1928

Rick Rickenbaugh was the subject of a full-page article in the Denver Post of October 20 headlined "Age 70 Comes to Rickenbaugh," with a large picture of Rick (he certainly doesn't look his age) and a smaller one of Rick and Hilda in earlier times.

For the first 17 years after graduation, Rick worked in and out of Detroit for Cadillac. In 1945 he and Hilda and family moved to Detroit, and since then "he has gotten himself so involved in Denver, Dartmouth, dealerships (the Rickenbaugh Cadillac Co.), and do-goodisms that his official biography is only four pages shorter than Gone With the Wind. ... If you ask Rick when he's going to retire he simply says, 'Never.' " The article also points out that Hilda is an A.K.C. judge, her specialty being collies, and a gardener of considerable repute.

Our 50th reunion chairman Bill Morton has persuaded Jack Rose to design a letterhead for the reunion committee. I've just seen a rough draft - Jack still has the talent and originality he demonstrated in College with his drawings for The Jacko and The Aegis. Jack is a member of the (Screen) Writers Guild of America, West, and the Producers Guild of America, Inc., and is active in the International Executive Service Corps, assigned in 1975 to Industrial and Mining Bank of Iran and Film Industry Development Co. of Iran.

Bruce Lewis and his committee of Al Fusonie, Gene Magenis and Ernie Wright have announced the date of a '28 dinner in Boca Raton, Fla., as February 28. The place will be announced later, but they wanted the date widely publicized in the hope that all '28ers and wives going to Florida this winter would work the dinner into their schedules. Bruce's new address should go into your '28 directory: Ocean House South Apt. 109D, Lost Tree Village, North Palm Beach, Fla. 33408. He and Thelma sold their house and had to move December 1. Bruce has given up boating and is going to concentrate on golf. He is now Jack Nicklaus' neighbor.

The Lewises were in Philadelphia in July to attend the wedding of their first granddaughter. Upon their return to Palm Beach, their daughter Mary Virginia (the '28 Class Baby) and family visited them for two weeks with all six children. While they were there Bruce received word from his son, Ralph, that another granddaughter had stepped out and quickly married so she could go to Iceland with her service-connected husband. "Now we are told," says Bruce "that we will be grandparents soon!"

Ham and Anne Hankins stopped off in Washington last month to spend the night with Jerry and Rella Warner. Jerry has done a magnificent job of taking pictures at all our official reunions and mini-reunions held during the past 15 years in Norwich. He has mounted and labeled them in seven albums which will be on display at our 50th.

Chairman Morton asked me to assemble on one reel the best parts of all available '28 movies for showing at our 50th. Wes Patience has sent me the movies his father took of our graduation ceremonies. If you have any 16mm films of that event or any reunion, please send them to me now. They will be returned if you wish, or given to the College's film collection.

We mentioned updating your '28 directory - if you have lost yours we would be glad to mail you another copy at no charge.

We asked Bill Morton whom he saw at the Dartmouth-Cornell game in Ithaca, and he said Bill and Bea Marx only. He had hoped also to see such regulars as Sam Magavern, PhilMcLaughlin, and Les Mason.

Asked what he has been doing since his retirement from Bird & Co., Bill Ford said he leads a quiet life, lunching with neighbors, old customers and friends, driving golf balls, reading, and taking short trips. One of these was to West Campton, N.H., in October to enjoy the foliage.

Marty Fitzpatrick's wife, Ann, writes that Marty is busy all the time working on drawings and figures (he's a contractor in Plattsburgh, N.Y.). He and their daughter and family went to the Penn game in Hanover. They have three daughters, one in Virginia, another in Massachusetts, and the third in New York. Marty and Ann have twelve grandchildren, the oldest at V.P.I, this year. Ann says, "We hope one of our ten grandsons will apply to Dartmouth!"

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