1928
Rupe Thompson, chairman of the 1965 Alumni Fund, was a featured speaker at the meeting of Class Officers May 7 in Dartmouth Hall, following the banquet in Hopkins Center. The 530 officers and wives filled Alumni Hall and two other rooms for the banquet, the largest attendance ever. Also attending were Rupe's wife, Dor, Treasurer Craig Haines and Eleanor, and your secretary.
The meetings started at 4 Friday afternoon and continued until Saturday noon. At the Saturday morning session of the Class Secretaries Association, I had the pleasure of speaking on the work of a class secretary. In the ensuing panel discussion it was heartening to learn that I'm not the only secretary who has trouble getting his classmates to write him
Before the Saturday morning meeting, I dashed from the Inn to the Admissions Office in McNutt Hall to get the names of the tour sons of '28ers who were accepted for the Class of 1969: Ted Baehr's son, Millard of Oyster Bay, Long Island, N. Y., JackCook's son, Gregory, of Crystal Lake, Ill., Willis Mitchell's son, Paul, of Toms River N. L, and my son, Douglas. Doug graduates in June from the Lawrenceville School where he was co-captain of the cross country team and editor of the year book
A letter from "Mitch" Mitchell, Toms River physician, said he had been waiting for years to have something to write about. His son, Paul, is senior class president (like father 41 years ago at Easton, Pa., High), captain of the soccer team and All-State Soccer Player. Mitch has been active m interviewing Dartmouth applicants for several years. His daughter Margaret Stahl, is living at the University of Colorado where her husband is teaching. His other son, Dave, after three years in the Marines, is now at Rider College majoring in finance.
After a year in Viet Nam flying jet fighter planes, Herb and Mimi Sensenig's son, Bill, is back safely, with a Purple Heart. He was fortunate to survive two crashes. He and his wife and baby have gone to Bill's next assignment, at Fort Campbell, Ky.
Brad Parker is still with Pratt and Whitney Aircraft in East Hartford, Conn., where he started as a temporary war worker in 1942. His work is on fuel manifolds for all types of jet. engines, reviewing all deviations and making dispositions to correct or reject. He says he often wonders how this happened as he was always nuts about music and the theater.
Paul Annable is president of Connecticut Research Associates, Inc., Danbury, Conn., manufacturers of quality control instruments for the transit mixed concrete industry and automatic concrete block making systems. He is also chairman of the Danbury Airport Commission.
John Scott, counsel for Socony Mobile Oil Co., says his next vacation will be to Ram Island Farm, Cape Elizabeth, Me. One daughter is a senior and the other a sophomore at the Ether Walker School. John is co-chairman of the Board of the New York Chapter of the Red Cross.
Shep Shepard reports he has seven grandchildren from 14 to 2 years of age. He is sales manager for Solon Gershman, Inc., Clayton, Mo., realtor, and says his hobby is bridge and making money. His daughter is married to an engineer from Iraq who works for Lockheed; his older son, Ned, has just become vice president of Fuller & Co., Denver realtors. His second son, Larry, is with Equitable Life.
Speaking of realtors, Dick Walker, president of Byron-Reed Co., Inc., Omaha, says his son is now assistant vice president in charge of their mortgage loan department. His hobby is their island in Lake of the Woods. .. . Lew Terry is another realtor checking in - lives in Milford, Conn., and is associated with Russell W. Clarke.
Steele Smith, Waterbury, Conn., lumber dealer, says his hobby is the Middlebury Hunt.
Dick (Bromo) Schmelzer, special assistant to the president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is working at what a college education in 1980 will be like - his best guess now is a cluster of colleges around a graduate center. One of his duties is to advise Rensselaer on alumni relations - the alumni body numbers 22,000.
Myles Lane and the three other members of the New York State Crime Commission were sworn in for another two-year term. Myles has been a member since it was formed in 1958. Myles is a senior partner in the New York law firm of Schwartz & Frohlich, and has been mentioned in the sports columns as a possibility for election as next president of the National Hockey League. If Myles is tapped, he will be the first American president of the league.
Ken and Fidelia Turner's daughter, Gayle, will attend Hollins College in the fall.
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Class Agent, Cove Circle, Piney Point Marion, Mass. 02738
