1926
Who can forget her sharp and misty mornings,The clanging bells, the crunch of feet on snow,Her sparkling noons, the crowding into Commons,The long white afternoons, the twilight glow?See! By the light of many thousand sunsetsDartmouth undying like a vision starts:Dartmouth, the gleaming, dreaming walls of Dartmouth,
mouth,Miraculously builded in our hearts!
FRANKLIN MCDUFFEE '21
The College remains "undying" largely through the support of its alumni. This is the last month of an important campaign to make your individual effort felt!
This June the largest contingent yet of 1926 sons will graduate with the class of 1953. Back in 1948, Danny Drury was the first and only 1926 parent to have a son graduate that year. Then came Jack McIlwrailh the following year for John's graduation. 1950 and 1951 saw four each including a return for Dan Drury. He came around again last year when six of our boys received their degrees. The big weekend of June 13-14 will see seven 1926 parents in Hanover for the commencement exercises, not including those from the graduate schools. Charlie and Louisa Collins Allen Collins; Mrs. Adrianne Mann Duffy Meloy - Michael M. Duffy (E. J. Duffy deceased); Paul and Betty Dillingham Paul A. Jr.; Bob Edgar Robert G. Edgar; Don andEmma Hoffman Donald S. Jr.; Jud andMackie McCarthy William J. McCarthy; Jim and Madeline Oberlander - James C. Oberlander. Nate Parker Jr. will complete Tuck-Thayer School as will George Andretta (son of Henry Andretta). Bob May is expected up in 1965 and Bob Stopford and Bob Mc-Connaughey should both be around for their sons' graduations in 1974 at about the time our first batch of grandsons are leaving College. Time marches on!
Holt McAloney commented with undisguised glee in his April 3 Bulletin that the Secretary on a visit with his daughter at Vassar this spring was sent off to bed on Saturday night when two college youths appeared on the campus. However, all was not lost as this provided an opportunity to catch up with the mid-Hudson newspaper and radio tycoon, Art Wollenhaupt. Art lives in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., with wife Esther and daughter Carol Louise, now ten years old. As reported in the December 1951 issue, Art is still General Manager of the Poughkeepsie New Yorker of the Spiedel newspaper and radio chain.
Art reported that he had talked with Tom McWilliams when he returned to Pough-keepsie this winter at the time his father died (William H. McWilliams '95). Tom is one of Remington-Rand's ace salesmen and specializes in the Accounting Department work of the large New York City department stores. He is a post-war bridegroom, having married Mimi in 1946, and has one daughter Pamela. The McWilliams all live in New York.
Duckie Heacox, as head of the State Fisheries, New York State Conservation Department, also has his office in Poughkeepsie (what a versatile class we have). Cecil (that's Duckie) commutes over from the estate country of Millbrook and Wassaic where he lives with wife Dorothy.
We have been lucky to have had our professional delegation contribute some most interesting touches to our class notes this year. Here is a particularly fine contribution from Dick Lattimore.
"I seem to be practically a Main Liner now, at least a thoroughly transplanted Pennsylvanian. Except for three years off during the war, I've been at Bryn Mawr since 1935, inching my way up from assistant professor to the gaudy title of Paul Shorey Professor of Greek, and head of a department (consisting of two people including me). I live with my wife Alice (once of Shaker Heights, Ohio) and two sons, Steven (14) and Alexander or Sandy (12) in a modest house we bought in 1950. The boys have an eye on Dartmouth but haven't made up their minds.
"Some of my translations from Greek poetry have been reviewed in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Right now, I'm at work with David Grene (who divides his time between an Irish farm and the University of Chicago) on a vast project, which is to produce all the Greek tragedies in translation, mostly in new versions and many of them by us. I'm reading proof now on my own version of the Oresteia of Aeschylus, which will be the first volume of the series.
