1927
The New York dinner on January 11 lived up to all expectations, with about forty in attendance, and everyone seeming to have a marvelous time. In addition to the good food, good drink, and good fellowship which always mark these occasions, honors for making it an outstanding evening were divided between the talk by Lee Greenebaum, recently elevated to chief executive officer of the Hertz Corporation, who regaled us with a series of interesting sidelights on the operations of this world-wide organization, and the musical entertainment provided by the famous Greener-Welty combo, featuring the "Greenerhorn," a Rube Goldberg type of musical instrument invented and played by Jack Greener, the washtub-broomstick bass of Al Welty, plus the singing of Al Jr. '56, Louis Martin, Cornell '22, Al and Jack. As it has so often in the past, the prize for distance traveled went to Vern Whitney, the peapacking magnate from Walla Walla, Wash. The chairman of the committee responsible for arrangements was our hard working New York regional chairman, Duke Coulter. The next opportunity for a gathering of a goodly number of the Class will be the annual meeting of the Boston Alumni Association, which will be held on February 23. Although this will be history by the time this is in print, it is still in the future as it is written. I hope to be able to include an account of 1927's participation in the next column.
Don McCall has turned over to me a Christmas card recently received from JerryCovert, on which he penned the following message, which I hope he will not mind my sharing with all of you:
October 15, on a Viscount from Delhi heading for a week in South India and Ceylon. Maybe this will arrive by Christmas, which Dot and I will have with my mother in Rome, and we get home January 15. We came on a tour called the Magellan from the Pacific coast - Hawaii, Japan, Hong Kong, Manila, Saigon, Bangkok, Singapore, Bali, Rangoon, Darjeeling, Nepal, Kashmir - out since August 20 and still going strong. Our two weeks so far in India have certainly been fascinating. Leave Bombay next week for Nairobi and South Africa, from where we work north to Cairo in one and a half months, then Holy Land, Tel Aviv, Istanbul, Greece and Rome. We have left only three weeks for Spain and Portugal, where we get a jet to New York and home.
After two months of the roughest go on the circuit we now consider ourselves almost seasoned travelers, and should be broken in for the back trails of Africa. November is supposed to be good weatherwise on that continent, otherwise we should have left the 'Pacific coast a month later. It was damn hot and humid from Japan to Bangkok, but just right for Nepal and Kashmir, also lucky on weather at the Taj Mahal and Jaipur (three days by car out of Delhi) which usually is stinking hot. It's worth all the discomforts, though. Indian Airlines side trips north are DC-38 and the service poor. However, an extra fare Viscount made the Kashmir trip pleas- ant - our pilot just announced that this flight is two hours out of Hyderabad - our next headquarters—and that we are at 17,500 feet. Last report Pirates 3—Yankees 2. Sure would like to know who won.
If you haven't found out yet, Jerry, it was the Pirates.
For those of you who like another kind of vacation. Bill and Eleanor King are announc- ing that they will have Dexter's, at Sunapee, N. H., open until about April 1, depending on how long the snow lasts. By present indications, this should be somewhere around the Fourth of July, though things may have changed by the time you read this.
Gus Cummings has been named president of Thomas Flexible Coupling Company. Gus is also a vice president of the Koppers Company, and has been general manager of the Metal Products Division.
Dr. Phil Corliss was given a Certificate of Appreciation by the Arizona Federation of Garden Clubs, and was nominated for the Purple Ribbon Certificate for Horticultural Achievement given by the National Council of State Garden Clubs.
The Reverend Frederick Everett Abbott was ordained on December 14 in St. Luke's Church, Lanesboro, Mass., by the Rt. Rev. Robert Hatch, bishop of the diocese of Western Massachusetts. He was ordained a deacon on June 11, at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, in New York, and has been deacon-in-charge of St. Luke's Church since.
The engagement of Sandra Ann Ford to Donald J. P. Swift '57 was announced recently. He is the son of Norm and Ruth Swift, and after graduation from Dartmouth received a Master of Science degree from Johns Hopkins University, and is presently working towards a doctorate in geology at the University of North Carolina. The wedding is planned for August.
The last weekend in January was occupied for your secretary, plus a great many other alumni, with the regional conference in Cleveland, held in conjunction with the midyear meeting of the Alumni Council. This was an interesting and inspiring meeting, with the closing banquet attended by some three hundred and fifty or more Dartmouth men and wives. Bud and Dot Wesselmann were in evidence, and perhaps there were other members of the Class, though if there were, I missed them in the large crowd.
A note from Larry Scammon serves as a reminder that the Alumni Fund campaign is again under way. A few days ago X received the financial report of the College for the past fiscal year. In Cleveland I heard a report by Jack Dodd '22, the chairman of this year's campaign, which pointed up the very vital need of the College for the full amount of the million dollar quota for this year's Fund. All of these things emphasize the importance of every one of us giving the most thoughtful consideration to our own share in this great cooperative effort. We would all like to see 1927 win the Green Derby this year. We are in the most competitive division of all, and it will take the best effort of every one of us if we win. As much as we would like to win the Derby, the important thing is that each one of us do as much as he possibly can. This will entail some sacrifice, but this is necessary if we are to retain free private education in this country, and this is something that I am sure that all of us think is important enough to make sacrifice worth while.
Secretary, 29150 West River Rd. Perrysburg, Ohio
Treasurer, Apt. 10C, 3908 N. Charles St. Baltimore 18, Md.
