1926

Completely done, the cricket's song,All stored the chairs of summertime,But still an empty autumn porchForlornly little glass bells chime.They ring against November windThin memories of long ago;Nostalgic tinkle, wistful clinkRecalling sun; forecasting snow.

November brings the first all Ivy-League season to a close with only Cornell and Princeton left to play. The first will be another big game in Hanover with many of the brethren back, and then the picnic get-together on the lawn of the Terrace Club at Princeton for those of the New York Metropolitan area. Will we see you there?

Speaking of football, the Leader-Herald, of Everett, Mass., announces that our former half-back and present referee, Roy Kelley, has been named physical education director for the schools of that city. Roy was born in Everett and has been a physical education instructor in its schools for 22 years. The article also notes that his wife Ruth (McDonald) is an Everett native and that he has two children, Dr. Leroy J. Kelley Jr. of Everett and Miss Joan Kelley, a teacher at the Hamilton School (Everett).

Also from that area, we learn that Dr. Sylvester McGinn of Newton Center is the new president of the Greater Boston Chapter of the Massachusetts Heart Association. The boys in the 1926 Thursday Luncheon Club thought that the picture of Syl in the Boston Herald was taken from the Aegis.

Elsewhere in Massachusetts, it appears from the Tribune that it was a great day in Lawrence when our Bill Stickney came to town recently.

"The much decorated Marine Colonel William W. Stickney USMCR, deputy director of the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve, will arrive in Lawrence this afternoon direct from Marine Corps Headquarters, Washington, D. C. At 8 o'clock tonight the Colonel will inspect the Third Ordnance Field Maintenance Company U. S. Marine Corps Reserve, at the Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Training Center on North Parish Road."

The Tribune also gave the following interesting biographical material on Colonel Bill which may have been forgotten after these thirty years:

Born May 16, 1899, in New York and graduated from high school in Vermont in 1917, he enlisted in the Navy in Boston, November 30, 1917, and served aboard submarine chasers and destroyers until his discharge June 24, 1919. Entered Dartmouth on his return to civilian life and graduated in 1926. Then studied for his LL.B. degree at National University, "Washington, D. C. During this period he also worked as a law clerk in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and wrote a daily column for the Washington Times-Herald. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps June 5, 1930, and during the next years spent many training periods on active duty. He was a major and executive officer of Washington's Fifth Marine Reserve Battalion when ordered to active duty in November 1940. During World War II he saw action as a battalion commander on Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Pavuvu and the Russell Islands and also served with the occupation forces in Japan. After the war he served as principal attorney for the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission. In 1952 he was again ordered back to active duty and appointed deputy director of the Division of Reserve. His medals and decorations include the World War I Victory medal, the American Defense service medal with base clasp, the Presidential Unit Citation, the Navy Good Conduct medal, the organized Marine Corps Reserve medal with one bronze star, the Asiatic Pacific Campaign medal with four bronze stars, the American Campaign medal, the World War II victory medal, the Navy Occupation service medal with Asia Clasp and the Marine and Armed Force Reserve medal.

Moving further north in New England, we find Frank Milliken named acting manager of Old Orchard Beach. The Journal of Biddeford, Me., notes that Frank completed a year at the Yale Forestry School after graduation from Dartmouth. After World War II he was a member of the Maine post-war planning commission and on O.P.S. during the administration of Edward Muskie. He was also employed by the New England Council in completion of a recreational business survey and later in preparing a business survey index for the same trade bureau. Frank and his wife, the former attorney Margaret Hartford Saco, make their home in the Milliken Mills Section of Old Orchard Beach. They have two children, Gordon Milliken, a former Bowdoin College athlete, now serving as an Air Force cadet in Phoenix, Ariz., and Mrs. John Andrews Jr. of Cape Elizabeth.

The National Institute of Arts and Letters has announced one of its six $1,000 grants in literature to noted authors to our RichardEberhart of Cambridge, Mass., poet and visiting professor at Wheaton College, Norton, Mass. These grants are awarded in recognition of work by established artists and as encouragement to younger artists of ability.

Courtney Brown appeared on a full page of Time magazine last spring with a message called "Oil and Man's Quest for Freedom" which was labeled as one of a series of reports by outstanding Americans on the U. S. Oil industry, and presented to the public by the American Petroleum Institute. He has also sent in a dissertation written by one of his colleagues of the American Assembly, Columbia University, on "How to be Fifty." Appropriately for many of us it concludes,

"It takes a person until he is fifty not only to discover what he really is and what he likes (usually very different from what he is supposed to like), but also to have the stamina to say so, and if he has to, tell the world to go to the devil, and go back to his philosophy, philandering, hobby shop or whatever appeals to him. He knows that he has fifteen or twenty good years before he takes the great toboggan ride into oblivion. He faces this like James Thurber's Walter Mitty, dauntless and unafraid, but until then, he's going to live it up. Indeed, I would say of my first fifty years that I have found the truth, but I am looking for something better."

