Class of 1926
AMERICAN CONSULATE
Basel, Switzerland March 17, 1934.
Dear Brant,
Thanks for the letter of March first and the request for a picture of the twins. I am enclosing the last decent photo of them taken in November, 1932, when they were two years old. As they have not changed much except in height since then, I believe it will do. Their names are Jean and Joan, and they were born at Warsaw, Poland, on November 10, 1930. In the picture Jean is the one apparently choking her sister, Joan. They spoke Polish quite fluently when we left Warsaw last September, but have forfotten it all now, and are at present getting quite conversant in German. We speak English to them, of course, and so they are getting to be real linguists.
Not much news, except that this is a great place to be living, with the whole of Switzerland at your door. Hope to be able to get the family back to Hanover for 1936 and hope we will have a big turnout.
By the way, I have a set of negatives of the 1926 delegation of the C & G House which Hub Harwood took and lent to me to have some prints made. They are rather large size, about the size of the twins photo. If you think you would have any use for them for 1936 reunion purposes I should be glad to send them on, and then you could return them to Hub, as I do not have his address.
Monty Colladay.
On March. 7th, Cynthia Ann Minuse arrived as daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. Bayles Minuse at Stony Brook, Long Island. Baby and parents are reported as doing nicely.
Your scribe was all set to write of the 1926 class dinner in New York when the following epistle arrived. Read it and then write your little piece.
"Dear Brant:—
"1926, as you full well know, held a class dinner last Tuesday night at the Dartmouth Club.
"The same situation prevailed that night as at all class dinners. Those who were there had a most enjoyable evening and I doubt that any one of the fellows present was sorry he had attended.
"Only thirty showed up, however; thirty out of the hundred and forty who live in or near New York.
"What bothers me is the thought that despite hard work on the part of Charlie Singleton and the others connected with the management of the party, only one man out of five, roughly, was on hand. And, even worse, only about forty used the return prepaid postcards, provided with the announcement to let us know whether or not they would be present.
"Obviously, we can't hope that all the men graduating with '26 and living around New York, will have a lively interest in the college and the class. But it seems to me that we can rightfully anticipate a better showing than Tuesday night. If a man is no longer interested in Dartmouth we can, only respect his feeling and wonder at it.
"But I can't believe that the showing at the dinner is representative of the class as; a whole or even of the bunch in and neatNew York.
"There is more work involved in the staging of a class dinner than is generally realized—a great deal of time and effort that is not seen. Twenty of us contributed in varying degrees but by far the bulk of the work fell to Charlie. It is disappointing to find that only thirty fellows showed up but it is far more so to realize that only forty took the trouble of checking the return postcard, signing and mailing it.
"After such a showing I frankly wonder if the game is worth the candle. To those few of us who apparently enjoy every opportunity for strengthening old and pleasant bonds the discontinuing of the '26 dinners would be a loss and yet we probably could still find ways to maintain friendships. For most of the fellows in the class,, however, it appears as though the passing; up of the semi-annual dinners would mean little, if anything.
"It seems a shame that any one of us. should feel that the class of 1926 is degenerating but I'm damned if I don't.
"Bob Cleary."
To show that those who were present at the dinner had a good time, Hub Harwood pens the following:
March 21st, 1934.
"Dear Brant—
"While last night is still fresh in mymind, I am going to remind you for the address of Mrs. Abner Oakes. Although thereis little any of us can do as consolation, Iwant very much to get in touch with heras soon as I can.
"The dinner was a great success lastnight. You and the others who are responsible for the class affairs are to be congratulated and thanked for the time you are expending to keep up a very valuable thingWe who are too selfish with our time seempretty inconsequential at the comparison.."For your class notes, in case you haven'theard, we had a daughter arrive October24th, named Georgia.
"HUB HARWOOD."
