1928
Bequest Chairman,
Our new Class Agent, Lew Beers, called up today - happy that he had completed his roster of 35 assistant class agents, all willing volunteers anxious to help win the Green Derby for 1928 this year. Lew said he is retiring from N. Y. Telephone Co. this April, which led us to quip that it was probably so that he could devote more time to his Alumni Fund job. He has been with the company since graduation.
Lew reported having lunch in late January in New York with Ed Purnell, saxophone virtuoso and leader of the freshman commons orchestra in 1924-25. Ed was in from Chicago for a sales meeting.
Another welcome call was from BroughamWallace to thank us for his birthday card. He and Claire had just returned from a vacation in Vero Beach and Delray Beach, Fla.; they spent a day with Gene and FranMagenis. Brougham is a senior vp of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. in New York.
Clint Goodwin, Mansfield, Ohio, attorney, has sold his home in that city and temporarily is living at 2220 SE 6th St., Pompano Beach, Fla. He hopes to see CrawPollock, Al Fusonie, George Boughton, and Charlie Hazzard.
A card from Tavey Taylor and Roy Myers indicates that Roy was visiting with Tavey and Louise in San Rafael, Calif., after speaking at the College of Marin. Another card from Roy a few days earlier told of running into Bob Reid in the Los Angeles airport after arriving from Hawaii.
The retirement list this month includes Fritz Titus of New Rochelle, N. Y., after 37 years with Madigan-Hyland, the big New York engineering firm - Fritz was comptroller. He and Hazel have moved to Lewes, Del. Tom Ellis retired Feb. 1 from Union Carbide Corp., where he was a department head in the Chemicals Division in New York City. He and Ann are moving to 505 Henly Ave., Pine Beach, N. J.
Joe and Ruth Smith flew to Bermuda, Feb. 2 with two plane loads of Rotarians to attend a district Rotary conference. Joe writes, "I have two more conventions this month. How can I retire!" Has anyone got a good record (which can be taped) of the Barbary Coast Orchestra of our day? Ed Abbott in New York would like to borrow it.
Barney Norton's No. 3 son, John, is with the 101st Airborne in Viet Nam. AllanWaters' two oldest sons are in the Navy, his No. 3 son, Dartmouth '68, is now with Xerox in New York City, and his youngest son is a sophomore at Cornell. Al expects to teach four or five more years at Shore Country Day School, Beverly, Mass.
More '28 reunions: George Emery stayed overnight with John and Barb Lawrence in Marion, Mass., two days before Christmas and enjoyed their hospitality and the scallops, uahogs, and oysters fresh out of Buzzards Bay. They all went over to see Howie and Klinck Bush at their new home nearby. Next day George was on his way to Weston, Mass., to see his daughter, Susan, and family. A note just received from JackKenerson says that John Lawrence suffered a shock in mid-January but is now home. Barbara is encouraged, as the paralysis has disappeared.
The Kenersons take off Feb. 15 for two weeks in Jamaica and St. Croix - right after the Boston Dartmouth dinner. Fran has been out of circulation for eight weeks with the shingles, then the flu, followed by another infection.
Curly and Allene Prosser have sold their home in Basking Ridge, N. J., and now live year-round in Canaan, N. H., 18 miles from Hanover, where Curly is president of Canaan College. .
Stew and Bea Hoagland are looking forward to a trip to the Florida Keys for a little fishing in March, and a jaunt to Africa to see the animals in the fall. He and Bea have had only one trip to Europe and think it's time to get moving around a little.
Bill Heep says he and Gert are going to St. Croix for ten days to visit some friends who have retired there, then over to Key Biscayne.
Mary and I were on the beach on Key Biscayne yesterday without really planning it. Seems there was a storm you heard about which closed Kennedy Airport in New York for two days, so our flight from Bogota, Colombia, to New York was brought down in Miami and we were guests of Avianca Airlines until the runways and roads at Kennedy were cleared. Our two-week vacation started with a visit with Danaand Verna Condon in Guatemala City. Dana met us at the airport and he and Verna later took us to dinner at the American Club. At our request, Dana had arranged for a car and driver to take us on a three-day tour to Antigua, Lake Atitlan and the fabulous open air Sunday market at the Indian town of Chicicastenango. The climate in the Guatemalan highlands is perfect, the scenery beautiful and we recommend it highly as a vacation spot, but spend a week if you can. From Guatemala we flew to Cali, Colombia, where friends met us and took us on a tour of the southern part of that country, including Popayan and Silvia, the latter situated high in the Andes and reminding one of an Alpine village. The climax of our ten days in Colombia was the christening of our godchild in the cathedral in Pereira.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co. Troy, Pa. 16947
Treasurer, First National Bank, Boston, Mass. 02110
