1928
For a class secretary this is the roughest month of the year - the holiday accumulation of news has been used up, many of you are relaxing on sunny beaches and not wording about how your poor secretary is going to write his notes. George Boughton in Delray Beach, Bruce Lewis in Palm Beach, Jim Hardy in Daytona Beach, Bud McKenney in Islamorada and Dana Condon in Guatemala - it's high time you wrote a letter to let us know you're still kicking.
As we sort out our notes it's interesting to see that Bill Harris is in Bangkok tonight on his world cruise. A couple months ago Bill said that from now on he may work only six months a year in order to have time to himself and time to do some writing.
Well, back at the ranch the rest of us have been bucking six foot snow drifts and gale winds and wondering if spring is ever coming. Driving back from Freshman Fathers Weekend at Hanover on February 20, we were caught in a blizzard which closed the New York Thruway and forced us to spend the night in Utica. The usual 9 hour ride took two days this time.
Jack Cook and I enjoyed the weekend with our sons and the full schedule of classes, meetings, receptions and athletic events. The climax was watching the best dual swimming meet ever held in Hanover, when the frosh swimmers defeated the perennially powerful Yale frosh. Nine frosh, pool and national records were broken!
John Phillips was in Hanover that weekend too but with 400 freshman fathers crowding the pool and the hockey rink we missed him. John was in town to arrange for installation of a sprinkler system at the Psi U house. He always finds an excuse to get to Hanover that weekend, although he hasn't had a freshman son in ten years.
We ran into Bill Ballard in the Biology Lab, looking as distinguished as ever with his beard, and drove over to Norwich and out Beaver Meadow Road to have lunch with Herb and Mimi Sensenig.
Elly Jones writes, "We would enjoy seeing any '28ers who are lucky enough to get to Phoenix. We live in Cave Creek but are listed in Phoenix telephone book."
Maury Cogan's daughter was married to Charles R. Houck at St. Ann's Church, Cleveland Heights, with her three brothers as ushers. They are Pete who is working in Philadelphia, Jim, a junior at John Carroll University in Cleveland, and Tim, a senior at St. Ignatius High.
Jim and Cynthia McConnon of Minneapolis visited their son, Tom '54 and wife and three grandsons at Harrisonburg, Va., over Christmas. Tom is assistant manager of the Imco Container Co. plant at Harrisonburg.
Jack and Lucena McLaughlin cruised to South America and the West Indies this winter and are ready to go again at the drop of a hat. Jack says they have plenty of room at 1634 Pine St., Philadelphia, and any classmates are welcome at any time.
Honie Westhaver writes, "Early retirement is not exactly the period of frustration some dopes would try to make you believe - at least not for us. We loafed around the San Francisco area for two months last fall, then three months and 12,000 miles through 33 states - have been in Hawaii for a month and are planning on another month here reading the Mainland weather reports."
G. Allen Foster has had another book published - this one is "Impeached" and is the story of President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial.
Bob Edgar's son, Bill '62, and Miss Linda Kane, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Kane of Fall River, Mass., were married February 13. Among the guests were Johnand Ethel Nixon and Rupe and Dor Thompson.
Ham Hankins' daughter, Anne, and Ward Bing were married Dec. 18. Ward is principal of the Park Ridge, N. J., elementary school. Anne graduated from Skidmore in 1961 and has been teaching at the Sommers, N. Y., high school.
Eleanor Klein slipped and fell on the ice near her home in Pittsburgh in February - when the pain got worse the next day, xrays showed she had broken her back and will have to wear a cast for several months.
Myles Lane won the Otto Preminger case which was of great interest to the motion picture and television industries. Preminger tried to enjoin the television companies from interrupting his movie on television with commercials. Myles represented the defendant, Columbia Pictures. If you have the Feb. 19 New Yorker around you'll enjoy reading Lillian Ross's fascinating story of the trial. Myles has been mentioned in the newspaper regularly in connection with the New York State Investigations Commission, of which he is a member. The Commission has been probing the middle-income housing scandal and the New York City narcotics problem.
Archie Holden writes from his home in Port Angeles, Wash., "This is known as America's Last Frontier' and now that we have concluded a successful deer and elk hunting season, Grace and I can concentrate on salmon and steelhead fishing."
Barney Norton's son, John, has been winning points for Middlebury in ski jumping events all winter.
If you read the N. Y. Times half-page article on the Dartmouth Carnival you saw '28 mentioned - there was a picture of Darilyn Keith, daughter of Dr. RockwoodKeith '28.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.
Class Agent, Cove Circle, Piney Point, Marion, Mass. 02738
