1928

The dinner honoring Ernest Martin Hopkins on February 5 at the Waldorf-Astoria was one of the most thrilling gatherings it has ever been our privilege to attend. From the '28 cocktail party right through to Hoppy's brief thank-you and his well chosen anecdotes, the pace never faltered and everyone felt that the memorable evening had passed much too rapidly.

The cocktail party at the Park Lane Hotel was arranged by Chuck Bruder and John Phillips and was a great success. At the right time Chuck ushered us across the street to the Waldorf, where 57 Twenty-Eighters and guests were seated fairly close to the dais, asbefits our age.

The national character of the tribute toHoppy was emphasized by the presence of:

Rick and Hilda Rickenbaugh of Denver, Creighton and Virginia Hart of Kansas City, Gov. Lane Dwinell and Elizabeth of New Hampshire (Lane had to sit on the dais with the Trustees), Bill and Elizabeth Ballard and Dean Bill Kimball of Hanover, Howie and Caroline Bush of Springfield, Mass., Herb and Dot Russell of Suffield, Conn., Cal and Genie Billings of Hartford, Bill and Bobby Morton of Syracuse and Jack and Dee McAvoy of Phoenixville, Pa.

Present from the metropolitan area were:

Wally and Sylvia Brownstone, Chuck Bruder, John and Ann Cronin, Sam Gilford, Stu Good-willie, Art and Lura Hassell, Bill and Gertrude Heep, Art and Grace Holden and two guests, Milt Hoefle, Harry and Alice Jewett and two guests, Court and Jane Keller, Chet and Alice Kellogg, Myles Lane, Hank and Gladys Milton, John Phillips, Jack Rose, Ira Safran, Frost and Anne Wilkinson, and your secretary.

Ted Baehr and George and Eleanor Klein attended the cocktail party but could not attend the dinner. Wish more of you could have been there. You would have liked it!

Jim McConnon left McConnon & Co. last May to join the sales staff of Waddell & Reed, the principal underwriters of United Funds. His responsibility is the development of their business in St. Paul. His daughter Ann is an editor with Leland Publishing Co. in Minneapolis. Son Tom '54 is in production supervision with Procter & Gamble in Kansas City, Kan., and has two boys, one born on Jim's fiftieth birthday. Jim saw Stew Wright at a Dartmouth gathering in Minneapolis - Stew graduated from Middlebury and said this was his first Dartmouth affair.

Al Lathrop recently purchased Rolph Mills & Co. of San Francisco with which he has been associated for the past four years. The firm represents a number of manufacturers of building specialties. Al bought the corporation following the recent death of its founder. He .reports that Ed Heyn was a recent visitor.

Jack Phelan's son is playing first-string right defense on the St. Marks hockey team which has seven straight wins for the first half of the season. On Dec. 29 at Madison Square Garden he scored the winning goal against Hill School. On Jan. 29 his team beat Noble & Greenough 4-0. At right defense for N. & G. was Robert Bruce MacPhail Jr. Jack and Pearl took young Jack to Hanover for Carnival.

Les Mason, on sabbatical leave from the University of Buffalo, was in Cambridge recently and had lunch with Jack Phelan. Lunch expanded into a two-hour talk mostly on Germany which is Les' special interest. Les agreed with the opinion Jack picked up from Germans when he was there last May, that East and West Germany would never be reunited without the prior military downfall of Russia.

Warren Clark's daughter, Deborah, is in her first year at Colby Junior College and he attended the Brown game with her at Hanover last fall. His son, Warren Jr., graduated from Boston University School of Business Administration last June and is taking pre-flight training at Pensacola, Fla. Warren's wife, Gertrude, passed away on July 26 of a rare disease, scleraderma, a member of the arthritis family. Warren is vice principal of the Housatonic Valley Regional High School in Falls Village, Conn.

Ed Lilley's daughter, Hope, married Ronald G. Read '57, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo E. Read of Dearborn, Mich., last July. Hope and Ron are living in Wigwam Circle while he studies for his masters degree at Thayer School.

We asked Charley Proctor how the skiing is at Yosemite and he says it is excellent. He and Mary get out several times a week to Badger Pass, 20 miles from their home in Yosemite National Park. He is Purchasing Agent and Superintendent of Retail Stores for the Yosemite Park & Curry Co. Charley maintains his active interest in skiing and is district vice president of the F.W.S.A. and chairman of their Officials Committee. He is also Technical Advisor for Ski Officials to the 1960 Winter Games Organizing Committee, which he says will end up as quite a job and with very few people liking him. His daughter Nancy is a sophomore at Colorado University, and spends much time skiing and a little studying. Peggy is a senior at Chadwick School in Los Angeles; she misses skiing and Charley's guess is that she will pick a college with skiing nearby. We were sorry to learn that his son, Bill, died in 1953 at the age of eleven after an operation for a brain tumor.

Amby McLaughlin has moved to Hanover to become Trustee-Director of Development of the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital. He has served as a trustee of the hospital since 1956 and a member of the board of overseers of the Hanover Inn. Amby has been general manager of the Eames Enterprises, Littleton, N. H. His son, Ambrose Jr., is a sophomore at Dartmouth.

Wide World Photo Comdr. William F. Flynn '28, USN, commander of Scabees at McMuido Sound, Antarctica, stands beside proof that the humor of servicemen hasn't been chilled down there. When 25 pine trees were flown from New Zealand to McMurdo to mark the airstrip for cargo planes, the gagsters came up with this version of the familiar signs in U. S. national parks.

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

Treasurer, First National Bank, Boston 6, Mass.

Bequest Chairman,