Out Jersey way on April 7th, the Dartmouth Club of Northern New Jersey held its annual dinner at the Essex County Country Club with Earl (Red) Blaik and his staff present. Although 1926 was decidedly lacking in the number of representatives present, Bob Cleary, Charlie Bishop and yours truly made the grade. We can at least assure the absent members that the new coaching staff looks good and impressed us as the type of men to carry on the clean sportsmanship for which Dartmouth teams are known.
May we also take this opportunity to thank Bill Hughes for his help in writing the class notes last month.
And a note from Sid Hay ward:
"Two bits of news for you—here is atranscript of an item that appears on page12 of today's Herald Tribune:
" 'Bernard M. Cooney, thirty years old, aninstructor at Texas A. and M. College, committed suicide today by shooting himself inthe head in his father's parked automobile.Medical Examiner E. W. Brown gave thesuicide verdict. Cooney, a graduate of Dartmouth College, returned home from Texasseveral weeks ago because of the threat ofa nervous breakdown.' (Northampton, Mass., March 6.)
"Bernie left College at the end, of oursophomore year.. Dean Chamberlin thinksthat he finished his undergraduate work atColumbia; at least he knows that he studiedthere subsequently.
"Dick Haywood writes me from Box 411,Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,which by the way is the first good addresswe have had for him for several years, asfollows:
" 'As to my history: 1. Harvard Law '26-'27. Loathed it. Passed all exams, took leaveof absence, went West. 2. '27-29. Taught inEvans School, Tucson, Arizona. Very interesting and profitable. 3. RogersFellow in Latin at Hopfiins. Got Ph.D. in'32. 4.—In charge (and sole teacher of, Ishould add) undergraduate Latin at Hopkins. Getting along well enough, I shouldadd, again.'
"'There you are. Further, I shouldadd, married in '32, one son. Married aBaltimorean, Margaret Mowbray, Mt.Holyoke '25.'
"Am hoping to get at least a couple morebaby pictures for the April issue. Send theseto me just as soon as you can or have theparents concerned send them direct to me.1 already have snapshots of Joan Jacobusand Nancy and would like a couple boys ora couple anything to make a good showing."
Tom Floyd-Jones contributed answers to questions regarding 1926 undergraduate life. The questions, propounded by a Senior Fellow in Hanover, seek to elicit a response giving a cross section of the years 1922 to 1926 as a part of a compilation of the trend of Dartmouth life from earlyays to date. In his letter, Tom adds, "Dear Brant:
"I don't think I have very much newsthat you have missed, except that Bob Williams is about the hardest person to find inNew York City. As you know, he used to bearound the Club the majority of the timeand although I have tried to get him heseems to have discovered some new haunts.I wouldn't be surprised if he had discoveredsome more fish to play bridge with.
"TOM FLOYD-JONES."
New addresses:
Lemuel J. Rogers—business—Boston Consolidated Gas Cos., 100 Arlington St., Boston, Mass.; residence—l3 Prince St., Belmont, Mass.; occupation—sales industrial gas equipment.
John C. Tarr—business—4.2o Oakland St., Brooklyn, N. Y.; residence—3l East 12 th St., N. Y. C.; occupation—oil, Shell Oil Cos.
Charles E. Wallis—business—uncertain; residence—c/o H. F. Wallis, R. F. D. 1, Bristol, N. H.; occupation—structural designer.
Samuel E. P. Blood—business—63s West 54th St., N. Y. C.; residence—6os West 112 th St., N. Y. C.; occupation—Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc.
John R. Dunn—2B6o Washington St., San Francisco, Calif.
Montgomery H. Colladay—American Consulate, Basel, Switzerland.
Richard M. Haywood—Box 411, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.; occupation—teaching Latin.
Louis E. Neuman—business—Skelly Oil Cos. Station Dept., Tulsa, Okla.; residence-127 S. College Ave., Tulsa, Okla.; occupation—gasoline station—manager ass't.
Jean and Joan Colladay Taken in Warsaw, Poland
Secretary, 1060 Broad St., Newark, N. J.
