1927
The long summer vacation for Class Secretaries is over, and we are starting out on -what should be a very eventful year for the Class of 1927, culminating with our tremendous Thirtieth Reunion next June. The dates, which I hope you will all circle on your calendars with a big red pencil, are Monday through Wednesday, June 10 through 12. Holding our reunion at the beginning of the week will be a new experience for us, but if we can judge by the experience of the classes that have reuned at that time for the last two years, it is going to be most enjoyable. This is the week immediately following Commencement, and we, along with the Classes of 1926 and 1928, will have Hanover to ourselves. It is also the beginning of the week of Hanover Holiday, and any of you who so desire may make arrangements to stay through the entire Hanover Holiday program.
In case some of you are wondering why the pattern of reunion weekend has been changed, the reason is that the reunions are just getting too big to be accommodated on one weekend, hence the necessity for spreading them out over a full week. Those of you who remember the crowded conditions in Hanover at the times of our Twentieth and Twenty-Fifthwill, I am sure, appreciate the comparative privacy that we will have next June. Perhaps getting away at the beginning of the week will require a little more advance planning than a weekend trip, and if so, the time to start the planning is now. Shorty Oliver and his committee have been at work since last spring, laying the groundwork of plans that will assure the greatest reunion ever, and you can be sure that when you arrive in Hanover in June you will be in for a real treat.
In the meantime, plans are going forward for the Class dinner in New York on October 31, the Wednesday before the Yale game. BobStevens is chairman of the committee for this affair, which is billed as the greatest gathering of 1927 men ever held outside of Hanover. The dinner will be held at the Dartmouth Club, 37 East 39th St. for the benefit of non-New Yorkers, with pre-dinner festivities starting as early as anyone wants to get there. Dud Bonsai and Brick Stone are billed as the feature attractions, and anything that they say is bound to be extremely interesting. Entertainment will be provided by the quartette of Girault, Gillespie, Greener and Welty, which is the next best thing to having the Glee Club.
These New York Class dinners are always most enjoyable affairs, and it looks as though this one will surpass all that have gone before. As this is written, it looks as though there will be a goodly attendance of out-of-towners as well as those living in and around New York, and one thing is certain, you will see a lot of your friends whom you haven't seen in years.
While this is old news by now, certainly this column should record for posterity the fact that 1927 won her Green Derby this year, for the first time since 1950. Trailing through the campaign, we came through with our usual strong spurt at the finish, and this time it was enough to push us over the line in front. All possible credit, and the gratitude of all of us goes to Head Agent Howie Mullin, Regional Agents Bob Williamson and Fred Page, and the 37 clasmates who made up their team. With your help they set a new record for the Class in the amount contributed to Dartmouth, and the one cloud in the otherwise bright picture of our performance in that there are still not enough of us sharing in this great effort.
The second annual 1927 Father and Son Weekend was held on May 18 and 19, with a gathering on Friday evening at the Outing Club House, and a dinner on Saturday at the Inn Ski Hut. There were 34 in attendance, including a few daughters, and those who were there reported that it was an enjoyable occasion.
Marty Heifer, Superintendent of Schools at Binghampton, N. Y., spent several weeks during the summer attending a workshop for school administrators at Columbia University. Marty's oldest son, Sturtevant, who graduated from Dartmouth in 1951, followed by four years in the Navy, is now enrolled at the University of London, working toward a Master's degree. His second son, Jim, sandwiched his two years in the Army between his sophomore and junior years at Dartmouth, and is now back in Hanover. He is a Senior Fellow and received the Richard Mandel Prize for free thought in writing.
Art Lund, in addition to holding down a full-time job as an accountant with the C. S. Bowen Co. in Baltimore, is also Professor of Business Administration at Eastern College of Commerce and Law. Art's older son, John, entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1960 this fall.
A fine, and much appreciated note from Brugy Bruguiere contains so much of interest that I would like to share it with all of you.
