1926
As the football season draws to a close, don't forget the climax game at Princeton on November 22 with the 1926 picnic and get- together on the lawn of the Terrace Club, Washington Road. Jack Roberts has thought of everything to insure your comfort in the selection of this site. Nearness to the stadium, a shelter in the billiard room on the second floor in the event of another hurricane, and a fine place to congregate for luncheon. Stop by and say hello, picnic or no!
Now that fall has come and our yachting members have their boats on the ways, one item of interest for their winter hot stove league discussions is Gordon "Sandy" Douglass and his Thistle Class, two-man molded plywood sailboat built in the yards of Douglass and McLeod at Fairport Harbor, Lake Erie. On page 134 of the August issue of magazine Yachting will be found Sandy's article entitled "Sailing to beat the Dutch." He describes his experience in racing his Thistle in the races in Holland last June where trials were held by the Small Boat Committee of the International Yacht Racing Union to select a new two man boat for international racing. The findings of the Committee should be announced this month and we are wishing Sandy good luck against the French, British and Dutch designers.
Beside designing sailing boats, we have discovered on a visit to Sandy's home in Mentor, Ohio, that he studied painting after graduation and has done many very creditable portraits. Some were hung in an exhibition of Dartmouth artists. When not merchandising boats around the country, he also takes part in the activities of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartets of America and sings regularly with one of the local barbershop quartets in contests.
Speaking of sailing, Don Hopkins sailed your Secretary from Saltaire to Point O'Woods on Fire Island one day last summer and pointed out along the way the various harbors that Chuck and Nat Webster put in during their weekend jaunts around Great South Bay aboard their converted clamdigger "Natalie."
Tom Floyd-Jones has also become an inveterate sailor living at Riverside, Conn., in order to have proximity to the salt water. In order to support a boat for racing and cruising Tom works for Lederle Laboratories Division of American Cyanamide Co., where he has charge of wholesale sales. Even the job seems pleasant for he reports recent business trips to Honolulu and California. While in one of the latter jaunts Tom saw GrannyKnight in Santa Barbara and Ritchie Smith in Orinda.
Ben Zaeder popped up in Hanover recently accompanied by his wife and son Philip, age 16, and a younger son, age five. Ben is with the U. S. Steel Co. in Erie, Pa. He was so delighted by his return that he promises to attend the next reunion even though it is still five years away. That should be an in- spiration to all of you to mark up your calendars for June 1957, when we reune with the classes of '27 and '28. Plans are already under way for the big event.
Bill Collins also writes letters on U. S. Steel Co. letter-heads from Pittsburgh where he is on the staff of the executive vice-president, Engineering and Raw Materials; and making studies having to do with long range planning.
Courtney Brown again makes the news! Stanley Hope, president of the Esso Standard Oil Co. announced the election of Brownie to its Board of Directors. He still retains his position of assistant to the chairman and economic adviser of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey.
Many of the older classes have been holding informal reunions in Florida during the past winters. Now that we have passed our 25th reunion some of our own members seem to be establishing this same custom for the Class of 1926. As previously reported in this column, the Harry Fishers, Charlie Abbotts,Harry Halls, and Al Louers have met in March at Don Church's Bellaire-Biltmore at Bellaire, Fla., on the West Coast. If anyone is contemplating a Florida vacation during the coming winter or early spring, it would be well to write Don for information on the time he is making other 1926 reservations. For those who prefer the East Coast, GordonChipman might organize us at his Inn Chip- Ahoy in Cocoa, Fla. We might eventually develop a very pleasant winter reunion as a counter part of those delightful get-togethers in August at Hanover.
For nostalgic '26ers who pass through Springfield, Mass., we advise a call on SkipperSmith to see his'album of undergraduate life in pictures and souvenirs. The former editor of the Pictorial can show you a four-year hisTory from 1922 to 1926 that you can hardly believe. Pictures are there showing everything from the wind blown bobs of the carnival queens to the former angelic expressions of our present-day tycoons then in their Model T's. Skipper runs the Nikor Products Co. which manufactures photographic equipment, such as developing tanks, flash attachments and trimming devices. He is certainly combining his inventive genius with his hobby in photography to create a very active and thriving business.
Charlie Widmayer announces a new policy in our MAGAZINE of shifting something like six pages from the back to the front section all without adding to the overall size of the issues (expect all future accounts of our members to be very terse). With all that feature stuff now appearing in place of class notes we expect a more detailed account of Sid Hayward's famous trip to Iceland with Artist-in-Residence Paul Sample '20 last summer. Obviously space does not permit here a justifiable account of those interesting experiences where kodachrome pictures can be taken with the sun out at midnight. Sid tells a fascinating story of his adventures.
Another traveler to out-of-the-way places is Bill Barclay who was last heard from in Scotland after seeing the Olympics at Helsinki.
The name of Carl Allen continues to loom prominently in business circles, having been elected recently as a Director of Dow Chemical Company.
Unawed and unimpressed by many of their contemporaries who are becoming grandparents, Bob and, Marianne McConnaughey have recently announced the birth of a son, David Terry, and Bob and Ann Stopford also a son, Jeremy Barnes. Both lads should be about the class of 1974. This is the third boy in each family.
Troy, N. Y., papers report that Roland G.Eaton former assistant administrator of the Rochester General Hospital has assumed his new post as superintendent of Samaritan Hospital at Troy. Rollie spent a year at the Cornell School of Institutional Management after graduation. He served in hotel management from 1927 to 1941. During World War 11, he was in the Navy and then for three years held the post of assistant administrator at the Rochester Hospital.
To continue our series of letters from sons in College, Bill McCarthy '53, son of Jud andMackie McCarthy, writes from Hanover as follows: "Dartmouth has held up to all my expectations and I feel more at home as each year passes. My activities have included the post of corresponding secretary for my fraternity Psi Upsilon, guard on the football squad last year and a spring vacation trip to Bermuda with the rugby team. My father sends his best to all the class."
Do you know that the grand achievement of 1926 in raising the all time record $126,000 Memorial gift last year made the SaturdayEvening Post? Peter Bird Martin, associate editor, collaborated with his son Pete Martin '51 to produce one of the best short articles on Dartmouth ever published. Don't miss finding a copy of the September 13, 1952, issue at your library.
On your visits to Boston, remember that the 1926 luncheons are being held every Thursday at Thompson's Spa Washington St. Building.
WE WILL SEE YOU AT THE TERRACE CLUB BEFORE THE PRINCETON GAME ON NOVEMBER 22.
Secretary, 500 Terminal Tower, Cleveland 13, O. Treasurer, Kennedy's, 30 Summer St., Boston 10, Mass.
