1926

Frost on the breath of December Assaults the blood, mingling Ice with fire, Sharp and tingling.

Now that the football season is over, winter appears to be closing in on us. Christmas will soon be here and then the end of another year. (How fast they go now!) This month Carle Blunt officially opens the Utopia of the golfing world, The Country Club of Florida at Delray Beach. Carle, five other golfers and a newspaper photographer tested the course and the electric caddie-cars, and here is what he says of the first ro'und ever played on this great course: "we are fully convinced we have the finest golf course in the South and it will be ready for full play on December first.... Our official opening is set for Saturday, December 1st, and will be a real event in the golf world."

Speaking of Florida, it is none too early to write Don Church at the Belleview Biltmore (Bellaire) for information on when to see your 1926 friends and their families at his hostelry this winter.

And then looking beyond the winter to June, letters are beginning to come in from those who are making plans for the 30th reunion, June 10-12. A heartwarming note from Bill Pitney informed me that he would be back for reunion and that last year he and another advertiser formed the firm of Pitney Ewing Associates (1 Atlantic St., Stamford, Conn.), engaged in selling, product and advertising research. They have a new way of doing the job with electronics. Bill's son recently graduated from Dartmouth and Tuck School and is now in the Navy. His daughter, a Colby graduate, is married and living in Boston.

Reunion Chairman Harry Fisher's committee-man Bob Carr writes that he and Ruby have been extremely busy. Ruby is on leave of absence from the State of Vermont for this school year and is getting her Master's degree in Public Health at Harvard. He is still working in the State Legislature and running his own business in Orford, plus preparing for your reunion in June.

Courtney Brown receives the greatest newspaper lineage for a nonpolitical candidate with reports from the Summit (N. J.) Herald of an address before the Athenaeum on "Humanism, Business and World Peace" and another from the Darien (Conn.) Review as the principal speaker before the annual meeting of the Dartmouth Club of Western Connecticut at which Snipe Esquerre was elected to the Board of Governors. Apparently a threeway competition has developed in the class between Courtney, Bill Hughes and LeRoyKelley for the most sought after-dinner speaker. The Haverhill (Mass.) Gazette reports that Bill Hughes, employee relations manager for Socony-Mobile Co., spoke at the annual honors assembly of the Haverhill Teachers Association. The Woburn (Mass.) Times says "Noted Collegiate Football Official is Kiwanis Speaker" (that's our Roy Kelley).

From Long Island comes the news that Bill Viall has been appointed Treasurer of the Village of Munsey Park where he has resided for the past 15 years. In addition to his activities as an officer of the Munsey Park Association, Bill is Secretary of the Adams Express Company.

Deck Wilbar sent in the following welcome message from San Diego, Cal. "Thanks for the birthday card good wishes. Had letter from Don Norstrand, calls from Hank Merry,Tommy Thompson and then Ken Weeks dropped in during Coast Peerade - quite a '26 bonanza of late! Steve Weston writes annually - saw Fred Gurney in Brockton during '54 visit. Best to you and all the locals."

From 3,000 miles in the opposite direction comes this note from Bob Breyfogle of 117 Old Broad St., London E.C.-2.

We are still recovering from the marriage of our daughter on January 25 and all the attendant arrangements that had to be dealt with. Peter has just finished his second year at Cambridge and, after another two or three weeks of rowing with Henley in view, he will be off to the Continent for a holiday and then has to put in some time at an engineering works here in Britain.

Another message comes from the most enthusiastic of our class grandfathers, Don Mackay; "Yet a happy grandfather, glowing as the status stretches into the two-month mark! My only complaint in that department is that wee Gregory M. Phillips is in Pittsburgh. It isn't too far, but it sure isn't near enough." Don was recently designated County Auditor by the Massachusetts Superior Court to help speed through the long list of motor vehicle tort cases, the state's principal juridical problem at the moment. The court will sit four or five days a week for some time, but Don says that it is interesting work. Don reports one brief chat with Tom Colt who has left Portland, Ore., for a few months in Europe, courtesy of the Portland Art Museum. When Tom gets back, he will be based in Gotham for a few months. After eight years in Portland without a break, he deserves this bonus vacation.

Bequest Chairman Dick Nichols has had an unhappy summer as the result of a simple accident. He broke his Achilles' tendon when he jumped over a log while out walking with his dog on his Peterborough farm. As a result Dick spent sometime in the hospital in a cast and then hobbled back to work on crutches during September. He claims that he is now the best one-legged lawyer on State Street (Boston).

The annual report of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce in summarizing its activities of the year shows a picture of Clarence G. McDavitt, Chairman of the Urban Renewal Committee.