So now only three of our numbers reach that point this month: Phil Woodward, November 4; Paul Allen and Clarence Brazil, November 13. Our many celebrations seem to be drawing to a close.

The 50-year messages have brought forth some amazing responses. Take for example Carle Blunt who reports that on the last day of his 49th year, with Newt Tobey and Jeff Fitzgerald both of the class of 1925 and natural skeptics of any 1926 accomplishments, as eye witnesses, he got a 74, one over par, at the Old Elm Golf Club. This was two better than his all-time previous best score. Carle also claims to have been celebrating his 50th birthday from February 27 when his insurance company informed him he really attained the half-century mark, until the actual birth date of August 27. In that time he was largely responsible for raising the necessary funds to build and endow the Evans Scholars Foundation building at Golf, Ill. On the day after the dedication of the building, Betsy gave a dinner dance at Glen View Club to which all who contributed time or money toward the enterprise were invited and some 225 helped celebrate the evening and his 50th. He writes,

"As to the actual celebration of August 27 we are having our Club 252 group from Sea Island here for the weekend and some sixteen of us will devote ourselves to bridge, golf, dancing and liquidation of part of my aged Scotch collection. I hope to have recovered sufficiently from the weekend to play my ten handicap in the 1926 golf eightsome of Dick Gunthorp, Tubber Weymouth, Hal Marshall, Del Worthington, Swede Oberlander and Hank Parker at Glen View Club on Thursday September 1 with Tom Murdough as host."

Tubber Weymouth reported to the Secretary last week in Chicago, over a bottle of beer,that the game came off as planned and laterthey moved over to his house to celebrate sonSkip's leave from the Army, where eightnimble hands performed simultaneously ontwo pianos.

Here is an interesting one from Ed Poole ofWinston-Salem, N. C.

"Many thanks for your (and the Class of 1926) birthday card. The hair is much thinner and pretty gray as compared to thirty years ago. Also thirty pounds have been added to my frame. Otherwise I am much the same. I have been blessed with reasonably good health, a series of interesting jobs with Western Electric Co. ever since 1926, a wonderful wife and a fine daughter who is now 21 but unmarried as yet.

"I have good expectations of living to at least the age of my father (86) who passed away this past winter in Gloucester, Mass.

"Two days after graduation I started with Western Electric Co. in Chicago and worked at various jobs there until 1930 when they transferred me to the Kearny, N. J., plant where I stayed until 1942 when I became a department chief in the sales office for Government business at 120 Broadway, N. Y. City. Was there until early 1953 when they transferred me to the North Carolina Works in Winston-Salem. All the time (1920 to 1953) when I was commuting to Kearny, N. J., and N. Y. City respectively I lived in Westfield, N. J., which was and still is a very pleasant place to live. I used to do a little interviewing work with TonyGleason for the College when I was there.

"We like North Carolina and especially Winston-Salem very much. I doubt if there are any other 1926 men in North Carolina. Prof. Messer (retired) and his wife live here. There are two or three alumni in town. One is dean of music at Salem College, one runs a dress shop with his wife, and Larson (architect) is here for several years in the building of the new Wake Forest College."

Social notes show many second-generation marriages: N. K. Parker Jr. '52, son of Nateand Jane Parker, married to Janice Cleary (no relation to Bob), at Marblehead, Mass.; William Cresmer Worthington, son of Del andBillee Worthington, married to Jevi Ann Denslow at Tucson, Ariz.; Jean Isabel Lawson, daughter of Fritz and Arlene Lawson, married to George Benge Wemhold at Milton, Fla.; and last but not least, Mr. James A. Gillies has announced the forthcoming marriage of his daughter Miss Anita Maria Gillies to Mayor Edwin B. Dooley of Mamaroneck, N. Y.

It has been good to hear from Jim Truesdale on the letterhead of Hugh McGrath & Co., Insurance Advisors and Brokers, 50 East 42nd St., New York City, who has been sort of out of circulation. Like Carle Blunt he, too, reports a golf game, but with Jake Jacobus,Miller Pierce, and Bob Cleary at Summerset Country Club, Bernardsville, N. J. After to Bob's home for a repast of pheasant with all the trimmings, and Dutch apple ice cream, a fine product of Welsh Farms. He writes, "It is remarkable that after all these years, we seemed to respond to.each other as though we'd been out of Hanover about one year." Doesn't it always seem so?

Hope to see all of you Jerseyites, and others, on the lawn of the Terrace Club, November 19.

Secretary, 500 Terminal Tower Cleveland 13, O.

Treasurer, Kennedy's, 30 Summer St„ Boston 10, Mass.

Bequest Chairman,