1928
The annual New York class dinner on January 20 at the Dartmouth Club was very enjoyable, with 24 classmates from seven states attending. Bob Maclellan of Chattanooga and Dave McCathie of Emporia, Va., came the greatest distance. Class Agent Howie Bush came down from Marion, Mass., former class presidents GeorgePasfield and Jack McAvoy came over from Philadelphia, yours truly negotiated the icy roads from Troy, Pa., Bill Morton flew in from Syracuse and Red Pelton from Olean, N. Y. New Jersey, Connecticut, and New York residents included Campaigner Editor Jack Herpel, George Emery, Herm Schnepel, Irv Engelman, Chuck Bruder, John Phillips, Joe Smith, Bill Hobson, Lew Beers, Jack Zellers, Stu Goodwillie, Lin Gray, Ed Heyn, El Drake, Bud Osborn, and Dinner Chairman Hank Walker.
President Morton presided and introduced the speaker, Jim Landauer '23, president of the Alumni Council, who gave an interesting talk on the College.
The Class was well represented at the Alumni Council meetings in Hanover Jan. 28-30 by Council members George Davis, John Kenerson and Rupe Thompson, plus past members Chuck Bruder, Craig Haines, and Bill Morton.
We are indebted to Treasurer CraigHaines for a prompt report on the Boston Alumni Dinner on Feb. 2, where he was joined by Jack Phelan, Jack Kenerson, Mutt Jennings, Don Norris, and Tim Paige. Tim happened to be in town visiting one of his married daughters and learned of the dinner by chance. Tim and Virginia were in Guatemala City the week before visiting their daughter Carolyn who is teaching at the Colegio Americano and were given the red carpet treatment by Dana and VernaCondon.
Bob Maclellan, president of the Provident Life & Accident Insurance Co., Chattanooga, was elected chairman of the Institute of Life Insurance at its 26th annual meeting in New York City. Bob succeeds, as chairman, J. F. Oates Jr., chairman of the board of the Equitable Life Assurance Society.
Stii Goodwillie and partners have formed a new management consulting firm,' Langlie, Goodwillie & Moore, Inc., in Stamford, Conn. Stu has -served with DuPont, Sylvania, and Clevite corporations and for the past 15 years has been a management consultant. His son, Dave '63, is a First Lieutenant in the Marine Corps stationed in Okinawa.
Phil Orsi, vice president of the First National City Bank, is one of the best informed people in the country on the Middle East. He leaves Feb. 10 on his annual trip there for the bank, and will be accompanied this time by Helen. They will be away six weeks visiting Iran, Saudi Arabia (where they will see Parker Hart '33, Ambassador to Saudi Arabia), Qatar, the Trucial States, Bahrein, and the Holy Land.
Bill Okie is re-doing the cases robbed in October at the Museum of Natural History in New York. They are finally getting him back to reconstruct what Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews asked him to do years ago, when Bill was designing Tiffany's window exhibits. Bill is working for himself and the Matthews-Master Engraving Co., Inc., 40 West 25 St., New York.
The Syracuse Herald-American named eight leaders in the Syracuse area as the Outstanding Men of 1964, and our Dynamo Morton, president of the Onondaga County Savings Bank, received the award as Syracuse's Man of the Year in banking and finance. Bill is described as a man who spends most of his time trying to "take the stuffiness out of banking" and boosting downtown Syracuse. His bank is the largest mutual savings bank between Buffalo and New York.
Bob Reid writes from Santa Monica, Calif., that he is just back from a swing around the Pacific for the American Pad & Paper Co. After a month in Hawaii on business he flew to Tahiti (to see for himself), then on to Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Japan. Bob says "a most fascinating trip, and interesting to see Asians working and striving to keep up with this fast moving world."
We were delighted the other day to hear from another '28 daughter, Mary Heep van Riper, who said, "Thought you might be interested to know that two members of the class of 1928 have three mutual grandchildren." Mary's father is Bill Heep and her husband is Dick van Riper '57, son of Lawson van Riper. They have three children Laura 4½, Susan 3, and Douglas William 20 months. The other Heep daughter married Bill Hufnagel, Williams '62 who is in his final year at Fordham Law School. Mary also let us in on the news that Billand Gert Heep are leaving in the spring on a trip to Europe with Court and Jane Keller.
Tax Connell, assistant director of the China Medical Board of New York, returned from the Orient in November to prepare for his semi-annual Board meeting in December.
The sad news that Sis Emery died the end of January of a heart attack came as a great shock to all of her friends. She had attended all the class reunions with George and will always be remembered for her untiring work helping George for the three years, 1960-63, when he was Class Agent.
Bill Kimball's son, Shep, and Mildred Jane Goodman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Goodman of Bethlehem, Pa., were married December 23 in the Salem Lutheran Church in Bethlehem. Shep graduated in 1962 from the University of New Hampshire, where he was co-captain of the ski team. He is attending the Graduate School of Business at the University of Oregon.
Roy Milliken's son, John, Case Tech '62, and Irene Kinzer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Kinzer of Arlington, Va., were married in the Trinity Presbyterian Church, Arlington, on December 25. John is teaching Physics at lowa State and is on his way to his doctorate.
Chuck and Martha Bennet, just returned from a month in California with their daughter, Patty, report that their oldest grandson Charley Shipley, is 15 and is 6'4" tall. Even as a sophomore he made the Palo Alto high school varsity football and basketball teams.
John Turkevich says his daughter, Tassie, 20, is a junior at Princeton, studying Russian literature. She is one of 20 girls and is having a fine time with some of the 3000 boys. Marina, 26, is married to Prof. R. A. Naumann of Princeton. John's next vacation will be to Roumania and Russia.
Hank Reynolds' son, Henry '63, is a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco and older son, William, is doing post grad research at the University of Vermont. Hank is a Denver pediatrician.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.
Treasurer, First National Bank, Boston 6, Mass.
