1928

Sam Dennis, who has been serving the U. S. Government in its foreign operations since 1949, is about to join the U. S. Operations Mission in Pakistan as a statistical advisor. Elin and their younger son, age 13, will accompany him. Sam has been deputy director of the Analysis and Evaluation Division of the Foreign Operations Administration in Washington.

Art Gow has been named president of the Seamless Rubber Co., New Haven, a subsidiary of Rexall Drug Co. He has been executive vice president since 1950, and before that served as vice president and factory manager. On January 1 he completed 25 years with the company.

Jerry Goodwin has resigned as superintendent of schools of Agawam, Mass., due to his health. He has held the position for three years, and previous to that was superintendent of schools in Hatfield, Mass. RapeThompson's son, David '57, was awarded his numerals in freshman soccer. The team was undefeated.

Larry Martin, whose promotion to first vice president of the National Shawmut Bank was announced in the December notes, replied to our inquiry about his trip to Europe with news of '28ers seen there:

"This was entirely a business trip of about two months over the usual route, beginning with London and then on to Brussels, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Zurich, Milan, and finishing at Pans tor a stay of some days. You would be interested to know that I was able to stay one weekend with Walter and Ginny McKee in Geneva, which was really a splendid interlude in the journey. They are both well, and are most agreeably situated in a pleasant home on the shore of Lake Geneva and seem well on the road to becoming settled citizens. Walter travels a great deal, and lust before my arrival, had spent a considerable period of time in Madrid.

"Also I had the pleasure of meeting Maty Kruming in Paris just before her return to the United States on the Liberie. She and a friend had been travelling extensively in for some time, and were completing their stay in Paris at the time I arrived."

Walt McKee is regional director for Europe and the Near East for the Ford Motor Co.

Speaking of travellers, BUI and Greta Cogswell and their children returned January 4 from a two-week Caribbean cruise. ... Add Ed Collins' name to the long list of '28ers who took the grand tour of Europe last summer. From reports trickling in it looks like another big exodus to Europe next summer - too bad there isn't a '28er running a travel agency. Of course it would be a feather in Bill Harris' cap if you all booked through American Express and wrote their advertising department that you did it because of Bill Harris! Bill lectures and shows his travel pictures all winter from Coast to Coast for the American Express Travel Service. If you want to take a pleasant trip without leaving home, why not get Bill to speak to your club. (It's free.)

The latest '28er to go on the professional lecture circuit is Myles Lane, who made his debut in that league November 18 when he addressed the Winter Night Club in Omaha on the subject, "Through the Eyes of a Prosecutor." Myles spent the evening at Gil Swanson's home, and Gil was on the platform with him. His next talk is February 24 at Town Hall in New York on "International Gangsters and How They Operate." Myles has moved to 45 Tudor City Place, New York.

Earl Fain of Dallas, Chet Haltom of Fort Worth, and Jack Heston of Philadelphia, attended the highly successful southwestern regional conference which alumni and college officials held recently in Dallas. As chairman of the Alumni Council Committee on Admissions and Schools, Jack had an important part in the conference. A clipping service item from Philadelphia brings additional information about Jack Heston - he was elected president of the Philadelphia Wool & Textile Association.

Bob Maclellan, president of the Provident Life & Accident Insurance Co., Chattanooga, was honored by company officials and employes with a party at the home office on his completion of 25 years with the company.

Our No. 1 man in politics, Lane Dwinell, has announced that he will seek the Republican nomination for governor of New Hampshire in the elections of next September. Lane is president of the New Hampshire Senate. Gov. Hugh Gregg will not seek re-election. A clipping just received describes Lane as "One of the fastest-rising young politicians to hit the New Hampshire scene." Although long active in Lebanon affairs, he was first elected to the N. H. House in 1949, was made chairman of the important Ways and Means Committee. In 1951 he was returned for a second term and was elected speaker. He became Senate president in January of 1953. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1952, and is vice chairman of the Republican State Committee.

Here are two corrections for your copy of The First Twenty-Five Years. Don Chapman is listed as being single, but at reunion he apologized for forgetting to return his questionnaire, and said that he and Peggy O'Connor were married in Honolulu in 1942 and have four children - Marjorie, 1944, Bobbie, 1946, Shirley, 1948 and Richard, 1949. Don is manager of the Sears Roebuck store in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and got the prize for coming the greatest distance to reunion. The other error was my own doing - I just skipped a line when I was typing Paul Annable's biography and omitted his wife and children. So with apologies to Jane, I want to correct the record: Paul and Jane Thatcher were married in February 1940 (I ought to know - I was an usher) and have two children, Jane, born in 1940 and Elizabeth, born in 1945.

Al Bishop has moved East from Minneapolis and is now director of industrial relations, Ward La France Truck Corp., Elmira, N. Y. ... Frost Wilkinson has moved his dental office to the Upper Manhattan Medical Group Building, 1865 Amsterdam Ave., New York. ... Bill Monaco's new address is 8244 167th St., Jamaica, New York. Gordon Lowe has moved to 1335 East 43 St., Tulsa, Okla., and Topper Robinson has moved to 74 Prospect St., Turners Falls, Mass. ... Adrian Zeller is a food broker, 314 Produce Exchange Bldg., 139 S. Third St., Philadelphia.

A Christmas card from Joe Smith brings a welcome note on the back - Marcia is a sophomore at the Northfield School, East Northfield, Mass.; Joan is a freshman at Oyster Bay high school; and Fred is a third grader in Syosset, Long Island.

Treasurer Craig Haines says three mailings have gone out on the dues. If you're one of those who have overlooked them, won't you mail Craig a check right away.

ELECTED PRESIDENT: Arthur R. Gow '28, formerly executive vice president, has been made president of the Seamless Rubber Co., subsidiary of Rexall. He joined the company in 1929 as a trainee.

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

Treasurer, First National Bank, Boston, Mass.

Bequest Chairman,