1928
At the annual dinner of the Philadelphia Alumni Association on Feb. 19, the president started his after-dinner remarks by saying. "It is traditional at this time to award the attendance cup to the Class of 1928!" Our boys won it for the sixth consecutive year.
Present were Dick Frame, John and VeraFlanagan, Jack Heston, George and Sue Pasfield, Jack and Dee McAvoy, Bill and Cyrene Williams and Ernie and Jean Wright. JackMcLaughlin couldn't come because Lucena was just home from the hospital.
The Hestons had been in Florida and Jack's tan was the envy of the others. The Hestons expect to see more of Hanover, having just bought a house for summer use in Wolfeboro on Lake Winnipesaukee.
The Pasfields left Feb. 28 for several weeks in the Barbados Islands. The Wrights are going to the Hawaiian Islands after a convention in Los Angeles in April. The Flanagans left Feb. 26 for several weeks at Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
The reunion in Hanover for the Penn game next October is attracting a lot of interest. If you haven't written the Norwich Inn it would be wise to do so right away, or else write President George Pasfield.
The Boston Herald carried the news last week of the marriage in San Francisco of Mrs. A. W. K. Billings of Wellesley Hills, Mass., and Rupe Thompson. Mrs. Thompson, whose first husband died in 1955, is the former Doris Alden Colburn of Boston. The reporter should be reprimanded for stating that Rupe "is a member of the class of 1926 at Harvard."
"Dick Sullivan assumed his new position as director of libraries at Suffolk University, Boston, on March 1. He resigned as documents librarian of Avco Research to accept his new position. Dick's wife is also active in library work, being regional bookmobile librarian of the Massachusetts Northeast Regional Library Center. Dick's son is a student at Andover.
Jack Lyman was elected president of the Southern California Mortgage Bankers Association at the annual dinner in February. Jack is vice president of Dwyer-Curlett & Co.
Jack and Pearl Phelan spent January and February following the St. Mark's hockey team through a 12-2 season with young Jack at right defense. He played excellent hockey all season and was rewarded by being elected captain for the 1959 season - his senior year. Jack and Pearl, young Jack and John King, son of Mel King '31, took in the Dartmouth Carnival and had a grand time.
The Boston Herald reports that Bob MacPhail Jr. and Jack Phelan Jr. were starting defense men for the all-star team which played the winners of the Massachusetts Private School Hockey League (Belmont Hill this year) in Boston March 2. Bob is a senior at Noble & Greenough and we hear that the Yalies are trying to lure him to New Haven.
Red and Charlotte Edgar's daughter, Carolyn, was married to Peter. Tremaine Good-rham of London, England, on Feb. 22, at the Church of the Epiphany in Winchester, Mass. John Nixon was there.
Al Willey reports that he is eligible for the Grandfathers Club. His daughter, Electa Ann Cook, of Independence, Mo., has named the baby Carolyn.
Maurie Cogan has been cutting up again. His latest public triumph was playing the part of a maniken (yes, that's what the papers said) at a fashion display put on by the Cleveland Skating Club. With other luminaries, both male and female, his specialty was modeling men's suits. As he paraded down the ramp, female admirers threw pennies at him, while the orchestra played "Pennies from Heaven." Maurie blushed becomingly.
Major Ray Hyman, USAF, has moved back to the States and is stationed at the Federal Electric Co., Paramus, N. J., and lives at 19 Malcolm Place, Mahwah, N. J.
Our sympathy is extended to Fred and Harry Stone, whose father died in Evanston February 20, at the age of 85. He was a director and former chairman of the International Harvester Co.
Cal Billings thoughtfully sent notes on those attending the annual Boston Alumni Association dinner in February. We won't use quotes because we are abbreviating them a hit: Red Edgar, retiring after having served two terms as Alumni Council member representing New England; Ed Flanders of Manchester, N. H.; Craig Haines, who in addition to being our class treasurer is also active in interviewing Dartmouth prospects in the Milton area; John Phillips, of Montclair, N. J., youngest looking member present, who received congratulations for having all his hair; John Nixon, who agreed to help the cause of '28 by serving again as Boston Regional Alumni Fund Agent, taking over that job from Craig Haines; Don Norris, looking hale and hearty; Jack Phelan, looking exactly the same as ever; Ed Sawyer, distinguished fisherman; Wes McSorley, father of the first son of '28 to graduate from Dartmouth; Mutt Jennings, who had to sit on the dais as vice president of the Boston Alumni Association; Cal Billings, who spent the night with the Haines; John Neary, wise and witty adman; and Peter Thompson '55, exact copy of Rupe, taking a training course with the First National Bank, and reporting that his younger brother, Dave '57, is now at the Stanley Co., in New Britain, Conn. Jack Kenerson was appointed a member of the Executive Committee of the Association representing the Charles River Club.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.
Class Agent, George M. Billings & Co., Inc. 36 Pearl St., Hartford 3, Conn.
