1928
Bud Osborn was written up in the March 6 issue of Investor's Reader, a magazine published by Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. Bud has been president since 1950 of Economics Laboratory, Inc., which last year sold $35,100,000 worth of commercial dishwashing products for hotels, restaurants, and hospitals, plus consumer products like "Soilax," a general purpose cleaner, "Electrasol" for automatic dishwashers, and other products. Sales and earnings have gone up each year for the past ten years.
Bud is described as "a bushy-browed, athletic man who loves to ski and play golf with his wife, an exceptional player, shooting in the high seventies or low eighties." Bud and Gloria left in February for Jamaica to spend some time at their house overlooking the ultra-posh Tryall golf course.
Chuck Bruder, our class bequest chairman, has been appointed to the newly-created position of Vice President for Development by the Singer Manufacturing Company. He'll be responsible for corporate planning and diversification programs. Chuck first joined the Singer organization in 1932. In 1948 he was named vice president of Diehl Manufacturing Company, a Singer subsidiary, and five years later became vice president of the Singer Sewing Machine Company and a director of the Singer Manufacturing Company. His most recent responsibilities have been as vice president in charge of the company's consumer products division.
Dee Kunk is dean of the University of Virginia. In the latest issue of the national magazine of the Zeta Psi fraternity he is quoted at length on fraternities. He says "I am a strong believer in the fraternity system, but will defend it only so long as it is a constructive force."
Dick Schmelzer has been elected to the board of directors of the Samaritan Hospital, Troy, N. Y. Dick is special assistant to the president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Wat Dickerman, Associate Professor of Education at the University of California at Los Angeles, is on what he says is his first and last sabbatical. He went to Dubrovnik and will soon work his way north to Copenhagen.
Okie O'Keeffe's son, William B. '61, and Paula Jane Symmons of West Newton, Mass., are to be married in the fall.
John Neary's son, John F. Jr., and Carole Ann Bailey of Ipswich, Mass., were married in March. The bride attended the University of Mass. and her husband graduated from Northeastern University and is now serving with the Army Signal Corps as a first lieutenant.
An interview with Bob Maclellan in the Memphis Press-Scimitar states that the Provident Life and Accident Insurance Co., of which Bob is president, stands 38th in size among 1400 companies writing life insurance. The company was founded 75 years ago by Bob's grandfather, Thomas Maclellan.
Van Curll has sent us a welcome gift of a number of old Dartmouth mementos including copies of the Dartmouth Pictorial and the little 1925 booklet entitled "Regulations of the Faculty." Van's youngest daughter is a freshman at Chatham College in Pittsburgh, Pa.
A card from Italy from Suzanne andGeorge Pasfield said they had visited Lisbon, Casablanca, and Majorca and were going to spend two months touring Italy, France, and Switzerland by car. They will get home June 4.
Court Keller writes that he had a very pleasant lunch with Cal Billings in Hartford several weeks ago, also a nice visit with Craig Haines in Boston. Just recently Gert and Bill Heep and Court (Jane was ill) went up and visited the Ken Turners and had a delightful dinner with them. Ken has lost some weight and seems fine — he would like to get some more magazine subscriptions so remember to send all your subscriptions and renewals to the K.W. Turner Subscription Agency, Tomkins Cove,
H.J. Shen has been elected vice president of the 17-member Dartmouth Club of Hong Kong.
Don't miss the annual '28 spring outing, being held this year at St. Andrew's Golf Club, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., on May 24, thanks to an invitation extended by BillHeep. A large turnout of '28ers and wives is expected.
Horace Brown is a member of the American Committee for KEEP, Inc. and attended the 13 th annual meeting of the Committee in Cleveland recently. KEEP stands for Kiyosato Educational Experiment Project, which was started in 1948 by Col. Paul Rusch, a long time teacher of St. Paul's University in Tokyo. Much of the financial support for the project comes from Americans a meeting house and hospital have been built in the village and a program for youth continues to grow. Also attending the same meeting and serving on the Committee are: Ronald J. Brown '22, Charles M. French '24, Lee A. Chilcote '30 and Robert M. Lindstrom '34.
Five Dartmouth alumni attended the annual meeting in Cleveland of the AmericanCommittee for the Kiyosato Educational Experiment Project (KEEP), a program forthe youth of Japan. Pictured (l to r) are: front, Lee Chilcote '30 and Horace Brown'28; back, Charles French '24; Colonel Paul Rusch, who conceived the idea of thisyouth project on Yatsu Mountain; Ronald Brown '22; and Robert Lindstrom '34
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