1928
A warm welcome awaits '28ers and their families in Hanover on June 17 for our 40th reunion.
Is it possible that 40 years have passed since that Sunday in June 1928 when 380 seniors went late in the afternoon to the Bema as undergraduates and came back as alumni? The years have passed swiftly, yet so much has happened in those years. 1928 is a class Dartmouth can be proud of, a class that has done much for Dartmouth in 40 years and will do more to repay what Dartmouth did for it in four memorable years.
Browsing through a yellowed copy of The Dartmouth dated June 19, 1928, I note the men awarded prizes.... Had Cantril and Jim Montague for English composition; BillBreyfogle, for English lit., Roy Myers and Herb Sensenig for Modern Languages; BillWheland for Chemistry; Horace' Brown for History; Tim Paige for Thayer School essay contest; Myles Lane for athletics. Had Cantril, Bill Hunt, and Chris Hackett delivered commencement addresses. Valedictorian was Bill Wheland, Salutatorian Al Willey and the following seven men were also in the top bracket receiving degrees Summa Cum Laude: Sam Dennis, Harold Fields, BillHunt, Hunt Parrish, Red Sanborn, HenryScherp, and Otto Sokol. Roy Milliken got the Barrett Cup. Brings back memories, doesn't it?
Harold Fields, who retired last June and is now professor emeritus of History at Michigan State College, left for London in April for several months of research and travel.
Chuck Hazzard, George Boughton, and Walt McKee got together in Delray Beach, Fla., in January and Chuck just sent me a color picture of three smiling, healthy-looking guys. Unfortunately all three are so tanned that by the time a cut was made you wouldn't recognize them.
Chuck retired from the practice of urological surgery at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York two years ago and he and Blim now divide their time between two homes - a little old farmhouse on Gilmore Pond Road in Jaffrey Center, N.H., and an apartment in Delray Beach. Walt lives in Marathon, Fla., and George in Delray Beach and Kennebunkport, Me., where his daughter, Tina, is being married June 29. Tina graduates from the University of Pennsylvania in May.
Playing a nice easy game called paddle tennis, Art Hassell severed his Achilles tendon. It was repaired but the cast didn't come off until last month. He is planning on deserting B. Altaian & Co. in mid-June so he and Lura can attend the 40th.
Bill Harris left May 4 on a Mediterranean cruise, lecturing for American Express, but plans to leave the ship at Lisbon, do a lecture tour of Europe and fly back in time for reunion.
Ham and Anne Hankins will be at reunion but June is a hectic month for them with son Frank '65 marrying Pat Lykens in Spring City, Pa., on June 8 right after she receives her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr. Ham and Anne will also visit his parents in Northampton, Mass., both of whom are in their nineties and still driving the family car, taking care of their 250-year-old house and grounds, and as alert as ever. Prof. Hankins was formerly head of the Sociology Department at Smith.
The Dartmouth gathering in Fort Lauderdale brought together Al Fusonie, BruceLewis, Red Fauntleroy, and Chris Norman, and their wives. Al and Connie are starting north for reunion June 6 in order to visit their boys on the way; they plan to spend the summer in Freeport, Me.
Without all the returns in, it appears that Bruce Lewis has won the Grandfather Derby with 12 grandchildren, produced by his two children: Virginia (our Class baby!) and Ralph. Sam Magavern is catching up, with 10¾ from his five children.
Shortly after reunion Jerry and DorisGoodwin leave on the "SS Statendam" for a trip to Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, and Italy. Jerry teaches in the high school at New London, Conn.
Wes and Barbara McSorley recently sold their home in Lexington, Mass. - the land and the house was too much for the two of them - and moved to a town house complex in West Concord, where Wes has an office and conducts a food service consulting business. One son lives in Avon, Mass., and is a representative for Bud Osborn's company, Economics Laboratory.
Muskegon, Mich., obstetrician Jim Gillard has hit his 8,000th delivery. With two boys 8 and 7 years old, he finds himself young enough to ski, swim, and ice skate with them.
Hank and Helen Graupner's son, Bill, graduates in June from Lehigh with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering.
George Slawson sent me a card from Bucharest, "the not-so-impressive capital of Roumania." For an outstandingly pleasant vacation place he and Isobel, now back in Vermont, recommend Yugoslavia, with emphasis on Dubrovnik, and the 24-hour boat trip up the Dalmatian coast to Rijecka.
Chuck Bennet died April 10 in San Jose, Calif., of a heart attack.
Stew Hoagland retired from Interchemical Corp. the first of the year. He keeps busy with free lance advertising and public relations work and selling printing for the Somerset Press in Somerville. N.J., where he has a piece of the action. Last month he was named by the State Supreme Court as one of two jury commissioners for Somerset County.
The 40th Year Book has gone to press! With constant needling and the help which I've promised to give the printer, I hope that I can bring it to reunion. The problem has been that instead of the 150 pictures I expected, 260 of you responded with snapshots of you and your wife. The biographical notes are brief, so this will be largely an informal picture book. Thanks to the generosity of John Phillips, president of the Vail-Ballou Press, Inc., New York and Binghamton, N.Y., the book will be bound in hard covers, conforming in size to our 25-Year Book.
1928 Class Reunion Hanover - June 17-19
A tuna, two sails and three amberjacksmade Harry Milner '27 the Fisherman-of-the-Week in Ft. Lauderdale.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa. 16947
Class Agent, Onondaga County Savings 101 S. Salina St., Syracuse, N.Y. 13202
