1928
One of the best '2B dinners in a long time was held at the Dartmouth Club in New York on January 22 with 31 present from five states.
Nine members of the Executive Committee met from 5 to 6 in President Bill Morton's room. Routine business was transacted, including reports from all the officers, Alumni Fund chairman, Bequest Chairman and New York dinner chairman. There was general enthusiasm for a spring party such as we've had the past two years at ChuckBruder's Ridgewood Country Club. Chuck invited us again, and Bill Heep invited us to meet at St. Andrew's Country Club in Yonkers. The officers will decide and see that you are informed of the date well in advance. Plans were discussed for the annual fall reunion - thanks to the efforts of HerbSensenig, we have been fortunate to have the facilities of the Norwich Inn reserved for us. This fall the reunion will be on the Brown game weekend.
Present at the January 22 affair and partaking of liquids and solids were: Charlie Coe, Chuck Brucfcr, Lew Beers, Jack Barry, Al Burleigh, Howie Bush, Don Chapman, John Cronin, El Drake, George Emery, Stu Goodwillie, Lin Gray, Jack Herpel, Bill Hobson, Bill Harris, Chet Kellogg, Ed Lyman, Bill Morton, Phil Orsi, Red Pelton, John Phillips, Curly Prosser, Topper Robinson, Herb Russell, Sam Sammis, Os Skinner, Herm Schnepel, Rube Thompson, Bill Treanor, Hank Walker, and Jack Zellers.
John Phillips gave an entertaining account of the wonderful dinner which he attended three days earlier at Hopkins Center honoring the '62 and '25 undefeated football teams. He bogged down in trying to describe the immensity of the new Leverone Field House and had to let Morton supply the statistics. After a 30-second report from each man present, we watched movies and colored slides of the last and previous reunions.
Hank Walker was the only one present who lives in Manhattan, although 18 of the 31 work there. Of the rest four live in New Jersey, four in Massachusetts, two in upstate New York, one each in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania.
Don Chapman received congratulations on having just received his Master of Business Administration degree from New York University. He retired a year ago from Sears Roebuck after being with them 29 years. Most recently he managed their store in Huntington, L.I., and before that the store in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He will probably go with the Economic Administration.
Chuck Bruder described himself as "a sewing machine peddler," Singer recently moved into Rockefeller Center. .. . HankWalker is a part-time lawyer and full-time '28 Dinner and Reunion Chairman.... Topper Robinson still runs his stone quarry in Deerfield, Mass. . . . Ed Lyman and HowieBush came down from Springfield, Mass.; Ed is a lawyer and has two grandchildren, Howie is an insurance company executive.
Charlie Coe is with Business Development Associates, one of whose clients is Wilkinson razor blades. . . . Stu Goodwillie is with Clevite Corp. . . . Curly Prosser put in a plug for the Dartmouth Club, of which he is Secretary. .. . Class Agent George Emery reported organization almost complete for the Alumni Fund but he can always use some more workers. He also revealed that Bruder had donated a Singer typewriter for the use of the Class Agent.
Lin Gray is assistant vice president of the Corporation Trust Co., 120 Broadway, commutes to his home in Wilmington weekends. . . . Jack Barry is a partner in Roosevelt & Cross, a municipal bond firm. . . . Red Pelton, Olean, N. Y., insurance man in partnership with his brother, Bill '27, flew down for the dinner. ... EI Drake now in his twelfth year with Scholastic Magazines... . Jack Zellers is in the Office Machines Division of Remington Rand. . . . Sam Sanimis with U. S. Rubber Co. . . . Lew Beers, "still peddling coin boxes," received congratulations for rounding up the original Barbary Coast orchestra for our reunion last June.
Bill Harris, down from Swampscott, Mass., for the dinner, was leaving nine days later on the round-the-world cruise of the "SS Rotterdam." . .. Al Burleigh of Packanack Lake, N. J., is in the wholesale plywood business, visits George Smith in Palm Beach every winter Bill Hobson is a trust officer with Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., has a son in the freshman class at Dartmouth. . . . Herm Schnepel, one of top salesmen of encyclopedias, busy covering New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. . . . Jack Herpel, new Security Supervisor of the N. J. Bell Tel., was upbraided for failing to bring his meerschaum pipe and deerstalker's cap.
We read a review the other day of a Dean Martin movie "written by Jack Rose," so we wrote Jack, having heard that there are two Jack Roses producing movies. Our Jack came back with a heart-rending account of the complications that the other Jack has figured in, which you'll want to read in full in Herpel's scandal sheet. Jack says in the movie industry he is known as John - and to his intimates, such as Gilly Swanson and Bill Whaley, he answers to a variety of handles ranging from Roselberry to Twister.
We did turn up news that Roselberry is producing a movie, starring Don Knotts, for Warner Bros, release next Thanksgiving. It is a feature length comedy with music, in Technicolor, from a screenplay by our Jack Rose and Jameson Brewer.
'28ers were prominent at the gala dinner in Hanover January 19 for the '62 and '25 undefeated football teams. Myles Lane, Jack McAvoy, Al Fusonie, Ken Graf, Jack Phelan, John Phillips and Lanky Langdell were introduced. Among the 500 guests in the new Alumni Hall of Hopkins' Center were the present and past members of the Alumni Council, who had been holding meetings for the preceding two days, including Cal Billings, Lane Dwinell, Craig Haines, John Turkevich, Bill Morton, Chuck Bruder, and your secretary.
One of the many high points in the evening program was the presentation of an Alumni Award to Bill Morton for outstanding to the College and to his community. With the award he received a replica of the Eleazar Wheelock silver bowl, suitably engraved. We were glad Bobby Morton and their son, Bill Jr. '59 and his wife were there to see "Dynamo Bill" receive this award.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.
Treasurer, First National Bank, Boston 6, Mass.
