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Grand Officers, O.E.S., on the Republican
State Committee, 130th District, and council
member, NYS Federation of Republican
Women's Clubs.
Many thanks for your tremendous response
and generous help. The class will
be able to give a generous check to the
Federation Scholarship Fund in memory
of our 63 deceased members. The Reunion
story will carry the news.
'28
Men: H. Victor Grohmann
30 Rockefeller Plaza West
New York, N.Y. 10020
It was good to hear from Laurence G«
White (picture) of Silver Spring, Md., where
he lives just off the
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young schnauzer retrieves,
he still operates
L. G. White &
Co. at 880 Bonifant
St. in Silver Spring.
Here are some excerpts
from his welcome letter: "It's easy
to see that '28ers don't make it easy for
their ALUMNI NEWS correspondent to do
his duty by the column. Perhaps our class
had more shrinking violets in it than had
other classes, men who don't hanker to be
in print even in that small way. More likely,
time always seems to be at a premium
with all of them that I talk to, and so we
all postpone the note to a later date. I'm
still engaged in the business of being a
manufacturers representative and have, as
one of my principal partners, S. Wild '29.
We employ a whole bunch of engineering
salesmen who wander all up and down the
East Coast doing whatever they can to get
industry to use our electronic stuff in military
and industrial apparatus. It's a living.
And, now and then, we actually manage to
help improve the usefulness of some of the
military gear being used in Viet Nam.
"Last summer, my wife Betty and I spent
a couple of months in Europe. This time
we sailed across, on The France; slower
and more relaxing than by air, but rather
boring. From Paris to Milan, Italy via The
Orient Express but never saw a single spy.
We bought an Italian car in Milano and
then drove 3,500 miles around western Europe
before sailing home. A marvelous trip.
But good old New York Bay couldn't have
been more welcome to the earliest immigrants.
I'll be at the 40th."
Our annual class dinner was held at the
Cornell Club of New York on Monday,
May 15, with 30 stalwart members on
hand. Our guest speaker was Steve MuIIer,
PhD '58, the vice president for public affairs,
who gave us a very complete, interesting,
and articulate account of the present
problems and future plans of our great
alma mater. Steve also answered some very
provocative questions with great frankness
and demonstrated his complete knowledge
of university affairs. Hank Boschen, vice
president of our class, presided very
capably while both class secretary Bob Leng
and class treasurer Ted Adler gave excellent
reports. There was also a discussion of
setting a goal for our 30th Reunion in the
form of sponsoring a section of the new
dormitories or a professorial chair. After
a little more checking with the university
administration, you will hear more about
this later.
Others attending the class dinner were:
Jack Ackerman, Bert Antell, Seward Baldwin,
Don Bates, Tim Bristol, Paul Buhl,
Louis Freidenberg, Ronney Galusha, Ed
Georgi, Vic Grohmann, Horace Hooker,
Tom Hopper, Ned Johnson, Walter Klein,
Dick Kochenthal, Stan Krusen, Julie Leibman,
Ali Mamleeff, Pat Noonan, George
Schofield, Kip Stalter, Jim Stewart, Ron
Sweeney, Dave Taub, Gil Wehmann, Larry
White, John Young.
Have a pleasant summer and make plans
now to attend our 40th class Reunion next
year. The dates are June 5, 6, 7, 8.
'28 MD - Dr. Ruth Earp (wife of William
C. Douglas, MD '25), is now a physician
in Bernardsville, N.J. and is the first
woman president of the Morris County
Heart Assn. They have two children, James,
a chemist in Virginia, and Jocelyn, who is
married to Dr. George Lord of Rochester.
'29
Men: Zac Freedman
306 E. 96th St.
New York, N.Y. 10028
Kenneth C. Allen (picture), is vice president-scale
operations, Hobart Manufacturing
Co., Dayton
scale division, 448
Huffman Ave., Dayton,
Ohio. Ken
worked his way up
through engineering,
designed all the scales
of the company, and
has 44 issued patents,
with more pending.
In 1931, Ken married
Daytonian Eliza Davies.
They have two married sons, Kenneth
D., Purdue '57, also with The Hobart Co.,
in research and development, and Edward
R. '63, now supervising eight states for The
Red Barn, national chain of drive-in restaurants.
Two boys and a girl for Ken D.,
and a boy for Edward R. put Ken strongly
in the '29er Gramps Club.
The Aliens recently visited with Lib and
Bill O'Neil in Richmond, Va., where Bill is
with The'National Park Service. They are
working hard on bringing the O'Neils to
Dayton for a reciprocal visit.
Phil Stone, 3023 Macomb St., NW, Washington,
D.C., is assistant coordinator of
adult services with the Public Library of
the District of Columbia, a 30-year veteran
with the library. Phil is active in the Christian
education activities of his Methodist
Church, in addition to Boy Scout work.
