1928
The '28 Executive Committee met at the Dartmouth Club in New York at 3:30 on January 19 with nine members present: President Bill Morton, vice presidents Jack Herpel and John Cronin, treasurer Craig Haines, class agent Howie Bush, reunion chairman Hank Walker, George Emery, John Phillips, and your secretary.
With Dynamo Morton's prodding we got through the agenda, with a full discussion of all class affairs. Howie Bush reported on plans to win the Green Derby in the coming Alumni Fund campaign; to win we will have to have gifts from you fellows who missed last year.
The 40th reunion, in June 1968, was discussed and plans outlined to provide such an interesting program that attendance will be greater than ever. Hank Walker and JimCampion were elected co-chairmen and will start work at once.
Hank Walker urged everyone who wants to attend the '28 Fall Reunion (and see the Princeton game) to send $25 immediately to Sumner Evans at the Norwich Inn.
Craig Haines reported that $4,130 has been contributed to date to the George Pasfield Memorial Fund, and that a report will be made later on the Thomas Carroll Memorial Fund, which has been started by Tom's relatives and friends in Cincinnati.
After a two and a half hour meeting, the committee joined the other '28ers for libations and dinner: Bill Harris, just arrived from a lecture in Miami, Makie Makepeace who drove down from Marion, Mass., with Anne and Howie and Caroline Bush, Ed Heyn (Millie Heyn came in later for the movies), Stu Hoagland, Ev Field (Kathy and friends came later), Larry Kenney, Stu Goodwillie, Lew Beers, Court Keller, Chet Kellogg, Herb Russell, Joe Smith, Bill Treanor, and George Klein from Pittsburgh.
The evening wasn't long enough to get news from very many fellows — it takes a certain amount of the cross-examination technique. Bill and Ellen Treanor decided on the spur of the moment to spend Christmas in Copenhagen. They took their niece and had a wonderful two-week visit. The niece liked the city and its people (especially the boys) so much that she stayed on to attend the university.
Joe Smith's son, Fred, is a lance corporal with a Marine Corps Engineer Battalion in Viet Nam. Stu Goodwillie's son, Dave '63, is a Marine lieutenant, also in Viet Nam. — at Danang.
Red Donnelley's son, Dave '64, a Marine officer, was seriously wounded in the fighting in Viet Nam, is recovering in this country.
We are lucky to have reports on several fellows who all too infrequently are reported on in these columns. For instance we are happy to have a letter from Grandfather John Neary, who usually confines his writing to his Boston advertising firm, John C. Dowd, Inc., and to the famous Herpel-Neary class newsletter. After saying that our birthday card perked him up, John wrote:
"Things have been jumping in Hamilton. My son Johnny, an Army captain stationed at White Sands after two years in Germany, got his orders for Viet Nam, where he is now. His wife, Carol, was about to have her second baby, so she flew in with their year and a half old son. Johnny had to go before the new baby arrived - last Saturday. So it's been exciting! Incidentally Chris is a junior at Bowdoin and Mike, my last hope for Dartmouth, is a high school freshman."
Bill and Bunny Whaley are spending February in California and hope to see some '28ers. Bill is with Mutual Benefit Health and Accident Association in Omaha. He says being a grandfather adds pleasure to the otherwise drab experience of growing old.
Maj. Gen. Norm Costello has been transferred from Ohio to Florida and lives on Rt. 1, Casey Key, Nokomis.
Al Fusonie writes from North Carolina that he is taking early retirement April 1 from Collins & Aikman and making plans to retire to Florida. He may do some teaching, which won't be new to him inasmuch as he taught at the Taft School the first 14 years after graduation.
Craw Pollock, the man behind the Jolly Green Giant, continues to get mentioned in the nation's biggest magazines for his part in the burgeoning growth of the Green Giant Company. The latest mention was in the "Investor's Reader" of January 19.
The Singer Company's vice president, development, Chuck Binder, has been placed in temporary charge of the company's Special Products division, which produces textile machinery and consumer electrical products.
Curt Crowell, who worked for the Circulation Department of the New York Herald Tribune, died at his home in Port Washington, N. Y., after a brief illness. He is survived by his wife, Marjorie, and three children.
1927 classmates (l to r) Bob Stevens,Larry Scammon, and Doane Arnold atthe Boston alumni dinner last month.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa. 16947
Treasurer, First National Bank, Boston 6, Mass.
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