Class of 1926
TIMING THE TENTH JUNE 1936
For Some of Us Out of Money.For Some of Us Out of a Job.For Some of Us Just Out to Lunch.But for All of Us Out of Hanover TenLong Years.
Last year our good Secretary-Chairman, Brant Wallace, engaged in a written battle with the scribe of 1925 to wit; that 1925 could not hope to compete with 1926 when it came to running reunions. But from the reports we have received, '25 had a WOW. The main secret of its success was the large number of men who attended. We can place them in obscurity, in fact behind the proverbial eight ball, by beginning to put a little gray matter on it NOW. By inaugurating a fund for the idyllic purpose.
Brant appointed a central committee consisting of Robert (Million Dollar) Cleary, Les per Bond) Talbot, and yours (Bond Peddling) truly.
We have already had an organization conclave, and letters appointing keymen in various strategic localities will soon be in Jim Farley's care.
If every man starts now to figure a budget based on his traveling expenses plus a $2O reunion tax (to cover most all expenses while in Hanover), and lays aside one-tenth of the total each month, HE WILL BE IN HANOVER NEXT JUNE.
Those who attended the sth need not be reminded of its pleasantries. Those who were not there should be gnashing at the bit to get back and make up tor what they missed.
The committee will welcome communications from those who will get on the band wagon NOW by sending $5.00 toward their tax and signing up. Each month a list will be published of those who have their name ON THE LINE. Each man signing up before the beginning of the reunion will be allotted a number. A drawing will be held, and the holder of the lucky number will receive a paid-up receipt for his tax.
Start those $5.00. checks rolling in for the only 10th you'll ever have. See you next June—and watch this column.
CHARLIE BISHOP,Chairman Reunion Committee.
The committe is off! and maybe you can carry yourself back to Hanover and col- loquially picture yourself walking down the main stem—for the moment you get the impression you're still a kid—there's Tony, the Barber—John Piane ain't got the hair he uster have but he's there— what's that sign 1926 THIS 1931 THAT * * * Why, blah-blah, boy, you been out ten years, but I'm telling you that the New Orleans Mardi Gras ain't got nothing on this big jamboree. Some say it's hot air and hokus-pokus, but still this great big tenth scramble has everyone agog. And just to let you in on an inside tip, "tiny" the tamer is going to finish it off with a Lady Godiva on one of Barnum's elephants before the show is over.
And now for some summer and early fall news. Not later than August 28, headlines in the Worcester Gazette tell us that Charles Starrett, motion picture star, visiting native town with wife and twin sons. "Tubber" Weymouth adds the news that Charlie was billed for a personal appear- ance at the York Theater, Athol, last Sat- urday night. Spud Spalding '24 reports Mrs. Starrett across the street from her old home pitching horseshoes.
Jumping back to May, Ken Weeks and his wife announced the birth of a daughter, Carolyn Elizabeth, at the Hartford Hospital on May 24.
Dick Eberthart is at St. Mark's School in Southborough, Mass., having received his B.A. at Cambridge in 1929, and an M.A. in 1932. From 1930 to 1931, Dick spent with the king of Siam, and from there to Berlin for a year of study. Several of his writings have been published in England and we look forward to the publication of a book upon which he is now working.
From the A 2 Z Ranch at Valley, Wyoming, comes an attractive booklet to induce the busy Easterner to take time off in the big open spaces. The only notation is that Al Gould is manager.
Hank Merry was married to Miss Catherine Simonson of East Orange, N. J., on May 27. Hank is doing well with the B- V. D. Co. in New York, but I suppose we shouldn't mention both events in the same breath.
Going way back into cold January, Russ Webster and Jane Johnson of Columbus, Ohio, tied the knot on the 29th of that month.
Walt Rankin, we hear, became the proud father of Andrew Meserve 11, on April u, 1935.
Don Norstrand admits having no children and not married—a strain on the class records—during daylight he is credit supervisor for Kennedys.
Wadleigh (Wally) Woods and his wife have been managing a country inn at Meriden, N. H. This village is only fifteen miles from Hanover, and Wally has become quite a tennis expert on the Hanover courts. In fact he was beaten only in the finals of the local tournament. Wally is also teaching in a high school at Syracuse.
Paul Allen will resume his duties at the Baker Library, having studied during the summer at the Columbia Library School.
Richard, Coeur-de-Lion Worthy of a DeMille production is this shot of Dick Husband '26 on a recent Crusade to Bali-Bali.
Secretary, 3 No. Arlington Ave., East Orange, N. J.
