1926
Now that we have reached the time of theyear when most of us are struggling withbalky furnaces, shoveling the walks and drivesand cursing the grip on the infallible snowtreads when the car gets stuck, you will greetDick Husband's latest idyllic excursion withmuch envy.
"I am 'Visiting Professor of Psychology' at the University of Hawaii, for the first semester this year. This naturally is an ideal spot to combine work and pleasure, about 50-50 proportions of each. It amounts to a paid vacation, in a sense, as I earn almost enough to defray living costs and transportation for Dorothy, Rich and myself. The students are of a caliber about on a par with those in the mainland state universities, but are a compositehalf Japanese, quarter white, and the rest Chinese, Philipinos, Koreans, and an occasional Hawaiian. Like the Marines in the South Pacific, the darkskinned girls look blonder every day; in fact many are real cute.
"We go swimming nearly every day, and I play tennis about three times a week. It hits a uniform 85° daytimes, and 75° at night. We brought the car, so have lots of sightseeing, going round the island being 110 miles. Lots of fun, and lots of sights to see—pineapples, coconuts, sugar cane, papayas, not to mention jagged cloud-topped mountains, and beautiful sandy beaches. We wear the colorful short-sleeved, rayon Aloha shirts much of the time in class, and all the rest of the time—and shorts and bare feet when not in class. Wore the short-sleeved shirt to the last night football game.
"Have seen no '26er; the only two D men I have met are Emory '20 and Van Orsdal '38. They had a dinner one night, but a once-in-a-lifetime two hour Hula program won out; hope to make the next dinner.
"Gob DesMarais came to the Lurline when we sailed, and helped get rid of a little Vat-69 which was in danger of spoiling.
"During the summer, when I taught at New York University, I saw Art Wilcox and Dick Haywood frequently.
"Greetings from 5500 miles, Dick Husband."
Others to desert the snow shoveling brigade are Louis and Muriel Ingram who seem to have become permanent residents of Winter Park, Fla. As you will recall from the Wah Hoo Wah column and other newspaper publicity, Lou has been elected a trustee of Rollins College. He may have accepted a tough assignment in view of the controversy that developed at Rollins last year over the question of the President's right to fire the faculty in an economy move that was later rejected by the Trustees and the President was dismissed.
Still another of our academic delegation to find sanctuary away from winter weather is Morrie Storer who for the past two winters has been a Professor in the Department of the Humanities, University of Florida. A Christmas card from Morrie and Brownie (Gretchen) contains a note describing their lovely home on a palm-lined inland lake about 20 miles from Gainesville, Fla.
Ed Becton has long since forgotten about snow and sleet as for several years he has alternately been running McKees Jungle Gardens at Vero Beach, Fla., and seeking tropical specimens for that unique enterprise on trips to Cuba and South America. It is time well spent for anyone touring Florida to stop in to see Ed and his great collection of fauna and flora from the jungles of the world.
Those who read the class notes carefully will recall seeing a picture just about a year ago of Johnnie Heavenrich on the end of a crosscut saw with Gordon Chipman cutting up one of the palm trees which fell in the Florida hurricane of 1950 at Chip-Ahoy, the Inn operated by Gordon and Dolores Chipman at Cocoa, Fla. Apparently John found it necessary to do some work during his vacation to keep his waistline down from the fine food served at Gordon's hostelry. After finding that his health prospered better in the Florida sunshine, Gordon took over the ownership of Chip-Ahoy a few years ago and is now one of the staunchest advocates of Florida as a year-round resort.
Our famous hotel manager Don Church is, of course, set up as usual for business this winter at the Belleview-Biltmore at Belleaire, Fla. Don reports that he is finally thawed out from his afternoon spent with Harry Fisher at the Yale game last fall. The picture published in this column for May, 1950, .shows The Halls, Harry Fishers and Churches on the grounds of the Belleview-Biltmore and attests that those '26ers who have enjoyed Oyster Harbors Club in the summer can find a like haven with Don in the winter.
As long as we are talking of our luckier colleagues in their summer clothes during the month of February, Bennet Watts is an insurance broker in Miami, and Frank Nelson is representative of the firm of A. M. Kidder & Co. at Fort Lauderdale. So far, it is too early in the history of the class to list any members who have retired to the famous state of Florida.
Now to return to those who must stay in the North, the ever alert Boston delegation has supplied your secretary with much publicity on Harold P. Trefethen who has been elected Assistant Vice President, National Shawmut Bank of Boston. Hal joined Shawmut in 1927, upon graduation from Tuck School, and has held positions in the savings department and comptroller's office. During World War XI he served with the 26th Division (very appropriate). He spent two years in India and China and was awarded the order of Cloud and Banner by the Chinese Government. On his return to this country in February, 1946, he held the rank of Colonel. In the same year he left the service and returned to the Bank, being named Assistant Cashier.