At our weekly Thursday luncheon at the Boston City Club, Stew Orr gave a report of the New Hampshire and Brown games where he saw Henry and Margaret Bixby, Doug Everett and the Dick Nichols family at Hanover and Walt and Billie Rankin, Bill and Palmer Hughes and Harry Fisher at Providence. There is a picture somewhere of this latter distinquished group, which if forwarded to the secretary would certainly deserve publication.

Russ Clark also gave an account of the Holy Cross tie in Hanover where he again found the Bixbys along with Sid and Barbara Hayward and Professor and Mrs. Richard Eberhard.

Those of us who have lived west of the Hudson River so long and are deprived of these eastern games may have forgotten what great fun the Harvard weekend can be. This year particularly there was much celebration with Tubber and Mary Weymouth, Dick andJo Gunthorp and Hal and Marion Marshall all visiting from Chicago. As a result Friday night was lively at Andover, Sharon and on Beacon Hill, with pre-game conviviality and New England hospitality to those who had come from Mid-America. Your correspondent spent the golden hours that evening with Bob and Dot Salinger, Don and Dot Norstrand, Walt and Billie Rankin, Carl Schipper, Clarence and Billie McDavitt and Tubber and Mary Weymouth. The gathering was further enlivened by members of the younger generation of the Weymouths and Salingers.

It is hard to give appropriate tribute to Don Norstrand for the grand job that he does each year in arranging the unique 1926 luncheon at Smith House, Cambridge, and the boat ride to the game. Things go so smoothly and happily that it is easy to forget that he has put forth so much effort in our behalf. This year we reached a total of 62 including the families and guests of Bob and Clyth Patten, Hub and Det Harwood, Tubber and Mary Weymouth, Wee and Dot McClintock, Bob and Dot Salinger, Ed and Tommie Emerson, Hal and Marion Marshall, Bill and Palmer Hughes, Stew and Mary Lou Orr, Frank Poor, Walt and Billie Rankin, Russ and Dot Clark, Don and Dot Norstrand, Dick and Jo Gunthorp, Dick and Ruth Nichols, Clarence and Billie McDavitt, Herb and Frances Redman, Henry and Margaret Bixby, and Joe and Peggy Batchelder. Ranny Cox and his son-in-law were also there celebrating their becoming grandfather and father respectively on the previous day. With apologies to those not seen, we spotted Sid and Barbara Hayward, Royal Baker, Perley Merry and Doug Everett in the stands.

As we close on this note, a letter has just been received from Harry Fisher giving the tentative completed schedule for our 30th reunion, June 10-12, 1957. It looks great — you just can't afford to miss it!

Hang the mistletoe and holly Deck the hall and let's be jolly Hold the ladder steady, dear - Oops! There goes the chandelier.

A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU.

