1928

Former Governor Lane Dwinnel, who last January returned to the peace and quiet of Lebanon, N. H., was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Administration by President Eisenhower on June 29. In the new post he will be Number Two man in the Department's "housekeeping" section.

Larry Martin has been elected treasurer of the Northeastern University Corporation, top policy making body of the University. Larry is executive vice president of the National Shawmut Bank.

Jim Montague has been the director of the Sharon Arts Center, New Ipswich, N. H., since July 1. Jim has exhibited his paintings in Boston, New York, Hartford, Springfield, Baltimore and other cities. He has had two one-man shows in Manchester, Vt., at the Southern Vermont Art Center where, recently, he was chairman of the Art Committee.

Dick Learnard is teaching mathematics at the Sunapee (N.H.) high school. Dick has taught at Hanover high school and Gettysburg College and recently has been with Northeast Engineering, Inc., of Manchester, N. H.

Dean Bill Kimball of the Thayer School was elected secretary of the Engineering College Administrative Council at the annual meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education in Pittsburgh on June 19.

Dr. Harold L. Fowler (Jimmy to you) has been named chairman of the Department of History at the College of William and Mary where he has taught since 1934.

Mai Beal, professor of English whose specialty is the medieval drama, is the new chairman of the University of Miami English Department. He joined the faculty in 1939. Mai and Rachel were in Hanover in June for the 60th reunion of his father, Kenneth Beal, who is secretary of the class of 1899.

The '28-'29 reunion in Heidelberg was held - as scheduled except that Myles and Peggy Lane were a couple of days late. The six Skinners arrived a day early and enjoyed a personally conducted tour of Heidelberg and environs by Larry and Mary Lougee and a cook-out at their home. Milt and Peggy Hoefle and their son, Frank '57, were met when they got off the Rhine steamer and the reunion was on. When we had to push on to Switzerland, the Lougees and Hoefles drove over to Stuttgart, visiting the TV Tower, Rubble Mountain and returning via the Neckar Valley. Myles and Peggy arrived a couple days late but got the same VIP treatment from the Lougees.

The Skinner Safari, about which some of our friends were frankly-skeptical, was a lot of fun and very educational. We took our own station wagon with us on the Queen Elizabeth (Bill and Greta Cogswell showed up on a steaming hot day to see us off) and drove through England, Scotland, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, France and Spain. The festival at Pamplona was particularly colorful. At one bullfight we sat right behind "Papa" Hemingway. The bullfight the next day was memorable in that a pickpocket got my wallet but I chased and caught him and after a tussle got my wallet back intact. Fortunately I was bigger than he was! The kids were full of admiration for Dad, who had never shown any promise as a sprinter or wrestler.

Roy and Mab Milliken's daughter Anne was married to Harrison C. Givens III, on August i at the Milliken's home in Robesonia, Penna. Anne is a graduate of Duke University.

Johnny Waters is now an account executive with the Peck-Adams Inc. advertising agency in Hartford, Conn., and is living in Glastonbury.

Charlie Scott was guest of honor at a Western Electric Co. luncheon recently marking his thirtieth year with the company. He is a superintendent in the accounting organization at the Kearny plant.

Van Curll's daughter is a sophomore at Swarthmore. Van was in Philadelphia during the summer and dropped in to see VeraFlanagan. Van is a distributor for trucks in California, living in El Monte.

Don't miss the big '28 reunion over the Brown game weekend, Oct. 10. The center of activities will be the Norwich Inn.

Os Skinner '28 and his family before theyleft for a pleasant summer tour of Europe.In the background is the Ford station wagonthey took aboard ship with them.

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

Treasurer, First National Bank, Boston 6, Mass.