1928
40TH REUNION — JUNE 17-19
By the time you read this you will have received Reunion Chairman Cal Billings' letter giving details about the bang-up threeday program which has been planned for your enjoyment. If you haven't already sent in your reservation form you better do so now.
For those driving long distances, plan to spend Sunday night, June 16, 50 to 75 miles from Hanover, because there won't be any rooms available that night in Hanover. However, you can stay over in your dormitory room Wednesday night.
Boston's annual Dartmouth dinner at the Statler on Feb. 8 brought the following together: Red Edgar, Johnny Nixon, Jack Kenerson, Jack Phelan, Honie Westhaver of San Francisco, George Emery of Atlantic Highlands, N. J., and Cal Billings. George, who is Attendance Chairman for the 40th, spent the night before the dinner with Cal Billings in West Hartford, Conn.
George Emery has a large committee writing and telephoning. One of them, Ml Ford, reports on four calls. Gerard Griffin will not be able to attend because a son will be graduating at reunion time from Notre Dame. Gerard is safety director of the Dravo Corp., Pittsburgh shipbuilding concern. Ed Norton, assistant to the president of Consolidation Coal Co., hopes to get back for his first reunion. George Klein andEleanor are definitely coming. George is manager of the Pittsburgh office of Chapman Valve Manufacturing Co.
Ted Schwartz will be unable to get to reunion. He broke his hip a year ago and has had two operations, plus serious infection, but is on the mend. He has rheumatoid arthritis and his wife says he would like to hear from his classmates. His address is 230 Enterprise St., Nanticoke, Pa.
Fred and Dot Cole and Ken and MillieChase are urging Word and Lorna Gilboy of Rochester, N. Y., to visit them at their summer homes in New Hampshire. What better plan than to meet at the 40th in Hanover and continue the party over the weekend at Lake Sunapee! Worden is in Florida resting after a hectic 13 months. In December 1966 he had a cardiac arrest and was "dead on arrival" at Genesee Hospital in Rochester, but they used drastic measures and revived him. Last July, while sitting at his desk in his bookstore (Gilboy's House of Books), he was struck by an embolus in the iliac artery — an operation three hours later saved his left leg. But in November more trouble developed in the artery and surgeons implanted a plastic artery which Word says is working beautifully.
"Of course we will make the 40th, closing up our antique shop two weeks after its opening, to do so," write Wally and NatalieCarr. Their new shop, The Skylight, is attached to the rear of their home on Main St., Amagansett, Long Island, N. Y. Wally was president of the North Jersey Trust Co., Ridgewood, N. J., but decided to retire early last year. They bought a house near the ocean and in retirement (Natalie likes the word "revocation"), they are busier than ever.
Pictures for the 40th Reunion Book are pouring in. It is really exciting to see them -the success of the book is assured if you will only send yours in right away. Don't send color prints — as I said in my letter to you, they do not reproduce satisfactorily. If you do not have a recent close-up snapshot which is sharp and clear, get a friend, or the local photographer, to take one. You'll be glad you did and so will all your classmates.
Jack and Lucena McLaughlin's picture was taken on the bridge of a Grace Line ship with the skipper showing them how to steer it - we'll have to cut out the skipper in order to fit the picture into our space.
Our sympathy goes to Doug Pease, whose wife Dorothy died of cancer Feb. 13 at Emerson Hospital, Concord. She was proprietor of the Payson Hall Bookshop in Belmont, Mass.
Since moving recently to Falmouth, Mass., Gene Magenis does some real estate management, and enjoys "walking, swimming, resting (we carry folding chaises everywhere), attending football games and bullfights. Fran and I study Spanish and travel as often as possible."
"See you at the 40th," writes Ed Sawyer, Boston fish wholesaler.
Gayle and Carmen Leslie have just moved into their new winter home on the Tucson National Golf Club - home is still Van Wert, Ohio.
After 36 years with National Steel Co., Bob Kilgore has retired as assistant vice president. Bob was in charge of the company's sales offices in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Rochester, Charlotte, N. C., and Tampa, Fla.
Larry Martin has been elected chairman of the board of the National Shawmut Bank of Boston, and also has been named chief executive officer. He joined the bank in 1928 and climbed steadily up the ladder, being elected president in 1960. Larry is president of the Mass. Bankers Association, a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, trustee and treasurer of Northeastern University, to list just a few of his activities.
The decision to come East for reunion was an easy one for Tavey and Louis Taylor of San Francisco, since their older daughter, Roberta, is teaching Art at Windham College in Putney, Vt., where her husband is on the staff of The Experiment in International Living. Their younger daughter, Linda, who attended Colorado Woman's College and studied a year in Madrid, is now flying with Eastern Airlines and is based in Boston.
From Covina, Calif., Van Curll writes "Dorothy and I will attend my first reunion — only other news is that our youngest daughter gave birth to a boy, the first grandchild. It is reported that the Stanford football coach phoned to offer an athletic scholarship to my grandson, whose father played for Oregon. I put a stop to that — Dartmouth needs the talent."
In April Hank and Eve Walker are flying to London where they will rent a car and tour England, Wales and Ireland, and fly home May 18. They are definitely coming to the 40th.
At the annual Scouters Appreciation Dinner of the Philadelphia Council, Boy Scouts of America, Dick Frame received the Silver Beaver Award, the highest award a council can give. Dick has been active in Scouting for years. He is the first '28er to receive this award.
As we bear up under the last blast of wintry weather, the Jack Kenersons are vacationing in Hawaii, and the John Phillipses in St. Croix.
Last Call send me, before the end of April, a black-and-white print of you and your wife for our 40th Reunion Book.
1928 Class ReunionJune 17-19, 1968
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Fa. 16947
Class Agent, Onondaga County Savings 101 S. Salina St., Syracuse, N. Y. 13202
