1926
ALUMNI FUND IS UNDER WAY!
Reports have already reached us that the low handicap boys are out on the links. JoeBatchelder, as usual, is aiming to keep his 1. George Champion, Courtney Brown, JunkAnthony and Red Merrill ought to be under 10. Nate Parker and Harry Fisher have been doing some advance practising in Florida this winter as a head start. Our all-year golfer BillWillard was seen on the Chevy Chase Club course as far back as March 8 shooting his usual 82. He and Florence have also been at Hobe Sound, Fla., during the winter for a short vacation. If any other club champions have been omitted, it is only because our class records are not complete and it would be appreciated if we could have your latest handicaps to add to the other Alumni Records Office vital statistics.
Ed Hanlon, our investment banker and eagle-eyed newspaper reader of New York City, sends a clipping from the Times stating that George Champion (see March issue for then and now photographs) recently presided at the annual fund-raising drive luncheon session of the Protestant Council of the City of New York at which Dr. Ralph W. Sockman, Minister of Christ Church, made the principal address. George is a member of the Council's Board of Directors. Also included in Ed's reading was the television news column where he spotted our Louis Jean Heydt featured with Rochelle Hudson in a subtitle called "Calculated Ris"k" from a new adventure entitled The Unexpected at 10:30 pm Wednesday over N.B.C. Unfortunately, it was not made clear if this was permanent or merely a special performance for Bus.
The last that we heard from JohnnieHeavenrich in our publication was back in the winter of 1950 when our class secretary extraordinaire Paul Venneman published John's picture sawing wood with GordonChipman at the latter's Inn, "Chip Ahoy" at Cocoa, Fla. Now word reaches us under a Deit dateline that John P. Heavenrich Jr., Whalings, Detroit, was elected President of the Michigan Retail Clothiers and Furnishes Association for 1952. As chairman of the MRCFA Directory and Year Book Committee Tohn had this observation to make, "The year iq-2 will be a test for the Michigan Retail Clothiers that can only be met by a concerted effort on all our parts to keep our product constantly in the public eye and by selling our merchandise and services to the public realistically on the basis of the constructive approach to a man's wardrobe." Our Michigan delegation has no excuse now for not being strictly fashion plates under Johnnie's guidance! It has been good to get news from the Motor City on John, and recently Larry Scoville, but what .still disturbs us is the ominous silence of our usually vociferous trio Perk St.Clair, Ed Chaffin and Bob Edgar.
Another bit of news from Michigan contributed by Class Secretary Ernie Earley 'lB is the election of Carl E. Allen, President and Director of Campbell, Wyant & Cannon Foundry Cos. of Muskegon, as a Director, Associates Investment Cos. (Ed Hanlon didn't miss that one either). We missed Carl when he was in Cleveland last winter, but at least had a pleasant chat with him on the telephone and found a roomette for him back to Detroit.
The White Plains (N. Y.) Reporter recentlycontained the following. "The second concert in the Twilight Musicale series at St. Paul's Methodist Church will be Sunday at 4 p.m. with Gosta Englund, baritone, and RichardMajor, violinist, as the soloists... . Mr. Major's musical career started as concert master of the White Plains High School orchestra and continued at Dartmouth College where he was soloist with the Dartmouth Musical Club. He was director of the Dartmouth College Band, the Players Orchestra and was soloist with the Handel Society Symphonic Orchestra. He has been a member of the White Plains Symphony Orchestra and member and director of the Wayside Players Orchestra. He is chairman of the Board of Trustees of St. Paul's Methodist Church." The article neglected to say that Dick now has a son Richard Major 111 in the class of 1954 at Dartmouth. Dick is District Traffic Supervisor of the New York Telephone Company. Have you ever heard those pretty musical notes on a long distance call? They must have been invented by DickMajor during his spare time.
Notes from the Dartmouth Club News of New York indicate that Jack Kjerner was a mainstay of the Class B squash team during the season just closed and that Jud Belleaire of Oakland, Calif., was a recent visitor at the Club.
Another Californian to be heard from is E. Gordon Linke of San Francisco, who writes that nothing newsworthy ever happens to him —only getting older. However, we also hear that as a former native of Hartford, Conn., the Insurance Center of the World, that he quite naturally selected the Insurance business as his avocation and has been with the Travelers Insurance Cos., American Insurance Cos., and presently with Aetna Assurance and Surety Cos. He married Marjorie Oleson of Kenilworth, 111., in 1933, and has two daughters, Katherine, 17, and Barbara, 12.