1926 Fund Contributors

375 Gifts (Participation Index 87) Total Gifts: $30,785.15 (139% ofObjective) ANDREW J. O'CONNOR, Class Agent

Irish, James C. (Friend) Abbe, Charles K.1 Abbott, Charles W. Akin, John S. Alexander, Arthur J. Allen, Carlos E., Jr. Allen, George H. Allen, Patten D. Allen, Paul S. Andler, Kenneth D. Anthony, Stewart H. Appleton, Francis H., 3rd Arenovski, Herman J. Armstrong, W. R., Jr. Avery, George L. Bailey, Christopher T. Bailey, Frank E. Baker, Royal P. Banfield, H. Loring, Jr. Barclay, "William H., Jr. Barnes, Frederic P. Batchelder, Joseph M. Becton, Edward M.2 Bell, Gordon Bellaire, George P. Bengtson, Waif rid E. Benjamin, Philip M. Benton, Webster W. Bickford, John H. Bishop, Charles S. Bixby, G. Henry Blair, A. Whittemore Blake, Henry A. Blake, Keith E. Blanchard, Willard H. Blicke, Juilliard H. Blunt, Carleton Borden, Gail Borglum, George P. Bourne, Laurence T.3 Boyd, Kier M. Brand, C. Martin Breyfogle, Robert J. Bristol, Ralph B. Britt, Paul E. Brooks, Jason H., Jr. Brown, Courtney C. Brown, Gardner W. Buck, George W. Burlingame, M. Richard Bush, Horace S. Cadmus, Fred A. Campbell, Francis C. Campbell, William A. Cannon,John D. Camell, Prentiss, Jr. Carr, Robert W. Chaffin, Edward J. Chamberlin, C. Dean Champion, George Chipman, Gordon P. Church, Donald E. Clark, Russell W. Clarke, Norman R. Cleary, Robert E. Cole, Edward C. Colladay, Montgomery H. Collins, Charles W. Collins, Phillip T. Colt, Thomas C., Jr. Conant, Louis C. Connelly, Charles J. Cort, Robert P. Cox, Randall T. Crosby, Warren M. Cunningham, Arthur F. Curtis, T. Chalmers Darling, Herbert F. Davidson, Herman F. DesMarais, Hubert A. Dickason, L. King Diehl, Carl H. Dillingham, Paul A. Donohue, Joseph A. Dooley, Edwin B. Douglas, George E. Douglass, Gordon K. Dreier, Edward K. Drury, Francis R. Dunn, John J. Durgin, Guy E. Eaken, Bruce W. Eaton, Roland G., Jr. Eberhart, Richard G. Edgar, Robert B. Edgerly, Winslow S. Elliott, Charles H., Jr. Emerson, Edward E. Esquerre, Henri P. Everett, Douglas N. Fallon, Hillman O.4 Farwell, Thomas B. Fellingham, Warren L. Fish, William B. Fisher, Harry J. Fitts, Osmer C. Fitz-Gibbon, Laurie Fleming, Edward J. Floyd-Jones, Thomas L. Ford, Wesley DeW. Forrest, William S., Jr. Foster, Kendall P. Fowler, Edmund P., Jr. Frankenberg, C. H.5, 6, 7, 8 Gamble, William A. Gearhart, John I. Gibson, Charles E. Gibson, Harold H., Jr. Gleason, Anthony H. Godfrey, Kenneth E. Goss, Robert F. Gould, Alphin T. Grady, James H. Granville-Smith, W., Jr. Greeley, Henry E. Greene, John S. Gresley, Reginald E. Gunthorp, Richard G. Gurney, Fred P. Hadley, Leonard Hadlock, Canfield Hall, Harry A., Jr. Hammond, John Hanlon, Edward J. Hanson, Reginald W. Harper, Paul A. Harrington, Robert D. Hartman, Henry Harwood, Herbert H. Hassett, Edward K. Hayward, Sidney C. Heacox, Cecil E. Healy, Francis D. Heavenrich, John P. Herlihy, Thomas, Jr. Heydt, Louis J. Hill, Vernon A. Hilton, H. Hoyt, Jr. Hoerner, M. Tischer Hoffman, Donald S. Hopkins, Donald B. Hornburg, Charles H., Jr. Hudgins, Henry E. Hughes, William S. Hurd, Frederick Husband, Richard W. Ide, Paul A. Infield, Frederick A. Ingram, Louis W. Jackson, Elliott R. Jacobus, Roland A., Jr. Jenkins, Gordon M. Jenkins, James H. Johnson, Per Edwin Johnston, Fredric K. Johnston, Harold McN. Jones, Floy C., Jr. Jones, Malcolm L. Joy, J. Kendall, Jr. Kelley, Clinton H. Kelley, LeRoy J. Kenney, George S. Kennison, Lawrence S. Kinney, Joseph, Jr. Kjerner, John C. Knight, Granville F. Knowles, Francis Kobisk, Oliver A. Kolb, Howard Korten, W. Kenneth Kyburg, Paul E. Lake, Morse B. Lamb, Henry G. Lamb, Richard W. Lary, William L. Lattimore, Richmond Lawson, Fred F. Leech, John W. Lenke, Mark A. Lenke, Sidney E. Lewis, Harold S. Leyser, George E. Linke, E. Gordon Littlefield, Thomas E. Loomis, Robert H. Louer, Albert E. M. Lowell, Albert H. Lower, Martin E. McAloney, S. Holt McCarthy, F. Jordon McClintock, Edward C. McClintock, Marshall McClintock, Richard P. McConnaughey, R. K. McDavitt, C. G., Jr. Macdonald, Charles J. McDonough, Henry G. MacDuffie, E. Allen McFadden, Leslie B. McGinn, Sylvester Mclllwraith, John W. Mclndoe, Robert L. Mackay, Donald