1928
After four years service at the U. S. Coast Guard headquarters for New England in Boston, Commander Sherm Baketel has been detached from command of the U.S.S. Duane, based in Boston, and ordered to Coast Guard headquarters in Washington for a three-year hitch. His home address is 3210 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Washington. When he left the Duane, the crew presented him with a beautiful silver plate, suitably inscribed with his name and that of the ship. He and Helen have two daughters, Mrs. James F. Dykes of Manhasset, N. Y., and Mrs. David Systrom, recently married. The Systroms are students at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
Our best news gatherer seems to be President John Phillips, who arranges class dinners when he sees a business trip coming up - and vice versa. His latest expedition was to Chicago, about which he writes:
"I had a very pleasant reunion in Chicago with Paul Cutler, Fred and Harry Stone, Elly Jones,Larry Kenney and Bill Alford. I dropped them a line before I got there and Bill did some phoning to round up the bunch. The boys reported Bill had nothing to do with it - that his secretary did all the work. We met in my room but when the Sarsaparilla and Root Beer looked low, Elly decided it was time for dinner.
"Paul took us to the University Club tor a tine steak dinner. It was the first time I had seen some of them since they were graduated but they all seemed to be in good shape. If Fred and Harry had only been as big as they are now they would have made good tackles for us back in 1927."
Did you see the full-page of pictures of Bud McKenney's Theatre of the Sea on the Florida Keys in This Week magazine on March 21? Featured in all the pictures was "Buttons," the 400-pound porpoise with which Jack Herpel swam a couple years ago.
We have letters from the Library of Congress and the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 9 Ashburton Place, Boston, thanking the Class for the gift of a copy of The First Twenty-Five Years (our reunion book, in case you've forgotten the title).
We're still receiving checks toward the book deficit - latest to find our mimeograph note which had been kicking around the house for months was Bill Wheland, busy professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago.
Red Jenkins' son, Ted, is a freshman at Lehigh, getting set to be an engineer. He is pledged Phi Delta Theta. Daughter Barbara, 20, is in Europe for a few months' travel. The "Old Man" made three stripes in the USNR-R last year.
Roy Myers gave five lectures to high school audiences in our bailiwick early in March, but didn't give us the dates in advance and we missed him. "The Romance of Words" is a popular lecture and Roy is dashing all over the country giving it.
John Flanagan says he had a nice chat with Jack Waller at the Colony in Delray Beach in March, but that George Boughton was away.... Vera Flanagan saw Jack and LucenaMcLaughlin at the Philadelphia Flower Show. ... George and Suzanne Pasfield are on a Caribbean cruise.... The New York boys are having a class dinner at the Dartmouth Club April 7.
Jim Montague, artist and writer who wrote such an outstanding article on George Dana Lord for the February MAGAZINE, now divides his time between 77 Larch Road, Cambridge, Mass., and New Ipswich, N. H.
Howie Moss is copy chief at the Kaplan Bruck Advertising Agency, 250 West 57 St., New York, and lives at Fox Hollow Farm, Pipersville, Pa.
Norm Costello is now a brigadier general, USA, stationed at Fort Amador, Canal Zone. ... Hsi-Jui Shen is associated with Henningsen & Co., Ltd., St. George Building, Hong Kong Collie Weeks, the thread company executive, has moved to Harbor Road, Sands Point, Port Washington, N. Y.
Paul Kruming went to Mexico recently, missed Clark Blyth, who was away. Paul did see Chet Haltom in Fort Worth.
Ed Collins writes that Warren and GertrudeClark dropped in to see him in Pine Plains, N. Y., recently. They had not seen each other in fifteen years. The Clarks' son is attending Boston University School of Business Administration and their daughter is a freshman in high school. Ed repaid the visit later and enjoyed seeing the beautiful regional high school at Falls Village, Conn., where Warren is assistant principal, and spending an evening at the Clarks' home in Salisbury. Part of the evening was spent looking over the Aegis and the 25 th Reunion Book.
A Lexington, Mass., paper says Dr. HowardNewell has been elected president of the Symmes Arlington Hospital medical staff. He is an anesthesia specialist and a general practitioner and has been with the Symmes Hospital since 1936.
Lane Dwinell's campaign for the GOP nomination for governor of New Hampshire is big news in New Hampshire. At a recent dinner at the Carpenter Hotel in Manchester, Lane told a cheering crowd of 350 friends and backers that he "will not advocate a sales tax" if elected next November. He also analyzed the state's financial position to prove that a sales tax is not needed.
Also running for office is Mrs. AlexanderKerr of North Plainfield, N. J., who has filed a nominating petition seeking election to a three-year term on the Board of Education of that city. Mildred was appointed to the Board in May 1953 to fill an unexpired term.
Al Bishop, formerly director of industrial relations for the Ward LaFrance Truck Corp. in Elmira, N. Y., has been appointed School Administrator in Naples, N. Y.... The DickKlincks have moved from Summit, N. J., to 1565 Forest Ave., Winter Park, Fla GeorgePasfield, has moved his office to 355-B Lancaster Ave., Haverford.
Fred Cole is certainly a busy man: Monday mornings he gives a course in advertising at the Chamberlain School of Retailing in Boston, a course he has given for three years. That was fun, so he took on another assignment, teaching business English at Northeastern University Friday evenings. Then, in between times, he is involved in the usual mad race of an advertising agency (McMillan & Marsden) of which he was elected a vice president this year. One of the partners is Bob McMillan '25. To cap a hectic schedule, he has just been asked to give a series of Saturday morning lectures on "Business Correspondence" for the office staff of a company just outside of Boston.
Let's get those Alumni Fund checks in earlier this year. Have you mailed yours?
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.
Class Agent, Fahnestock & Co., 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York 20, N. Y.