In order to avoid the usual confusion always associated with the Trefethen twins during our undergraduate days, as a result of their like appearances and activities on the Forensic Union and in the Players, Herman Trefethen of the Dartmouth Board is married, while Harold still remains a bachelor. As the one becomes a noted banker in Boston, the other is a successful merchant with the McCrory Stores Corp. in New York. Herm and his wife Dorothy live in Scarsdale, N. Y., and have a daughter Beverly at Goucher College and a son named Harold (which ought to completely bewilder everyone).
From musician par excellence to a name well known in the restaurant trade has been the 25-year career of our Ralph B. Bristol. Bris first entered the food and hotel business at the Statler and Parker House in Boston. He later owned and operated the Watertown Grill in Watertown, Mass., and recently became associated with Arthur P. Allen of Norwood, Mass., in the Lewis Restaurant and Grill. Bris will be glad to see any '26 members when they pass through Town Square, Norwood. He is particularly proud of his new set-up which was engineered and designed as the latest word in restaurants, offering every conceivable facility for efficient operation and comfort of patrons, including air-conditioning. Ralph can further boast of a son in the freshman class at Dartmouth which is no mean accomplishment in these days of competition.
Col. Bill Farnsworth, U. S. A. F., our ranking active military officer, continues to make the headlines, having recently participated in the ground breaking ceremonies of the addition to the Wyman-Gordon plant at Worcester, Mass. As previously carried in these notes, Bill is head of New England Air Procurement office at Boston.
Walt Armstrong has at last been heard of. Babe Allen reports that he recently received a call from Walt in Salt Lake City. A perusal of the Official Railway Guide shows W. R.Armstrong Jr. as Chief Engineer, Nevada Northern Railway Co. with offices in East Ely, Nev. Sorry those winter snows kept you marooned in Nevada up to June, Walt, so that you could not make the 25th reunion last year. In spite of their free transportation, railroad men always do have trouble finding time to travel, don't they, Walt?
News has reached us from Boston of the death of Lemuel J. Rogers who was with us for our freshman year at College. Further report is contained elsewhere in this issue of the MAGAZINE.
To keep you abreast of your friends, the list of address changes for the last half of 1951 are shown below.
C. Dean Chamberlin, Exchange Div., HICOG, APO J757A c/o P.M., N.Y.C. Col. William P. Farnsworth, 11 Bay State Rd., Boston 15, Mass. Winfred M. Nickerson, American Smelting & Refining Co., 9000 Market St. Rd., Houston, Tex. John Hammond, 3304 O Street, N.W., Washington 7, D. C. Donald S. Hoffman, Golf House Rd., Haverford, Pa. Jesse J.Morgan, 2 Hayden Rd., Saugus, Mass. John P.Sheftall, 407 Chamber of Commerce Bldg., Nashville, Tenn. H. Loring Banfield Jr., 168 Parkway Village, Cranford, N. J. Albert W.Bishop, 1616 42nd Street, Sacramento, Calif. Ralph B. Bristol, Lewis', Norwood, Mass. JohnR. Dunn, Carmel, Calif. Lt. Col. Alfred G.Rice, ASU-Natl. Guard Instr. Group, Austin, Tex. Samuel E. P. Blood, 20 Lakeside Ave., Minneapolis 5, Minn. Richard W. Husband, Psychology Dept., University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii. Bennett T. Kent, 77 Parker Rd., Wellesley 81, Mass. Hugh J. Moore, DeWitt Hotel, 244 E. Pearson, Chicago 11, 111. FredericL. Rowe, 695 Bryant St., San Francisco 7, Calif., George E. Algar, 230 Farmington Ave., Hartford 5, Conn. William B. Cox, 30 Filley St., Windsor, Conn. Jay F. Fleming Jr., 810 Jersey, Denver, Colo. John J. Horan Jr., 1825 Brittan Ave., San Carlos, Calif. Lewis M. Oatman, 20 Exchange Place, New York City. Carleton Blunt, Room 2600, 135 S. LaSalle St., Chicago 3, I11. Arthur L. Forrest, Radio Station KTSA, Ave. E & 3rd St., San Antonio, Tex. Comdr. G. Freeman Tibbetts, 181 Ocean Drive West, Stamford, Conn.
The out of town reporters have been pretty good on getting us news of the class but the photographers have fallen down on the job of picture coverage. Didn't any of those pictures come out from the army of camera men at the reunion?
That is all for now, so go back to your snow shoveling while the boys are basking in Hawaii, Florida and Southern California, Space does not permit naming that latter delegation.
RUDOLPH'S INVENTOR: Bob May '26 and his wife Virginia enjoy some relaxation in Hanover before Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer starts out on his annual Christmas trip around the world to satisfy a still-clamoring public.
Secretary, 500 Terminal Tower, Cleveland 13, O. Treasurer, H. Kennedy's, Inc., 32 Summer St., Boston, Mass. Bequest Chairman, Room 2600 135 South LaSalle St., Chicago 3, 111.
