1926
Dartmouth! There is no music for our singing,No words to bear the burden of our praise;Yet how can we be silent and rememberThe splendor and the fullness of her days.Who can forget her soft September sunsets?Who can forget those hours that passed likedreams?The long cool shadows floating on the Campus,The drifting beauty where the twilightstreams?
Franklin McDuffee '21
This is the month that you have the opportunity to speak up for Dartmouth by your contribution to the Alumni Fund. This is the year we need 100% participation!
Beside being the month that Class Agent Okey O'Connor is in communication with you, May is the time to start thinking of the summer just ahead. Put down on your calendars now, the 1926 Summer Reunion for the weekend of August 22-23 in Hanover. It is the pleasantest of all our class gatherings and a worthwhile item always to include in your vacation plans. By then your golf game should be at its peak for the class struggle on Hilton Field for the coveted trophy. Arrangements have already been made for the fabulous hamburger picnic at the Keenes'. You really owe it to yourself this year!
In spite of such impudence as recently displayed by Bob May, Bob McConnaughey and Bob Stopford, our list of venerable grandfathers still continues to grow. Rus Webster reporting from Central Ohio advises that Juil Blicke reached that honorable estate on February 12 and Sid Hay-ward sends a clipping from Hanover of Jesse Morgan on February 22. Both are doing well.
Again we plead for cooperation from you grandfathers to furnish the necessary material so that we can construct a class column devoted entirely to your honor.
The news from Boston this month is of the Alumni Dinner attended by Joe Batchelder,Henry Bixby, Henry Blake, Gardiner Brown,Ranny Cox, Rus Clark, Syl McGinn, ChetMorrison, Stew Orr, Walt Rankin, Jim Sullivan and Harold P. Trefethen (the bachelor twin). During the evening the news was picked up that Chet Morrison has been appointed a Trust Officer and Ass't Vice President of the State Street Trust Co. and the Henry Bixbys just returned from a Mediterranean Cruise.
Envious of our recent reports on the Bickfords and the Courtney Browns, Herb andFrances Redman went off for a winter vacation to Bermuda and Nassau. Herb and BertDarling missed the Parents' and Sons' weekend as they were also at Nassau at the Balmoral Club and at Saint Johns.
Chuck and Nat Webster sailed this month for Europe and the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth. While in the British Isles they are planning to see Bob and Elsie Breyfogle, who are in London with the National City Bank and Emmett and Mary Elizabeth Willis with the United States Lines. Chuck promises a full report of his trip which unfortunately cannot appear until the October issue because of Charlie Widmayer's deadlines.
Has anyone seen the International Harvester Co. movie, Day in Court? Our Bobo Williams is the villain and star. From all reports he does a great job of showing what not to do when driving a car. The movie has been produced in connection with a campaign for greater safety and courtesy on the highway and is available for showing to local safety groups, clubs, church and civic organizations interested in reducing traffic accidents. To see Bobo in action, contact your local International Harvester Cos. district office, branch or dealer.
Speaking of safety, Henry G. Lamb is head of the Safety Department of the American Standards Association in New York City. After his graduation from Dartmouth he received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from M.I.T. in 1928. Then after a three-year job with the Stone and Webster Engineering Corp., Hank became Safety Engineer for the Liberty Mutual Insurance Cos. When he left Liberty Mutual in 1938, he was serving as Ass't District Chief Engineer in the Philadelphia District. Between 1938 and 1942 he was Safety Engineer and responsible for the organization of the entire safety program of the Scott Paper Company. He has held his present position with American Standards Association since 1942.
When Hank is not making speeches about the country on accident prevention and American safety standards, he makes his home at 10 Wiltshire Street, Bronxville, N. Y. Hank and Ruth have one daughter Patricia who finishes high school next month and will enter college in the fall (yet unselected at the last writing).
Sunny Tilton writes under the letterhead of Stobbs, Stockwell and Tilton, Counselors at Law, Worcester, Mass., a familiar message to the Secretary that there is no news in his family, but then goes on to say that Dick Sagendorph is working overtime since the sale of Alta Crest Farm in an attempt to get a new farm and dairy started. He also reports on his neighbor Frank Poor, who is doing very well with that Howard Johnson restaurant that Ben Zaeder told us about last month over at Erie, Pa. Of the other Worcesterites, he sees Bob Harrington, Vice President of the Paul Revere Life Insurance Company regularly, but Dr. George Tully much less frequently. There was no news in his letter on Cliff Hansen, the well known lamp and shade manufacturer. In spite of Sunny's personal modesty we hear that he is doing all right in his law practice and enjoying life with Elizabeth and son Sumner Jr., 15, and daughter Ann, 13.
With Bruce Tomlinson on the road, and otherwise busying himself in running his own business, Myrtle Tomlinson took over as correspondent to report the recent marriage of their daughter Nancy (see wedding picture above). The 1926 wives, God bless them, have really made these class notes a grand success of late with their newsworthy contributions. Please keep it up, girls!
And the sons are helping out, too. Here's a nice letter from Warren Fellingham Jr. '56.
"I have finally found time to write you between the maze of activities around the campus.
"My first reaction concerned mainly the freeness and ease of the dormitory life around the campus. Being from a suburban town near Chicago where the school life ended not too long after the final bell each day, the totally unexpected manner of living in the dormitories was really quite a change. However, now that I am here I would not have missed it for anything. I do not believe that the informality of dormitory life at Dartmouth is surpassed or even equalled by any school.
"After I had become accustomed to seeing the campus for a few days I became greatly impressed as to the amount of spirit that our class had developed in the short time we had been here. There were rallies almost every night during orientation week, and I now doubt there is another class on the campus that has as much spirit as ours. (Ed. note sounds like 50 years ago?) At that time I thought that this was really going to be a great life up here in Hanover.
"But then I encountered my classes. The depth of my courses completely caught me off guard the first weeks. I found that there was a debt owed for the wonderful time I was having, and that debt was in the form of studies. The small number of classes per day conceals the fact that there is a mountain of homework to be done.
"Looking forward to four more years at Dartmouth."
Bruce Eakin brought Lou Weber around to our Dartmouth Club luncheon in Cleveland one Friday this spring and we find that he and his wife Lucille have also had time to become grandparents in spite of their youthful appearances. Their daughter Barbara Lucille lives in Fort Lauderdale and gives them a wonderful excuse to spend time in Florida. Lou is listed as a Refractories Engineer with the Norton Co. of Worcester, Mass., and has been in Cleveland since 1945.
Don Hoffman, as blooming as ever, paid a visit to the Terminal Tower on his spring round of the Cleveland railroad offices and reports that Bill Barclay stopped in to see him recently while motoring through Philadelphia. It seems as though our last story on Bill was his trip to the Olympics in Helsinki and Scotland last summer. Don says that only a bachelor can do all that traveling.
And now one last closing admonition. Please send that card with your check to OkeyO'Connor while you are thinking of it. The goal is 100% participation!
DAUGHTERS OF '26: Bruce Tomlinson is shown with his daughter Nancy just before her recent wedding, and Bob May with his Martha, six months old, who is anticipating her debut in 1971.
Secretary, 500 Terminal Tower, Cleveland 13,0. Class Agent, 81 Fairview Ave., West Orange, N. J.
