1928

It was a great fall reunion. Our usual excellent accommodations and Ranger Room headquarters at the Norwich Inn (booked a year in advance), the tremendous bonfire on the campus Friday night, our special bus to and from the game, much better seats in the new stands from which to watch the Big Green wallop Penn and dinner at the Norwich Inn Saturday night for 52 was the schedule for which reunion chairman Herb Sensenig received a big hand from the entire gang.

Wat and Eleanor Dickerman were the recipients of the farthest away award from President Jack Kenerson, who presided at the Saturday banquet. They came on from Oakland, Calif., their home since Wat retired as a professor at UCLA. Wendell and Esther MacEachran came from Manitowoc, Wise. Their son, John, a Dartmouth senior, was married Aug. 30 to Elizabeth Pry or, a Radcliffe graduate, in Memphis, Tenn. Others from a distance were George andPaula Bell and Jerry and Rella Warner from Washington.

Brad Parker, a first-timer at these annual reunions, was applauded for turning over to the Glee Club the silver cup which the Dartmouth Glee Club won at Carnegie Hall in 1928 in competition with the best college glee clubs from all over the country.

At the Saturday night gathering, besides those already mentioned, were: Jack and Grace Phelan, Craig and Eleanor Haines, Al and Margaret Willey, and Margaret's son, Bob MacPherson, a graduate student in Oceanography at City College of New York, Bill and Bea Marx and Walt and Ethel Simpson from New Jersey, Joe and Margaret Tidd, who were guests, with the Skinners, at Herb and Mimi Sensenig's home on the Beaver Meadow Road near Norwich, John and Peggy Phillips whose four Penn friends were given a warm welcome, Jerry and Doris Goodwin, Monk and Ginnie Davenport, Bill and Bobbie Morton, George Emery, Howie and Caroline Bush, Herb and Dot Russell, Cal and Genie Billings, Wes and Dorris Wood, Jack and Peg Zellers and Rupe and Dor Thompson.

The weekend was also the occasion of the first reunion of the '28ers who roomed to gether at 17 School Street during sophomore year - Billings, Dickerman, and Emery. The only other survivor, Al Fowler, couldn't be present, so they called him from Emery's room Saturday night. They all promised to get together on our 45th in 1973, if not before. No longer alive, of that School Street gang, are Maurie Cogan, Bud Ranney and Hank Milton.

Lew Beers couldn't make the reunion because he was at his godson's wedding, but his new job was a subject of much conversation. Lew retired from the N. Y. Telephone Co. last summer and was snapped up by Fairfield University, Fairfield, Conn., where he is now "Prof. Beers of the Marketing Department." Lew loves the job but says it is a lot more work (preparation) than he anticipated.

At the game we sat behind the Wes McSorfeys and two of their grandchildren. Behind us were the Bert Sterns, the Dick Roc-kwells and Red and Fonty Sanborn, from whom we learned that their daughter, Patricia, was married June 24 in Maine.

lack Zellers, chairman of the Bridgeport Area Transportation Task Force, has been honored for his work by the Bridgeport (Conn.) Chamber of Commerce. Jack is manager of the Southport branch of the Peoples Savings Bank. His task force is working on aviation, roads and traffic and harbor development.

Larry Miter and Thelma, of Houston, report a grand trip in September to Yellow-stone, Oregon, and Washington, their first visit to that part of the country.

While driving her daughter Daisy to Chatham College in September, Marguerite Schnepel's car skidded off the Pennsylvania Turnpike during a terrific rainstorm. Marguerite was badly hurt with two broken vertebrae in her back, a broken shoulder and a forehead cut. Daisy suffered only a cut in her forehead and is back at college after a week at home. Herm chartered a plane and brought Marguerite home with the help of two ambulances. Their other daughter is a freshman at Vassar.

In September Mary and I drove our youngest son, Steve, to Appleton, Wise., where he entered Lawrence University. Our middle son, Doug, Dartmouth '69, flew to California November 1 to enter the Peace Corps Training Center at Escondido, 80 miles north of San Diego. His training lasts until February when he will be assigned to Colombia.

In New York City Warren Burding was elected chairman of the executive committee of Lever Brothers Co. In his new position he is responsible for the newly formed corporate planning group. He also continues to be responsible for the special markets and industrial divisions as well as Glamorene Products Corporation, a Lever subsidiary. He has been associated with Lever Brothers since 1949 when he joined the company as president of the Good Luck (now Foods) Division. He subsequently became marketing vice president of the household products division in 1953 and executive vice president in 1959. He has been a director of the company since 1956.

Joe and Ruth Smith of White Plains, N. Y., have bought their retirement home in the town of Wakefield, N. H., and by January expect to be permanent residents. Joe has been a sales representative in the Educational Division of Rand McNally & Co. for 32 years. He says that if any classmate wants a good deal on an acre (undeveloped) on Grand Bahama Island outside Freeport he has one he'd be glad to sell.

A note from President Jack Kenerson says he and Fran spent a delightful two hours in Lima, Peru, with Hal and Maria Pierce over a cordial at the 13 Coins Restaurant. The Kenersons had just returned to Lima after a 3-day trip to Cuzco and the Inca ruins at Macchu Pichu. The Pierces' son, Frank, is an engineering student at the University of Rhode Island, and spends a lot of time at Skidmore courting a girl from Lima.

Don't miss the big '28 dinner on January 28 at the Dartmouth Club of New York in the Commodore Hotel. Bill Hobson is chairman of this mid-winter reunion and plans on a big attendance. You'll be hearing from him, but plan now to attend.

This fall brought the first reunion of '28roommates (l to r), Cal Billings, GeorgeEmery, and Wat Dickerman.

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