CLASS OF 1926
It's never over, folks, it's always going on, get your tickets on the inside, the show's always going on, here they are, folks, it's never over, I say . . . Look just to the right and over the tall gentleman in the opera cape, there's Mr. Sidney Hayward leading the procession, escorting Mrs. Sidney Hayward, nee Barbara Everett of Concord, N. H. (sister of Douglas Everett); look closely and you will also see Mr. Laurence T. Bourne on his way to the altar with Miss Katherine Carolyn Jean, Los Angeles; and yet another, Mr. F. F. Seely escorting Miss Josephine Knox. The handsome couple strolling under the trapeze is Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Merrill, Mrs. Merrill was Miss Ruth Wellington Dee of Madison, N. J. And here we have Mr. Theodore Herz and the former Miss Corinne Casey of New York city, and there we have Mr. Louis C. Conant with the former Miss Georgianna Duncan of Portsmouth, N. H. Col. Wm. Henshaw Nigh from the Pacific Coast is here with Mrs. Nigh, nee Kate Salisbury Boardman of San Francisco. Yes, we have also Mr. Arthur Wilcox with Mrs. Wilcox, who was Miss Madeline Dickey. I see faces off in the distance, who they are time alone will tell, but anyway it's always going on, folks, and I'm happy to tell you all about it.
The surprising news about Mr. Dexter Wilbar, son of District Attorney and Mrs. Winfield M. Wilbar, is the announcement of his engagement to Miss Eleanor Wilson of Brockton, Mass. Mr. Wilbar is associated with his father in the latter's law office.
Of interest to investors is the announcement of Fellingham and Fellingham, Chicago, who announce the preferred offering of Series A callable at any time as John Howard Fellingham with a market value listed as priceless. The foregoing information was obtained from the head office of the above, and due credit is given above for an extremely clever announcement.
Under the probable head of old, or perhaps, very old news is the news, none the less, that Mr. C. G. McDavitt, Jr., has organized and is directing the National Investors Digest, a company which will publish weekly a summary of stock market news and recommendations prepared especially for the investor whose capital available for common stocks is limited. Mr. McDavitt will remain director of Newton National Bank.
Comes from a newsy bit that Steve Weston summered in Maine for no good reason, that Hank Merry has won a spur or two at Macy's and is well up on one of the rungs, that Skook Alexander wanders about New York and elsewhere with the now customary love-lorn look, and that Don Mackay is a lawyer in Quincy, Mass.
It was sad indeed to learn of the death of Spud Plummer, his bride, formerly Miss Leona Shepherd of Minnesota, and Mr. Edwin G. Nash, whom some of us remember as an English instructor our freshman year, as the result of, an automobile accident near Lawrence, Mass. Spud had returned to this country from Santo Domingo, where he was superintendent of agriculture, to spend his vacation and to be married. The three were motoring to Lake Sunapee, N. H., when their car overturned and crashed into a tree near the road, killing them instantly. The class of 1926 extends sincerest sympathy to Mrs. Plummer.
Mr. Carlos Allen won some tremendous prize offered by the National City Bank. Result: postcard from Leipzig or somewhere saying there would be two months of that sort of thing, and then, as if tinged with the faintest bit of sarcasm, "I expect to be in Detroit the early part of October on my vacation and hope to see you." Really, old man, the boys in the proletariat don't take so kindly to this.
Well, happy days, down in the files, yes, I mean files, I see a letter from James Traquair, and he's a traveling salesman, He's Adie the Fishman; no, he isn't, he sells paper for the Mead Pulp and Paper Company in and about Cincinnati and Dayton. So therefore he sees Ted Sullivan of the Curtiss Flying Service, Columbus, 0., and Bob McConnaughey, of McConnaughey, Shea, and McConnaughey, Dayton. McConnaughey last exerted his oratorical and persuasive efforts on the behalf of their colored laundress, who was charged with this and that, but released on a character statement by doughty McConnaughey.
Tex Borden, dramatic critic and professor, is purchaser of an Inland Sport biplane which he flies from the municipal airport in Chicago, and may be counted on to week-end East for a game or two.
Edward McClintock papered his boudoir with a few replies from magazine editors, and now as an avocation runs a thriving ice business in Bartlesville, Okla.
Donald Hoffman is out on the Pacific Coast, why, I'll never know, but reputed to be working.
Brant Wallace, perpetrator of The Fifth, borrowed a shingle and scratched his name on it, and there he is with business crashing his threshold.
Dinty Moore, erstwhile glider, edits the National Standard Parts Association News, headquarters Detroit, and frequent visitor to Canada to attend mysterious semi-annual meetings.
Carleton Blunt recently tried a public utility case in Detroit.
Richard Mann, dignified assistant cashier of Shawmut Bank, Boston, owns and operates a yellow open Austin in and about New England.
Many of you have heard of that prevalent and malignant ailment known as summer complaint? I have my own form of this lecherous disease, and it's no letters, no news, what no classmates! I swear I am wasting away and am pining to take the cure.
Now, here is something IMPORTANT. Ritchie Smith is heart and soul in promoting a large '26 gathering November 26, 1930, for the DARTMOUTH ROUND-UP. '26 men for miles around are planning to skate, creep, and crawl to this affair. And they are throwing in the Stanford game as an added attraction. I know that each and every man from our class who can get out there will have the time of his and everybody else's lives. Ritchie is to have charge of cheers and songs for the game. It's the old war cry, men, LET'S GO!!
If you have not already figured it out in your almanac, I can definitely tell you that in June of 1931 you are five years out of college and you ought to know better. Brant Wallace, Bob Cleary, and a host of others are working to make this event worthwhile for us all. Plan your vacation now to include your Fifth, and if you are any kind of a man you can sell your boss on the idea in a hurry. Do it. That's all!
Secretary, 7991 Hartwick St., Detroit, Mich,
