1928
The dates for our next Hanover reunion have been set and now is the time to start making plans to attend. Write them down June 10-12, Monday through Wednesday. Midweek reunions in Hanover were started to relieve the serious overcrowding of dormitory and eating facilities and the plan has become firmly established.
The reunion picture has changed in the past few years. Ours was the next-to-last class to hold its 25th on Commencement weekend — and what a weekend it was, with a wonderful turnout and President Eisenhower there to add a large dash of excitement!
Now Commencement is reserved for the 600 seniors, their 2500 guests, and the 50-year class. The 25-year class and younger classes return the following weekend.
We will meet in Hanover between the two weekends, sharing the town with the classes of 1926 and 1927. The College assures us a much greater choice of dining facilities, also the use of its best dormitories, and an allotment of rooms at the Hanover Inn in excess of anything possible on a weekend. A full program, including the President's reception, Players show, Alumni Luncheon and meeting is scheduled for midweek reunion classes, with the added attraction of the Hanover Holiday.
Sid Hayward assures us that we will find the campus quiet (well, not too quiet), uncrowded and a relaxed setting for seeing classmates and friends in other classes. So start planning a family vacation trip to Hanover for June 10-12. You'll hear more about it from Reunion Chairman John Cronin.
A Wah Hoo Wah for Class Agent HermSchnepel and all his hard-working assistants who did such a terrific job this year. We raised $21,089.79, with 90% participation, the highest participation in our Green Derby group. During most of May and June we held first place in our Green Derby but were nosed out at the finish by 1927 and 1929. As Jack Herpel said, "If '28 only had its fair share of monied angels, we would be practically impossible to catch."
Another Wah Hoo Wah for Bill Morton who was chairman of the entire Alumni Fund campaign this year and whose enthusiasm helped inspire the 2,000 Fund workers to make this "Dartmouth's Greatest Year." The dollar total of $864,000 was the largest in Fund history and the alumni participation of 70.9% is a new national and Dartmouth record. Amid his other duties, Bill took time to help his own class materially.
As any Fund worker knows, being a successful Class Agent is an exacting and timeconsuming job. Yet right in the middle of the campaign last spring, Herm Schnepel changed jobs without batting an eye or loosening his grip on the reins. He is now sales manager for New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and the District of Columbia for Beckley-Cardy, publishers of books for schools and libraries.
I have the sad duty of reporting the death of Bill Sreenan on July 20 in Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Further details will be found in the In Memoriam column.
Dana Condon, Havana manager for the United Fruit Company, has been promoted and transferred to Guatemala City, where, starting September 20, he will be in charge of the traffic departments of United Fruit in Central America. It will mean a good deal of traveling in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and British Honduras. The Condons lived in Havana for the past eleven years. They went there from Costa Rica, where Dana had been employed in the Company's traffic department for seventeen years. Their daughter Margaret worked this summer in the Friends Hospital in Philadelphia and after a few weeks vacation in Havana is returning to her studies at Swarthmore.
Ken Turner needs and deserves all the support we can give him in his new business enterprise. Two years ago he was stricken with polio. After fifteen months of hospitalization he is able to be at home with his family. However, he has been left almost completely paralyzed and requires the aid of a male attendant at all times. Determined to do something useful, Ken has started a magazine subscription agency. He can get you any magazine published today and would like to send you rates on any magazines in which you are interested. Perhaps you know friends who would be glad to take a sub- scription. His address is Kenneth W. Turner, Free Hill Road, Tomkins Cove, N. Y. Let's rally around a classmate who needs our help.
A note from Les Mason says he stopped off in Sarasota to see his roommate HamHagar and enjoyed dinner and a fine evening with him. Roy Myers came through Buffalo on a lecture tour recently and spent two evenings with Les.
Fran and Anneta Young finally got around to informing us of the birth of Mary Dana Young at Richardson House, Boston, on February 21. "Looks like nobody but Winston Churchill," says Fran..,. Jack Cook claims A.T.&T.'s Long Lines Department keeps him so busy he neglected to tell us about the arrival of Jill Martha Cook at Elgin, Ill., on April 14. He and Phyllis have a son, John Jr., who is 9. At this stage in life, births are practically a rarity — don't forget to notify us.
Don Benjamin recently won a golf tournament at the Longmeadow (Mass.) Country Club.... Maury Cogan has been elected president of the Dartmouth Alumni Club of Cleveland.... New York's Secretary of State Carmine De Sapio swore in Barney Nova as Executive Deputy Secretary of State on June 20.
Brougham Wallace was elected a director of the Interwoven Stocking Co.... Dick Wallis has been appointed assistant to the president of Robertson Paper Box Co., Montville, Conn. Formerly he was with the American Paper Goods Co. in Kensington, Conn., and later was merchandising manager of the Continental Can Co., in Newark, N. J. He plans to live in New London Al Lerer, who has been acting superintendent of schools in Maynard, Mass., was appointed permanent superintendent. He has had 27 years' experience in the Maynard school system....Franklin Moore's daughter Joan was married in June to Robert P. Stevens of Arlington, Mass., in St. John's Episcopal Church in Newtonville, Mass. Joan was graduated from Skidmore this spring and the bridegroom from Yale.
Jack and Pearl Phelan and son Jack spent two weeks in August visiting their daughter Martha and her husband, Lt. Bruce McHenry, at Bad Nauheim near Frankfurt. After a side trip to Berlin, they went by air to Nuremberg, Munich, Paris and London before coming home.... Hank and HelenGraupner sent us a card from Munich saying, "Been looking around here for you ... here by way of Switzerland and Italy." ... Jack andFran Kenerson made a quick trip to Germany last month to spend some time with their daughter who is there with her husband, an officer in the British RAF.
On various weekends during the summer we induced the following '28ers to visit us at our cottage at Mountain Lake near Troy: John and Vera Flanagan, George and EleanorKlein, Sam and Hordy Gifford, Jack and CornieHerpel, and Herm and Marguerite Schnepel and their two lovely little girls. We certainly enjoy seeing our '28 friends, so don't forget our latchstring is always out for anyone hardy enough to penetrate this far into the wilderness.
John J. Scott '28 of Greenwich, Conn., has been named Associate General Counsel by the Socony Mobil Oil Company, New York.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.
First National Bank, Boston 6, Mass. Treasurer,
Bequest Chairman,
