1928
Plans for our big 30th reunion June 10-12 were the principal topics for discussion when '28ers got together recently in New York and Boston. At the class dinner at the Dartmouth Club in New York on Feb. 20, 25 classmates heard Reunion Chairman John Cronin describe the arrangements and complimented him on the thorough job he and his committee are doing. John Phillips presided and called on Class Agent Cal Billings, Treasurer Craig Haines, Dinner Chairman Hank Walker and your Secretary for brief reports.
All nine members of the Executive Committee (the six named above, plus Bequest Chairman Chuck Bruder and Vice Presidents Jack Herpel and George Pasfield) met at 4 o'clock to tackle a crowded agenda. Reunion naturally received the most attention and after a thorough discussion the plans which you will hear about in detail in the '28 Campaigner were approved. The reunion tax was set at $28 per person, and the Secretary was asked to publish a class directory as soon as possible. Sitting with the Committee as elder statesmen were: Rupe Thompson, Bill Morton, Bill Cogswell and Al Carpenter.
Present at the dinner besides the abovementioned were: Lew Beers, Irv Engelman, Dee Graham, Gerry Johnston, Court Keller, Chet Kellogg, Bruce Lewis, Phil Orsi and Bill Treanor. Ted Baehr had to leave early for his evening performance in "Auntie Mame," and Chris Hackett and Chuck Bennet could only stay for cocktails.
When reunion music was brought up there was a great clamor for revival of the famous Barbary Coast and Green Serenaders of our day. Lew Beers, delighted at the suggestion, offered to bring his drums. Of course JackHerpel will be there to tickle the ivories. We heard shouted demands that Bucky Stoler and Lew Terry bring their saxaphones: Howie Moss, his banjo, Tex Thompson, his trombone, and that Chuck Bennet, Barbary Coast pianist, be on hand.
Court Keller and his wife leave April 9 on the "Liberte" for a vacation in France, Italy and England, and will return May 19 on the "United States."
Bruce Lewis now has four grandchildren. Chet Kellogg has his first grandchild, a girl just six weeks old. His oldest son graduated last year from Dartmouth and is now in the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. His two younger sons are at the Pingry School. Gerry Johnston started his own advertising agency, G. H. Johnston, Inc., 515 Madison Ave., Feb. 1 in a very plush suite of offices. Dee Graham is now an associate of Carlisle Davidson Associates (public relations), 12 East 41 St., New York.
The annual Boston alumni dinner attracted 16 of our classmates to hear President Dickey and Provost Morrison on Feb. 14. Present were Class President John Phillips, Montclair, N. J., Class Agent Cal Billings, Hartford, Conn., and the following local lads: Howie Bush, Parker Chick, Red Edgar, Treasurer Craig Haines, Mort Jennings, Jack Kenerson, Jules Lemkin, Maury Makepeace, Wes McSorley, Jim Newton, Don Norris, Jack Phelan, Doug Pease and Ed Sawyer.
Don Norris received congratulations on the arrival of Ann on Dec. 22. His oldest child, Dick, is a senior at Dartmouth and the other three are 19, 17 and 13 years of age. Ed Sawyer claims (correctly) that this is some sort of a record for a '28er.
A publication of the New England Council just received contains a picture of Mort Jennings being awarded a silver bowl in appreciation of his financial guidance as treasurer of the Council during the past four years.
Jerry Cetrulo died March 10 of a heart attack at Idlewild Airport. He and Alberta had just returned from a ten-day vacation in Puerto Rico. He died as he approached a counter for helicopter tickets to Newark. Jerry, a prominent surgeon, was assistant medical director of Martland Medical Center, Newark, and former national A.A.U. fencing champion. An account of his life will appear in the In Memoriam section next month. The sympathy of the entire class goes to Alberta and their four children.
Maury Cogan, current president of the Dartmouth Club of Cleveland, gathered in some heavy sugar in January. He led the entire country in paid life commissions from the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. Maury, also known as "Hell on Skates" during his college days, made a recent trip to Washington, D. C., to see his ailing mother and his son who is a freshman at Georgetown University.
John Lyman, former president of the Dartmouth Club of Southern California, is probably the oldest continuous donor to the Alumni Fund in our class. He left Dartmouth in the summer of 1926 and started contributing the following fall. He has agreed to be an Assistant Class Agent this year.
Herb Adams, District Forest Ranger in Gorham, N. H., has been promoted to fill an important staff position in the Laconia office. He will be responsible for Water Management, Land Use Planning, and Recreation Developments in the White Mountain National Forest. Herb entered the Forest Service in 1933.
Art Lane had a stroke in January. He is home from the hospital and would appreciate hearing from some of you fellows. His address is 3 Wyndmere Road, Milton 86, Mass.
Prof. Burns of Dartmouth sends word that six '28ers attended the Dartmouth luncheon at the Hotel Traymore at Atlantic City on Feb. 19 during the convention of the American Association of School Administrators. They were: El Drake, of New York City, Moc Gray of Bristol, N. H., Harold andKathryn Moody, Athol, Mass., Herm Schnepel, South Orange, N. J., Doc Simonds, Pelham, N. Y., and Joe Smith, Syosset, Long Island. As in previous years, '28 had the largest representation.
Rick Rickenbaugh writes that he and Hilda will definitely be at reunion. Their daughter, Ann, and her husband, Andrew Kelsey, went to Cairo Oct. 1 where Andy was to be a public administrator under the Point Four Program. However, 30 days later they were evacuated with other American citizens by caravan, destroyer, and troop ship to Naples. Following some vacation touring in Italy, Finland and Greece, they are now living in Istanbul, doing civilian work for the U. S. Army.
Dick Sullivan, librarian of the Lawrence (Mass.) Public Library for the past 18 years, resigned Jan. 31 to accept a position 'as a librarian with Avco's Research and Advanced Development Division in Lawrence. He announced that he was resigning "due to family responsibilities."
John Turkevich was the speaker at the annual dinner of the Princeton Alumni Association of Central Pennsylvania in Harrisburg in December. His topic was "Science and the Russians." John is the Higgins Professor of Chemistry at Princeton, and an international advisor on the peaceful use of atomic energy.
John Harlow of Tucson, Ariz., just completed a two-year term as director of the Sanitary District. He is in the landscape business and runs a large nursery. His oldest daughter is a freshman at Scripps College, Claremont, Calif. The twins, juniors in high school, are six foot three and weigh well over 200 pounds - that's apiece. Willie likes competitive sports but Johnnie doesn't. A fourth child, Julia, is in sixth grade.
1928 wins the attendance cup at the annual Philadelphia dinner so regularly that a second award was started this year. The prize-winners, as usual, are shown in the second row: (1 to r) Frame, Kitts, Pasfield, Heston, Billings, Phillips, Wright, Flanagan and McAvoy. McLaughlin, not in the picture, was also present.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.
Class Agent, 58 Rumford St., West Hartford 3, Conn.
