1928
The '28 dinner at the Dartmouth Club in New York on January 26 brought together ten of the "old faithfuls." It was decided that lack of publicity and telephoning was responsible for the small turn-out.
Our 40th reunion in 1968 came in for a lot of discussion, with President Bill Morton getting everybody's ideas about what they wanted. The consensus was that without slighting the opportunities to renew old friendships, we should arrange panel discussions of one or two important topics, with classmates and faculty members leading the discussion. Lin Gray suggested that now that Dartmouth has the tremendous Kiewit Computer Center, a lecture on computers and their future role in our lives would be of great interest.
Joe Smith told of visiting Dave Willard and his wife in Jacksonville, Fla., and what a gay time they had. Joe's son, Cpl. Fred Smith of the Marine Corps, has just joined the staff of the Peekskill Military Academy after several months in the Naval Hospital in St. Albans, Long Island, recovering from wounds received in South Vietnam. Fred has received from Governor Rockefeller the New York State decoration, a Silver Cross.
Each man around the table was asked about vacation plans. Bill and Bobby Morton are going to Eleuthera in the Bahamas. Myles Lane claimed he wasn't taking one this winter but did mention that he and Margaret are attending the A. F. of L. convention in Miami in mid-February, strictly on business of course. Myles was called on to tell about some of the nationally prominent cases he has been trying lately. JackHerpel did a smooth job of cross-examining Myles.
John and Peggy Phillips are leaving February 9 for a vacation at Queens Quarters, St. Croix, now that the big new Vail-Ballou Press plant in Binghamton, N. Y., is operaing smoothly. John Cronin admitted he is taking a month off from Wall Street so he and Ann can enjoy a Grace Line cruise along the West Coast of South America, leaving March 5.
That covers everyone at the dinner except Herm Schnepel who came over from East Orange, and Hank Walker, who has sold his estate in Carmel, N. Y., because it was too difficult to get help, and now lives on East 74th Street in Manhattan.
Lew Munson has been elected president and a director of the Wilmington Trust Co. Lew started with the bank in 1949 as an assistant vice president and since 1963 has been vice president and treasurer. Before that he was with DuPont in the Treasurer's Department and spent two years in Argentina as treasurer of two manufacturing subsidiaries. He served in the Navy from 1943-46, ending up as a Commander.
Bob Reid, who covers 12 Western states and Hawaii for the American Pad & Paper Co., had to come to the home office in Holyoke, Mass., for a meeting, so left a month early and flew to Acapulco for a week, then to Panama, Caracas, and on to Trinidad. With rum $1 a bottle it seems an easy life, he says. Then he got on a 40-passenger inter-island steamer that took 10 days to reach Jamaica, traveling between islands at night and leaving the days for visiting Granada, St. Vincent, Barbados, St. Lucia, Antigua, and St. Kitts. The highlight of his Jamaican stay was floating down the Rio Grande on a bamboo raft.
Ed Lilley has been elected an assistant vice president of Draper, Sears & Co., Inc., of Boston, members of the New York and Boston Stock Exchanges. Ed has been with the firm since 1941 and is manager of their Milford, Mass., office. He is a director and past president of the Milford Chamber of Commerce. Ed's earliest claim to fame was as leader of the Instrumental Club in College and tenor sax in the Barbary Coast Orchestra.
Creighton Hart, president of Reserve Plan, Inc., a personal finance company in Kansas City, Mo., says he is devoting his time more and more to the philatelic field which he enjoys very much. He is now editor of the 1847 Section of the U. S. Philatelic Classics Society magazine and his exhibit at the Sixth International Philatelic Exhibit in Washington received an award.
Wally Carr is now a consultant to the National Community Bank in Ridgewood, N. J., as a result of a merger last November.
Stu Goodwillie's firm, Langlie, Goodwillie & Moore, Inc., Stamford, Conn., management consultants, has expanded its services to include executive recruiting, appraisals and acquisitions and mergers. Stu is convalescing from a lung operation.
Don Solis, coordinator of National Sales for Cities Service (now CITGO), came through with a brief accounting of his activities, the first since his company moved their offices from New York to Tulsa three years ago. Government sales have just been added to his responsibilities. He averages 50,000 miles a year by air. Recently he had lunch in Philadelphia with Bill Williams, Purchasing Agent of the Budd Company.
After 13 years of service on the Board of Appeals of Acton, Mass., Woody Houghton has resigned due to business pressure. Woody has been with the Provident Institution for Savings since graduation.
George Davis, president of the Alumni Council, presided at the winter meeting of the Council in Hanover, January 12-14. Jack Kenerson, a member of the Council's committee on Bequest & Estate Planning, was there, and also former Council members Craig Haines and Rupe Thompson. Craig reports that George did an excellent job running the meetings and maintained precise schedules. Rupe has agreed to take on the Chairmanship of the Capital Gifts Campaign.
Warren Clark died of a heart attack December 22. An In Memoriam notice will appear in this or a subsequent issue.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa. 16947
Treasurer, First National Bank, Boston 6, Mass.
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