Training Schools. He and Marie have three children.

America's leading travel lecturer, Bill Harrisy sailed July 3 for Iceland and Scandinavia to finish a film he started on that region last summer. "Only a six weeks' jaunt as I plan to head for Morocco and Egypt in September," Bill says. He opens his fall series of lectures at Southern Methodist University in Dallas under the auspices of the Council on World Affairs and the Dallas News. Bill had the satisfaction of giving a course last winter at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration on international relations. Being a busy man, he had to fly East from Denver to keep one class engagement.

Dean Bill Kimball and family are back in Hanover after a sabbatical year at Palo Alto, Calif.

Your Secretary drove up to Hanover for the Alumni Council meetings June 17-18. Commencement was just over and in case you missed it in the papers, George Wheland, professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago, received an honorary degree, the first of our Class to be so honored. Saw Jack andNancy Heston of Philadelphia and heard Jack report as chairman of the Council committee on admissions and schools. During his four years on the Council Jack has done an outstanding job as head of this important committee and has traveled all over the country in its interest.

You never have enough time in Hanover to see all the people you'd like to, but I did manage to see the Campions and the Sensenigs. On the way home I had a pleasant visit with Bob and Mildred Marshall and their 8-year-old daughter Linda at their home in Rutland, Vt. Hadn't seen Bob since college, but he had changed very little. He is a salesman for the Rutland wholesale hardware firm of W. C. Landon.

George and Fran Pitts stopped off in Troy long enough to see the Skinners on their way to the hardware convention in New York City. George heads the Clark Hardware Co. (wholesale) in Jamestown, N. Y. The next welcome visitors, later in June, were Herb and MimiSensenig and their family, Ken, Bill and Hella, who spent a couple days with us at our cottage near Troy. They were on their way from Hanover to the Far West for an entire summer of Seeing America. Incidentally they had the slickest and most compact camping equipment we have ever seen.

After leaving our daughter at a summer camp near Plattsburg, N. Y., Mary and I enjoyed talking for a few minutes with MartinFitzpatrick at his office in Plattsburg, where he heads a big construction firm. In fact he was in a huddle with Air Force officials about the big new air base up there and "couldn't be disturbed" - until I mentioned the magic word "classmate" and then the Air Force had to wait. Marty wanted us to meet his wife and their daughters, but we had to get back to Troy.

Herb Ball '29 stopped off briefly on his way from New York City to Bradford, Pa. And today, just before writing these notes, Irv andMickey Engelman of Rahway, N. J., and their two oldest girls dropped in on their way to Buffalo, where Irv is to attend the convention of the American Public Welfare Association. Wish more of you would drop in!

Ford Blickley is now with the Port Huron Sulphite & Paper Co. and living at 855 Hinman Ave., Evanston, Ill.

Jack McGrath has left Crowley's in Detroit to become general merchandising manager of D. L. Healy Shops of Detroit and is glad to be back in the ready-to-wear business.

Art Hassell has been appointed a director of the Citizens Trust Co., Summit, N. J. Art and Lura and daughter Virginia live in Summit. Art is merchandising manager of the Home Furnishings Division of B. Altman & Co. in New York, and has been a director of that company since 1951.

Bill Lary says Bill Jr. worked for the U. S. Geological Survey in South Dakota all summer, which paid well and fitted in nicely with his geology major at Dartmouth, where he is a junior. Bill Sr. marvels at the way this generation gets around and sees not only this country but the world. Next summer his son will spend eight weeks with the Navy as he is an NROTC student. Young Bill is a member of Phi Kappa Psi. Jock Lary will enter the University of New Hampshire this fall.

Ace Anthony's son Lee is a senior at Franklin and Marshall in Lancaster, Pa. He went to the Air Force summer camp at Lockbourne Air Base, Columbus, Ohio, this summer. Ace gets up to Lancaster and Mannheim almost every week to attend the car auctions there.

Sam Dennis is seeing a lot of the world - his latest address is the American Embassy, Karachi, Pakistan.

Ernie and Jean Wright made the Grand Tour of Europe this summer — over on the Queen Mary, five days in Paris, then Montreau, Milan and Venice by train, by bus to Florence, Perugia and Rome. Next by train to Naples, and several days in Sorrento and Capri. Then they flew from Rome over the Alps to London (in a new turbojet plane) and home on the Queen Mary. Who else went to Europe this year?

By the time the New Hampshire primaries are held, September 14, Lane Dwinell will have visited every city ward and town in the state and from all reports has the Republican nomination cinched.

Red Fauntleroy's daughter Catharine was married to Thomas C. Rote, an Air Force lieutenant, on August 12 in Houston, Texas.

The Class dues this year are $6, as against $5 last year, due to the increased cost of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Send your check promptly to Craig Haines.

HOST to a group of Connecticut alumni, Virgil McNeil '28 of New Haven provided a deluxe summer picnic at his home.

Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.

Treasurer, First National Bank, Boston, Mass.