1928
The attendance cup and two bottles of champagne were won by the seven '28ers who attended the annual Dartmouth Philadelphia dinner on March 24. Present were George Pasfield, Jack McAvoy, Jack Heston, Ernie Wright, Dick Frame, John Phillips, and Bill Williams. We are indebted to Dick Frame for getting a picture of the winners.
Another group held a small '28 reunion on April 2 at the Griswold Inn, Essex, Conn., and sent us a card with these signatures: Cal and Genie Billings, Harry andAlice Jewett, and Dick and Kay Klinck. Also there were Dick Van Riper '57 (Van's son) and his wife, Mary Virginia, who is Bill Heep's daughter.
Hollis Carlisle has sold the family business, the Carlisle Hardware Co., in Spring-field, Mass., and is now retired. That word "retired" is misleading, because a number of our classmates have retired from business and a few months later find themselves shouldering a whole new set of responsibilities.
Our class has the distinction of having a '28 wife elected superintendent of schools. Doug Blair's wife was appointed to that position for Brick Township, Ocean County, N. J., in January. The Blairs live in Brielle and Doug is a lawyer in Point Pleasant.
Herm Schnepel, sales manager for New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and District of Columbia for Beckley-Cardy Co., publishers of books for schools, reports that he stopped in to see Otto Sokol in Cape May, N. J. However, he found that Otto had sold his grocery business and was on an eight-month trip around the world with his wife. He plans to stop in San Francisco to visit with a brother and in Vienna, Austria, with another brother. His mother died recently in Vienna at the age of 96.
The Dartmouth National Bank has an- nounced the election of Jim Campion as a director. In addition to owning Campion's for the past 39 years, Jim has taken an active part in town affairs. He is currently chairman of the Mary Hitchcock Hospital Expansion Fund Drive.
Rupe Thompson, whose chairmanship of the 1965 Alumni Fund has made him a part of every Dartmouth man's household this spring, has been elected a director of the National Association of Manufacturers, representing Rhode Island. Rupe, who already serves on numerous civic, charitable, educational, and industrial organizations - including Keep America Beautiful, Inc., Citizens' Scholarship Foundation of America, the Board of Overseers for Amos Tuck School - also manages to hold down his duties as chairman and chief executive officer of Textron, Inc.
Stew Hoagland claims we are not at a news-producing age, however happy and comfortable we are in our rut. Stew works for Interchemical Corporation at Hawthorne, N. J. (advertising manager), is still involved in a number of community activities, plays golf in pleasant weather and does some French cooking on weekends in the winter. Carl, Dartmouth '57, is a junior analyst with Smith, Barney & Co. in New York.
Si Gedge has retired from the American Steel & Wire Co., and his address is Route 3, Petoskey, Mich.
Jerry Goodwin, science teacher at New London, Conn., High School, has been selected as a participant in the National Science Foundation Institute at the University of Connecticut this semester. This is the third honor of this type awarded Jerry. In 1956 he received a $1,000 grant from General Dynamics to study advanced physics at Harvard, and in 1959 he won a $600 National Science Foundation grant to the teachers' institute in modern physics at Yale Summer School.
Early spring visitors to Europe besides the Bill Heeps and Court Kellers include George and Isobel Slawson, who sent a card from Copenhagen, and Phil and HelenOrsi, who sent a card March 17 from Mallorca, Spain, where they were resting after a business trip through the Middle East.
Jack Phelan just returned from a visit with his daughter, Martha, and her husband at Big Bend National Park, on the Rio Grande in Texas. While he was there several gray fox sneaked into the back yard and a coyote looked into the living room. On the road they saw a bobcat and a herd of wild pigs.
Les Mason is teaching this year at Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, N. J.
If you want to know where to go for an unusual vacation just write Wat Dickerman, professor of education at the University of California at Los Angeles. (We'll supply his address.) His description of his and Eleanor's cruise from Athens to Trieste led Mary and me to take it a year ago. This year he and Eleanor spent a between-semesters vacation in Hawaii. After a week at the Halekulani Hotel at Waikiki, they spent a week on Kauai. Wat says that if anyone is looking for a wonderful and inexpensive place to loaf, try Mrs. Grace Manikoa, Hanalei Apartments, Hanalei, Kauai - only $55 a week for two for a kitchenette apartment!
John Phillips' older son, John, is married and has two children and works for Vail Ballou Press. Bob Phillips graduated from Columbia Business School, is out of the Army Intelligence Corps as a lieutenant and now works for General Foods in White Plains, N. Y.
Don't miss the annual '28 spring golf outing and dinner, May 21, at the Ridgewood Country Club, Ridgewood, N. J.
Samuel Gifford '28 is now President ofthe Milton Paper Co., Inc., New York.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.
Class Agent, Cove Circle, Piney Point, Marion, Mass 02738
