1928
The class of 1928's annual fall mini-reunion started 25 years ago and has been held each year at the Norwich Inn. This year the dates were September 18 and 19, and the attendance at the Saturday night dinner was 49 an increase of seven from last year.
A special welcome was extended to Joe Smith, who flew up from his home in Umatilla, Fla., after completing seven weeks of radiation treatments. Joe brought his daughter Joan, her husband Bob Broderick, and their son Brian, 15, whom he visited in Simsbury, Conn.
As usual, all '28ers and their guests were invited by Mimi and Herb Sensenig to their home just outside Norwich on Friday evening, and 42 gathered to enjoy the fellowship, homemade goodies, and refreshments.
Those who came with raincoats and umbrellas enjoyed seeing Dartmouth win 33-12 over Princeton.
A meeting of the class officers and executive committee, chaired by president George Davis, was held Friday afternoon and heard reports from all class officers. Bill Marx, the new head agent for next year's Alumni Fund campaign, is attacking his responsibilities with thought and vigor and asked for support from all '28ers in increasing their contributions.
At a special meeting of class officers in October, it was voted to hold the next mini-reunion on October 2, the weekend of the Colgate game, which should be a good time for leaf watchers. Plans for the 55 th reunion to be held June 10-13 in 1983 were presented by John Phillips and Curly Prosser, who are co-chairing this event. You'll hear more about the plans later.
Irv Engelman has been acting at a dinner theater in Columbia, Md., in a production of West Side Story (as "Doc," the proprietor of the drug store) which closed October 18. Three weeks later he will have opened at the same theater in Fiddler on the Roof. In the interim, he and Mickey were going to vacation in Yugoslavia and Italy. During most of his 49 years in welfare work, Irv was in New Jersey and became director of the Division of Welfare for that state. The last five years, he and Mickey were jointly employed by the American Public Welfare Association in Washington, D.C. It is wonderful to learn that Irv has come back to his first love, the theater, and started his second career. The " '28 Campaigner" of early 1976 said in Betty Breyfogle's column, headed "50 Years Ago": "Gordon Graham and Irv Engelman chosen for Carnival Show."
Ted and Jeanne Meltzer vacationed in the French West Indies (Guadeloupe) and stayed at one of the hotels of Club Mediterranean.
"Rather too noisy for people of our age," said Ted, "but the food was superb - excellent French dishes plus local Creole delicacies." Other trips were to Bermuda and Morocco. Their daughter Francoise was recently promoted to associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Chicago and is getting married in January. Ted is retired chief of the publications branch of the U.S. Information Agency in Washington.
Bill Rohlffs of Lacey, Wash., writes: "Emelyn and I expect to take a freighter trip this winter again - probably our last one, since the whippersnappers who run these things think we're getting too old. Imagine!"
Joe Chay, our third-oldest classmate at 81, says that since his wife Moon died, his health has been getting bad. Since June he has been troubled with bronchitis and is planning to leave Taiwan and come to California to live with his daughters. Joe will retire from the starch business which he built up there.
John Stone of Burlington, Vt., and other lawyers admitted to the bar 50 years ago, were honored at a meeting of the Vermont Bar Association on September 18 at the Lake Morey Inn.
Ed and Dora Flanders and their son John '83 were with us at the '28 dinner on September 19 at the Norwich Inn. We will be proud to help John celebrate his graduation while we are celebrating our 55th reunion! John is equipment manager of the Outing Club, administering the rental of a vast store of items relating to hiking and the out-of-doors. Also co-advertising manager of The Dartmouth, he is majoring in geography and maintains a 3.2 average.
Pren Bradley of San Antonio, Tex., writes that he attended a two-day seminar in San Antonio conducted by the Dartmouth Club of Dallas on music and literature, with two Dartmouth professors coming down from Hanover. "A very rewarding weekend, two dozen couples attended," Pren said.
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