1928
The most stunning news in some time was the death of Mai Halliday of a heart attack on January 1. Mai had attended the 25th reunion in Hanover, and we had no knowledge of any. illness.
He was visiting Chuck Eastman at his apartment in New York, and was seated in a chair when he slipped away quietly. Just the day before he had been made a partner in the Cincinnati law firm of Frost & Jacobs. Details of his distinguished career with the National Labor Relations Board will be found in the In Memoriam section.
Mai was a very popular member of the Class and gave unstintingly of his time in class activities. He served as assistant class agent for years, was co-chairman of the 1943 reunion in Washington, and was a faithful attendant at all Dartmouth gatherings. We shall miss him tremendously.
Lane Dwinell took the oath of office as 84th Governor of New Hampshire on January 6. He also became, on that date, an ex-officio Trustee of Dartmouth College. You will find a "profile" of Lane in a coming issue of the MAGAZINE.
Sam Magavern was appointed chairman of the New York State Board of Social Welfare by Governor Dewey on December 23. Sam, a Buffalo attorney, was first appointed to the board in 1947 and has been vice chairman of the fifteen-member board.
One of the best pictures in Dartmouth inPortrait 1955 is the one opposite the June calendar, taken by Adrian Bouchard and titled "Twenty-Five Years Out." In the relaxed group of '28ers and you'll recognize John Flanagan, George Pasfield, Bill Treanor,Phil Orsi, Paul Kruming, John Gulian and others. You ought to get a copy ($1.35 postpaid, Dartmouth Publications, Hanover).
Harry Bennert is the new president of the Dartmouth Alumni Club of Manchester, N. H.
Les Mason represented Dartmouth at the inauguration of Clifford Furnas as Chancellor of the University of Buffalo on January 7. Les is professor of history at New York State College of Teachers at Buffalo.
Jerry Warner writes from Bangkok that Rella, his wife, did not have the brain tumor operation for which she was flown to Johns Hopkins in December. The J. H. medicos found no tumor - the only thing they could suggest was that the medicines Rella had been given in Bangkok over a long period of time to knock out amoebic dysentery, had finally knocked her out. Jerry and two of thir daughters will fly early in January to his new post as Consul General in Melbourne, Australia, meeting Rella there. Their daughter Betty, 16, will stay with friends in Bangkok to finish the school term which ends in March, and then fly to Melbourne.
The Freshmen Fathers weekend will be held March 4-5, and not in February as we reported last month. Most of the dads will arrive Friday afternoon for a dinner and speaking program that evening. With twelve sons in the freshman class, '28 retains the lead it has held for the past two years.
There are now a total of 41 sons of '28ers at Dartmouth, including twenty sophomores, four juniors and five seniors.
Bun and Alma Goodrich have an addition to their family, a daughter Leslie, born in November. Their other children are John, 17, and Robert Bruce, 13.
Warren and Alice Burding have moved to 31 Ridge Croft Road, Bronxville, N. Y....
Gil Swanson and brother Clarke had their pictures in the December 20 issue of Time. ... A very reflective picture of Curly Prosser appeared in the December 6 issue of Advertising Age... . Our sympathy goes to ChetKellogg in the loss of his father, who died recently at the age of 80.
Bud and Gloria Osborn just returned to Bronxville from a week of skiing at the Lake Placid Club. Bud says the mountains aren't as high as at Sun Valley, but you can fall just as hard. The skiing Osborns spent several weeks skiing in Switzerland last winter.
Jack and Pearl Phelan and their two children went to Miami Beach over the holidays and took in the Orange Bowl game, and a side trip over to Bimini.
We are indebted to Professor Wolfenden of Dartmouth's Chemistry Department for the Russian opinion of our Bill Wheland. He came upon this gem in an article on "Theoretical Chemistry in Russia" in the October Journal of Chemical Education, from which we quote:
"Furthermore, G. W. Wheland is described as 'a loyal servant of the reactionary bourgeoisie' ... a 'blunderer in physics and propagandist of Machism' ... a man who 'misrepresents for class reasons the history of the development of theoretical organic chemistry.' "
Now that you've read the Russian opinion, contrast it to the citation read by President Dickey in awarding Bill the honorary degree of Doctor of Science at Commencement last June:
GEORGE WILLARD YVHELAND: native of Chattanooga, you ventured north to Dartmouth for the brilliant beginning of a distinguished career in science. A member of the Class of 1928, as a freshman you won the Churchill Prize for the quality of your character; as a sophomore you were awarded the Thayer Prize for distinction in mathematics; you were elected to Phi Beta Kappa in your junior year, and at the end of your senior year, after resisting the blandishments of mathematics and physics, you received a Dartmouth fellowship for graduate study in organic chemistry. Step by step no promise could have been better kept: a Harvard doctorate, four years as research fellow with Linus Paulding at California Institute of Technology, study in England on a Guggenheim fellowship and, since 1937, a member of Chicago's Chemistry faculty, your contributions as researcher, writer and teacher in recreating the theory of organic chemistry have fulfilled without sign of strain on vanity a judgment expressed by Dr. Paulding in 1938 to Professor Hartshorn, your Dartmouth mentor, that "there is no other man in the world who has a similar grasp of both organic chemistry and the quantum mechanics." For honor done and encouragement given her teaching mission, your College bestows on you her honorary Doctorate of Science.
From notes reaching us, it looks like a record turn-out for the class dinner at the Dartmouth Club in New York on February 16. Don't miss it!
A DARTMOUTH DAY: Lowell Pratt '29, president of A. S. Barnes and Company, publishersof "The Tumult and the Shouting" by Grantland Rice, accepts the 158,000th copy, presented byJohn Phillips '28 (left) of Vail-Ballou Press, Inc., as Dave Camerer '39, who edited it, and HughJohnson, vice president of A. S. Barnes, look on.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.
Treasurer, First National Bank, Boston, Mass.
Bequest Chairman,