After pleading these many months through this column for contributions, at last a reader has been found in Basil L. (Abe) Winslow '2O, Secretary of the Dartmouth Association of Nothern California, who takes us to task for our ignorance of California geography.
"If the good old blue blood '26ers hereabouts have not already told you where Southern California is yet, I hasten to enclose a map ... re your class notes in March. Leave from your Southern California contingent Bill Forrest, Redwood City; John Horan, San Carlos; Ralph McClure, San Rafael; IVeldon Wilkinson, San Jose; Ken Somerville, Santa Rosa. They are all so definitely NORTHERN California!
"Don't feel too bad, however, even the Editor himself is confused. See his article on page 16, 'Football Pact' wherein he speaks of Tuss coaching the East Team that plays in the East-West game in Los Angeles!— Such an oversight! This East-West Shrine game is San Francisco's pride and joy and I know you know that."
Charlie Widmayer and your Class Secretary must have stirred up that ever-smoldering Northern California—Southern California feud again. My apologies, Abe, but it's still good to have a reader.
History has a strange way of repeating itself. Sid Hayward sent us the Carnival program for 1952 which was positively eerie in its similarity to 1926. Director of Outdoor Evening: Michael Duffy '53 (son of EdwardJ. Duffy); Senior Advisor and sets for A Legend of the North, George H. Andretta '52 (son of Henry F. Andretta); Administration: Paul Dillingham '53 (son of Paul Dillingham), and Jud and Mackey McCarthy chaperoned at the Psi U. house where their prominent son Bill is a member. Sid thought that the fact they survived deserved more than passing mention. However, in a telephone conversation with Jud recently while in Baltimore, he confessed that he had a room at the Inn as a hideaway, and got some sleep during the day. Jud reported that the Psi U. house had 63 girls, all cute and pretty! He thinks that Carnival has grown too much of a spectacle since our day, particularly in attracting far too many out-of-towners.
While we are on the subject of undergraduate activities, one of Holt McAloney s very interesting Class Bulletins listed 29 sons who are presently in College. This led us to inquire of the boys as to their reactions to Hanover, N. H., and John Fellingham '52 (son of Warren Fellingham) replies as follows:
"Probably the most impressive moment of my freshman year was just after stepping off the bus in front of the Inn, when a terrific clap of thunder and lightning shook the Hanover plain—quite an introduction to Dartmouth.
"Naturally, when you become a Dartmouth man, you first become acquainted with heeling for some organization, whether it be radio station the Daily D, or the Athletic Council, almost before meeting your faculty advisor. Not to be different from anyone else I too was swallowed up, and in my particular case it was the Dartmouth College Athletic Council with all its muddy football shoes and numerous jobs, but still great fun. Being one of the fortunate few X managed to keep afloat and not drop by the wayside in the competition, so that now in my senior year I am the Varsity Baseball Manager. .
"With one year under my belt, the incoming freshman class gave the class of '52 a vastly superior feeling, but it was only momentary because shortly we were going through fraternity rushing. The house of my choice was Kappa Sigma, which was also my father s house during hit stay in Hanover. (The Phi Delt barn is still next door, but should give way any day now). In May along with several other classmates, I was elected to Green Key with the dubious privilege of running last through the gauntlet extending from the Inn corner half way to Lyme.
"Next fall my brother Warren Jr. is a hopeful member of the Class of '56 and still later my younger brother Dave, '59. Mother and Dad will be flying out from Chicago for graduation come June 8."
Isn't that really reliving our experiences 20 some years ago? More of the letters will appear from time to time.
As this is the time many of you are planning your summer vacations, it is a pleasure to announce that AUGUST 22-23-24 has been set for the annual summer reunion in Hanover. Plan now to attend. Reservations are available at the Inn with the 1926 block.
REMEMBER YOUR CLASS AGENT OKEY O'CONNOR!
EDITORIAL STAFF: Holt McAloney '26, editor of the "1926 Bulletin" is shown with his wife Lillian, chief proof reader.
Secretary, 500 Terminal Tower, Cleveland 13, O. Treasurer, Kennedy's, Inc., 32 Summer St., Boston, Mass. Class Agent, 81 Fairview Ave., West Orange, N. J.