"Your nostalgic birthday card with the snowbound Model T was so effective that you have at long last succeeded in jarring me into epistolary action — and no mean feat, I might add. At any rate I'm still alive and kicking — kicking about several things like high taxes, the frenetic pace of modern living, the various dolors of dealing with my teen-age boy in the who-gets-the-family-car era, and last, though not least, I am kicking strenuously about getting older. As someone said I'm being dragged kicking and screaming into middle age. My only consolation is that by strange concidence, it appears to be happening to everyone else in 1927.
"The other week I had the very great pleasure of renewing my old friendship with Ken Ballantyne, whom I hadn't seen in almost 25 years. We had a grand reunion which started at the St. Francis and ended on the other side of the Bay Bridge at my home. Ken looks great, albeit grey-haired (at least he's got his) and a bit thicker around the middle. But otherwise the same Ken I knew and liked in college and after. He had photos of his lovely teen-age daughters which prompted my son to express the thought that he wished Ken had brought the daughters instead of their pictures. Incidentally, the reason for Ballantyne's appearance in the far west was that he was headed for the Antipodes'—a.sort of flying financial negotiator for his firm, Kidder Peabody, with the Aussie and New Zealand governments.
"On other 1927 fronts, we had an informal Class lunch out here a couple of weeks ago to which came Roly Howes, Frank Coulter, Phil Thompson, Bill Abbott, Bruce McKennan and Dan Libby. It was a good group and we had a nice talk. We may make it a regular thing.
"As for me, I'm continuing as editor of Western Advertising, as I have been for the past three years, and liking it better than ever. It's a good spot-you can sit up here and observe the advertising rat race from an ivory tower eminence."
Doane Arnold, second vice president of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., has been elected president of the Home Office Life Underwriters Association.
Gus Cummings, according to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, has been transferred from Pittsburgh to Baltimore as vice president and assistant general manager of the Metal Products Division of Koppers Co., Inc. From Gus comes word that for the time being his address is Apt. 10-C, The Warrington Apts., 3908 North Charles St., Baltimore 18, Md. I hope to see Gus at the New York dinner, at which time I'll be able to get more details about his move.
Lee Greenebaum was elected chairman of the Hertz Corporation at their annual meeting in Chicago on May 21. Lee was elected vice-chairman of Hertz at the time of the merger between Hertz and his own concern, Metropolitan Distributors.
Josh Davis is general chairman of the drive to raise two and a half million dollars to expand facilities and services at Mountainside Hospital, Montclair, N. J.
Bus Turpin's elder son, Miles, was married on June 17 in Altadena, Calif., to Miss Ruth Mary Bless. Miles graduated last year from the University of California, and is a lieutenant in the U. S. Army.
The New York Times, on July 9, carried the report issued by the special committee of the New York Bar Association on the Federal Loyalty-Security Program. Dud Bonsai was the chairman of this committee. The report urged reforms in the federal security risk program in order to avoid as much as possible encroachment on individual liberty. Dud is senior partner of the law firm of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt and Mosle, and is a specialist on private international law. From 1942 to 1945 he was chief counsel for the Office of Inter-American Affairs in Washington, and was one of sixteen members of the International Commission of Jurists which convened in Berlin in 1952 to learn about Communist perversion of law in East Germany. Dud's talk at the Class dinner on October 31 should be most interesting and instructive.
Ed Miner, president of Orange County Community College, was the principal speaker at the commencement exercises of the TriValley High School in Grahamsville, N. Y., on June 23. Prior to assuming his present post in 1950, Ed was superintendent of schools at Wellesley, Mass., and professor of education at colleges in the state of Washington and at the University of Pennsylvania.
Don't forget the Class dinner at the Dartmouth Club on the 31st. See you there!
Secretary, Pine Hill Farm, West River Rd., Perrysburg, Ohio
Treasurer, Apt. 10C/3908 N. Charles St., Baltimore 18, Md.
Bequest Chairman,