"It's almost too much translating. I'm at work on Herodotus and Greek History, too. We spent the first part of 1952 in Greece, on a Fulbright, and spent the most interesting part of my time tramping over the battlefields and trying to decide who sat where. All the rest of my family worked at the American Excavations in the Agora. Keeping house in an Athenian apartment was an experience. We came back to this country awfully hungry, especially for milk and beef, but otherwise with a feeling we'd soon be homesick for Athens, and we already are."
Since receipt of Dick's letter we have also heard that, he has taken the part of Samson in a Bryn Mawr PTA play. Apparently, due to nature's unkindness which has afflicted so many of us, his wife Alice, who played the part of Delilah, was obliged to cut the strands of a red floor mop used in the place of the real thing. Many thanks, Dick —we have all enjoyed hearing of you again!
Although we hesitated like other pollsters to make a prediction in our April column on political elections, it did seem certain at the time of going to press that our Tom Murdough would be elected Alderman from the Sixth Ward of Evanston, Ill., on April 7. Congratulations to Tom. If our city governments had more willing citizens with his integrity and imagination we would be reading less of the need for these crime investigations.
Another who is contributing his time in a good cause is Robert W. Carr, who is serving as the Republican Representative from Orford, N. H., in the New Hampshire State Legislature. Bob reports that he is Vice Chairman of the Aviation Committee, which is not so time-consuming as to prevent his attendance at other important committee hearings. His maiden speech before the Legislature was on Deer Laws (now do you agree that we have a versatile class?). The work is interesting and the life in Doug Everett's Concord most enjoyable. The Aetna Life Agency in Orford somehow continues to struggle on without Bob.
And speaking of New Hampshire, the picture of our 1952 class picnic is printed above as a reminder of the reunion on August 22-23 in Hanover. This will be the last class column until October, so jot it down on your calendar now to put yourself in the 1953 class picture. We promise you an enjoyable weekend. AUGUST 22-23.
Ed Hanlon is really wasting his time as an investment banker. With his ability to unearth news and Don Norstrand's flare for journalistic prose, the Alsop brothers and the team of Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer would be far overshadowed. Ed has discovered Morse B. Lake out in Seattle through an announcement of his election as Vice President and Comptroller of the Seattle-First National Bank. As you will remember, "Tiny," as we called him because of his plunging abilities on the swimming team, came to Dartmouth from Exeter and Chuck Webster's home town of Shenandoah, lowa, so it is still a mystery how he finally reached Seattle. Marrying Elizabeth Kaiser of Seattle in 1929 may have been either the cause or the effect of going West as a young man. They have one daughter, 13. Any more news will be greatly welcomed, Tiny!
Don Norstrand's picturesque style of reporting the 1926 Harvard game luncheon last fall was somewhat crimped by Editor Charlie Widmayer's cut in the January issue. Listen to the part Charlie eliminated:
"Various and sundry sons, daughters and guests also added to the general enjoyment of a fine get-together with nothing wrong that one or two touchdowns would not have cured.
"Highlight of the day: Bill Hughes complete with Socony-Vacuum yachting cap helping with navigation and docking problems.
"Lowlight of the day: Ed Simmons missed his first Dartmouth-Harvard game in 30 years!"
Perhaps Don sounded a prophetic note in October and there was an absence for a more serious reason than any of us imagined. It is with profound regret that we must announce the death of Charles Edward Simmons on Easter Sunday. In Memoriam of this issue carries a more complete story. His many friends of our class will miss him at future Dartmouth gatherings. Frank Healy, LloydSanford, Jim Jenkins, Jim Truesdale, SnipeEsquerre, Jim Sullivan and Tom Floyd-Jones represented the class of 1926 at Ed's funeral.
And so we come to another summer. May it be pleasant for all of you! Hope to see you in Hanover in August!
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SAME PLACE, SAME CLASS: A repeat picnic for the Class of '26 will be held at Bob Keene's in Etna during the summer reunion next August 22-23, following the plan of the successful get-together held last August, and pictured above.
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