Class of 1926
Day dreams .... Main Street on Saturday night a heterogeneous mass of students, farmers, secondhand Fords, and taxi-loads of sophomores leaving for Claremont .... the crunch of snow under feet .... the booming voice of Jim Richardson as he pleads, "There is a cryingneed in Dartmouth College" .... hour exams .... the Nuggett . . . .Jim Oberlander heaving a long one .... George Tully catching it ... . skiing on the golf course .... pee-rade to Hamp . . . . more hour exams .... bull sessions in the room .... eighteen miles to Orford and eighteen back for four gallons of hard cider .... Dock Bowler's smut class . . . . junior prom .... the Green Key show .... Delta Alpha .... Freddie Emery .... Ma Smalley .... Dean Laycock .... road work .... initiation .... hour exams .... carnival . . . finals .... how's ya' vacation? . ... a Sunday afternoon stroll up to the reservoir .... a cheery fire, a pipe, and a good book .... and as we suddenly come out of the clouds we wonder where all of the old gang is now. "Safe at last inthe wide, wide world."
But enough of this reverie; occasionally we do hear from our wandering clan, and it's my job to tell you about them. Tom Murdough pops up in Tulsa, Okla., from whence we get the following newsy missive: "It seems years ago since I last saw you in New York City—in fact believe it was probably dear old '29, as that was the year I was shipped to Chicago by Crane Co., and business trips to the big city have been infrequent since.
"Have just finished your notes in last ALUMNI MAGAZINE—sure enjoyed them. Since coming down here I eat up '26 news, as there are so few of the gang in the Southwest. There is, however, a surprisingly active alumni group here in Tulsa.
"I don't imagine you will find any lack of '26 news during football games—in case you do, here's all I can give you from this section.
"Saw Ed McClintock last week in Bartlesville, Okla., where with his father he conducts the largest refrigeration and ice business around that section—and don't think it isn't a climatically perfect business with summer temperatures of 100° and up. Ed looks fine, working like hell and very happy with one wife and one child.
"King Aichason makes his home in Tulsa, and is in furniture, lumber, and building business with his father. If you could see his new home, you would know he had either struck oil or was doing a dam fine job of advertising his business. One wife, one daughter, and the Univ. Club are his extra-curriculum activities.
"Herrick Norcross lives in Tyronza, Ark., owning one of the largest cotton plantations in the South. It looked as if he were really going to town with a bumper crop this year but—well you know the price of cotton now. Herrick, too, is singly blest with wife and child.
"I gave up the 'can' business a year ago to become sales representative for American Hospital Supply Corp. of Chicago in Okla., Kans., and Ark. It means a hell of a lot of traveling, but am tremendously pleased with the change.
"Sam, our four-year-old, is fast learning his Wah-Hoo-Wahs and should be '55 or '56 in Hanover. Charlie, but four months, is really in an Indian environment, so should catch on soon. Grace threatens all sorts of things if she doesn't see Hanover soon, so you can put me down right now for that 15th.
"Sure would welcome the sight of other '26 faces down this way, and to you Charlie plenty of long and tall ones—in the wettest dry state.
"Keep up the good work as secretary, Charlie—and very best to you."
Here are a few lines from Al Morris:
"I'm enclosing a little information whichmay help you fill up space in the class of'26 notes. On October 16 my third child,was born. His name is Edward WiersmaMorris, and although he is only two daysold I expect him to be a worthly supplement to the family. The other children areGeorge Myron,age 5, and Tiete Louise, age 3.
"I have been carrying on a general medical practice here in Reading since December, 1932. This is the town, incidentally,where Jim Oberlander hung out his shingle last December."
A letter from Don Norstrand indicates that a rejuvenation of the Greater Boston boys is under way:
"Last spring during the blizzard of checks coming in for the Alumni Fund for '26 in Massachusetts I didn't have time to record with you for posterity the arrival of our daughter Signa Hardy on Memorial Day. I hasten to correct the omission, and report her doing very nicely at five months of age.
"Probably elsewhere in your column you will 'note with satisfaction' the report of a preliminary step in organization of the class in the vicinity of Boston. Sid Hayward, Mac McDavitt, Al Louer, Bob Salinger, and myself had lunch together (wives out of earshot in a far corner) before the Harvard game.
