1928

A Wah Hoo Wah for our Class Treasurer, Craig Haines, who was elected a vice president of the First National Bank of Boston December 12. Craig has been with the bank or its affiliates since graduation, principally as a loaning officer, and has been an assistant vice president since 1947. He has served as an assistant class agent for many years, also chairman of an Alumni Interviewing Committee, and at our reunion last June was elected to his second term as Class Treasurer.

Had Cantril flew to India right after Christmas to lecture at the Indian scientific conference. He will also lecture at various universities in India and try to get them to start research projects. Had resigned two years ago as professor of psychology at Princeton to become senior counsellor of the Institute for International Social Research, whose office is in Princeton. When we talked to him on the 'phone early in December (from Lawrenceville, where we were attending Fathers' Day) he had just returned from a trip to the West Coast.

Bill Kimball, dean of the Thayer School, has been elected to two national engineering education groups. He will serve on the Engineering Education Committee of the Amer- ican Society of Civil Engineers, seeking to establish closer relationships between engineering schools and professional civil engineers. The second group is the Education and Accreditation Committee of the Engineer's Council for Professional Development, which develops standards for engineerine schools.

The chairman in charge of '28 dinners in New York, Hank Walker of Carmel, has been elected chairman of the Putnam County Chapter of the American Red Cross. In addition tionhe is a member and secretary of the Putnam County Planning Board, president of the Kent Fire Association, and secretary of the Lake Mahopac-Carmel Rotary Club. Hank says "It keeps me on the move, but if the community becomes just a little better place in which to live because of my efforts I shall be well satisfied."

Mr. and Mrs. William Burch of Bronxville, N. Y., announced on December 29 the engagement of their daughter, Elizabeth, to John Craig Heston Jr. '54, son of John and Nancy Heston of Bryn Mawr, Pa. Miss Burch is a graduate of Bradford Junior College and the University of North Carolina.

While driving to Florida for a winter vacation, Vic Hartjens stopped in Columbia, S. C., to buy a paper and noticed a picture of a beautiful girl named Page Costello, whose parents, Major General and Mrs.N. A. Costello of Fort Jackson, were announcing her engagement to Lt. Charles S. Zeigler, of Waycross, Ga. Page attended the University of Colorado. Lt. Zeigler graduated from the University of Georgia and received his Army commission in 1955. He is currently aide-de-camp to General Costello, commanding general of Fort Jackson.

Ed Atkinson reports that he attended a public lecture which John Turkevich gave recently in Columbus at Ohio State University. Ed was happy to be able to spend a couple of hours with John - the first time their paths had crossed since 1928. John spoke on "The World of Fine Particles," with an easy and engaging platform manner. The address was sponsored by Sigma Xi, scientific fraternity. In addition to being professor of chemistry at Princeton, John was honored last fall by being appointed National Sigma Xi lecturer and will give 30 lectures across the country this winter. He was an original worker on the Manhattan Project, has written extensively on Russian science and has testified in this field before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

The Atkinson's Christmas card brought news of their three beautiful daughters (remember them at our 25 reunion). All three have left home - Ellen is a freshman at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and a Kappa Kappa Gamma. Susan is a junior at National College in Evanston. Nancy graduated last June from Miami University, worked all summer at Jackson Memorial Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Me., and sailed September 4 on her "once in a lifetime" tour of Europe. With two other girls she covered Europe in a Volkswagen from Norway to Italy to Spain, then Christmas in Paris and across to Great Britain to wind up the 4 month Wanderjahr. Nancy brought the car home for her mother. She is rested up now and looking for a job as a zoologist.

Herb Sensenig used his sabbatical preparing for a new course next semester on the German Romantic Movement. He also built a two-car garage by the road (no more shovelling snow from a steep driveway), fattened up a Hereford steer on his farm in Norwich for his supply of prime beef and helped his boys with chores on their horses. Mimi made a flying trip and two weeks' visit with her sick mother behind the Iron Curtain in September. She wishes every U.N. delegate and 'parlor pink' would have a chance to share the misery of those millions of silenced people to fully appreciate the value of freedom. Their daughter, Hella, after a year at Pembroke College, is visiting in Germany; and another daughter, Irene, has made them grandparents with the arrival of Karin.

Hank Milton's son is a senior at Dartmouth and a member of the golf team He wants to go to Tuck School. Hank's daughter, Deborah, is a sophomore at Rutgers. Bill Lane is president of the Rotary Club of Barre, Vt.... Ralph Wiltsey, Chicago Freight Agent for the Delaware & Hudson Railroad has moved to 220 Wilson St., Park Forest, Ill. Joe Mavon, Chicago insurance adjuster, has also moved to Park Forest, at 2739 Western Avenue.

If you have pictures of people at our last reunion, won't you please send them to me for possible reproduction. John Phillips has sent some excellent ones, but I'd like to get a lot more.

Craig B. Haines '28, class treasurer, has been elected Vice President of the First National Bank of Boston.

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