1928

This is the open season for vice presidents. Announcement of their election popped up in the past few weeks from all over the country. Our last column listed three new ones, today we have two more. In San Francisco the president of United States Steel's Columbia-Geneva steel division announced the appointment of Honie Westhaver as vice president-operations for the division. Honie has been with U. S. Steel since 1928. In January 1954 he was transferred to the division's San Francisco headquarters as general manager of operations.

In Boston, Jones, McDuffee & Stratton, 145-year-old food service equipment firm, made Wes McSorley a vice president. Wes has been With the firm 25 years, specializing in kitchen and dining-room planning for hotels, restaulants and institutions. His son Dick, the first son of a '28er to enter Dartmouth, graduated in 1950.

Al letter has been appointed superintendent of schools in Maynard, Mass. Al has been principal of the Maynard High School for fifteen years. During the war he served with the Air Force with the rank of captain.

What the New England press describes as the most modern fish plant in the country has been opened in Norwood, Mass., by Ed Sawyer. The Edw. W. Sawyer & Co. plant has a capacity of 32,000 fish sticks an hour and employs 45 persons in its spotless kitchens. Ed joined the national fish department of the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. in 1929 and by 1936 was general manager of the department and held this position until 1942 when he joined the War Production Board. He later became a lieutenant colonel in the Army Quartermaster Corps and was responsible for all perishable food buying for both domestic and overseas consumption by the Army. After the war, he resumed his position with the A. & P., but resigned in 1947 to form his own company to wholesale fish and other frozen foods.

Just received a letter from Lawson VanRiper telling of the sudden death of Roy Martin in Toronto, Canada, on September 17. The cause of his death is unknown, but he had been in the hospital there for two weeks. Roy had been working for Army Ordnance in Huntsville, Ala. Recently he had re-married, his wife being the former Gwen Reid McGregor of Toronto. A brother, George Martin of Derby, Conn., is the only other survivor.

Sam Dennis is back in Washington after almost two years in Pakistan as an advisor to the U. S. Mission in that country. ... Jack Collins is a candidate for the town council of North Adams, Mass., where he has been manager of the J. F. Collins Co., wholesale tobacco dealers, since 1928. Jack served on the council from 1933 to 1936. ... Larry Miter has moved from Houston, Texas, to 2547 Bolton, Cleveland 18, Ohio.

It's tough trying to get news to fill these columns every month, but this month was worse than it has been in a long time. So I just had to pack part of the family in the car and head for New York City, which boasts a '28 population of over 100. Of course, I also was influenced by the fact that I had acquired two tickets for the opening game of the World Series. Son Scott (age 13), a Dodger fan whose prodigious memory for baseball statistics should make him wealthy if he gets on the $64,000 question program, saw the game with me. To our surprise, we sat next to Myrt Power and Paddy Keogh of recent TV fame.

Well, the next morning, I got on the phone and corralled plenty of news before we had to start home. Beef Vernon, This Week magazine advertising executive, said Craw Pollock and Gil Swanson, plus Gil's brother, Clarke, were going to Ebbets Field with him the next day and also to the races. Tried to reach JoeGoodwillie at his management consultant firm but found he is now with Ungerer & Co., 161 Sixth Ave., and a hard man to catch in his office.

John Phillips said he had been in Hanover the week before to take son John up. He pointed out that Al Fusonie's sophomore son Doug is attracting a lot of attention as he relieves Bill Beagle at quarterback. At right guard is Donnelly, who might be Moose Donnelly's son - we'll have to confirm this. The next three calls drew blanks: — Bill Treanor of Union Carbide was in conference in another part of the building, Barney Nova was out, Art Hassell's secretary couldn't get him to the phone despite the bonging bells or flashing lights - whatever they do at B. Altman & Co.

Paul Kruming said he and Mary had a wonderful six weeks in Spain and Portugal. They saw Clark and Amber Harrington on the boat going over, and spent the night with Walt andGisele McKee on a quick trip to Zurich. In addition to really seeing Spain, the Krumings visited Tangier and Gibraltar and spent ten days on Majorca, where they couldn't find the Harringtons. Next I called Clark Harrington at CBS and learned that they spent most of their time on Majorca, in a suburb of Palma, the principal city. They left New York June 30 and returned September 2 on the Vulcania. Their daughter, a senior at Wellesley, went to Italy with Clark's mother. ... Bill Cogswell at Fahnestock & Co. was busier than a onearmed paper-hanger, juggling phones like brokers like to do, but I did learn that the Cogswells were leaving September 10 for six weeks in California. ... Don Solis at Cities Service had no news, but said he often laughs over an item in my notes a long time ago about how it takes me 3½ minutes to get from my home to my office. He says he leaves his home in Springdale, Conn., at 7, gets to his office at 8:40; at night he leaves at 5, gets home at 7.

We hear that Tax Connell has resigned from the Dartmouth faculty, where he was professor of zoology. Tax hasn't been in Hanover much since he went in the Army in 1943. After a three-year stint in the Army there was a longer leave of absence to do research for the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Japan. Since 1954 he has been with the Division of the Medical Sciences of the National Research Council, 2101 Constitution Ave., Washington. His son John graduated from Dartmouth last June.

Chuck Bruder, '28 Bequest Chairman, attended the fifth annual conference of Bequest Chairmen in Hanover September 16-17. ... Other recent visitors at the Hanover Inn include: Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Van Riper, Al Fusonie, Had Cantril, Lanky Langdell, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Cole, Mr. and Mrs. William Morton.

Have you mailed your Class dues to CraigHaines?

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

Treasurer, First National Bank, Boston, Mass.

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