Recently, the Hank Pfisterers, 111 Whitney
Ave., New Haven, and the Howard
Halls, 19 Bettswood Ave., Norwalk, Conn.,
found themselves sitting next to one another
at the Shubert Theatre, New Haven,
enjoying one of the touring Broadway hits.
Ah, the long arm of coincidence works in
many mysterious ways!
Al Hostek, Hedgerows Farm, Setauket,
is hereby welcomed to the '29ers Gramps
Club. Daughter, Susan (Mrs. A. F. Hahn,
Berwyn, Pa.) has two sons, Jonathan and
A. Franklin Hahn III; and Nancy (Mrs.
Donald Logan, Green Bank, W. Va.) has
a daughter, Susan. Al is still active as a
horticultural consultant, writes a monthly
garden column for three area publications,
plays violincello in the local symphony, and
of course keeps a continuing special interest
in the family yacht, a 23-ft. gaff-rigged
South Bay cat boat.
Howard Taylor Jr., 605K Cranbrook Rd.,
Cockeysville, Md. (new address) frequently
sees Jim Solley, 4612 Roland Aye., Baltimore,
Md. Howie's wife, Vicky, is a 1940
graduate of Syracuse (who referees?).
Aside to Ray Poulsen, 206 Dryden Dr.,
Meriden, Conn.—many thanks for your
nice note.
In answer to several queries, here are
some new addresses: A. T. Briggs, 1123
High St., Williamsport, Pa.; Jim Merrill,
2881 Walnut Ridge, Akron, Ohio; Ken
Baker, 111 Thistle Lane, Rye; Dr. Royal
Sullivan, 9500 Dee Rd., Des Plaines, 111.;
Dr. Herbert F. Marco, Guilford Technical
Institute (president), Jamestown, N.C.; Bob
Thomas Jr., 501 N. Birch St., Ft. Lauderdale,
Fla.; Henry V. Oberg, 6825 Almansa
St., Coral Gables, Fla.
Early in May, Jerry Loucheim, 4601 N
56th St., Phoenix, Ariz., was in Philadelphia
on a personal visit.
Harry Chashin, LLB '32, 78 W. 35th St.,
Bayonne, N.J., is a member in good standing
in the '29er Gramps Club with grandson
Laurence Ross, born to Linda and
Bruce Chashin. Proud Grandma is Rose
(Lashinsky). Daughter H. Louise '62 is a
third-year medical student at the New Jersey
College of Medicine. Congrats allaround,
Harry.
'29
Women: Ethel Corwin Ritter
22 Highland Ave.
Mίddletown, N.Y. 10940
Beatrice Jackson has a new address, 200
Cotter St., San Francisco, Calif., and works
as companion for a woman who lives iri a
"beautiful home overlooking the Pacific
with the Golden Gate Bridge framing the
eastern horizon of our vista." Speaking of
change of addresses, does anyone have addresses
for the following: Evelyn Saladino
Cisney (Mrs. Sam), Charlotte Halpin, Cecilia
Katz, Miriam Levant, Jean Palmer,
Jeannette Rumniel, Pauline Unger, Thelma
Van Alstyne Whipple (Mrs. Robert), and
Esther Bucknam Wood. The next four we
had addresses for but mail was returned
"addressee unknown." They are: Janet Rutter
Gilbert (Mrs. James), 7404 Meadow La.,
Washington, D. C.; Gertrude Warner Farrell
(Mrs. Donald), 2110 Dexter Ave., Silver
Spring, Md.; Florence Sammis Krummel
(Mrs. H. T.), Rt. 1, Box 82, 116th Holmes,
Belton, Mo.; Beatrice Friedman, 525 E.
86th St., New York. One we have returned
as "insufficient address," Mrs. Franklin Muller,
Box 337, Di Giorgio, Calif. Anyone
having addresses for any of the above,
please send them to me and/or Alumni
House, 626 Thurston Ave., Ithaca, Alt.:
Mrs. K. Powers.
We have recently learned that Connie
Cobb Pierce (Mrs. William E.), 4 Highview
Ter., Madison, N.J., has lost two brothers
this past season, Carl and Dr. Jack. Many
of us knew them and we extend our sympathy
to Connie and her family. Rose Gluck
Sherwin (Mrs. Monroe R.), 119 Village
Rd., Roslyn Heights, is doing teacher aide
work at Roslyn High School and supervising
the building of an extension of their
house. She and Monroe play tennis and
he goes fishing. Daughter Vicki is completing
her MA in political science at Wisconsin
and Jean is a sophomore in nigh
school. Esther Sanford Vedro (Mrs.
Stephen J.) moved July 1 to 1335 Sugar
Plum Dr., Boca Raton, Fla., after her husband's
retirement. They had formerly been
in Maryland. They saw Mary (Ruefle) and
Jack Lawrence '30 in Hawaii and spent
several pleasant hours with them. The Lawrences
live at 1651 Mott-Srnith Dr., Apt. A,
Honolulu, Hawaii.
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