1928

The annual '28 mini-reunion attracted a record crowd September 23-25. The weather was perfect, the game with U.N.H. exciting, and everyone had a good time. Friday night Herb and Mimi Sensenig entertained the whole gang at their house in Norwich, with Wat Dickerman and his band warming up for Saturday. BillMarx played sax, Jack Herpel piano, JackKenerson sang, and assorted musicians filled in for Al Fowler as tub thumpers. (Al is recovering from an operation and was unable to make it.)

Saturday after the game we had our usual cocktail party at the Norwich Inn. Sixty-three sat down to a delicious dinner followed by music, singing, and dancing.

On Thursday your 24 class officers, executive committee, and committee chairmen met with College officials to learn how to run a 50th reunion. Mike McGean, secretary of the College, was most helpful.

Prexy Jack Kenerson and reunion chairman Bill Morton summarized the sessions thus: (1) No class would have a better program or more fun than we would have at our 50th. It may well be The Last Hurrah! (2) Only basic plans were agreed upon, details being left for later. (3) Our first job is to make sure every Class member is contacted in person and urged to attend.

'28ers present, with wives, were George Bell, Cal Billings, Ken Cuddeback, George Davis, Wat Dickerman, Skip Drayton, Lane Dwinell, Bob Edgar, George Emery, Park Estabrook, Craig Haines, Ham Hankins, Hammie Hammesfahr, George Holbrook, Jack Herpel, Jack Kenerson, Bill Lary, Mac MacEachran, Makie Makepeace, Budd Maring, Bill Marx, Les Mason, Bill Morton, John Nixon, Barney Norton, Curley Prosser, Wes Patience, John Phillips, Herb Sensenig, Os Skinner, Dick Schmelzer, Walt Simpson, Red Sanborn, Joe Tidd, Jerry Warner, Bill Williams, Wes Wood, and our special guest, Dottie Russell, Herb's widow.

Bill Kimball, professor emeritus of civil engineering and former dean of the Thayer School, received the Linton E. Grinter Award of the Engineers' Council for Professional Development at the organization's 44th annual meeting in Philadelphia October 5. Bill was cited for his long devotion to the profession of engineering and his achievements in improving engineering education.

Bob Grey's son-in-law John Burgess won the Democratic nomination for the House of Representatives in the recent Vermont primaries. Our son, Scott Skinner '64, running in Vermont for public office for the first time, came close to defeating the governor in a hotly contested U.S. Senate battle.

Bob Grey and Marie visited their son Bob Jr. '57 last winter at the U.S. Embassy in Canberra, Australia. One of young Bob's children, named Robert Livingston (for being born in darkest Africa), is the first American born in Upper Volta.

Dave McCathie says on a card from Spain that he wishes he had studied Spanish. Vic and Mary Hartjens went by boat to Russia last summer, thought Moscow and Leningrad were fine but Samarkand was the best part. They returned from Bremen on the S. S. Pushkin after a week in Finland and Sweden.

Bill and Elizabeth Ballard returned in July after 13 weeks abroad to their home in Norwich. Bill had been an exchange guest of the Russian Academy of Sciences, so they went to Europe for three weeks and then flew to Moscow. Bill had a fabulous six weeks of research on sturgeon embryology at a hatchery 50 km. down the Volga delta. Elizabeth, alone in Astrachan weekdays, enjoyed the life around her. Bill learned Russian passably before they left home, but Elizabeth did not.

Ted Meltzer, who retired in 1972 from the U.S. Information Agency in Washington, says he and Jeanne have done some summer traveling, to France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Yugoslavia, Mexico, and this summer to the Canadian Rockies and Vancouver Island. Their daughter Francoise is now assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of Chicago. Ted says that sometimes when he feels old he takes courage from the fact that Nelson Doe '12 lives a few houses down the street in Potomac, Md„ and is still very actively working around his house.

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