1928

After 36 years in the office equipment business with Remington Rand, Jack Zellers is embarking on a new career in the banking field. On December 1, after a vacation in California, he joins the People's Savings Bank of Bridgeport as manager of their Southport Branch.

The mid-winter '28 New York dinner will be held at the Dartmouth Club on January 20. The program will be announced in the '28 Campaigner. Regulars like Lew Beers and George Pasfield will be able to take in the boat show which is being held that week. It's also a good time for our former treasurer and prime boating enthusiast, Bruce Lewis of West Palm Beach, to schedule a business trip to his New York office.

Clark Harrington composed all the music for the historical revue presented October 15 by the Newtown Congregational Church as part of its 250th anniversary celebration. Clark retired from the Columbia Broadcasting Company five years ago and is composing organ music as well as choral works and music for small orchestras.

Our son Scott is now in Nepal. He joined the Peace Corps immediately after graduation from Dartmouth last June and spent the summer in the Peace Corps Training School at the University of Oregon taking orientation courses and learning to speak the Nepali language. He flew to Katmandu in September and was assigned with another Peace Corps volunteer to teach. English in the village of Chainpur, 25 miles from Mt. Makalu, a 27,000 foot peak in the Himalayas. To get there they had an arduous hike from the end of the road for four days over steep, muddy trails, climbing two mountains en route. They are the first foreigners to live in the village - people are very curious and follow them everywhere.

At a big banquet in Washington we had the pleasure of meeting Dave Martin '29, a Representative from Nebraska, and his wife, who is Tavey Taylor's sister. We sat at the Pennsylvania table with Herm Schneebeli '30 also a Congressman.

Cal Billings' son, Will, is a freshman at Lafayette College.... Bill Marx's son, William '62, is in his second year at the University of Michigan Law School.... Jack Phelan Jr. '63 is in the Army (Infantry) at Ft. Lewis, Wash., and recently graduated from paratroopers' school.

Wat Dickerman, a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, joined the Sierra Club and took one of their mountain trail hikes last summer. He sent us an old snapshot album with pictures of a lot of '28ers which we are happy to have for the class archives.

Honie Westhaver retired August 1 and says it is the greatest thing since the invention of the wheel. He and Mona are going to Kailua, Hawaii, about the first of the year and will start building a home there which they will occupy five months of the year. The rest of the year they will travel or live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Honie was with the U. S. Steel Corp. since graduation - the first 14 years in Worcester, Mass., where he rose to steel works superintendent, then on to higher executive posts in Donora, Pa., Salt Lake City, and finally to San Francisco in 1954, where he became executive vice president of the Columbia-Geneva Division.

Dana and Verna Condon just returned to Guatemala after a seven-week combined vacation and business trip to the States. They visited both daughters and their four grandchildren. Dana attended Rotary at Manchester, N. H., and visited with LankyLangdell whom he had not seen since graduation. When the weather turned cold Dana was happy to get on the United Fruit boat for Guatemala. He is General Traffic Manager for Central America for United Fruit.

Rupe Thompson was recently elected a trustee of the National Industrial Conference Board.

Our only report on the Yale game is from Craig Haines, who said he saw the Brougham Wallaces, George Davis, HarryJewett, and Herb and Dottie Russell.

Recent weddings include Amby McLaughlin's son, Ambrose 3rd, and Lizabeth Simonds of Wayzata, Minn.; Douglas Howard Haley, son of the late Howie Haley and Martha Brister of Weston, Conn.; Doug is a third year student at Boston University Law School; Al Walker's daughter, Judith, and Gerald R. Tait at the bride's home in Assonet, Mass.; Eino Johnson's daughter, Marianne, and James D. Hancock of Fitchburg, Mass.

Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.

Treasurer, First National Bank, Boston 6, Mass.