1928

We were fortunate in having a beautiful, warm weekend in Hanover for the annual class officers meetings May 1-3, and also fortunate in having five of our officers present. Arriving Friday afternoon for the meeting of all officers and wives were President Jack Kenerson and Fran, Treasurer CraigHaines and Eleanor, Class Agent LewBeers and Anita, and Mary and I. This was followed by a reception at the Top of the Hop and a banquet in Alumni Hall in Hopkins Center.

Saturday morning Chuck Bruder arrived on the early plane from New York and, as president of the Bequest Association, conducted the meeting of his group. Each of us met with our own groups and then got together at a '28 table for lunch at Hopkins Center. We had the privilege of hearing an excellent talk by President John Kemeny for which he was given prolonged applause.

Class affairs were thoroughly discussed Friday evening, Saturday noon and again Saturday night around the dinner table in the Hanover Inn.

Pete Bennett retired from the New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. April 30 after 43 years of service. He began his telephone career in 1927 in the Summit, N. J., office and at retirement was manager-community relations for the company's Newark District. An Army veteran of World War II, he retired from the Reserve in 1965 with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He is chairman of the Morris Township Board of Adjustment and past president of the Montclair Rotary Club.

John Scott, general counsel of Mobil Oil Corp. since 1969, retired January 1. John joined the company in 1945 as an attorney in the New York City division.

Tim Paige joined the '28 Coronary Club on February 25. He was able to return to his home in Longmeadow the end of March and now is at his place on Cape Cod. He has lost ten pounds and is working on the second ten.

Bill and Bobbie Morton are planning on visiting the Kenersons at Lake Winnepesaukee to try for salmon. Jack hopes that John and Ethel Nixon will join them. Jack and Fran got the jump on the golf season by spending two weeks in Bermuda in early April. In March they avoided the cold weather by spending ten days with Jack's mother in Green Valley, Ariz. Hod Carver and Biv who live there, were away, and they tried to see John Harlow in Tucson, without success, but they had personal attention from his wife, Mary, in selecting an azalea plant.

Ed Lilley is now resident manager of the Milford, Mass., office of F. L. Putnam & Co., Inc.

Ray Hyman says the Air Force finally retired him, as a colonel, after waiving the age requirement for three years. He and Peg celebrated their 41st anniversary last month and are temporarily living in War-wick, R. I., where Ray is embarked on a doctorate program at Rhode Island College. His goal is some research and writing. They have five children and seven grandchildren. Their two married daughters live in War-wick, two older sons work in Dallas, Texas, and their youngest son, Kevin, is a sophomore at Colorado State College.

Margaret Lane, Myles' wife, is making a name for herself in needle point - Scribner's have purchased her book, "Needle Point by Design," and will publish it in October. "Town & Country" just interviewed her for a feature article for the July issue.

Al Kitts of Swarthmore, Pa., is still busy in pediatrics and enjoys golf and fishing, with Key West his favorite for the latter. He reports that Don Solis of Tulsa "is a welcome sight several times yearly as he oils the Citgo's Philadelphia wheels. The evening oil we burn isn't a company product. Seems it comes from Scotland."

Over some of the same stuff in Hanover the other night, Jack Kenerson remembered that Max Carlson, president of the National Bank of Commerce in Seattle, was so smart in one Tuck School finance course that the professor used to call on him for help whenever he was confused on a problem. Take a bow, Max.

Howard Moss says his and Helen's current enthusiasm is a house they are building on the north shore of Jamaica, W. I. His letterhead reads: L. Howard Moss Sales Corp., 50 St. Marks Place, New York - flame floats and gift novelties. Their son, Howard, a Ph.B. in microbiology, is a professor at the new Toledo Medical School.

In magazines and on TV we constantly see commercials featuring the beaming countenance of Ted Baehr. . . . Just heard that Rib Foster retired January 1 from Merrill Lynch and is enjoying retirement at 2815 Westminster, Dallas, Texas.

Brougham Wallace is now responsible for the New England area for the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. He and Claire are in Ireland for a week as guests of the Irish government - Brougham is a member of the Ireland-United States Council for Commerce and Industry.

From Boston we learn that Larry Martin, chairman of the board of the National Shawmut Bank, was one of three persons honored last month for their "outstanding response to the challenge in meeting our urban crisis" at the 42nd anniversary dinner of the National Conference of Christians and Jews.

Bob Maclellan, president of Provident Life & Accident Insurance Co. since 1952, was named chairman and chief executive officer. The new president, H. C. Unruh, is the first Provident president who isn't a member of the Maclellan family, which founded the company in Chattanooga eighty years ago.

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

Class Agent, 4 Lewis St., Norwalk, Conn. 06851