1926*
As you have seen by the printed insert this is the first of ten issues of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE which you will receive this year. Your executive committee and officers decided to join the 51 other Dartmouth classes that have signed up under the 100% subscription plan. With exception of two, every class from 1878 to 1939 is on the band wagon. It is the hope of your executive committee that you will enjoy receiving this contact with the college and that if humanly possible you will share its cost at the regular rate of $2.50. However, if you feel that you cannot, you will receive all ten issues just the same with the best wishes of the class.
Now that everyone will be reading this column each month, more news should be forthcoming from those who have strayed from the fold in recent years. It will be a source of great pleasure to your scribe to receive notes from each of you from time to time. It will help him make the column more interesting to all of you. Summer usually brings an accumulation of news and this one has been no exception.
You have all learned by now of the excellent showing '26 made in the Alumni Fund campaign headed by our all American class agent Al Louer and I am sure you will be pleased to know that he will continue his good work next year. He is now training his new son, Roger Bennett Louer, who arrived July 19th, to take over the job when he retires.
The second annual class meeting in Hanover, August 25-27 was without doubt one of the highlights of the summer. This affair has been so successful that other classes are following, as usual, the lead of '26. This year we had twenty men and sixteen wives back for the festivities. "Sarazen" Marshall and "How-many-strokes" Darling took the honors in golf from such stalwarts as Venneman, Wallace, Hayward, Salinger, Weymouth, Drury, McDavitt, Everett and Cleary.
Plenty of good old "bull" was thrown around the Inn, Green Lantern and points west. Friday evening the class gathered in the ski hut for beer, movies and plenty of loud singing. A fine business meeting was held Saturday morning and Saturday afternoon found us at the faculty farm for a baseball game and steak roast. Dangerous Dan Drury, chairman of the committee on arrangements in urbe, assisted.by Sid Hayward, Paul Allen and Hugh Morrison gave us all a splendid time. Among those whom we have not already mentioned but who contributed to the various extra curricular activities in a big way were: Dot and Don Norstrand who play a mean game of croquet; Billie and Walt Rankin, George and Gladys Tully, who arrived Sunday for dinner; Grace Venneman, Thelma Wallace, Barbara Hayward, Dot Salinger, Bert Darling, Sally Drury, Marion Marshall, Mary Weymouth, Billie McDavitt, Helen Everett, Dick and Bunny Mandel, Al Louer, Harold Van Duyn, Tom and Rene Farwell, Edith Bishop and your humble servant.
A recent letter from Nate Parker announced the birth of another son, Charles Harry Parker, who was born in July. This young man tipped the beam at 10 lbs. and 4 oz. Nate regretted very much that he could not make the class meeting in Hanover but explained that he was busy building a new home, walking the floor with Charles Harry and trying to take care of business in his spare moments.
One of the most shocking pieces of news that we have received in some time was that of Ed Duffy's death by drowning on July 28th. He was on vacation at Baileys Island in Casco Bay, Maine. It had apparently been his custom to swim at night before retiring. On the fateful evening a heavy fog rolled in and apparently Ed was lost while trying to find the shore. He is survived by his wife Adrienne Mann Duffy and a 7 year old son Michael.
Announcement has been made of the marriage of Isabella Hope Fay to Frederick Hurd on Saturday the twenty-sixth of August in Greenwich, Conn. Congratulations!
On August 4th Bob Cleary was admitted to general partnership in the N.Y.S.E. firm of Holsapple & Cos. Our young hero of the hickory blades is well on his way to that, now famous, million dollars. (Hanover Editors please note.)
Brant Wallace, whom Cleary once described as the man behind the man behind the throne in Jersey politics, put on a counter offensive at the New Jersey State Convention in Atlantic City last June and emerged commander-in-chief of the Young Republicans of the Garden State. In a rip roaring battle, in which gas bombs played a momentous part, Brant nosed out the incumbent for reelection by a score of 32 to 31. The following day the New York Herald Tribune announced the membership of the organization at 63,000. Truly 1926 is in the vanguard of "Dartmouth in Politics."
Those of you who were in New York last Xmas and who admired the unusual window displays along 5th Avenue will be interested to know that Gene Ross was responsible for many. He is a partner in the Bliss Display Co. which originated Lord & Taylor's famous bells and many other equally striking window decorations.
Bob Wilson is very busy these days as an engineer with the Wright Aeronautical Cos. in Paterson, N. J. He is living in Bloomfield and summers at Packanack Lake.
Johnnie Roberts is now managing the Dutchland Farms restaurant on highway 25 in Elizabeth, N. J. He is ready to greet any '26ers in the vicinity.
Art Wilcox has bought a new home at 56 Rhoda Avenue, Nutley, N. J.
Ray Sterling has given up coaching and is now head of the history department in an Orange, N. J., school.
Jim Ripley is doing construction work in Baltimore, Md., where he lives at 1737 Ellamont St.
Sid Lenke is practicing medicine in New York City and is living at 230 Park Place, Brooklyn.
Sam Blood is an acoustical engineer in Minneapolis.
Thomas L. (Trundlebutt) Floyd-Jones is sales manager of the Schering Corp., Bloomfield, N. J.
Art Nathanson is with the law firm of Otterbourg, Steindler and Houston at 200 5th Ave., N. Y. C.
Steve Mitchell, sales representative in Boston office of International Business Machines Corporation, has been admitted to membership in the company's Hundred Per Cent Club of sales leaders and executives.
In connection with the class meeting this summer letters were received from several men who regretted not being able to attend. Among them were Joe Batchelder, Jim Oberlander, Red Raisbeck, Oz Fitts, Bill Barclay, Harry Fisher, Bob Stopford, Snipe Esquerre and Hub Harwood, all of whom are well and busy at their respective jobs.
FOOTBALL WEEKEND GET-TOGETHERS
Bob Salinger, chairman of the special committee on arrangements for class gatherings throughout the year, reports that the big Boston party of the fall will be held at noon just before the Harvard game, October 28, at the Cock-Horse Inn, 56 Brattle Street, Cambridge. The luncheon party will include families, of course. The location is the one that has been used with great satisfaction by the class of '19 for several years. It is within three minutes' walk of Harvard Square and close enough to the stadium so that cars can be parked at the Inn and folks can walk to the game after luncheon. The charge will be about Si.25 per cover. Bob Salinger asks for advance information on attendance—please get in touch with him, care of United Shoe Machinery Corp., 140 Federal Street, Boston; or with Don Norstrand, Kennedy's, Summer Street, Boston.
There will also be a picnic party in New Haven at noon on the day of the Yale game, November 4. Last year a successful picnic was held on the lawn of the Armory at the Bowl—the exact spot was the corner of the Armory nearest the Yale side of the field adjoining the large parking area. Several bachelors turned up and were fed from the ample hampers of the well-prepared. The picnic will be held at the Armory, as described above; and identification of the group will, as usual, be Snipe Esquerre wearing a green chrysanthemum.
Plans for a Princeton week-end gathering will be announced later. For the Cornell game in Hanover, November 18, the local boys are planning luncheon at Thayer Hall. Make your plans to join the '26 group in Thayer Hall promptly at 12—a notice of exact location of tables will be posted on the bulletin board in the lobby.
BICYCLE BUILT FOR THREE Seen on the streets when '26 held its annual sunnner week-end reunion in Hanover August 25-27. Left to right: HaroldVan Duyn, Paul Venneman, Blue RibbonClass Agent Al Louer, Doug Everett, DickMandel, Secretary Charlie Bishop.
Secretary-Chairman, Whitney Road, Short Hills, N. J.
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