1926

In accordance with last month's promise for information about 1926 activity during the very fine football month of October, your reporter submits the following:

October 8, Princeton, N. J— A beautiful Indian summer afternoon brought the following '26ers to Jungletown for the massacre which ensued: Jim and Carolyn Wooster, Bob and Pens 6 Cleary, A 1 and Ellen Louer, Les and Dottie Talbot, Dick and Bunny Mandel, Jake and Ev Jacobus, Tom and Belle Colt, Holt and Lillian McAloney, Graham Ford, Sandy Martin, Don Robinson, Lloyd Sanford, Brant Wallace, Brazz Brazil, Walt Granville-Smith, Snipe Esquerre, and the Dean Chamberlins, plus many others whom we regret missing.

October 15, Hanover, N. H—Your correspondent had to be satisfied to get this one via Western Union at the Club in New York, but Harry Fisher reports having seen Dan and Sally Drury, Sid and Barbara Hayward, Doug Everett, Sum Tilton, and Larry Smith. We assume that there were many more whom Harry missed.

October 22, Cambridge, Mass.—Bob Salinger and his fine Boston committee made this date an occasion for a real '26 PowWow. The advance publicity was so good that Snipe Esquerre and Les Talbot made a last minute dash from New York for the party. They blew in on George and Gladys Tully at a very late hour Friday night and proceeded to keep the good doctor up until 6 A.M. After two hours of sleep they were off to join other '26ers fortunate enough to be there. They were: Joe Batchelder, the Henry Blakes, Bill Blanchard (very much in the spirit of the occasion), the Carlie Blunts (first time in Boston since 1931), the George Bucks down from Bennington, Danny and Sally Drury, the Ed Emersons, Bill Hughes, Sid and Barbara Hayward, Al and Ellen Louer, Dick and Bunny Mandel, Wee McClintock, the Clarence McDavitts, the Al Morrises, the Don Norstrands, the Jim Oberlanders, the George Pierces, the Walt Rankins, the Bob Salingers, Carl Schipper, the Jim Sullivans, and Tubber Weymouth. After the game they all gathered at the Continental Hotel Tavern for dinner and an evening of conviviality.

October 29, New Haven, Conn.—lt you read the advance press notices you will re- call something about a '26 picnic outside the Yale Armory. About twenty people were able to find the place indicated, so your scribe apparently has no excuse for his failure to find Esquerre, the man with the green chrysanthemum. Snipe submits the following write-up on the affair:

"After quadrangular discussions between Boston, Hanover, New Haven, and New York relative to a suitable place in New Haven for a pre-game lunch, picnic, pow-wow, or otherwise, the original site in front of the armory on the Yale side of the Bowl was allowed to stand for want of being able to arrange anything better this year, but Professor Ed Cole of the Yale Fine Arts Department via Hanover is laying great plans for next year, which include club house surroundings, easy parking away from the maddening crowd, and bus transportation to the Bowl. Ed does tricks back stage at the Yale Theatre regularly, but if he can pull this one off without mirrors the heartfelt thanks of his classmates will go out to him forever. Not only that but Dr. George Tully from Worcester might even take Gladys to the Yale game. Be that as it may, a gathering of about twenty sturdy '26ers showed their true Indian blood by being on hand before the armory this year. To Hal Marshall (a greater Boston boy again) goes the distinction not only of being the first on hand but the only graduate capable of recognizing the front of an armory from its sides or rear. Million dollar Cleary got confused and was found seated on the Yale practice field players' bench adjoining the side of the armory. The only thing Cleary can be counted on to find is the north side of any slope. With Bob in addition to the Newton gang consisting of Floyd-Jones, Hughes and wives, were Don Norstrand, Tom Farwell, Al and Ellen Louer, Jane and Nate Parker, the John Gearharts, the Ed Coles, Sid Hayward, Billie and Walt Rankin, Harry Fisher, Brant Wallace, Bleek Williams and wife, Jud McCarthy and wife all the way from Baltimore, Jack Watson, and Ed Dreier. After a pleasant lunch the trek to our seats was begun.

"Between the halves Bob Minton, Bill Barclay, and your correspondent had 'cof- fee' together. Hub and Det Harwood came up and explained they could not make the picnic because Hub can't resist riding on trains even when they aren't the New York Central's.

"The find of the game, from your correspondent's point of view, was Chuck Morton now grinding out propellers in Hartford, Conn., instead of French verbs in Hanover, N. H. Just which one of the Hartford airplane companies Chuck is with, along with all other vital statistics not connected with McLeod's runs your correspondent forgets. Maybe Chuck will send us a full report including news of brother Chet."

So much for football. Perhaps next month we can give you a report on those plutocrats who took in the Cornell and Stanford games.

Joe Batchelder has a new son, Joseph Lawes, born August 24. He now has two boys and a girl. Joe recently played in the Leslie Cup matches in Philadelphia and had the low score on the first day-51/2 of the 20 points won by the Boston team. Congratulations Joe, on both!

Laurie Fitz-Gibbon, formerly with Stern Bros, department store, has gone with a large drug concern.

The boys out on the West Coast staged a tremendous Dartmouth gathering in connection with the Stanford game. Prominent in committee work were three Twenty-six stalwarts. Gob DesMarais not only represented our class but also was chairman of .the Ticket Committee. Bill Nigh did yeoman's service as chairman of the Reception and Entertainment Committee. Walt Armstrong was a member of the General Committee. Ritchie Smith as vice president of the California Association and his very attractive wife Betty were, of course, on hand to see that all of the visiting firemen enjoyed their trip to the Land of Sunshine.

Our beloved honorable classmate from Dallas, Texas, Mr. Leslie Waggener, continues to evidence his great interest in all of us. For those of you whom we have not seen the following quotation from a recent letter will illustrate his fine Dartmouth spirit.

"I read your letter in the last issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE with much interest, as I always do. I see that the members of the class of '26, attending the Dartmouth-Harvard game this next Saturday, the 22d, and the Dartmouth-Yale game the next Saturday, the 29th, are going to get together after each game. Each fall Mrs. Waggener and I follow the Dartmouth schedule and get an early report on each game. We are hoping that Dartmouth wins both of these games this year, and we shall be thinking of you and the other boys on the 22d and the 29th. Remember us to the few that we are fortunate enough to know.

"As ever your friend, WA

Secretary, Smith, Barney & Cos. 14 Wall St., New York