1928
At the annual Philadelphia Alumni Association dinner on January 25, the prize for the best attendance was awarded to the Class of '28, which accounted for seventeen of the 173 persons present. The prize, three bottles of champagne, was consumed promptly.
We're indebted to Dick Frame for the picture of the winning delegation which appears in this issue.
Present and in the picture were: John Phillips, our Class President, of Montclair, N. J., Herm Schnepel, our Class Agent, of South Orange, N. J., and the following Philadelphians-John and Vera Flanagan, Dick Frame, Al Fusonie, Jack and Nancy Heston, Jack and Dee McAvoy, Jack and Lucena McLaughlin, George and Suzanne Pasfield, Bill and Cyrene Williams, and Ernie Wright. The only sad note of the evening was that JackMcAvoy and the other men were mighty envious of Johnny Phillips' shock of hair, which is still as luxuriant as it was in college.
A large group of Philadelphlans are coming to the Class Dinner on February 16 at the Dartmouth Club of New York. From letters received from Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut and upstate New York, it looks like a big turn-out for this dinner.
John Phillips went to Chicago February 7 and has arranged to meet with several of the '28ers there for dinner.
The New York Times of January 30 carried an excellent picture of John Turkevich over the news story of his appointment as Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry at Princeton.
Phil Orsi was appointed an assistant vice president of the City Bank Farmers Trust Co., according to the New York papers of January 4. Phil has been with what he calls "the best trust company in the United States" since 1929, and for several years has been an assistant trust officer. He is also very active in spreading the good word about Dartmouth in Manhasset and surrounding Long Island communities.
Ev Field of Mt. Kisco, N. Y., rates a Wah-Hoo-Wah for furnishing a number of items of news for this issue. One is that on January 2, Jack and Fran Kenerson held open house at the Wellesley Hills Golf Club for 300 to meet Mary Louise's fiance- Mary Lou graduated from Skidmore in '53 at the age of 20, which impresses us plenty (do you know of anyone in our class graduating that young?). She was one of the beautiful girls who brightened our 25th reunion in Hanover, and then taught in Schenectady for a year. Last summer en route to England she met an RAF officer who proved to be Mr. Right! In typical Kenerson whirlwind style, amid trans-Atlantic flights and telephone calls, the happy couple arrived in Boston the day before Christmas. Mary Lou plans to be married at home in March.
Ev sent a New York Sun clipping containing a picture and news of the engagement of Rick Rickenbaugh's daughter Ann to Andrew S. Kelsey of Washington, D. C. Ann was another one of the beauties at our 25th reunion and graduated that same month from Smith. For the past year and a half she has been living in Washington where she is employed by the State Department. Her fiance graduated from the Bronxville, N. Y., High School, and from Dartmouth in 1950, where he was a member of Sigma Nu. He served as a U. S. Air Force cadet and is now employed by the State Department.
Ev Field's step-daughter, Barbara Penn, was married in the fall of 1953 to Vincent Raaf and lives in Linn, Mo., where her husband is a county agent in Agriculture. They have a girl, Gail, born last September.
Governor Harriman has asked Myles Lane to make a survey of the present laws and administrative procedures to ascertain whether they provide a sufficient barrier against Communist infiltration into the New York State Government. Myles expects to make a report to the Governor some time in February.
Bill Ballard attended the meetings of the Alumni Council in Hanover January 13 and 14 as the new faculty representative on the Council. Bill reported to the Council that there is more activity on the campus in all aspects of planning for the College's future than ever before.
Bill and Greta Cogswell left around February 1 on a 17-day cruise aboard the lie deFrance to Barbadoes, Trinidad, Curacao, Venezuela, Panama and Cuba.
A letter from Dee Runk, the first in years, says that he is an associate professor of biology at the University of Virginia and lives at "Hollymead," Albemarle County, Va. He farms on the side and at times is tempted to give up teaching for the life in the country. He has never married.
Recent visitors at the Hanover Inn include: Herman Schnepel, Bud Mann, Creighton Hart, Mr. and Mrs. Bud Ranney, Beef Vernon, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Simonds, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Morton, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Cutler, Amby McLaughlin, Ernie Bessette, Jack Heston and Red Edgar.
First call for the 1955 Alumni Fund — you will be hearing from Herm Schnepel and his assistant agents soon. Let's get Herm off to a fast start in his first year as Agent by giving generously and early.
Our class record of giving over the years is among the best - something of which we are all proud. However, we have slipped recently. As one who has scanned the details of our giving, and collaborated for twenty years in getting out the vote, so to speak, we have a few observations to make at this point. One such observation is that we would do very much better if a number of our regular givers, who can do so, would raise their sights and make their gifts more realistic in the light of their capacity. Another observation is that our record is usually short of its potentialities because of those men who want to give, can give and literally forget to give. Our third observation has to do with men who are able to make one-dollar, three-dollar, five-dollar and ten-dollar gifts, but do not do so because they consider such gifts too small to be of consequence. We commend to all the men who fall within these three categories a review of their situations, and a possible change of pace this year.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.
Treasurer, First National Bank, Boston, Mass.
Bequest Chairman,
