1928

Here we are again - with a big stack of letters and clippings from '2Bers and others whose thoughtfulness we gratefully acknowledge.

We begin on a sad note. The In Memoriam section of this issue or the next one will carry a notice of the death of Bill Breyfogle and Dick Welch. Bill was sitting on the porch of his home in Norwich, Vt., on Sunday, August 17, when he was stung on the mouth by a bee at 1:20 p.m. Despite the efforts of three physicians, he died at 2:30. The Class was represented at the funeral by Paul and Dorothy Cutler of Chicago, HaroldFields of East Lansing, Mich., and Herb andMimi Sensenig of Norwich. Bill's second book, "Make Free —The Story of the Underground Railroad" is to be published September 10 by J. B. Lippincott Co.

By a strange coincidence, just a couple of hours after Bill was stung, Al Dickerson '30 was also stung by a bee in his yard in Norwich and was a very sick man —in a coma for four hours, but is okay now.

Dick Welch died in the Milton Hospital July 13 of a heart attack. He was assistant cashier of the National Shawmut Bank and manager of its South Boston branch. He was stricken only a few days after returning to work on a part-time basis after a month's hospitalization for a previous attack.

Top news honors of the summer go to Myles Lane, who made big headlines in the newspapers for slapping some of the visitors to the (Appalachian) gangland convention in to jail for contempt of court. The caption under Myles' picture: "Has same determination to win he had on gridiron." Myles, as you must know by now, is one of four men appointed for five year terms by Governor Harriman to the State Investigation Commission. Myles was elected chairman by the other three.

Tucked away at the end of one of the clippings was the biggest '28 social note of the year: "Although he is in his early fifties, Mr. Lane first married in April of this year. His wife is the former Margaret McCandliss, an interior decorator and portrait painter. They live at 601 East 20th St. Besides keeping fit with weekend tennis and squash, Mr. Lane has found a new way to exercise. He accompanies his wife on long tours of antique shops on the East Side and in New England, where they vacation."

Bill Morton was elected president of the Onondaga County Savings Bank in Syracuse on July 21. He has been an official of the bank for 24 years and since 1954 has been executive vice president. He is known to all members of the Dartmouth family as the highly successful chairman of the Alumni Fund for the past two years. Young Bill is a senior at Dartmouth and the man to watch on the Big Green football team.

George Pasfield Jr. and Sheila Arlene Pfeiffer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph H. Pfeiffer of Cheltenham, England, were married August 12 in the Washington Memorial Chapel at Valley Forge. George is a Lieutenant (j.g.) in the U. S. Naval Reserve and a jet pilot.

Mr. and Mrs. George K. Sanborn announced the marriage of their daughter, Anne, to Dr. Donald R. Lombard on September 1 at the Sanborn's summer home in Kennebunkport, Me.

Prof. H. Barrett Davis (whom we knew as "Stretch"), head of the speech division at Lehigh University, received an honorary master of arts degree in oratory at the 78th commencement of Emerson College.

Harold Fields, professor of history at Michigan State, was vacationing and doing research in the East during the summer. He hopes to write a biography of Theodore Saxton Faxton, who was active in the development of Utica, N. Y., between 1812 and 1881.

Sink Sinclair of San Diego, Calif., spent part of his vacation at Chautauqua Lake, N. Y., and paid us the great honor of driving 200 miles for a two-man '28 reunion in Troy. Sink is with the Wells Organization, which raises funds for churches, and doesn't have to work summers.

Our peripatetic authority on languages and literature, Dr. Rowland M. Myers, stopped while driving through Troy on September 4 to a lecture engagement, but unfortunately we were out of town.

John Phillips was elected president of the Vail-Ballou Press last month. He has been with the firm since 1934 and for many years has been secretary and a director. He is president of the Book Manufacturers Institute, former president of the Class of '28, and the father of two Dartmouth men, Tohn '58 and Bob '60.

George Klein is not letting his transfer to the Pittsburgh office of the Chapman Valve Manufacturing Co. interfere with his attendance at the '28 reunion in Hanover over the Penn game weekend. Being transplanted Easterners, he and Eleanor carefully saved a week or so of their vacation so they could come back again.

Howie Bush of Springfield, Mass., was elected a director of the Monarch Life Insurance Co. in July. Ham Hagar has left Sarasota and is back in New York again, as a municipal bond man for Lehman Brothers.

A comment on the results of the Alumni Fund drive is in order. Cal Billings deserves the thanks of all of us for his success with his team of 63 assistant agents in a difficult year. Despite the non-solicitation of many generous Fund givers (so as not to conflict with the Capital Gifts campaign), '28 gave the Fund $7,178, an amount exceeded by very few classes.

Cal ran a little competition among the assistant agents this year — Ed Abbott won first prize, a photo mural of Dartmouth Row; Jack McLaughlin took second, a photo mural of Baker Library. Honorable mention went to Regional Agents George Emery (New Jersey), Court Keller (Greater New York City), and Johnny Nixon (Greater Boston).

Dudley B. Bonsai '27, who is now serving aspresident of the Bar Association of NewYork City. He was one of the original members of the International Commission ofJurists, founded to preserve and extendfreedom under the rule of law and justice.

Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.

Treasurer, First National Bank, Boston 6, Mass.

Bequest Chairman,