1928
Monty Wells, our renowned track star and golfer, died at his home April 7 of a stroke. Eight years ago he had a brain tumor removed and last fall another tumor was removed from his shoulder. The sympathy of the Class is extended to Grace, their son, David, and other members of his family.
Irv Engelman was appointed last month the director of the Division of Welfare in the New Jersey Department of Institutions and Agencies. He started with the department in 1936. Irv is a graduate of the Rutgers University Law School.
Dick Schmelzer, General Secretary of Rens-selaer Polytechnic Institute since 1957, has been named Special Assistant to the President. He will work on special assignments which will include studying and reporting on long range planning and educational trends. Dick taught English at R.P.I, from 1929 to 1948 when he switched over to administrative work.
From Hong Kong comes news of the marriage of George and Paula Bell's son, George Jr., and Miss Carole Ann Gindhart, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John H. Gindhart in Trinity Cathedral, Trenton, N. J., on February 12. The bride and groom are classmates at the Rhode Island School of Design which they have attended for the past two years. The Bells' daughter, Alison, was married January 24, 1959, to William C. Holman, while her parents were on home leave in Washington, D. C. They met in Hong Kong while Lt. Holman was serving with the Seventh Fleet. The Bells' third child, David, is fourteen and attends the Landon School for Boys in Bethesda, Md.
George retires from Standard Vacuum Oil Company this year. For the past seven years he has been in Hong Kong as China Area Manager for his company. He and Paula will leave in early October for Europe and will take up permanent residence at 4447 Hawthorne St., Washington, D. C. They have no particular plans except to see something of America for a change.
Tax Connell will move this summer from Houston, Texas, to New York when he starts his new work as assistant director of the China Medical Board, Inc. The Board, set up by the Rockefeller Foundation, administers funds for graduate fellowships for medical students throughout all countries of Free Asia. Tax and his wife will travel four months a year visiting each of these countries, interviewing candidates for fellowships in the United States, evaluating their hospitals and medical schools, and reporting on the work of men who have returned from study in this country. Their son, John, Dartmouth '55, is a lawyer in Sacramento, Calif. From 1931 to 1954 Tax taught at Dartmouth.
Jack and Kathryn Kerr of Syracuse have announced the marriage of their daughter, Alexandra, to Philip Hudson, a senior at the University of Syracuse.
The last report about Bud (George Ralston) Smith was that he owned and operated a 42-foot schooner and took charter parties out in the Gulf Stream and to the Bahamas. A letter just received from Bud says he and Ginnie decided ten years ago that it was time to settle down and get a job ashore. Since then he has been a customers' man for Sutro Brothers and Company in Palm Beach, Fla. Al and Lillian Burleigh of Packanack Lake, N. J., visit them for a couple weeks every year. Bud's current hobby is studying Spanish and Russian.
John Brew, Director of Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology, spent several weeks last fall as chairman of a UNESCO International Commission of archaeologists which convened in Egypt to advise the United Arab Republic on archaeological salvage in the immense area of Nubia to be flooded by the proposed high dam at Aswan. He spent ten days on a boat on the Nile, covering the entire area from Aswan to the Sudan border. John's most recent trip was to the large Mayan sites near Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.
Because he takes regular training flights from New Jersey to Jacksonville, Key West, and Dallas, Red Jenkins is still a commander in good standing in the Naval Reserve (the rest of us have been retired). If there is a football game in Hanover he has no difficulty securing "orders" to fly to White River Junction! Red is Trade Mark Service Manager for the N. J. Bell Telephone Company with his office in Orange, N. J.
Several impatient souls have inquired when our next reunion will be held. The next official reunion will be our so-called 35th in 1962 - obviously it will actually be our 34th because it will be advanced one year so that we will reune at the same time as '27 and '26. Of course we will have our annual football weekend reunion in Hanover this fall, about which you will hear more later.
Wes McSorley's son, Dick, returns to Dartmouth this June for his tenth reunion, which prompts Wes to remark, "Let's not kid ourselves, we sure are getting old." His second son, Bob, Syracuse '59, was married March 5, 1959.
Sons of three '28ers have elected to room together next year at Dartmouth: Bill Edgar, Bob MacPhail Jr., and Billy O'Keefe.
In closing I want to point out that we have not been doing as well as we should in the Alumni Fund drive. Won't each of you re-examine your participation and see if you can make an additional contribution before June 30?
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.
Class Agent, Box 168, Navesink, N. J.
