1928
Bud Ranney started a new job January 1 and is very excited about it. He is general manager of the Northern Ohio Opera Association which annually brings the Metropolitan Opera to Cleveland. It's a unique position, for although the Met gives only eight performances there, the job is year-round. It all simmers down, Bud says, to filling 9000 seats every performance. Bud left the Cleveland Press after 28 years. Starting on the police beat in the era of rum running and bootleg murders, he moved up through general reporting, special assignments, rewrite, editorial writing and his last tour of duty was a 15-year stretch as drama critic and movie editor.
Bob Tyson sold his distributing company in White Plains, N.Y., to Mack Trucks, Inc., last November and went with that company as manager of the Bus Division, with offices at 1355 West Front St., Plainfield, N. J. His daughter Ann is married, lives in Scarsdale and has two children. His twin sons, Bob and Ken, are seniors at Dartmouth, and both members of Alpha Delta Phi. Both are in NROTC, so they will go in the Navy for two years active duty following graduation.
The attendance cup and two bottles of champagne were won again this year by the '28 delegation which turned out nine strong at the annual Philadelphia Dartmouth dinner January 8 at the Drake Hotel. President Dickey was the speaker. The '28ers present were: Class Agent Cal Billings and Genie of West Hartford, Conn., President John Phillips and Peggy of Montclair, N. J„ John and Vera Flanagan, George and Suzanne Pasfield, Ernie and Jean Wright, Jack and Dee McAvoy, Jack and Lucena McLaughlin, Jack and Nancy Heston, Dick Frame and Al Kitts. The Billings were overnight guests of the Flanagans, and the Phillips of the Pasfields.
Arnold Van Benschoten is now with Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, after fourteen years in the armed services which included five years in the Navy and nine as a civilian management counselor for the U. S. Air Force in Japan. Van is assigned to Thompson Products Co. in Harrisburg, Pa.
George Boughton has built a beautiful swimming pool as part of his Colony Hotel in Delray Beach, Fla.
Bill Rohlffs is manager of the New Business Department of the Standard Insurance Co., Portland, Ore., and has just moved to 252 Berwick Road, Oswego.
Ed Purnell, district manager for Buffalo Fire Appliance Corp., has moved to 471 Homestead Road, La Grange Park, Ill. ... ScottElliott has moved to 718 Glenn St., Newberry, S. C., where he is an English prof at Newberry College. ... Tony Costello, now a Brigadier General, USA, has been assigned to Fort Jackson, S. C. ... Vic Hartjens has moved to 5220 Marlyn Drive, Glen Mar Park, Washington, D. C.
Al Salinger died in the Norwalk Hospital,Norwalk, Conn., on December 28, a week afterbeing admitted for treatment. Al was a member of the New York Stock Exchange and apartner in Arthur Wiesenberger & Co. of NewYork. Our sympathy goes to his widow, Frances,and two sons, Anthony, nineteen, and Robert,eleven.
Jerry Warner, U. S. Consul General in Melbourne, had a busy time during the Olympicgames, what with 400 athletes and over 1000American visitors. He and Rella wound up abusy year by attending the Davis Cup matchesin Adelaide.
Ken Turner appreciated the boost he gotfrom the special article about his magazinesubscription business in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Sonny Middlebrook has secured subscriptionsfrom his friends in Hartford, Conn., WallyCarr and Rocky Keith have done the same inNew Jersey and Fritz Titus in New Rochelle.Don't forget that renewals are just as worth - while to him as new subscriptions. Keep hisaddress —it is: Tomkins Cove, N. Y.
It was certainly reminiscent of College days to arrive here in Hanover last night with the thermometer registering 20 degrees below zero. (During the ride over the mountain from Rutland it was even colder.) The occasion for being here is the semi-annual meeting of the Alumni Council, at which '28 is represented by Bill and Bobby Morton, of Syracuse, Red and Charlotte Edgar, of Boston, Bill Ballard of Hanover and Creighton Hart of Kansas City, Mo., as voting members, and Jack and Nancy Heston, Herb and Mimi Sensenig and yours truly as past members. Meetings started Thursday and continued to Saturday noon, with very outstanding entertainment in the form of a Glee Club concert Friday night, a hockey game with Brown Saturday night (which we won), and, on Saturday afternoon, the dedication of the magnificent new Dartmouth Skiway at Holts Ledge, twelve miles north of Hanover. I tried the two tows but avoided the "expert" trails in favor of the "intermediate" variety which were hair-raising enough for me.
At the dedication ceremonies, where it hadwarmed up to a little above zero, I talked withJim Campion and congratulated him on thearrival of his sixth (!) grandchild. You may recall that at the time of our 25th reunion, youngJim had two children - now he has six. Any-one else have that many grandchildren?
John Phillips arrived in Hanover Saturdayafternoon for the annual initiation banquetof Psi Upsilon and Ken Graf was in town forthe weekend.
Curly Sadler's son Peter is serving his hitch in the Navy. Curly is Assistant Professor of Physical Education at Dartmouth.
John Heston Jr. '54, finished his two-years in the Navy and is working for N. W. Ayer & Co. in Philadelphia. Don Heston is a senior at Dartmouth. ... Red Edgar's son Bill, a big husky football player from Winchester high school, came to Hanover on Saturday to join his parents. He will attend Hebron Academy next year.
Creighton Hart's son "Crate" who graduated last June, is working for his dad's financecompany in Kansas City, but on February 1will enter the Coast Guard Officers CandidateSchool at New London, Conn. His brotherJohn is a junior at Dartmouth.
Herb Sensenig will speak at the Bridgeport, Conn., Dartmouth Club on January 22 on the foreign students at Dartmouth. Hella Sensenig is an enthusiastic Pembroke College freshman. ... Bill and Betty Ballard have three children in the Hanover high school, so Bill operates a Volkswagen school bus every day which stops to pick up other Norwich students on the way.
Joe Tidd's daughter Joanne is a sophomore at Wellesley. Her sixteen-year-old sister, Gail, is in Europe for a year (Spain, Italy, Germany, Scandinavia) as baby sitter for the six-year-old twins of a Yale English professor.
Steve Stephen writes that his step-daughter Arlyn was married on November 10 to Allan Gustafson.
The next class dinner will be February 20 at the Dartmouth Club in New York.
Dana Condon '28, president of the Shriners inCuba, shaking hands with President Batistain Havana during a parade of Miami Shriners.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.
Treasurer, First National Bank, Boston 6, Mass.
Bequest Chairman,
