1928
Cal Billings was honored at the annual Alumni Officers dinner in Hanover on May 7 when he received the Best Club Secretary of the Year award. Before 400 key Dartmouth workers gathered in Thayer Hall, Sid Hayward read a citation describing Cal's outstanding work as secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Hartford and presented him with a framed etching of Dartmouth Hall.
On hand to congratulate Cal were JohnPhillips, president, Craig Haines, treasurer, Chuck Bruder, bequest chairman, Dick Beshlin, secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Trenton, N. J., Bill Kimball, dean of the Thayer School, and your secretary.
It was a busy weekend for everyone. Friday afternoon President and Mrs. Dickey gave a reception at their home for the visiting alumni. The '28 representation was enhanced by the presence of Peggy Phillips, EleanorHaines, Genie Billings and Ruth Beshlin. Among the faculty members present was BillBallard.
The secretaries, treasurers and agents met in separate groups Friday evening to discuss their problems and Saturday morning held a joint meeting to hear various officers of the College. At the dinner Saturday evening, John Dickey was as usual the main speaker and announced the long-delayed building program which the Trustees recently approved to meet Dartmouth's urgent needs. Several new dormitories will be started soon and revised plans for the Hopkins Memorial Center are being worked on. Details will be found in the front of this issue.
Saturday afternoon we watched the freshman lacrosse team trim Nichols Junior College 21-5, with Ken Graf's son, John, helping to run up the score. While this was going on, John Phillips and others watched the freshman baseball team play Harvard, with DougFusonie doing a bang-up job at third base.
The freshman lacrosse game ended in time for us to watch the varsity lacrosse team lose an exciting game to Yale. Students around us said Dartmouth would have won if RonnieCampion and four other members of the team had not come down the day before with mononucleosis, a virus infection which puts you out of circulation for a week. We called at the Campions' and found Ron dejected about the lacrosse score. Jim Campion was off fishing, but Helen gave us an interesting account of the Mediterranean cruise from which they had just returned. Chuck Bruder and I drove over to Norwich to see Herb and MimiSensenig - and enjoyed some of Mimi's famous Linzer cakes.
Before the final dinner referred to above, the Haines attended a cocktail party his Phi Sig house gave, celebrating its 50th anniversary, and the Billings and I dropped in at the Zete house, which was having a Parents' Weekend. We were delighted to find Jack andNancy Heston and Chet and Alice Kellogg there with their sons. Most of us wound up a busy day by attending the Wellesley-Dartmouth Glee Club concert in Webster Hall.
At the Dartmouth Club of Hartford dinner for President Dickey on April 28, the following '28ers were present: Bob Grey of Cheshire; Brad Parker; Cal Billings; Herb Russell, who brought four guests including the headmaster of Suffield Academy and three of our young alumni who teach there; Bun Goodrich and his son John, who has won a Navy scholarship and been accepted for Dartmouth next fall; and Joe Tidd of New Haven (recently elected head of the PTA at Hamden High), who brought the guidance director of Hamden High.
Dick Wallis is now product sales manager for the Paper Container Division of Continental Can Co., Newark, and has moved from Connecticut to 600 Union Ave., Belleville, N. J.
Vic and Mary Hartjens and their 11-yearold son Peter sailed from New York May 7 on the SS Homeric for a two-month jaunt through England, Holland, France, Italy and Switzerland. Vic is a salesman for the Pelzman-Grob Co., a wholesale hardware firm in Washington, D. C.
Roy Martin is a civilian employee of the Quartermaster Corps and lives at 1205 E. Clinton St., Huntsville, Ala.
Luther Steward is with the National Federal Employees Association in Washington. His daughter Lydia is being married to Ens. R. A. Ways on June 4, the day after he graduates from Annapolis.
Brougham and Claire Wallace are flying to Ireland May 29, and after a week there will spend three weeks in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Ernie Earley '18 reports that the Wallaces were at the Flamingo Hotel, Miami Beach, in March.
Gordon Graham has left radio station WCBS and is now in the New York office of Maxon & Co., an advertising agency.
Fred Tilton of Laconia, N. H., on April 11 began a new assignment as legislative analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and is now operating out of the Pentagon in Washington.
Ed Lilley's daughter Hope was chosen to be Miss Utah in the annual Festival of States beauty contest at St. Petersburg. Fla., in April. Hope is a high school senior in St. Petersburg, where her grandmother lives.
Ann Rickenbaugh was married to Andrew Kelsey '49 of Scarsdale, N. Y., on March 26, in the chapel of St. John's Episcopal Church, Denver. They will leave soon for Beirut, Lebanon, where Andy will take graduate studies and do research at the American University.
President John Phillips had lunch with Paul Kruming the other day and persuaded him to take on the job of chairman of our 30th Reunion which, as you have probably forgotten, takes place in June 1957, when '27, '28 and '29 will reune together. Paul has a lot of good ideas for an interesting three or four days. He expects to have a large committee and also asks everyone with an idea for reunion to write him.
Paul has been very busy with his advertising business, having been in the Far East most of the winter. He left November 18 for London, then to Rome and on to Bombay. He saw Sam Dennis in Karachi, where Sam is an adviser to the U.S. Operations Mission. In addition to Pakistan, Paul covered India, Burma, Ceylon, then went on January 1 to Egypt, and arrived home the end of January. The entire trip was by air. In April he went to Puerto Rico and I believe he and Mary are going to Spain this summer.
The '28 dinner in New York on April 20 was a great success, with 27 present, including: Don and Billy Solis, George and EleanorKlein, Bill and Greta Cogswell and their guests, Mr. and Mrs. Colby, Phil and HelenOrisi, Court and Jane Keller, John and PeggyPhillips, Sam and Trudie Magavern, Joe andRuth Smith, Jerry Johnston, Herm and Marguerite Schnepel, Ev and Katharine Field, Irvand Mickey Engelman, and Os and MarySkinner.
The next '28 gathering in the New York area will be June 25 at the Long Island Dartmouth Club's "Family Party." You'll hear more about it in the '28 Campaigner.
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