1928
We are happy to announce that JackKenerson, our class president and untiring worker for Dartmouth, was presented with the Alumni Award at the Trustee-Alumni Council joint meeting in Hanover in mid- January. A copy of the citation which was read at the presentation will be found on page 26 of the February issue. Congratulations, Jack, on a well deserved honor.
One way to get news is to go out after it, so on Jan. 27 we drove two hours to the Scranton airport, survived a bumpy half- hour flight in a 14-passenger Allegany ("Agony" we call it) plane and arrived at the Dartmouth Club with the first arrivals for our annual New York '28 dinner. JackKenerson was down from Boston, JackZellers from Southport, Conn., Wes Wood had caught an early bus from Troy, N.Y., and dinner chairman Bill Hobson. Bill and Grace are going to Portugal on vacation the end of February; Bill retires next year as a vice president of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. This retirement bit gets confusing at times—Jack Zellers retired from Reming- ton Rand five years ago but started a new career in banking as an officer and manager of the Peoples Savings Bank in Southport. John Phillips drew a lot of envious comments about his youthful appearance with his curly brown hair; he and Peggy are going back to St. Croix again this year for three or four weeks' vacation, leaving Feb. 12. They expect to see NormChamberlain at the Halfpenny Club there.
Other familiar faces started arriving: Hammie Hammesfahr, an expert in executive placement, gave a plug for Kenerson's Queechee Lakes Village development just below Norwich-Hanover. He also said his oldest daughter, Mary Lee, has been living in Johannesburg since last fall; her husband, Alexander Robertson, is general manager of the Metal Box Co. of South Africa. Cal Billings came in from Hartford, Conn. His son Sam, graduates from Dartmouth this June. Cal reminded everyone of our 45th in 1973 of which he and George Emery are co-chairmen. Jerry-Pitts of Riverside, Conn., hadn't attended a class dinner in years. He retired 15 years ago as sales manager of the Nestle Co. and keeps busy managing his investments. ArtHassell, vice president of B. Altman and in charge of their suburban stores, said his retirement is a couple years away and that he and Luria expect to live in Summit, N.J. Several others said they do not intend to move to Florida. El Drake, who lives in Scarsdale, has purchased a lot in Heritage Village. He retires late this summer as director of field services for Scholastic Magazines. He thinks he will make a second career of conducting groups to Europe, a field in which he has had considerable experience. He and Adelaide are going to Trinidad in February on vacation. Red Jenkins, recently retired from N.J. Bell, commented on the problem of wives having their husbands under foot all day, said his wife solved that one by getting a job herself. Budd Maring, industrial realtor from Newark; HermSchnepel, representative of the Benefic Press in New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland; Stew Hoagland of Somerville, N.J.; Irv Engelman of Trenton, Director of Welfare 'for the State of New Jersey; Ted Baehr, the squire of Oyster Bay, L. I.; Bill Treanor, attorney with Union Carbide; and Roy Myers, a professor at Newark State College, Union, N.J., brought the total attendance to twenty. Treanor, who retires in December, was emphatic that he and Ellen were not moving to Florida.
With the thermometer outside my window tonight reading 7 degrees below zero, it would be nice to be in Florida right now. Mary and I flew down for a week—Jan. 9- 17—in Hollywood and had perfect 80 degree weather. We had dinner one evening with Bill and Grace Hodsdon after cocktails at their home in Hollywood. One of their sons, Bill, works for the City Planning Commission in Wilmington, Del., and their other son, Ed, teaches school in Wycoff, N.J. I did break away from the beach one day and drove up to West Palm Beach to have lunch with Bruce andThelma Lewis and inspect their beautiful new boat on which they expect to be taking trips very soon. Bruce was to complete the liquidation of his publishing business on January 31.
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