1928
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.
Class Agent, Box 168, Navesink, N.J.
In the past two weeks, '28ers from New England to California have been attending Alumni Fund Dinners and have heard John Dodd '22 and President Dickey give inspiring pleas for the Million Dollar Alumni Fund goal for this year. The Fund must be the best in the nation in both participation and dollars if the College itself is to rank with the very best.
We would all like to see '28 win the Green Derby this year. It will take the best effort of everyone to win. We are off to a good start - don't delay mailing your gift.
Head Class Agent George Emery with Cal Billings, Jack Herpel, and Dick Rendell attended the New York dinner March 23, at the Astor. Reports on the attendance at the other dinners has not yet been received.
This might well be labeled our Spring Travel Issue. Some months the news we receive is mostly sad, some months news of promotions seem to predominate, but from this month's mail it looks as if '28ers have Europe on their minds.
Wayne Van Orman, New York attorney, went to Italy on vacation in March 1960 and in August went to Sweden. This August he will go to Ireland. His son Peter will get his M.D. in June, lives in Boston, and has three children. His daughter Jean graduates from Smith in June.
Herb and Dottie Russell of Suffield, Conn., leave April 14 from Bradley Field in a chartered plane with a group of eighty volunteer workers at the Hartford Hospital. They will spend three weeks visiting Lisbon, Cadiz, Granada, Madrid, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan and Lucerne. Their daughter Carol has taken a job in the Sales Promotion Department of Revlon in New York.
Matt Leonard of Salt Lake City is planning a trip to Europe this year.... Roy Myers, the "Romance of Words" lecturer, isn't sure whether he will conduct a party around Europe this summer or go alone.
Elliott Donnelly leaves Idlewild April 4 for London, then on to Athens and around-the-world. At our suggestion, he will look up Hsi-Jui Shen in Hong Kong.
Mary and I leave Idlewild April 5, to spend a month touring Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England with our son Scott who will be on spring recess from his English prep school. We have had invaluable assistance from Bill and Ellen Treanor on what to see in Ireland, which they have visited two or three times. In Edinburgh we hope to see Ted Howard's daughter and her husband, who is doing graduate work at the University.
Abe Ziskind is going to Israel and Europe in April. With the heavy '28 traffic through Idlewild, Shannon, etc., we shall keep our eyes open for impromptu reunions. Abe's son David is a senior at Colby College, and Jay is a freshman at Tabor Academy. His daughter Diana is married and has two children.
Bill and Elizabeth Ballard's daughter Nancy, a Skidmore junior, is in Paris on the Smith program, and spent Christmas with friends in Warsaw. Their younger daughter Helen, and Bob Jervis '60, were married early last year and have a daughter a few weeks old. Son David is a sophomore at Harvard, and young Bill has just been accepted for the first year at Phillips Andover. Betty says, "Bill is so rushed with faculty committee meetings, Norwich School Board meetings, and trying to finish his book, that it is no wonder he doesn't write anybody but his far-flung children."
Jerry and Mary Johnston's Great Dane outshone 61 others of his breed to take the ribbon at the Saw Mill River Kennel Club show in March. The New York Times said, "Jerry Johnston handled Devil D. The two together put 390 pounds on the ring floor. Johnston weighs 210 and the dog 180. Johnston is always recognized in a Great Dane ring. For luck, he wears a fore-and-aft deerstalker cap in the Sherlock Holmes tradition. Mary gave him one several years ago and a few victories encouraged the superstition. The dogs have done well without adornment, however. Devil-D, for example, has taken 69 breed ribbons and three best in show."
Jack and Margaret Zellers' daughter Margaret was married in the Trinity Episcopal Church, Southport, Conn., March 18 to Gordon Kent Lenci '56 of Summit, N. J. Jack gave his daughter away and her matron of honor was her sister, Mrs. M. Lee Wallace Jr., of Greens Farms, Conn. Gordon was a member of Green Key and Delta Tau Delta, and is on the faculty of Suffield Academy.
Speaking of Suffield Academy, Cal Billings' son Will is a student there and Herb Russell is a trustee.
