1928
At the New York dinner for Dartmouth Alumni Fund agents, Bill Morton was presented with the Hood trophy and the following citation:
The Harvey P. Hood Trophy for excellence among classes less than twenty years out of college is awarded to a man, who, in 1947, was serving his first year as class agent> yet was able in that first attempt to accomplish results of great shmifi cance for his class and the Fund By Ws p«fond enthusiasm, imagination, energy, and skfll he quickly determined the point of greatest weakness in the performance of his class,and moved so ably and resourcefully to overcome it that on June 30th his class had won its first Green Derby, tied in their Green Derby Group for the highest participation index, 87, accumulated the third largest numerical total of contributors among all clashes and while receiving no gift larger than $800. had produced $11.350,second highest in their Green classes seventh highest among all
"To WILLIAM GILBERT MORTON of the Class of 1928 the Alumni Fund Committee awards this copy of the Richardson History of Dartmouth College as a token of his achievement in winning the Hood Trophy for 1947. March 18, 1948 The Alumni Fund Committee: Richard A. Holton Chairman; George H. Colton, Executive Secretary."
Bill and his hard-working group of agents are not resting on last year's laurels. The May 7 report from Hanover shows '28 in fourth place in our Green Derby but moving up fast. In the past week two $500 gifts were received, which should cheer up any Class Agent. Our weak spot is in number of contributors, so mail your check today.
Johnny Brew has been named director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Enthology of Harvard University. This is a great distinction for Johnny. He has been curator of North American Archaeology, and since 1935 has been in charge of the Museum's exploration of the Jeddito Valley in the Hopi Indian Reservation in northeastern Arizona. John and Evelyn have two boys, aged six and four. John received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard in 1941.
The Washington jinx has descended upon Gwynne Prosser again. On two days notice, he closed his desk at McCann-Erickson, where he is personnel manager, and left for Washington to join Paul Hoffman's staff assembling the Economic Cooperation Administration. The assignment is for sixty days, as his share of the organization work is supposed to involve only the planning of the recruiting and setection lection program. The ECA has already received 25,000 applications, so apparently there are some people who are willing to go abroad and live amid the turmoil of Europe and China. Bill Treanor has taken over Gwynne's job as assistant class agent in charge o£ the New York area.
Brougham Wallace was made a vice-president of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York on April 12. He continues his association with the department group that takes care of the company's business in New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and the District of Columbia. With the Guaranty 20 years, he was first appointed an officer in 1937 and has been a second vice-president since 1943.
'28ers are taking a greater interest in politics as they grow older. Latest to reach the front page is Dr. Gerald I. Cetrulo of Newark, New Jersey, who announced that he and another Republican convention delegate pledged to Mac Arthur had opened an office in Newark to campaign for the General.
Bill Harris is touring the West to get new color movies for next winter's lecture season. When he wrote me from the Grand Canyon, he had been following the open road for a month and had been in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada and Arizona. He is now doing a travelogue on California and then the Canadian Rockies. This summer he expects to do Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and perhaps a trip to Europe. Bill says,
"I had a letter from ]im Hardy suggesting I visit him at his winter place at Daytona Beach, but I can't go this year."
Craig Haines deserves a hand for the four clippings he sent me this month—which is exactly four more than Luce's Clipping Bureau furnished. One is a display ad from a Boston paper reading:
"Weather Advisors, Inc., Parker N. Chick, President, —Serving Industry, Municipalities and Transportation Systems. Logan Airport, East Boston."
Another clipping states that John Sugden has been made manager of the Dorchester Branch Office of the New England Tel. & Tel. He lives at 6 Highfield Circle, Milton, with his wife and two children.
Ann and Maurice Makepeace announce the birth of Christopher, born March 28. They have a daughter, Joanne, seven years old.
Bob Grey, superintendent of the Shirley (Mass.) Industrial School for Boys, has been elected president of the National Association of Training Schools.
Rupe Thompson is now a director of Textron, according to Phil Orsi who spotted his name in the corporation's report.
Jack Phelan and Henry W. Hardy, both Boston lawyers, have started the Current Legal Digest Service, 53 State Street, which furnishes Massachusetts lawyers with digests of all opinions of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and digests of all acts of the state legislature, for a modest fee, of course.
Merrill Shurtleff doesn't bother to answer most questionnaires, but he did break down finally and disclose that he married Mary Ann Ferguson on January 18, 1945. They live in Gorham, New Hampshire, and Merrill's office is in Berlin. He has been State Probation Officer since 1944, with Coos and Carroll Counties as his territory. He sees Judge Jack Goodnow often, and has heard recently from KenRobbie and Virgil McNeil. He and Mary hope to attend reunion next year.
The Hanover Inn reports the following '28 guests in April: Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Edgar of Winchester, Mass.; Mr. and Mrs. Thorton P. Klaren of South Dartmouth, Mass.; and Larry Sleeper of Bartlett, New Hampshire.
In the April notes I referred to Jack McAvoy as president of the class our freshman year. One reader has sent me a Daily Dartmouth clipping, reporting the election of the following officers of the freshman class: John Phillips, president; Willard Isham, vice-president; LeBoy C. Milliken, secretary, George Cole, treasurer. My erroneous information came from the Aegis so I'll pass the blame to its editor, Bob Clark. Can anyone give me a list of the class officers in our sophomore and junior years?
Twelve '28'ers attended the annual dinner of the New York Alumni Association: BarneyNova, Topper Robinson, Cal Billings, ArtHassell, Bill Cogswell, Gerry Johnston, AlecKerr, Ham Hankins, Jerry Pitts, Mai Halliday, Art Holden and Bruce Lewis. Bruce is on a month's business trip to the West Coast.
Ed Lyman has sent me a copy of the Har-vard Law School Record of April 13, which contains a full column article about JudMoulton. Only the first two paragraphs can be used here due to space limitations, but I am sending the article to Jack Herpel, who may have room to quote the whole thing.
"Horace Piatt Moulton is one of the few men in present day society who wears a Chesterfield as though he belonged in it. Mr. Moulton, who is a partner in Brown, Field, McCarthy & Field of 15 State Street, Boston, is a tall, spare, affable man in his early forties. The day I met him he was neatly dressed in a grey suit and moderately gay necktie, but his appearance conformed neither with Cleveland Amory's Proper Bostonian nor with J. P. Marquand's Late George Apley. Rather it was the appearance of an individualist.
"Upon graduation from the Law School in 1931, ex-Reviewman Moulton began clerking for the firm of which he is now a member At present most of his time is devoted to the New England Telephone & Telegraph Company, to the point of his maintaining an office there. His work carries him into Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, and he deals with public utility commissions in all of those states. Today most of his emphasis is on increases in telephone rates. Mr. Moulton and his assistants have been successful in convincing all the commissions that have handed down decisions thus far that his quest is valid, with the last one, Rhode Island, scheduled to make a determination this month."
Secretary9 Van Dyne Oil Cos., Troy, Pa. Treasurer, Providence National Bank Providence, R. I. Class Agent, 101 So. Salina St., Syracuse, N. Y.
