1928
Bill Morton has been promoted to executive vice president of the Onondaga County Savings Bank. He has been with the bank since 1934 and was elected a vice president in 1948. He will continue to be in direct charge of bond investments and the public relations program. Our thanks to banker Phil Orsi for the news about Bill and also about the class dinner.
Jim Campion was a surprise attendant at the class dinner April 7 - he had just stopped in at the Dartmouth Club for dinner while Helen was having dinner with a college classmate. He gave the boys art inside view of Hanover that they all appreciated. Also present were President John Phillips, Hank Walker,Herb Russell, Art Holden, Irv Engelman, PhilOrsi and Dave McCathie.
This was McCathie's first New York '28 dinner - jobs in Port Jervis, Philadelphia and way stations having interfered. He is now in the metropolitan area with a lush job as manager of the Strathmore-Vanderbilt Country Club in Manhasset, Orsi's home town. The club is the former home of Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney who brought up Gloria Vanderbilt, and Dave's daughter now occupies Gloria's bedroom. Dave is doing a swell job and is well liked by the members.
Honie West haver writes:
"One of my friends, in Omaha sent me the enclosed clipping about a fire at Dick Walker's residence. The picture is rather a novelty as it shows six firemen, none of whom have an axe in their hands. Although I am not on the Omaha Chamber of Commerce, I consider it worthwhile to advertise the fact that on one occasion, at least, six firemen got together without an axe.
"Since seeing you in June, quite a few things have happened to the Westhavers, including my transfer to San Francisco. We are currently in the process of selling our house in Salt Lake and have just bought another in Hillsborough, which is a few miles south on the Peninsula."
The fire was discovered by the Walkers' daughter, Jann, who fled her second-floor bedroom as flames burst through the ceiling. Sparks from a log fire in the living room fireplace had burned through the roof and embers had dropped to the floor and burned through to the second-floor ceiling. The fire caused heavy damage to the upper part of the house and contents.
Librarian Dick Sullivan was recently elected president of the Greater Lawrence Community Chest. He is a past president of the Lawrence Rotary Club which he is currently serving as secretary.
Ralph Church has been appointed assistant general counsel of the Equitable Life Insurance Co. of lowa. He has been with the company fifteen years.
Bill and Greta Cogswell returned May 5 from a five-week vacation in Europe. They went by air to Rome, then Naples, Sorrento, Capri, Florence, Venice, Vienna, The Hague, Paris, Dublin and home by air.
President John Phillips, and Cal Billings, secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Hartford, attended the alumni officers meetings in Hanover April 30-May 1. Treasurer Craig Haines was unable to attend. He had a kidney stone operation and was progressing well when he came down with jaundice, and has been away from work for three months. Your secretary was unable to attend, due to business complications.
Red Edgar was laid up during February and March. Red had a ruptured disc operation to try to cure some sciatic nerve trouble, and has had a rough time of it.
John Nixon was elected to the Newton (Mass.) board of aldermen last fall and is now an expert on municipal affairs.... Chuck andBlim Hazzard have moved to 179 Seven Bridge Road, Chappaqua, N. Y.... Dick Rendell is back with the American Broadcasting Corp. as a news commentator. His address is 4461 Connecticut Ave., Washington.
Beginning June 1 Dick Klinck will be head man in The National Bank of New England at East Haddam, Conn. He and Kay have rented a house on the river at Old Lyme. Dick joined Merck & Co. in April 1951 as assistant treasurer. Merck had been growing fabulously for three years, discovering cortisone, etc. Unfortunately a gradual decline in sales began just after Dick's arrival and the first of this year, when the drop reached 50%, Dick was told he would not be needed. Dick is very happy about getting back into banking, in which he had thirteen years experience with the Irving Trust Co. in New York and one year with the First National Bank of Boston. Dick, Kay and Louise, 13, have been vacationing in Winter Park, Fla. The twins, age 20.. are in the Army - Stephen at Fort Hood, Texas, and Stanley at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. Donald '51, expects to get his M.A. in English Lit at Columbia in June and will teach English at Loomis School beginning in September.
Mary and I, plus our four children and a Danish girl who is visiting us, enjoyed a three-week trip to Miami in April. Thanks to scientific loading of the station wagon we had plenty of room, even after the inevitable acquisitions during the trip - which included a baby alligator.
Highlight of our vacation was a visit to BudMcKenney's Theatre of the Sea, halfway between Miami and Key West. Bud was on hand to greet us and at his invitation, Scotty, age 11, and I went swimming with Bud and his two famous jumping porpoises.
Had a pleasant lunch (delayed by an unusual cloudburst) with Art Vandenberg, who is thoroughly enjoying his first teaching job. His two courses in the Government Department at the University of Miami are filled to capacity.
One evening, undaunted by another prolonged cloudburst, Mary and I drove to Delray Beach for a very pleasant evening with George and Agnes Boughton and PaulKnowles, who dropped in after a meeting of the vestry of his church.
The Alumni Fund campaign is almost over and we suggest you ask yourself a question, "Have I done my utmost this year for the College ?"
FATHER'S DAY: Among the presents Eddie Flanders '28 received at the baby shower given him by his colleagues in Atlantic City, his insomnia bib made the biggest hit.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.
Class Agent, Fahnestock & Co., 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York 20, N. Y.
