1928

The class set a record for attendance at Class Officers Weekend May 1 and 2, with all nine of its officers present. As usual, the meetings with administration officials were interesting and informative.

At a meeting of the '28 officers held Friday afternoon at the Hanover Inn, President George Davis called on Craig Haines, JohnPhillips, Curly Prosser, Jack Kenerson, ArtKneerim, Herb Sensenig, Bill Morton, and OsSkinner for reports on their areas of responsibility, and it appears we are in good hands. Cocktails, dinner at the Inn, an after-dinner program in Spaulding Auditorium featuring presentation of Alumni Awards, and an excellent talk on "Dartmouth's Alumni College and Seminar Program" by its director Steven Calvert '68 were followed by entertainment by the Barbary Coast. At 7:45 a.m. Saturday, there was a joint breakfast meeting for class officers in Alumni Hall. Trustee Sandy McCulloch, Ad Winship, vice president for alumni affairs and development, and Bob Brace, chairman of the 1981 Alumni Fund, spoke on the status of the Campaign for Dartmouth. (It's good.) Jonathan Strong, vice president of the Alumni Council, and John Benson, president of the Alumni Association, spoke about the current balloting to replace two alumni trustees and fielded questions from the floor. After lunch we heard speeches by President Kemeny and President-elect McLaughlin.

Getting back to the '28 officers meeting, George Davis announced that John Phillips and Curly Prosser will co-chair the 55th reunion, which will be held the same weekend as commencement in 1983. Mini-reunion chairman Herb Sensenig wants you to remember that September 18-19 are the dates this year (Princeton game) and says that you should send the Norwich Inn 525 room deposit as soon as possible. Head Agent Curly Prosser reported that he and his assistant agents are knocking themselves out trying to improve '28's Green Derby standing in both dollars received and participation percentage. (If we try harder, we can beat those boys in the classes from 1927 to 1934).

Bequest Chairman Jack Kenerson reported recent gifts from Anne and Makie Makepeace, Hilda and Rick Rickenbaugh, Marion and G. I. Davis, Mary and Charley Proctor, Allene and Curly Prosser, Freda and Art Nightingale, Fran and Jack Kenerson, Mrs. Mary Hanes, Mrs. Reliance Kinne, Mrs. Gertrude (Heep) Wolcott, and Mrs. Vera (Flanagan) Littlewood.

Other news picked up from '28ers was that Craig Haines had a pacemaker installed. ("Nothing to it," said Craig.) Eleanor and all of us are happy that he is feeling wonderful. The Kenersons got home from their 97-day vacation in Green Valley, Ariz., and left for Hanover the next day hardly time to sort the piles of mail. They entertained Mary andCharley Proctor at their home in Green Valley and joined Jim McConnon and Fred Stone at a Dartmouth luncheon.

Ambie McLaughlin wrote a nice note acknowledging his birthday card and brought us up-to-date: "I retired from the presidency of the Littleton Savings Bank about five years ago, did some travel abroad, and continue to live happily in Littleton." Incidentally, many of us remember that he was so fine a catcher in our undergraduate days that four big-league teams offered him contracts, but all were declined. In 1943 Jeff Tesreau chose Ambie as one of the four best catchers in his 25-year coaching reign at Dartmouth.

Mail to Bill McRoberts had been returned, but months of perseverance paid off with a letter which reached him in the hospital, where he was recovering from an operation peculiar to the male of the species. Since his retirement from the Ashland Oil Company in 1971, he has been spending six months in Hawaii and six at his present address: Route #5, Box 270-B, Detroit Lakes, Minn. He says, "I have a small cottage here can still beat any of my three sons at tennis or sailing. No great accomplishment as none of them ever played much tennis. Cycling (pedalling) is my favorite pastime 15 to 20 miles a day. I have a ten-speed here and in Hawaii. I have two sons in Hawaii, one son a flight attendant for Pan Am (gives me great reduction on travel), and a daughter who lives in Yakima, Wash. We married her off on February 14 in Hilo, Hawaii great wedding and family reunion."

Topper Robinson says working at the Cape Cod Hospital as a volunteer is good for his accumulation of "ouches." He says, "I enjoy meetings of the active Dartmouth Club of Cape Cod sat next to Howie Bush and Tim Paige at a recent luncheon. Other regulars like ParkerChick are gone for the winter."

Roy Myers spent the night at our home a week ago at the end of a six-month trip across the country lecturing and vacationing. He is now at his East Quogue, Long Island, home.

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