1928
REUNION UP! Preparations are progress- ing for our Friendly Fortieth, or would you suggest another name, like Flexible Fortieth? As the program unfolds you will hear of the plans, so now is the time to start arranging for the June 17-19 holiday in Hanover.
Arnold Van Benschoten wrote October 1 from Italy that he was traveling the usual route: Munich, Bad Reichenhall, Salzburg, Venice, Lake Garda, Merano, Innsbruck, Paris and back to Providence on October 16.
The 12th annual '2B football weekend reunion was held October 13-15, with the Norwich Inn reserved for us, as usual. Jackand Cornie Herpel missed the reunion this fall because they were on vacation in England for eleven days.
Forsaking Madison Avenue, Chuck Bennet has moved to Palo Alto, Calif.
Jack and Lucena McLaughlin left Philadelphia September 29 to spend ten days in Bermuda and are going on a South American cruise in November. (Campbell Soup is good to its big wheels my company lets me have only two weeks.) Jack and Lucena will definitely be at the Fabulous Fortieth.
Nick Carter has been elected vice president of the Irving Trust Company in New York. He has been with them since 1928 and is currently concerned with trust and agency administration in the bank's Corporate Trust Department. Nick is also busy in his hometown of Locust Valley, N. Y., where he has been president of the board of education and is treasurer and trustee of library.
For the first time in 20 years, a freshman class has matriculated at Dartmouth without a single son of '28 That doesn't mean we're over the hill we have a lot of good applicants coming along. For instance, Ed Flanders' son, Johnny, just entered first grade and when he gets to Dartmouth may well be attending classes with grandsons of JimCampion, A 1 Fusonie, Jack Heston, and SamMagavern! The Flanders will be at the Fortieth. Ed, incidentally, has written a few more children's songs and is getting them in shape for publication as a collection.
Last month we mentioned the nine Heston grandchildren. Just arrived is a card from Buffalo lawyer Sam Magavern listing four married children, one in last year in college and ten grandchildren. Anyone top that?
While en route from their home in James- town, N. Y., to see their sons in New York City, George and Fran Pitts stopped in Troy to see us. We hope they'll do it again and that other classmates will drop in. We're very near to Elmira and Corning, N. Y.
Reunion Chairman Cal Billings of Hartford, Conn., was in Newark. N. J., in September and talked to Budd Maring, who is coming back for the Friendly Fortieth. Cal also saw lumberman Steele Smith at a weekly Dartmouth luncheon in Waterbury and reports he expects to be at the 40th too.
The Massachusetts Bankers Association elected Larry Martin president at its annual meeting last summer. Larry is president of the National Shawmut Bank of Boston.
Jerry Cetrulo's father, Gerardo, a world fencing champion, died in September at the age of 89. All of his eight children were expert fencers Jerry and his brother Dean were members of American Olympic teams. Jerry, a Newark surgeon, died in 1957.
Merrill Whittemore has been elected a vice president and trust officer of the First American National Bank of Duluth, Minn. He was with banks in New York City and Charlotte, N. C., before moving to Duluth in 1953.
Rappie Bavier's firm of Bavier, Bulger and Goodyear celebrated their 15th anniversary in the consulting business last summer by moving into new quarters in New Haven. Rappie and Sue decided to forego out-of-country travel spots this year for California, Nevada and Arizona a three- week junket.
John Phillips has been honored by being elected to the National Executive Council of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity. John has just finished serving eight years as president of the Zeta Association which owns the chapter house at Dartmouth. Both of John's sons were Psi U's at Dartmouth. John is president of the Vail-Ballou Press and a past president of the Book Manufacturers' Institute.
The youngest of Hammie Hammesfahr's three daughters has just had her fourth child now Hammie and Gratia have seven grandchildren.
After 25 years as personnel manager for Collins & Aikman, Al Fusonie has returned to the teaching profession. He started in September teaching German and Latin and coaching freshman football at the Pine Crest Preparatory School in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., which he says is the finest in Florida. From 1928 to 1942 he taught the same subjects at the Taft School and coached five championship football teams. He reports seeing Red Fauntleroy who moved to Fort Lauderdale recently.
Clark Harrington, retired CBS executive who has given a valuable collection of coins to the Dartmouth College Museum, drove Mr. R. A. G. Carson, Deputy Keeper of the Coins, British Museum, from New York to Hanover to speak at the annual meeting of the Connecticut Valley Coin Club and to meet Doran Jones, Honorary Curator of Coins at the College Museum.
1928 Class Reunion June 17-19, 1968
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa 16947
Treasurer, First National Bank, Boston, Mass. 02110
Bequest Chairman,
