1926

This time of year, the six weeks between (your) readin' and (our) writin' make quite a difference! As you read, Dartmouth's football season is almost over. But as we write, the team is playing New Hampshire in the opening game. Reports on '26 football gatherings must therefore wait till later issues. Just one football note here — at Princeton, November 23, Jack Roberts has arranged for '26 to picnic on the Terrace Club lawn, before the game.

Speaking of future issues ... how about sending us some snap-shots suitable for use in this column! We're thinking particularly of all the pictures you expert shutter-clickers were snapping at June Reunion. Please! (If Confucius was right, every picture will save us, and you, 3,000 words!)

NAMES IN THE NEWS

Scare headlines that lead into inconsequential, anticlimactic news-matter usually leave us feeling let-down. An exception was a September 8 Boston Advertiser headline- "Richard Nichols, Prominent Wellesley Attorney, Shot!" You will share our exhilaration and relief in reading, in the small print, that "the shotgun pellet wound, just above the knee, was superficial. Nichols' condition is excellent." It happened when Dick was walking in the Temple Mountain area of Sharon, N. H., where he and Ruth have a summer camp. The article goes on to say that "police were unable to say whether the shooting was deliberate. It was possible that someone was taking a shot at a woodchuck or some other small animal." Which makes us wonder — if the shooting was deliberate, did the hunter mistake Dick for a wooduck, or "some other small animal?" (Maybe you have a law suit there, Dick! Anyway, we're sure glad that headline proved a false scare!)

Elsewhere in this publication you have doubtless read that the late H. L. Mencken recently bequeathed to Baker Library seven volumes of his unpublished writings. The New York Herald Tribune, speculating onMr. Mencken's reasons for making this bequest, advances as the number-one reason -"Baker Library, since 1939, has possessed anoutstanding Mencken collection, largely thegift of Richard H. Mandel, Class of '26, ofCross River, N. Y." (No Secretarial comment needed!)

Another newspaper clipping, from Trenton, N. J, reports that

"Francis Knowles, manager of the DuPont Chambers Works, was appointed to the State Board of Education yesterday by Governor Robert B. Meyner. The appointment was confirmed by the Senate.

"Active in Boy Scout work since 1932, Knowles served as President of the Salem-Gloucester Council of Boy Scouts for five years, and is vice president at the present time. He is a member of the Regional Board, Region 2, of the Boy Scouts, which covers New York, New Jersey and Puerto Rico. He has also been engaged in YMCA work for 11 years, and is a member of the Salem County Regional YMCA Board. Knowles is likewise a member of the board and executive committee of the United Fund of Salem County and a member of Penns Grove Rotary Club. The father of three sons, Knowles is a graduate of Dartmouth College, where he majored in chemistry. He also taught and studied for an additional year as an instructor at Dartmouth. He first joined the DuPont Company in 1927, and advanced through the many supervisory levels, to become plant manager in 1948."

And from the Lowell (Mass.) Independent comes word that -

"The principal speaker at the season's opening meeting of the Lowell Industrial Safety Council will be Henry G. Lamb of American Standards Association, New York City, who will address the gathering on the topic: 'How Do You Classify a Lost Time Accident?' Mr. Lamb, a graduate of Dartmouth College, received his Civil Engineering degree from M.I.T. in 1928. He is a member of the American Society of Safety Engineers, the American Society for Testing Materials, and the Standards Engineers Society."

Here are some excerpts from a lengthy Portsmouth (N. H) feature article on Wad Woods -

"Wadleigh Woods has become almost a missionary for tennis. He has been sent by the New England Lawn Tennis Association to such towns as Burlington and Brattleboro, Vt., to conduct tennis clinics, with the hope of reviving an almost dead sport in that state. Prior to his arrival, the recreation departments stirred up public interest through the local papers. When Woods arrived, there was tremendous response.

"Woods is completing his 12th summer as tennis professional at the Wentworth Hotel. The rest of the year he spends teaching Latin and history at the Bedford-Rippowam School, in Bedford, N. Y. He also coaches-not tennis, but football and baseball. Woods' affinity for sports is not hard to understand when you consider his background. His father, the late Walter S. Woods, played professional baseball for 21 years in a career that included service with the Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates, and later served as varsity baseball coach at Dartmouth, with young Wadleigh the team mascot."

