1928

Welcome to Prof. John Kemeny who becomes president March 1 and a rousing and affectionate vote of thanks from all '28ers to John Dickey for his outstanding leadership during his 25 years in that office.

The front page of the Jan. 14 New York Times carried a long article about Justice Myles Lane of the N. Y. State Supreme Court handing down a decision that because of "the present circumstances of rampant crime" a couple might keep their schnauzer, "Snafu," in their Lower East Side apartment despite a ban against animals in their lease.

Among those who sent us the above clipping was Ed Hanlon '26, who started his letter: "Over a long period of years I have been debating with myself and some of my Dartmouth friends as to who was the greatest all-around athlete of our vintage. The controversy usually boils down to three candidates: Hank Bjorkman '25, Jim Picken '27, and Myles Lane." Of course, we agree with Ed that "Lane wins in a walk."

Textron's Rupe Thompson was once told at the bank where he worked as a young, low-ranking officer that he could never become president of the bank because that post was reserved for a descendant of the early founders of the institution. So he went ahead and became president anyway.

At the age of 50 he accepted a job as chief operating officer of Textron, Inc., and in 1960 became Textron's chief executive officer. In the past eight years Textron acquired such nationally known companies as Speidel Corp., W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co., and Jones & Lamson Machine Co. and built a management organization welding together 30 diversified industrial companies which made Textron one of the nation's 100 largest corporations, with annual sales of 1.6 billion dollars.

Rupe has retired as board chairman and chief executive officer of Textron but will continue as a director. He has become a partner in the firm of Little & Casler, a Providence-based financial firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions. Royal Little, the founder of Textron and the man who hired Rupe in 1956, said that the firm name has been changed to Little, Casler & Thompson.

Ollie Andrus has retired after 36 years of serving the health needs of Milford and Devon, Conn., residents. With his retirement, a vanishing breed in America dwindled by one more. That breed is the general practitioner. No one will take over Ollie's large practice in Devon. Ollie graduated from Dartmouth Medical School and N.Y.U.'s Medical School.

We have a lot of stamp collectors in the class and they, as well as others, will be interested to learn that the two-day auction of the late George Slawson's collection of U.S. stamps and Vermont postal history covers grossed $92,036.

Larry Martin, chairman and chief executive officer of the National Shawmut Bank and the Shawmut Association, Inc., has been elected a director of Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.

You conservationists, and who isn't, will be happy to hear that one of the two men who filed a suit to stop the use of a training airstrip which they contend will destroy the Everglades National Park, is CharlieMagnaghi, owner of a Pepsi-Cola bottling plant in Brattleboro, Vt. The other plaintiff is Charlie's friend, James Baggott, a Dayton, Ohio, lawyer who together explore the Everglades every February. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Miami, names as defendants, John A. Volpe, the Secretary of Transportation, and the Dade County Port Authority, which operates the strip.

Jack and Peg Zellers are leaving late in March for Madeira and Portugal. They visited Portugal briefly four years ago and liked the people and the country so much that they have been itching to return - this time for three and a half weeks.

Our sympathy to Don Giles, whose mother died in November at the age of 94, and to Ham Hankins, whose father, professor-emeritus of sociology at Smith College, died Jan. 23 at the age of 92,

Woody Houghton has been elected a vice president of the Provident Institution for Savings, Boston.

A card from Joe Chay, owner of a starch factory in the southern part of Taiwan, says he received an invitation to visit his former roommate, Bill Embler, in Schenectady but that his health won't allow such a long trip.

Joe and Margaret Tidd's son, Doug, Kenyon '71, is at American University, Beirut, on a junior-year-abroad program. Their second daughter. Gale Kendrick, had a daughter last year. Gale's husband is an assistant professor of economics at Harvard, on leave this year to teach at Stanford.

We record with sadness the passing of four members of our class: Brad Bradford,Bob Richardson, George Foster, and JimMullen*

The '28 dinner at the Dartmouth College Club in New York on Jan. 28 was a great success. The chairman, Bill Hobson, managed to get several to attend for the first time and he and President Jack Kenerson did a good job in getting everyone to report on his own activities. Jerry Sloane and Johnny O'Sullivan were providing musical entertainment when the Connecticut commuters had to leave. Others present were: Cal Billings, Ed Abbott, Ev Field, Bill Marx, Ed Heyn, Irv Engelman, George Emery, Jack Herpel, Nick Carter, Brougham Wallace, Bud Weser, Bill Treanor, Lew Beers, Vic Hartjens (from Washington, D. C.), El Drake, Jack Zellers, Larry Kenney, Les Mason, Roy Myers, and Bill Morton.

I want to thank all of you who have written - I am overwhelmed by your concern and happily assure you that I am back at work - but working shorter hours and getting daily exercise, which at our age seems to be important.

Dor and Rupe Thompson '28 enjoying arest at their winter home in Nassau.

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

Treasurer, First National Bank, Boston, Mass. 02110