1928
Our annual Fall Reunion in Hanover over the October 6 weekend was extremely successful in spite of the rain. The foliage was gorgeous, the company and food were tops, and the football team was impressive in its win over Penn.
A steady downpour kept all the wives playing bridge or visiting in front of a cheery fire at the Norwich Inn - except a few brave gals like Anita Beers, Esther Campion, Elizabeth Hobson, and Pearl Phelan. Our private bus delivered us to the stadium and brought us back to the Norwich Inn. After cocktails, 61 sat down to dinner in the new private dining room, a record for the Fall Reunion, which has increased in popularity each year since it was started seven years ago.
That we are able to have such convenient and comfortable headquarters, the Class owes a debt to Herb Sensenig for his early planning. President Bill Morton called on him to take a bow during the dinner. Bill also read a letter from George Pasfield regretting that he was unable to attend.
The Class Executive Committee held a meeting at 8:30 Saturday morning with Morton, Craig Haines, George Emery, Cal Billings, Herb Sensenig, Jack Phelan, Jack Kenerson and your secretary present.
ihe principal business was making plans tor a big '2B dinner in New York in January, about which you will hear more soon. Hank Walker, who ran such a successful 35th reunion, is chairman of this event. It is hoped that visiting firemen who get to New York often, like Hod Carver of Wichita, Craw Pollock of Minnesota, CreightHart of Kansas City, Rupe Thompson of Providence, the entire Philadelphia delegation, and many others from the hinterland will attend. Your secretary was instructed to borrow all movies and still pictures taken at previous reunions and arrange to show them at this dinner. If you have pictures will you please mail them to me now; they will be handled with care and returned to you soon after the dinner. We already have forty enlargements of the excellent pictures which Dick Frame took at the picnic at Jim and Esther Campion's place in Etna last June.
The usual '28 party will.be held after the Princeton game on November 24, at the Peacock Inn in Princeton. Come for a drink right after the game and stay for dinner if you can.
The Penn game was the first football game George Bell had attended since 1946. George retired over a year ago as Standard Vacuum Oil Co. manager in Hong Kong, but he and Paula were back in Hong Kong last April, May, and June on a special assignment for Mobil Oil.
Jack and Pearl Phelan were in Hanover Sept. 29-30 for the opening football game, and also because Pearl was representing the Dartmouth Women's Club of Boston at the meetings of Alumni Club officers.
Red Edgar's son, Bill '62, worked in New York all summer and is now a student at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Administration.
Fred Cole has been appointed Executive Secretary of the Middlesex Apartment Owners Association.
Craig and Eleanor Haines have announced the marriage of their daughter, Carol, to John Paul Salsgiver on Sept. 15, at the First Parish Church, Milton, Mass.
Jeff Glendinning has been the senior interviewer for the Dartmouth Enrollment Committee in the Andover, Mass., area. With thirty or more boys applying from Andover Academy plus others from surrounding schools, Jeff's committee does more work than most interviewing committees.
Clark Blyth wants to know if he holds the championship for the largest number of grandchildren — he has nine, with number ten due in February. Clark is with the U. S. Information Service and writes:
"Marion and I are in Santiago, Dominican Republic. We finished our tour in Buenos Aires on July 1 and have gotten considerable mileage out of the three months since then, with two visits to Mexico, two to Washington, one here to Santiago, plus such way stations as Robins AFB, Ga., Missoula, and Los Angeles, in each of which we visited a son and family. Couldn't quite include the daughter, as she and her husband and three kids are stationed in Japan.
"My new assignment is Director of the Centro Cultural Dominico Americano here in Santiago, and it should be said that the Centro is as new here as I am. In fact, our first classes begin Monday. The principal program will be teaching English, but we will also build up extra curricular activities, the first of which was held only last night - a lecture on American art by a visiting professor from the University of California. The work is demanding and challenging, but it's a lot of fun at the same time. We have rented a huge house four kilometers out of town and we'd be glad to see any '28rs who wander down this way."
Lane Dwinell has been named to the Board of Overseers of the Hanover Inn, representing the Alumni Council.
Craig Haines has been elected a member of the Executive Committee of the Dartmouth Alumni Council.
Shepard Stone '29, director of the FordFoundation's international affairs program, shown wearing his translation earphones at the U. S.-Japanese conferencesponsored by the College last month.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.
Treasurer, First National Bank, Boston 6, Mass.
