1935

There's plenty of news from '35ers this month, and almost everyone with whom we've been in contact talks about the Reunion scheduled for June. A few say they might not be able to make it because of conflicting commencement dates involving their own children, but most of the rest plan to be on hand for the big 25th.

Here are some items about the latest activities of your classmates scattered over the U. S. and abroad:

After serving as mayor of Plainfield, N. J., and spending four years as a member of the N. J. State Legislature, Carlyle Crane has gone back to a thriving law practice in Plainfield.

Up in Monticello, N. Y., Russ Erwin is head of the English department of the Monticello Central School, and wife Kay, Russ reports, runs a nursery school in their basement at home. They have five children; one a freshman in college, three in high school, and one in kindergarten.

Earl Arthurs, general agent for the Provident Life and Accident Insurance Co. down in Charlotte, N. C., reports a surprise telephone call recently from Bob Naramore, who was 20 miles away at Davidson, N. C., looking over his Bridgeport Fastener Tapes operation. "It was two years since I heard from anyone in the class," says Earl, "and Bob's telephone call gave Jane and me a real shot in the arm."

Out in Aurora, Ill., Bob Morris is chief executive officer of the Ferguson Lander Box Co., and is expanding his company's business in the milk carton field. Bob took his oldest son Kim, a freshman at Dartmouth, to the Yale game last fall, and says he saw RegBankart, Russell Field and Bill Fitzhugh.

Don Hagerman, whose play at right guard is remembered by all of us, was Dartmouth's nominee this fall for Sports Illustrated's annual Silver Anniversary Ail-American Football Team. The team is picked on the basis of distinguished living during the 25 years intervening since college football. Last year, the late Bill Embry '34 was chosen for this 25-year team. Don chose a career in education and served on the faculties of Deerfield Academy and Tabor Academy. He was headmaster of Clark School in Hanover, and since 1951 he has been headmaster of the Holderness School in Plymouth, N. H. Don has also been president of the board of Sceva Speare Memorial Hospital in Plymouth.

FLASH! fust before this went to press, Sports Illustrated announced that Don had been named to its Silver Anniversary All-American Team.

With the Cleveland Trust Co. for thirteen years/Dan Close is now associate counsel for the bank. His wife Jeanne is also a lawyer, but Dan says she is too busy taking care of their two children at home to practice these days.

Bob Busey is still district sales manager in the Lamp Division of General Electric, but has recently moved his office from Philadelphia to the Valley Forge area, and says this definitely beats commuting downtown. He has a daughter who is a freshman at Roanoke College, and a son almost ready for college.

Now in his fifth year as Superintendent of Schools in suburban Wauwatosa, Wis., Gene Burnkrant supervises fourteen different schools, 550 employees, and has 8,500 students under his jurisdiction. He has two sons himself, one finishing high school this June and another entering high school this fall.

Jim Alfring, who attained high officer rank when he stayed in the Army after 1945, is now chairman of Interstate Supply Co., wholesale distributors for RCA Victor in Eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois.

Out in Southern California, Al Cline teaches English at Mt. San Antonio College, and his wife Gena is both a school nurse' and teacher at another junior college in the area.

25th Reunion Chairman Ralph Specht has recently moved his family from West Deal, N. J., to Ridgewood, which makes commuting into New York much easier.

Reg Bankart, Chairman of our class and for a number of years scrivener of this column, is now rounding out his 14th year with Compton Advertising in New York, supervising an important part of the business his agency handles for Procter & Gamble. Reg points out that four '35ers in all work for Compton, and thinks perhaps this is something of a record. In addition to Reg, Bill Nevin is V. P. in charge of the Marketing Department; Dick Montgomery is a V. P. in the Chicago office; and Ted Steele is a consultant to the agency in the preparation of presentations to clients and new business prospects. Last summer Reg's daughter Marilyn, fifteen, won a trip to the Girl Scout Round-up in Colorado Springs, and Reg and wife Babs utilized the occasion to get in a western trip they had planned for some time. They covered 9,000 miles in a month's time, taking along Bevvie, sixteen, and Kip, eleven, and visiting Colorado, New Mexico, the Petrified Forest, Grand Canyon, Mojave Desert, Palm Springs, Disneyland, Carmel, San Francisco (where they visited Dave and Eleanor Smith), Lake Tahoe, Salt Lake City, Jackson Hole, Wyo., the Grand Tetons, Yellowstone, Custer State Park, and the Mt. Rushmore Memorial, among other places, before returning to their home in suburban Scarsdale outside New York.

Head Class Agent Ted Harbaugh reports that John Jewett recently visited him in Toledo. John, now an obstetrician of some note, was on his way to present a professional paper before the Chicago Medical Assn.

Dr. John Parfitt spent two weeks last year fishing in Labrador. He and wife Edith-Mary have five children, and live in Manchester, N. H., where he is an osteopathic physician.

Ed Elsenhans is still in the cement business with Dragon Portland Cement Co. He lives in Westchester with his wife and three children.

Jim Coppeto is in the general practice of medicine in Waterbury, Conn., where he lives with his wife and three children, Beverly, sixteen, James, fifteen, and Regina, thirteen.

From St. Louis Bill Chapman, who is V. P. of the Mercantile Trust, writes that Woody Curtis has been named executive vice president for Deere & Co., Moline, Ill.

Another top executive position was recently handed to Dan Swander, who became president of the Columbian Vise & Manufacturing Co. in Cleveland.

Al Sherwood, the New York accountant, is continuing theatrical activities in his spare time. Recently he played the part of Captain Forrest in a production of "The Caine Mutiny," shown in Eastchester, N. Y.

Now that we are already into the first of the year, it may seem a long while since football season, but in closing out this Month's notes, your correspondent will report that he saw the following classmates on hand in Palmer Stadium when our team scored the exciting victory over Princeton: Dean Cooper, Art Bamford, Sy Millstein, Sven Karlen, Bill Russell, Bud Latimer, Dick Hube, Bill Davidson, Frank Hermes, and Al Brush.

A Happy 1960 to all of you!

Thirty-five's 25th-June 16-19, 1960

Steve Dorsey '35, Counsellor of the U. S. Embassy to the Sudan Republic, shown with his wife Carolyn, daughter, dog, and three batmen outside of their home in Khartoum.

Secretary, 17 East 45th St. New York 17, N. Y.

Treasurer, 62 Prince St., West Newton 65, Mass.