1928

Edwin Flanders, hard-working head agent, and his team of assistant class agents deserve the congratulations of the entire class for their excellent job of raising $85,000 for the Alumni Fund which closed June 30. Ed is proud of the 222 donors who sent in $20,500 over the dollar objective set this year by the Alumni Fund.

For the traditional gift to the College at our 55th reunion, then class president George Davis appointed Jack Kenerson and Curly Prosser to chair a '28 funding associates committee a year in advance of the reunion. At the reunion they turned over to the College $150,000 to be added to the 1928 Memorial Scholarship Fund.

Jack and Curly, plus George Davis, who was appointed to the committee by class president Rick Rickenbaugh, hope to be able to announce at the mini-reunion dinner at the Norwich Inn on September 29 the receipt of additional gifts and bequests of $50,000, which will enable us to have four instead of three Class of 1928 scholarships this year.

Harold Fields, hale and hearty at 80, drove alone from East Lansing, Mich., to Hanover for a four day visit in late June, partly to attend a friend's 40th wedding anniversary (he was in the class of '46). Harold wrote "the town and the College always help to renew my feelings of youth!" Well put, Harold. In July he drove to Stratford, Ontario, to see three Shakespeare plays and three Gilbert and Sullivan operettas.

Jim McConnon writes from Tucson: "Our '28 people and others seem to be enjoying our monthly luncheons. We are planning a weekend, November 2-4, at the. Southwestern Research Station of the American Museum of Natural History at Portal, Ariz. Dartmouth is sending a geologist and we're having other speeches and hikes. Should be fun."

It bothered me that Hal and Maria Pierce had not received the class newsletter or the Alumni Magazine for a year. Letters to several addresses in Lima, Peru, were returned by the post office. A college student living next door to us left for a year as an exchange student in Lima, and it didn't take her long to find that her host family lived only a block from where the Pierces had lived when we had visited them in 1967 on our way to Cuzco and Machu Picchu. The Pierce address now is: 4170 North Marine Drive, Apt. 19j, Chicago, IL 60613. (One of their sons lives in the same building.) Perseverance pays off!

Hal told me about an interesting coincidence: He once met his Dartmouth roommate, the late Tom Carroll, in Argentina by accident for the second time in ten years. The first time was when Tom's hat blew off on Fifth Avenue in New York and Hal picked it up.

Eleanor Dickerman called to tell me of Wat's death on August 6 in an Oakland, Calif., hospital of pneumonia. He had been fighting Parkinson's disease. Eleanor asked me to call their close friends the Herpels, Sensenigs, Hankins, and Warners. Ham Hankins said they plan on coming to the minireunion; Herb Sensenig said he expects a record turnout at the reunion with at least 60 at the Saturday night dinner at the Norwich Inn.

Since our last class notes in the June issue, it is with sorrow that we report the passing of Dick White, April 27, Roy Myers, June 16, Dick Schmelzer, July 18, arid Wat Dickerman.

Genie Billings has sold her house in West Hartford and moved to Apt. G523,40 Loeffler Road, Bloomfield, CT 06002.

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