1928
By now you should have all sent checks to Cal Billings covering your Class Tax for the Fortieth Fun-Tas-Tix next month and I hope you are making final preparations to get to Hanover as early as you can on June 17. Time is running short if you haven't taken care of things, so get on the ball!
The latest to send their reunion checks in are Bruce Lewis, from Florida, Dana Condon from Guatemala, Monk Davenport,Mutt Jennings, Maurie Makepeace, Roy Myers,Irv Engelman, Sam Gilford, Larry Martin, Jack Cutler, and Jack Cook. Cal Billings will be writing you about additions to the list - at the rate reservations are pouring in it looks like a tremendous reunion, the biggest since our Twenty-Fifth. Widows are being urged to attend, and so far MadelineMcGrath and Betty Breyfogle have indicated they will come.
The other topic of interest to all '28ers right now is the Alumni Fund. President Bill Morton has accepted the additional job of Class Agent and he and his assistants are working hard to improve our standing in the Green Derby. To accomplish this goal, everyone who can will have to increase the amount of his contribution. Send your check in now.
In the short space of a month we lost three classmates who have been very active in Class and College affairs. Gil Swanson died March 8. At his funeral in Omaha JackRose and Dick Walker were pallbearers, Gaylord Fauntleroy, Craw Pollock, EmitShukert, and Bill Whaley were honorary pallbearers. Court Keller died March 13 and John Cronin on April 8. John has been vice president of our class for the past six years. In Memoriam notices about Court and John will appear in next month's issue.
Sherm Baketel and Marie Hartshorn of New Castle, N. H., were married in January and spent the winter at Pompano Beach, Fla. Sherm has four grandchildren and Marie six, so they have a total of ten - nine boys and one girl.
Bill Whaley says he and Anne will be driving to Hanover for reunion. Bill has a general insurance agency at 400 Kiewit Plaza, Omaha, and lists his hobbies as golf and travel.
A real golf bug is Johnny Neary - when I called him tonight Ann said he had just gone to Augusta to watch the Masters Tournament and see his son and two grandsons. Young Johnny is just back from Vietnam and living with his wife at Fort Gordon, Augusta.
"Four years ago I had a burst of courage and went to teaching math and science in the local high school and am still at it," writes Park Estabrook of Pittsfield, N. H. If you were at our 25th reunion, you'll remember that Park donated one of his Angus cattle to the Class auction. As for hobbies, with a 180-year-old house and 100 acres, he is not at a loss to find something to do. He and Eleanor like to go to auctions and try to pick up old things.
Our item last month about Dick Frame being the first '28er to receive the prized Silver Beaver Award was wrong. Dana Kenyon of Concord, N. H., received the award in 1961 for his twenty years of leadership in the Scouting movement.
Jack and Fran Kenerson got back from a six weeks' trip to Hawaii and Arizona just in time to get their picture - replete with leis — in the 40th Year Book. Their trip was extended by the illness of Jack's father, Ned Kenerson 'O3, in Green Valley, Ariz. Jack reports, "Saw Honie Westhaver's magnificent home on the shore near Kona (Island of Hawaii). I knew Honie wouldn't be there as he and Mona are visiting her mother in Worcester, Mass. Saw Hod Carver at Green Valley - he and Vivian plan to make Reunion. We also were entertained by Del and Billy Worthington '26 at their gorgeous home at Skyline County Club, and had the pleasure of playing both the Tucson C. C. and the Tucson National during our stay. Looking forward to the 40th."
In the next mail a letter from Honie says they are just leaving for Hawaii and would enjoy seeing any classmates who get to the so-called "Big Island." Their address is P. O. Box 846, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, and their local number 255-324. They expect to spend six months of the year in Hawaii, but will maintain their apartment in San Mateo, Calif.
Ted Baehr says, "Did a feature film for Walt Disney last summer, 'The Horse in Plain Clothes.' No theatre since Auntie Mame.' "
This seems to be the month for Hawaii — Johnny and Ethel Nixon just returned from there - visiting their younger son and his wife.
Harvard professor Johnny Brew leaves April 16 for Aswan to advise the Egyptians on what to do with their great site Philae which is between the old and new Aswan dams. Then five days later he goes to Karachi as guest of the Pakistanis to tell them what to do with their early Indus Valley site of Mohenjo-Daro which they have let go to wrack and ruin.
Jack and Peg Zellers are just back after two weeks in Jamaica with a stop-over in Florida on the return trip to cruise with Helen and Bing Carter '29 on their new Hatteras. Jack is manager of the Southport, Conn., Peoples Savings Bank.
Wes Wood has been elected president-treasurer of Marvin-Neitzel Corp., Troy, N. Y., manufacturers of hospital garments.
"Shall I bring our 200-1b. St. Bernard to reunion?" quips Don Benjamin, feeling pretty chipper after he and Hazel visited the Bahamas. At Hopetown on Elbow Cay they ran into Roy Milliken who has been living there two years and is building houses. Don is comptroller of American International College in Springfield, Mass., and labels himself "a real golf nut."
Hey there gals, guess who produces those TV serials "Love of Life" and "The Secret Storm"? None other than our own Ed Abbott, of Roy Winsor Productions, Inc., New York.
Jack Barry's son leaves for Vietnam in August — he graduated from Georgetown University last June, is now a 2nd lieutenant in the Army. Jack is a partner in the Roosevelt & Cross, Inc., Wall Street dealers in tax exempt bonds.
Maurie Makepeace has banking as well as cranberries as one of his many activities. He is president of the National Bank of Wareham, and spends considerable time as treasurer of Tobey Hospital in Wareham and as a Life Trustee of Tabor Academy, his old prep school.
Dick Frame and Jack Heston upheld '28 at the Philadelphia Alumni Dinner in February - the other '28ers were off on cruises. Our class, with 8 or 9 present, used to win the champagne every year.
See you at Reunion!
1928 Class ReunionJune 17-19, 1968
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa 16947
Class Agent, Onondaga County Savings 101 S. Salina St., Syracuse, N. Y. 13202