K. McKenna, Charles M. Major, Richard Maloney, Richard C. Mandel, Richard H. Mann, Richard D. Manser, George E., Jr. Marshall, Harold T. Martyn, F. Sanford May, Robert L. Meader, Jerome C. Merrill, Francis E. Merrill, Malcolm H. Merry, Perley B. Metzer, Freeman W. Metzger, Albert L. Meyer, Vincent Milans, Albert J. Millard, Stephen H. Mills, Seward Minton, Robert H. Minuse, T. Bayles Mitchell, Stephen W. Moderwell, Horace M. Moore, Hugh J. Moore, Walter, 2nd Morgan, Jesse J. Morris, Albert E. Morris, Leonard M. S. Morrison, Chester T. Morrison, Hugh S. Morton, Charles E. Morton, Chester A. Munson, Charles L. Murdough, Thomas G. Nathanson, Arthur L. Nelson, Frank K., Jr. Nemiah, Royal C. Neuman, Louis E. Newcomb, Russell L. Nichols, Richard M. Nickerson, Win.fred M. Norcross, Herrick F. Norstrand, H. Donald Oatman, Lawrence W. Oberlander, Andrew J. O'Connor, Andrew J. Opdyke, Gordon McC. Orr, Stewart G. Owen, Shubel J. Parker, E. Cummings Parker, Henry L., 3rd Parker, Nathan K. Patten, Robert W. Paul, Stanley E. Petrie, Kenneth H. Pierce, Miller Pillsbury, Charles K. Pitney, William F. Poole, Edward N. Poor, Frank S. Potter, Everett A. Powers, Lei and F. Quint, Maurice9 Raisbeck, Edward A., Jr. Randall, Richard Rankin, Walter M. Redman, Herbert J. Revoir, Theodore R. Rice, Howard C., Jr. Richard, Lester M. Richter, Traugott L. Riotte, Robert C. Roberts, John W. Robinson, Donald W. Robinson, Gilbert H. Robinson, Percy S. Robinson, Winfield F. Rogers, Charles W. Rowe, Frederic L. Rowe, Homer A. Ryder, Morrill S., Jr. Sage, Henry A.10, 11 Sagendorf, Richard S. Salinger, Robert D. St. Clair, John P. Sanford, Lloyd M. Savage, Harry W. Savage, Joseph C. Schipper, Carl F., Jr. Schmidt, Kenneth P. Scott, George W. Scoville, Laurence McC. Seasongood, Albert, Jr. Seely, Frederick F. Seibold, Arthur B., Jr. Sharp, William L. Shaver, Homer M. Sheftall, John P. Shellman, Norman C. Singleton, Charles B. Smith, Arthur C. Smith, Hinsdale, Jr. Smith, Laurence C. Smith, Ralph O. Smith, Ritchie C. Snell, George D. Snodgrass, George W. Stack, Arthur E. Starke, George S. Starrett, Charles R. Stebbins, Ernest L. Steel, Edwin deH., Jr. Sterling, Raymond W. A. Stevens, Joseph B. Stickney, William W. Stopford, Robert M. Storer, Morris B. Sullivan, Frederick T. Sullivan, James F. Tagliabue, Charles R. Talbot, Lester Taylor, Clarence S. Thomas, Ralph L. Thompson, John G. Thompson, Reginald E. Thompson, Warner F. Tilton, Sumner B. Tomlinson, W. Bruce Tomlinson, Walter C. Traquair, James E. Trefethen, Harold P. Trefethen, Herman J. Truesdale, James W. Tully, George C. Tyler, Seward S. Uehlein, William F., Jr.4 Upham, Ralph H. Van Duyn, H. Norton Van Horn, William K. Vermillion, Lawrence R. Volkhardt, William T. Waggener, Leslie, Sr.12 Waggener, Leslie, Jr.12 Wallace, J. Branton Walters, E. Worthington Watts, Bennet K. Weare, Harry C. Webster, Charles D. Webster, Russell D. Weeks, Kenneth W. Weil, Robert L. Welch, Ross S. Wenck, Frederick Weston, Stephen P. Weymouth, Clark Whitmore, Henry, Jr. Wilbar, Dexter W. Wilcox, Arthur D. Willard, William B. Williams, Bleecker R. Williams, Robert B. Williams, Sydney R. Williamson, Norris E. Willis, Emmett Wilson, Robert S. Wolfe, William B. Wolff, Lawrence Wollenhaupt, Arthur F. Woods, Wadleigh W. Wooster, James W., Jr. Worthington, Delwyn J. Yaffe, George J. Zaeder, Benjamin

MEMORIAL GIFTS FROM:

1Frank S. Poor '26.

2Anthony H. Gleason '26.

3Brother, Henry T.Bourne '23.

4Anonymous.

5Reginald W. Hanson'26.

6Francis J. McCarthy 26.

7Robert M. Stopford'26.

8Herbert J. Redman '26.

9Brother, Edward D.Quint '25.

10Robert E. Cleary '26.

11Frank H. Granata '24.

12Leslie Waggener, Jr.Charitable Trust.

Dean Chamberlin '26 (center) presents Bundespresident Theodor Heuss to Joseph Phillips,Public Affairs Officer for Germany, at reception for American Fulbright professors and studentsat Bad Honnef, Germany, on Sept. 28. Chamberlin is Chief of Exchange Persons Division andTreasurer of the U. S. Educational Commission (Fulbright Program) at the American Embassyin Bonn.

Secretary, 336 South Station, Boston 10, Mass.

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

Bequest Chairman,