1928
Welcome back for the start of your 32nd year of reading this MAGAZINE. We will try to keep you posted on what the Class is doing, but please remember we need your help in the way of letters, cards, clippings and photographs.
The first '28er to receive an honorary degree from Dartmouth is Hadley Cantril, psychologist and chairman of the Institute for International Social Research, who was awarded the Doctor of Science degree at Commencement on June 12. To learn how really distinguished Had is, read President Dickey's citation in the July issue.
It was also a happy occasion for four '28 families whose sons graduated: Robert F. Kenerson, Paul Kevin O'Sullivan and Robert M. Phillips, who got their Bachelor of Arts degrees, and John A. Goodrich '59 who received his Master of Science in Engineering and Business Administration. The day before Commencement Bob Phillips received a commission in the Army Reserve and Kevin O'Sullivan one in the Navy. Bob Phillips was one of the top ten military graduates.
Jack Rose has severed his connection with Freedomland USA, and is working on an independent movie production, a comedy combining both animated cartoon techniques and live action.
Alec Laing '25 has finally revealed that George McClure was his co-author in writing "The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck," a gruesome thriller about a deranged doctor who experimented in inducing monstrous births. Laing, currently Educational Services Adviser at Dartmouth, said he collaborated on the book with McClure while the two roomed together in Hanover in 1934. Mac was a student at the Dartmouth Medical School and felt authorities might "frown on his frivolousness" if his named was used. The book was published in 1934 and last June Macmillan brought out a new edition of it. Mac is a neurosurgeon in Fayetteville, N. C. A Hollywood producer has taken a six-month option on the rights to make a movie version of the book.
Rupe Thompson was elected chairman and chief executive officer of Textron, Inc. on June 29. Rupe joined Textron as a director in 1946, but later resigned. In 1956 Royal Little, the founder, brought him back as president. On June 12 Rupe received an honorary degree from Suffolk University in Boston.
Frank Tindle became a partner of Doolittle & Co., Buffalo investment brokerage firm, on July i. He has been in the investment business since graduating from Harvard Business School, joined the Doolittle firm in 1952.
Ruf Munsell, professor of agronomy at the University of Connecticut, is on sabbatical leave for the fall semester and studying research programs at Michigan State, Purdue, Minnesota, Utah State, Oregon State, California and Georgia. His fourth grandchild arrived July 22, Jill Ann Simonson — his daughter and her family live in Burlington, Vt.
Craw Pollock's daughter, Ethna Louise, and William T. Brennan were married June 18 at St. Thomas of Villanova Church with a reception afterward at the Philadelphia Country Club, where 1928 was ably represented by Esther and Sonny Middlebrook and Lucena and Jack McLaughlin.
Lou Pelletier is writing television shows and lives at 2920 Montcalm Ave., Los Angeles. ... Cy Johnson was promoted recently to assistant cashier of the National Shawmut Bank, Boston. ... Tax Connell's son, John, is a lawyer in Sacramento.... Ed and MarianWright celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in June. Ed owns the Wright Store in Newcastle, Maine.... Lillian and CudGardner's first grandchild, Christopher Day, was born to their daughter, Judith, at the Landstuhl Army Medical Center in Germany, July 8....W00dy Houghton was presented with a suitably engraved watch by the Provident Institution for Savings to honor him for the 32 years he has been with the bank. He started as a teller August 1, 1928 and is now assistant comptroller and manager of the Acton, Mass., branch.
One of the summer's best human interest stories (New York Times of June 15) told about Joe Lanza, a 73-year-old bootblack with an avid interest in scratch sheets, who received a horseplayer's highest honor at Belmont. He was permitted to bet with other people's money. The $50 was donated by forty employes of the Interchemical Corp. on West 44th Street, one of the places Mr. Lanza shines shoes. "He's such a nice old guy that we decided to chip in and let him take a day off and visit the track," Stewart Hoagland, the concern's advertising manager, said when interviewed at the track. "Joe has never seen a race track, although he has been betting for 15 years with a friendly bookie on 45th Street." Mr. Lanza won $21.40 in all, and Stew, who ignored the bootblack's selections, lost $14.
The New Haven Sunday Register carried a big picture under this headline "Ivy League Hong Kong Industrialist Visits Firm Here, Makes Tour of Yale." The industrialist was H. J. Shen whose East Sun Textile Mill in Hong Kong employs 1500 people. He said he planned a stop over in San Francisco where his wife, three children and grandchildren are, before returning to Hong Kong. After graduating in 1925, Shen got a master's degree from the Tuck School.
Bruce Lewis moved his Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., from New York City to West Palm Beach, Fla., on August 1. He sold his home in Nutley, N. J., and bought one at 200 Lake Drive, Palm Beach Shores. Bruce says it was a hard decision to make but that they hope to attract some good help, and had over goo applications before moving South.
Dick Rendell, Mutual Broadcasting System newscaster, reports a nice visit in Hawaii with Major General Normando Costello. Dick was on his way home after being in Korea with Eisenhower and later in Tokyo where one of his hosts was Kyosuke Fukuda '29, proprietor of the Tokyo Shimbun, largest afternoon newspaper in the city. Dick covered both the Democratic and Republican conventions.
We have just learned of the death of Merl Barns on September 27, 1959, and of BillMonaco last May. Further details will appear in the next issue.
On behalf of the Class we want to pay tribute to George Emery and all his assistants who worked so hard on the Alumni Fund last spring. George is confident the Class will do much better next year.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.
Treasurer, First National Bank, Boston 6, Mass.
