1926*
The big news of the month is both unpleasant and pleasant. Al Louer has been called to Washington to assume important duties in WPB. He has had to resign as the 1926 Class Agent of the Alumni Fund. Through the greatest good fortune Tubber Weymouth has agreed to take over.
For the Class and personally, I cannot express adequately our appreciation of the job AI has done. No one ever will know the time and effort he has devoted to it. The results, however, speak for themselves. In five of the-last six years 1926 was first in our section of the Green Derby competition. No man, particularly of the younger classes, has a record the equal of Al's.
Moreover, he built up a Fund organization second to none to carry on under Tubber's leadership. But Tubber needs more than the organization. He needs the support of every single man of you. These are tough times; it ill behooves us to make Tubber's task a jot more difficult. We are not doing him or the College a favor by giving to the Alumni Fund. Instead we are honoring an obligation and availing ourselves of an enviable privilege. Because we are privileged to be members of one of the great institutions of the country, we have a duty to perform. Give as much as you can, but give quickly and thereby save time, effort and money.
Plaudits again are in order. Three more men have been elected to the Alumni Council for their first term of two yearsGob Des Marais in San Francisco, Jud McCarthy for the Baltimore district and Nate Parker for Pittsburgh. Gives us a total of four, which isn't bad. Let no one think, however, that membership of the Alumni Council is an easy honor. It entails hard work and plenty of it.
It is rumored that the Justice Department is investigating a recent election in Buffalo which from all reports makes Jersey City look amateurish. Newly elected officers of the Western New York Alumni Association include Herb Darling, president, Paul Venneman, treasurer and Dick Burlingame, executive committee member. Wonder what happened to the other jobs?
From Skipper Smith, under letterhead of Nikor Products Company, 15 Park Street, Springfield, Mass.
"I might say that most of the Class of '26 think I am still a radio engineer. It was ten years ago but time tears on. While traveling on my motorcycle in 'that unhappy province of Germany, formerly called Italy' I bought a litle known camera called a Leica. After returning to this country I had a large number of films to develop and found that the corner drug store couldn't do them because the films were too long—so I made myself a tank. Somebody saw it and wanted one. I obliged. Then another and another and so on until I found myself in the tank business. Up until last summer I produced these and numerous other photo gadgets in Manhattan. Then O.P.M. said lay off, do something else, SO— the plant, wife and I set sail for my old diggins in Springfield, Mass. and have been anchored here ever since. Now on 100% war work, the boys from Hanover in these parts and myself are working like anything and also figuring how we can scuttle Hirohito and the other Laquered Hats."
Jack Tarr is in Morgantown, West Virginia, very busy in the Technical Division of the Ammonia Department of E. I. duPont de Nemours & Cos. (quite a name, that, quite a name!). Here's what he says in a recent letter—
"Haven't had any connections with the College for quite some time—Saw Dick Sagendorph and Sun Tilton in Worcester last January—my only contacts, incidentally. Have been with the DuPont Company for quite some time, in the Engineering Department, at Wilmington—hopping in and out of the country on defense jobs and our own construction—I finally managed to be transferred here to the Technical Engineering Department in charge of certain production areas.
"While I commute right regularly to Wilmington, conferences generally last late into the nightso it is very seldom I get to New York. "If you are ever in this part of the country-Frances and I would love to have you stay with us."
Another man in service is Tom Needham who writes from the U. S. Navy Recruiting Station, Jacksonville, Florida-
"I am a Lieutenant in the Naval Reserveand, at present, the Officer in Charge ofNavy recruiting in the State of Florida. Itis quite fascinating work and, recently, itgoes without saying, there has been plentyto keep me out of mischief."
A welcome report comes in from Traug Richter—
"In 1935, a year after I had received my Doctor's degree from Northwestern, I began teaching English at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. For me, the job comes very close to being ideal. Since Rock Island is across the Mississippi from my birthplace—Davenport, lowa—I find myself in the bosom of my family and in the midst of lifelong friends. The four members of the English Department not only see eye-to-eye in matters academic but also take pleasure in each other's society. Although I read my share of freshman themes, I am able to teach several courses in literature which are dear to my heart, such as Literary Criticism and Latin Literature in Translation. In recent years, the members of the Department have had the supreme satisfaction of watching several former majors do very well in graduate school. I like the students here, most of whom are of Scandinavian parentage. We study together, but we also skate, bowl, and play ping-pong together—from Anderson to Youngquist. When the Board, at its February meeting, advanced me to the rank of full professor and granted me permanent tenure, I was more than a little pleased.
"I should like to report, also, that Lorry, Nancy (aged 9), and I have made our escape from apartments and have been living, for the past eight months, in a new house. The address: 921-34th Street, Rock Island, Illinois."
More complete news about some of the fellows permits filling in previous sketchy mentions. Ben Kent has been transferred to the Buffalo office of the Aetna Casualty and Surety Company as superintendent of the Bond Department and is living at 16 Columbia Boulevard, Kenmore, N. Y.
Frank Poor has returned to Exeter, New Hampshire after his winter in Florida. He reports that he saw Ed Becton in Vero Beach where Ed is manager of the McKee Jungle Garden.
A 1 Willcox is living at 150 Hartsdale Avenue, Hartsdale, N. Y. Last summer he bought an old farm in Weston, Vermont, has had a lot of fun rebuilding it.
Charlie McKenna is one of the fortunate Hanoverians. From Norwich, Vermont, he says—
"I dislike talking about myself but perhaps I might get some of the '26ers to drop in on me by this note. Here goes—Have joined the local company of Vermont State Guard for home defensealso, on air warden duty. Last summer I opened up a real estate development within eight tenths of a mile from the Hanover Inn. Six houses were built and my own remodeled. All six builders are faculty members and fine folks. We have a beautiful little settlement overlooking the Connecticut River and no one can ever obstruct our view."
Left to right, The new 1926 Class Agetit,Tubber Weymouth, and Dick Burlingame'26 of the Buffalo (N. Y.) Clean Government Party.
JOHN HORAN '26
Secretary, Holsapple & Cos. 30 Pine St., New York City Class Agent, 604 Lincoln Alliance Bank Building Rochester, N. Y.
