1928
Charlie Eastman was admitted to general partnership in the New York brokerage firm of Pershing & Co. on January 1. He has been with firm since 1933 and for the past several years has been cashier. It is interesting to note that of the 40 bright young lads who rushed from Hanover in 1928 to become stockbrokers in Wall Street, only three are still there: Charlie, JohnCronin and Court Keller — seven others are scattered around the country: Stan Aby in Minneapolis, Bill Alford in Chicago, DickFoote in Toledo, Rib Foster in Dallas, EdLilley in Milford, Mass., Bud Smith in Palm Beach, and Frank Tindle in Buffalo.
We had lunch with Myles Lane in New York a couple weeks ago and found him preparing for a big trial in which he will represent the moving picture industry in an anti-trust suit. Margaret is doing very well with her painting and has her own studio.
Milt Hoefle has beep working on cancer research and is interested in starting a foundation to carry forward the research he has started.
"The Bostonian Citation" was awarded to Larry Martin January 7 at a luncheon of civic leaders at the Charter House in Cambridge.
Heinie Williams is now vice president and general manager of the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix.
John Brew, director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology at Harvard, has been elected president of the Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art, in Santa Fe. He has been a member of the board of trustees for a long time.
Dick Brooks, formerly manager of the DeSoto Chemical Coatings Inc. plant in Greensboro, N. C., is now manager of their new plant in Pennsauken Township, N. J. Dick , and his family live at 217 Winding Way, Moorestown, N. J. Dick has been with this company and other Sears Roebuck subsidiaries for over 30 years.
Dick Walker and Gil Swanson were among 17 Omaha civic leaders who were awarded the Exceptional Service Medal, the highest award the Air Force may present to a civilian who is not employed by the Air Force. The presentation was made Dec. 2 by Gen. T. S. Power, SAC Commanderin-Chief at a special luncheon in Omaha.
Rupe Thompson's Textron, Inc., has bought the Jones & Lamson Machine Co., of Springfield, Vt.
The reaction to our birthday cards continues to be enthusiastic. So many of you are surprised at being remembered and of course we are delighted when you find the time to write us. We had a card from BudMcKenney a few days ago thanking us and adding that he had not seen any '28ers at his Theatre of the Sea, at Islamorada just south of Miami, during the past year. From reading the class notes he gathered that everyone had gone to Europe.
Those of you who still slave five or six days a week must occasionally wonder how our retired classmates feel about retirement. If you wonder what it will be like, harken to these words of wisdom from Sherm Baketel, retired Captain in the Coast Guard:
"You asked last summer for comment on retirement and I had to answer that at that time I was too new at the job to make any remarks. While the first bloom is off, I am tin entirely happy with my retirement, both as to location and activities of my own making One thing I have found out though: I keep something ahead all the time that reauires action on my part. Thus I always have something to shoot for, even though I may postpone action. For example, I have just finished painting a bathroom. This is a job left over from the remodeling done last summer. Next, when the spirit moves, will be a paint job in the upstairs hall This may sound like a stupid way of life but without some objectives, even as trivial as painting, you could rot pretty fast. So much for philosophy!
"Sorry to have missed the Class get-together on 12 October. I did make the Bucknell game and saw Hanover for the first time in years. Looks new, but I felt quite
Jack and Pearl Phelan's daughter, Martha McHenry, presented them with a third grandchild December 10 in Grand Canyon, Ariz. — the Village, that is — where her husband is Park Naturalist. Jack and Pearl were there and stayed over Christmas. Jack '63. now teaching English at Salisbury School and coaching the JV hockey team, joined them for Christmas. When Jack and Pearl drove to Phoenix to meet young Jack at the airport, they spent the night with Ellie and Nellie Jones at their beautiful home at Cave Creek, 30 miles north of Phoenix. In the morning they watched 40 or 50 desert quail feeding right on Ellie s patio outside the glass wall.
Have you replied to Bill Morton's letter about the Alumni Fund?
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.
Treasurer, First National Bank, Boston 6, Mass.
