1928
It is our sad duty to report the death of Paul Kruming, who was killed March 23 in a fall from his hotel room in New York. Paul had done a tremendous amount of work for Dartmouth and '28, having been an Alumni Fund Agent for twenty years. He served two years as Class Agent and later was elected Class President. A sketch of his career appears in the In Memoriam section of this issue. The Class shares the sorrow of Paul's family and friends as we extend our deepest sympathy to them.
Rupe Thompson quit the banking business March 16 when the directors of Textron American, Inc., elected him vice chairman of the executive committee. He became the chief administrative officer of all Textron American's non-textile operations, which include radar equipment, upholstery materials, testing machinery, tools, plastics, plywood and aluminum. The annual volume of the ten recently acquired companies is about $170,000,000.
Rupe formerly was executive vice president of the Industrial National Bank in Providence. In expressing regret at Rupe's resignation, the president of the bank told reporters that the offer made to Rupe "could not be equalled by any bank." Congratulations, Rupe.
Warren Burding was elected a director of Lever Brothers Co. on March 21 — quite a feather in his cap, as it is the first time this English company has elected anyone except the president of the American company a director. Warren is marketing vice president of the Lever division, which markets household soaps, detergents and shortening. He joined Lever Brothers in 1949.
Court Keller, Tommy Ellis and Bill Heep have daughters in Skidmore. If I have omitted any others, please let me know.
Law son and, Kay Van Riper dropped in to see Bill and Gert Heep in Scarsdale last Sunday. Bill says Leslie Van Riper was married recently to a fine Yale boy who worked for him one summer.
I have just learned from Bill Heep that Ken Turner was stricken with bulbar polio in December 1954 and" spent two months in the Greenwich, Conn., hospital in an iron lung, hovering between life and death. Then he was transferred to the Rehabilitation Hospital, West Haverstraw, N.Y., where he has remained. He is completely paralyzed, can be lifted into a wheel chair by two people for short spells. Ken was doing well in the cotton goods business, but he and Fidelia have had to sell their house in Rye. They have a small house near Bear Mountain so Fidelia and their two small children can be near Ken.
Ken Kent is in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston for special treatment with new drugs for multiple sclerosis, and such related or unrelated problems as boils and bruises from his wheel chair. He has suffered from multiple sclerosis for years. Craig Haines called on him in the hospital and found his condition much better than when he and Eleanor called on him last May at his home in Bellows Falls, Vt. Ken was cheerful and interested in many things, including the forthcoming College Directory, so he can learn what all his classmates.are doing. Ken's business, the Standard Paper Co., of Bellows Falls, which makes gummed paper tape, is being run for him by a young Dartmouth alumnus.
Martha Margaret Phelan, Jack and Pearl's daughter, will be married April 14 in St. Paul's Church, Wellesley, Mass., to Lt. Douglas Bruce McHenry, USA, of Yosemite National Park, Calif.
Seen having lunch together at the Hotel Statler, Boston, on March 9 were Red Edgar,Son Atiddlebrook and Cal Billings, attending the New England Regional meeting of the National Institute of Real Estate Appraisers.
Returning from a New York trip in March, Craig Haines bumped into Howie Haley in Grand Central and shared his compartment to New London. Howie looked very well. He has learned to live with his heart condition and is once again active in his business, Reid & Hughes Co., with department stores in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
The Lions Club of Joliet, Ill., recently heard Dr. Rowland M. Myers give his talk on "The Romance of Words."
The Manchester Union ran a picture on March 17 of Gov. Lane Dwinell receiving from Bruce Lewis a new history of New Hampshire which Brace's firm has just published. Bruce gave a luncheon for the author, Dr. J. D. Squires of Colby Junior College, and fourteen members of his advisory board in Concord, of whom eight were Dartmouth men.
Herb Sensenig spoke at a banquet of the National Student Association which held a convention in Hanover in February. Herb spoke on the problems a foreign student has over here. Incidentally, Herb says Hanover has had more snow and cold in March than he can remember, and his memory goes back to 1924.
Dick Klinck's son is back home after a full hitch in the Army, most of it in Germany.
Gin Adams has sold his photography business in Geneva, N.Y., and is now working for Whirlpool-Seeger Corp. in St. Joseph, Mich. He and Blanche and their three children are living at 1545 Hadley Road, Benton Harbor, Mich.
Jack and Nancy Heston just got back to their home in Philadelphia after a few weeks in Naples, Fla., where they caught lots of fish and played lots of golf. John Jr. '54. was NROTC and is just finishing his two-year tour of duty and expects to start in business next July. He had grand duty - all two years on USS Power, a destroyer - Europe or the Mediterranean both summers and the Caribbean both winters. MacDonald Heston '57 worked in Gulf Oil's research lab last summer and expects to do a similar job with a mineral company this summer. He is a chem major, directed the Zeta Psi play this winter in the play contest, plays a lot of squash and is hipped on skiing - went skiing somewhere every weekend during the winter. Jack started a new business January 1, Heston, Wiler & Co., wool merchants, 105 Chestnut St., Philadelphia.
Al Fusonie's son, Doug, a Dartmouth sophomore, is secretary of the Newman Club and a member of Beta Theta Pi. He is thinking of studying medicine.
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