1928
These notes are being written immediately after returning from the class officers meetings in Hanover May 2 and 3. The meetings also brought back President George Pasfield, Treasurer Craig Haines (with wife Eleanor), Vice President and Newsletter Editor JackHerpel (with wife Cornie), Class Agent CalBillings (with wife Genie) and Bill Morton (with wife Bobby), chairman of the Alumni Fund.
Class officers weekend opened Friday afternoon with an open house at the new dormitories off North Main Street (back of the Phi Delt house), followed by a delicious dinner provided by Jeannette Gill at Thayer Hall. After dinner, Ron Snow '58, chairman of Palaeopitus, proved to us that the undergraduates are not lethargic (as reported by Time Magazine). John Dickey spoke convincingly of the need of privately endowed colleges to increase their tuition charges which at present cover only half of the out-of-pocket expense.
We wish we could say the weather was beautiful, but unfortunately it rained all day Saturday - drowning out all the sports events except the crew races. After the meetings in the morning - while the wives shopped - Mary and I visited Herb and Mimi Sensenig at their home near Norwich. Herb had just returned from a conference of foreign student advisors at the University of Michigan. We interviewed him in his capacity as local chairman of the '28 Fall Reunion on October 3 and 4 and learned that 44 of our classmates have booked rooms at the Norwich Inn, filling it to capacity, and others have made reservations at the Hanover Inn. Plans include a bus to take us to and from the game, followed by a cocktail party and dinner at the Norwich Inn.
The visiting firemen got Jim and Helen Campion to come over to Norwich for cocktails and dinner and afterwards went back to Hanover to spend a pleasant evening in the Campions' spanking new home on Rip Road, part way up Balch Hill, with a beautiful view of Hanover Plain. Jim Jr. and Dorothy and their six children live in Jim's old home.
The Mortons had to leave early Saturday to attend Fathers' Day at Pine Manor, where daughter Linda is a student, and George Pasfield had to leave for the same event at Smith.
George Foster conducted the All-State Chorus of 400 high school students at the Armory in Manchester, N. H., on April 11. George is director of music at Plymouth High School.
Comdr. Bill Flynn, whose picture recently appeared in these columns in an Antarctic scene, has been transferred to New England and is living on Rural Route 2, North Kingston, R. I.
Gov. Lane Dwinell will be the commencement speaker at the Newport (N. H.) High School graduation exercises on June 13. Lane is a native of Newport, received his elementary school education there and attended Newport high for two years. His family then moved to Lebanon, N. H., and he entered Dartmouth from the Lebanon High School.
Art Holden, a partner in R. L. Pritchard & Co., importers, has been reelected president of the Hard Fibres Association.... EdHeyn's daughter Sally graduates from Colby Junior College next month.
Joe Tidd of Hamden, Conn., has been chairman of the Dartmouth interviewing committee for the past two years for the New Haven area, a job which took every other Saturday from mid-December until mid-March.
The first issue of the "Capital Gifts Reporter" contained a picture of Fran Young and Craig Haines, who are serving as Vice Chairmen during the Special Gifts phase of the Capital Gifts campaign. Curley Prosser, Chet Kellogg, Charlie Scott and HammieHammesfahr are working on the same campaign in the New York area.
Stew and Bea Hoagland leave this month for a vacation in Ireland and Italy....We saw Bun and Alma Goodrich with their son John '59 and the Herpels and son Jay '59 at a party at the Zete house last weekend. The Zetes were entertaining their parents for the weekend and showing off their beautifully decorated house. The refurbishing was done under the direction of a professional decorator - none other than Cornie Herpel.
Parker Chick was recently re-elected to the Trust Fund Commission of Walpole, Mass. He has been chairman for five years. The Town of Walpole is fortunate in having two trusts of $100,000 apiece and a number of smaller ones totalling around $50,000. Park's oldest son, Parker, is married, has a two-year-old daughter, and lives in Walpole. He is Warranty Manager for New England for Cummins Engine. Peter Chick is finishing his junior year at the University of Georgia, majoring in forestry. He is vice-president of his fraternity, Phi Kappa Tau. Even though he is in Athens, Ga., he gets some ice skating in just the same, so that when he comes home in the winter vacations he can play hockey.
Mai Halliday's mother sent me a check for the Alumni Fund with a note saying, "Mai's father (Class of 1901) died very suddenly last August - in the same way that Mai went - of a heart attack. He had lived a full and useful life — 81 years. Dartmouth meant so much to both of them and I think it does also to Mai's son, Malcolm Frank, who is in the class of '59. Such loyalty is seen only among Dartmouth men!"
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.
Class Agent, George M. Billings & Co., Inc. 36 Pearl St., Hartford 3, Conn.
