1928

The Charter Day dinner in Hanover December 13 was a memorable event, at which '28 was well represented by nine of our Class and their wives, including one Trustee, five former members of the Alumni Council and three present or former members of the faculty. The dinner celebrated the 200th anniversary of the chartering of the College and honored John Dickey in his 25th year as the president.

Rupe Thompson, chairman of the Third Century Fund, was a featured speaker at the dinner and did a heroic job - the Fund drive now stands at 42 million plus. Rupe had been in the hospital in Boston and was released for this event and returned to the hospital the next day. He is now recuperating at his place in Nassau.

Present at the dinner besides Rupe and Dor, were Lew and Anita Beers, Cal and Genie Billings, Chuck and Ingrid Bruder, George and Marion Davis, Jack and Fran Kenerson, Bill and Bobby Morton, Bill and Elizabeth Ballard, Bill and Margaret Kimball, and Curly and Laura Sadler.

The surprise news of the weekend came at the Thursday evening dinner when the announcement was made that Cal Billings and several other prominent alumni were seated at the head table and introduced as men who would be awarded the Alumni Award at appropriate ceremonies this year. Congratulations, Cal, from all of us!

Saturday noon several of the '28ers (Billings, Mortons, Bruders, and Kenersons) had lunch at the new Rockefeller Inn in Wood-stock, after which Jack Kenerson gave them a tour of his new Quechee Gorge land development project involving 6700 acres.

The magazine subscription agency built up by the late Ken Turner after he was disabled by polio, has been donated by his widow, Fidelia, to the non-profit and nonsectarian Federation of the Handicapped, 211 West 14th St., New York, and all profits will go to the help of other handicapped persons. The hundreds of Dartmouth alumni who were happy to help Ken will be interested to know of Fidelia's generous act, and that it will continue to be called The K.W. Turner Agency as a living memorial to Ken and an example to handicapped persons of all kinds. Their daughter Gayle is in her third year at Pratt Institute and Parker is a freshman at the University of Miami.

Ed and Mary Haynes enjoyed a three- week family reunion in Japan last year with their daughter, Edna and her husband, Dean, and their middle son, Albert, who joined them for his 5-day Rest and Recreation leave from the Army in Vietnam. Edna and Dean are Peace Corps volunteers at Truk in Micronesia. They "did" Japan from Tokyo to Beppu, and Ed and Mary spent a week in Alaska on the way home.

I want to thank Jack Herpel for taking care of the notes last month. He does so much for the Class that I hated to ask him to take over last month. I'm at home, feeling fine and fretting that the doctor won't let me go back to work until Feb 7. I wish a lot of you guys would write me so I'll have something for next month's column.

Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa. 16947

Treasurer, First National Bank, Boston, Mass. 02110