"After the game at 1 West Hill Place, Boston, present home of Harold (Tref) Trefethen and my former bachelor home, were to be seen along with about 75 other Dartmouth men of various vintages: Walt Rankin, Tom McWilliam, Tom Farwell, Dick Nichols, Ed Emerson, and also your informant. Tref did a great job in his 1/6 capacity as host, aided of course by the other 5 roommates. The conventional 500 gallons of New England rum soon counteracted the pending cases of pneumonia among the sodden survivors of the game."
From Walt Rankin: "Marsha Rankinarrived on May 25, 1937; she spent twomonths this summer down at Marion,Mass., as I was transferred to the New Bedford district (New England Tel. if Tel.) forthe summer. It certainly was a completesurprise to me." I presume that the transfer to New Bedford was the surprise, but as the old proverb goes, "maternity is afact, paternity an opinion."
Bob Williams writes from San Francisco that he is in "Room Service/' playing the Pacific Coast, and that his wife is also in the company.
On Thursday, October 28, a baby boy arrived at the Singleton mansion. We add our congratulations to the many Charlie and his wife have already received.
As you read this column the football season is but a memory, but I must inform you that an excellent Big Green team brought a good many '26ers out from their hibernation.
Among those seen in New Haven on October go were: Snipe Hap Tohnston, Ed Simmons, Harry Fisher, Sid Hay ward, Bob Cleary, Jake Jacobus, Tom Floyd-Jones, Bill Hughes, and yours truly.
On November 6 the following were among those who witnessed Old Nassau take the shellacking so neatly administered by those Hanover Indians: Dutch Diehl, gob Edgar, Ed Chaffin, Brant Wallace, gob Cleary, Al Louer, Art Smith, Dick Man del, Les Talbot, Tom Floyd-Jones, Tim Wooster, Jake Jacobus, and Snipe Esquerre. Incidentally Edgar and Chaffin came all the way from Detroit and Art Smith from Milwaukee to see the massacre.
Word has reached us that Hub Harwood has turned professional in tennis, squash, and golf. Courtney Brown is his press a°ent, having had suitable cards printed and circulated, much to Hub's embarrassment.
Rumor has it that Montague and Harwood are to stage a match in order that the public may learn what to do and what not to do on a golf course.
Johnnie Green is still teaching school in Ventura, Calif., and now living at 1393 East Meta St.
Hoyt Hilton has given up the insurance business in favor of a graduate course at North Carolina. His address is 218 Vance St., Chapel Hill, N. C.
Tish Hoerner sends in the following business address: 1130 Fidelity Building, Dayton, Ohio.
Tom Littlefield is now living at 311 Merrimac St., Newburyport, Mass.
Holt McAloney is still with the Funk & Wagnalls Co., but living on Lime Kiln Rd„ Suffern, N. Y.
Ed McClintock, the big ice man from Bartlesville, Okla., advises that he is now living at 1617 Osage Ave.
Lou Neuman is now at 423 West 3d St., Tulsa, Okla.
Nick Nickerson, still with the Chase National Bank, is now located at the 41st St. & 7th Ave. branch in New York City. Larry Smith, executive secretary of the Connecticut Merit System Association, is living at 204 Fountain St., Westville, Conn.
Word comes that Charlie Starrett, our hero of movie fame, has moved into a palace at 9115 Hazen Drive, Beverly Hills, Calif.
Jim Sullivan's new address is 151 Stratford St., West Roxbury, Mass.
Tib Tibbetts sends the news that he is Eastern sales representative located at 220 East 42d St., New York City Eastern representative of what, Tib?
Freddie Wenck is to be addressed c/o "Farmer's Wife," 307 No. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. Does her husband know Freddie?
Jim Wooster has forsaken Moody's Investor's Service and is now investment counselor for Lazard Freres in New York. He is living at 740 Belmont Road, Ridgewood, N. J.
For those of you who have NOTHING to do with Wall Street, a very Merry Christmas. For those of you who DO, we will hold a prayer meeting New Year's Eve,
Secretary, Edward B. Smith & Co. 31 Nassau St., New York