The July issue of this publication didn'tquite have room for this feature story, written by Hub-

"Twenty-Sixer Aces. Playing on the unfamiliar, sporty Lake Morey Club course during the recent reunion festivities, but with his competitive spirit that made him a Big Green and U.S. Olympic hockey star in full swing, Douglas N. Everett achieved the golfer's goal with a hole-in-one. His tee shot aced out on the 135-yard 15th hole, using a No. 8 iron. He had no complaints about his score of 83 in his first round of the season. Doug Everett's companions and witnesses on this occasion were classmates Bob Cleary of Long Valley, N. J., Roland Jacobus of Verona, N. J., and Ritchie Smith of San Francisco - all sterling characters of unimpeachable veracity."

A '26 daughter who's spurned the headlines is Charlie McKenna's 19-year-old Sharon. She was an outstanding prospect for the U.S Olympic Ski Team in '56, until she broke her ankle. She has now elected to withdraw from competitive skiing, and to concentrate on her studies at Wellesley.

We were happy to receive this newsy letterfrom Hinsdale ("Skipper") Smith-

"I am still making photographic developing tanks of stainless steel, and other photographic equipment, and enjoying it thoroughly. My wife and I live in Suffield, Conn., in 'ye olde mansion,' which we have finally battered into shape over a 15-year period. It looked like Dracula's castle when we first saw it, but Midge had the foresight to see its possibilities. The bats and cobwebs have gone, and we love it.

My current hobby is sailing. A little over a year ago we launched a 43-ft. auxiliary cutter designed for us by Sparkman & Stephens, and built by Hodgdon Brothers in East Boothbay, Me., Blue Cloud by name. She is the currently popular centerboard type - similar to, but larger than, Finisterre. Midge and I have sailed it alone back and forth to Maine several times, and last week won Class AIA in the fall Off Soundings race. It's a rugged life, but it sure keeps the waistline down. We missed the 30th reunion because it conflicted with the spring Off Soundings race. We had already contracted for a crew, sent in our entry blank, had the boat measured, etc., when the reunion announcement arrived. Please try to arrange the next reunion so it doesn't conflict with the Off Soundings race!"

(Secretary's note - Whoever nicknamed Hinsdale "Skipper," 30-plus years ago, must have been gifted with prescience!)

TIMES CHANGE

Seems like only a year or two ago that we used to have 15 to 20 '26 sons in each incoming freshman class. It's hard to believe that our procreativity has declined so rapidly ... but this fall we have but four-Randall Cox's son Guy, Dick Husband's son Richard, Jack Leech's son John, and Bob Mclndoe's son Robert. (Must be that the Class-of-1961 crop of '26 offspring is mostly girls! Your Secretary is willing to wager that our Class-of-1962 group entering next fall will be eight or better. The bet? Loser to model plus-fours in Campion's window!)

AND PLACES, TOO

New Addresses: Gordon K. Douglass, Boyer Lane, Mentor, Ohio; Charles H. Elliott, Jr., 24 Huckleberry Road, South Lynnfield, Mass.; Thomas L. Floyd-Jones, Cherry Tree Lane, Riverside, Conn.; Leonard J. Obermeier, Jr., 485 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y.; James E. Traquair, 4150 Mt. Carmel Road, Cincinnati, Ohio; Henry F. Andretta, Box 307, Unionville, Conn.; D. L. Dimond, 20 Donna Drive, Reno, Nev.; Vincent Meyer, 6525 Ridge Road, Cincinnati, Ohio; HaroldR. Rosenberg, 4539½ Fulton, Sherman Oaks, Calif.; William P. Smyth, 12 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Ill.

Hanover Inn registration in August and September included: Charlie and Lois Abbott (as usual, for their entire vacation); Lou and Muriel Ingram and daughter Diane; Dr. EdFowler; and Ken and Helen Petrie.

Again, a tragic closing. The sudden death of Fred Gurney on September 8 was a shock to his many Dartmouth friends and classmates. An In Memoriam article will appear later.

Secretary,1618 Oriington Ave., Evanston, Ill.

Treasurer,: 6 Stanwich Rd., Greenwich, Conn.

Bequest Chairman,