1928
A goodly number of '28ers appear in the public print this month. On December 29 the John Van de Poele Phelans announced the engagement of their daughter Martha to Lt. Bruce McHenry, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. McHenry of Yosemite National Park, Calif. Martha graduated from Wellesley last June, her fiancé is a graduate of the University of Wyoming and is an Air Force Pilot.
Reading the New York Herald Tribune this morning, up pops the name of Stu Goodwillie, in the first of a series of articles on "The New Haven's Problems." Stu was the first of many commuters interviewed and his restrained comment was: "The service is worse than it's ever been. They might as well throw away the timetables." Stu has been commuting from New Canaan, Conn., to New York for sixteen years.
Bob Clark of Springfield, Mass., sent an item which he clipped from the ChicagoDaily News about Si Warner, American consul general in Melbourne, Australia, with the headline: "Diplomat Gets The Bird." Attending an out-of-town ball, Si won a "dressed fowl." It turned out to be a very live rooster with a ribbon around its neck. Obliged by the ball's early morning breakup to take the rooster to his hotel, he locked it in the bathroom, where it crowed and crowed and crowed. The next morning our red-faced diplomat hurried back to Melbourne and put the rooster in his backyard. The bird began crowing again, so Si hastily gave the embarrassing bird away to friends in another suburb.
Gov. Lane Dwinell told a news conference in Concord that he will run as delegate-at-large, favorable to the renomination of President Eisenhower in New Hampshire's presidential primaries March 13.
Bill Wheland has written another book, Resonance in Organic Chemistry, which John Wiley & Sons published in December. Bill is a professor at the University of Chicago, and received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Dartmouth in 1954.
Gene Katz was pictured in a recent issue of Printer's Ink with Oklahoma Governor Raymond Gary at a cocktail party which the Katz Agency gave in New York for advertising executives preceding the premiere of the motion picture, Oklahoma.
Bud Ranney was reelected November 8 to a second term on the Lakewood (Ohio) Board of Education. Lakewood is Cleveland's largest suburb (pop. 70,000) and they run a good school system, spending about $3,000,000 of the taxpayers' money. Bud says, "I think if anyone is going into public service, membership on a School Board is the ideal channel. There is so much to be done!"
Bud is still the Cleveland Press' dramacritic. He has a new gimmick now - he runstwo Show Trains a year into New York. Hisspecial train in October carried 425 Clevelanders. He handles all the arrangements:transportation, hotel, theater tickets and aFarewell to Broadway Luncheon on the lastday, when he has stars from the shows theyhave seen as guests of honor. Bud writes:
"Dorothy Mae and I were up. in Hanover for the Harvard weekend and had a wonderful time. It was the first Hanover football game my wife had seen and the first I had attended since we graduated. Nature had provided its usual October backdrop, in technicolor, on Balch Hill, and it was the thrill of a lifetime to see it all again, with the Big Green putting on a demonstration that seemed made to order for the occasion. And of course there was the added kick of being both a Dartmouth son and father. We are so happy that Phil elected to go there and that the College would have him! The business of settling on a college is something we will - going through again soon, for Dave is in his junior year in high school. The youngest, Mike, age 10, has been wearing Dartmouth T-shirts for years."
Wes and Dorris Wood have moved to Corning, N. Y., where Wes has bought the Lincoln-Mercury agency. We're delighted to welcome them as neighbors, since they're only 35 miles away. They live at R. D. I, Corning. Judy is attending Corning High School and Tommy is in grade school.
Rem Kinne's daughter is a junior at Wellesley. Rem's relaxation these days is teaching insurance to adult education groups in Albany, N. Y.
Jack Rose is executive director of Keep America Beautiful, Inc., a national public service organization for the prevention of litter. His office is at 99 Park Ave., New York. If you've got a litterbug problem in your neck of the woods, just drop Jack a line and he'll send a check list of How-To-Do-Some-thing-About-It guides and such like.
Clint Goodwin has moved from Columbus to 243 Cline Ave., Mansfield, Ohio CraryMyers and I were two of the oldest alumni at the December 29 dinner of the Dartmouth Club of the Southern Tier, held in Elmira, N. Y.
Don Solis on December 1 was promoted to Coordinator of National Sales for Cities Service Oil Co. We had the pleasure of lunching with him in New York a few days afterward and caught a glimpse of the sumptuous office being readied for him. He had fully recovered from a bad spill on October 12. Do-It-Yourself-Solis was up twenty feet removing shutters when the ladder went sideways and he went down.
On the way home that weekend, Mary and I and our son Douglas stopped in Montclair for a delightful dinner with Peggy and JohnPhillips and their son Bob. Their other son John is a sophomore at Dartmouth.
To fill out this column we made some lastminute telephone calls. Jack Herpel, reached in Bernardsville, N. J., after returning from a movie with Cornie, says he is going to Hanover January 15-16, recruiting for New Jersey Bell Telephone, and also, of course, to see Jay, who is a freshman. Jay is in the band and also in the concert band; he has been in Dick's House the past week with that popular collegiate disease - mononucleosis. Add the Herpels to the list of people who braved the elements to watch the Dartmouth-Princeton game last November.
John Flanagan, reached at home in Bryn Mawr, Pa., said '28 is hoping to win the attendance prize again this year at the annual Philadelphia Dartmouth meeting on January 26 at the Merion Cricket Club. Class President John Phillips of Montclair, N. J., and Class Agent Herm Schnepel of South Orange, N. J., are being imported to help win the champagne. The Flanagans are leaving February 17 for a vacation in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., with a side trip to Cuba, where they will look up Dana Condon. Dana is easy to find since he is United Fruit Company's manager in Havana.
EDITOR'S NOTE: OS Skinner should have included an important piece of news about himself. He has been elected President of the Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa., of which he has been Vice President and a Director since 1940.
Joe D'Esopo '29 of the Dartmouth TravelBureau, left New York, September 26, for aseven weeks' tour of Europe, and to attendthe International Convention of the American Society of Travel Agents at Lausanne,Switzerland.
Secretary,Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.
Treasurer, First National Bank, Boston, Mass.
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