1926

In October, and again in November, the writer of this column was guilty of firstdegree verbosity. But merciful Editor Charlie Widmayer exacted no penalty; cut not a single word! Now comes December, and a message from the Editor to all Class Secretaries: Because the lists of Alumni Fund contributors are being printed with the December class notes, "We request that notes for December be kept as concise as possible, and that items where the time element is not pressing be held over for the following month."

Because of our past sins, and because this is the season of loving and giving (and because we wish to re-establish our "credit" for future issues) we will therefore delay publication of all the letters and news-items of the past month, and confine ourselves to the Brown-game '26 picture, and a bit of Dartmouth nostalgia. Come to think of it, for Dartmouth news to give way to nostalgia, this time of year, seems only natural and right.

33-or-so years ago, we were counting the days till the start of the Christmas Peerade. Christmas vacation from college ... epitome of care-free fun! The gay and noisy Special train ... "Anticipation Unlimited." Finally, home. How could a plain, ordinary frontdoor ever look so wonderful? Perhaps because of the proud and loving family waiting their welcome behind it. Two-plus weeks of fatted calf ... playing Joe College (and those undefeated football teams sure didn't hurt!). The '20's at their roaringest... parties and parties... girls and girls. Breakfast late, later, later .. .till we finally overslept lunch! Dim-lit speakeasies and bathtub gin. Auld Lang Syne and New Year's Eve, most im- portant night in the year! New Year's dawn. Then all of a sudden, the awful realization; - vacation almost over! Just around the corner, reality ... books and exams. (Dartmouth spirit at its very lowest ebb!) A reluctant glance at the single book we'd brought home. A different train-ride back; - more quiet, more tired. And memories!

We hazard the guess that our Holiday Season has changed quite a bit, in a third of a century. And changed for the better! Since a major chunk of our Yuletide fun now comes from providing fun for our children (and grandchildren), we're a whole lot closer to the Spirit of Christmas.

We'd like to think of this little column as a multiple '26 Christmas card ... with each of us wishing, to each of our old-time friends, "Merry Christmas!" May yours be happy and bright!

1926 Fund Contributors

368 Gifts (Participation Index 86) Total Gifts: $30,439.48 (129% of Objective) ANDREW J. O'CONNOR, Class Agent

Irish, James C. (Friend) 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, Walter 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.1 Bell, Gordon Bellaire, George P. Bengtson, Walfrid E. Benjamin, Philip M. Benton, Webster W. Bickford, John H. Bishop, Albert W. 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 Bourne, Laurence2 Boyce, Trevor G. Boyd, Kier M. Brand, C. Martin Breyfogle, Robert J. Briggs, Frank R. Bristol, Ralph B. Britt, Paul E. Brookes, 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. Carnell, 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. Collins, William T. Colt, Thomas C., Jr. Conant, Louis C. Connelly, Charles J. Cook, Chester H. 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. 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.3 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.4,6,6,7 Gamble, William A. Gearhart, John I. Gibson, Charles E. Gibson, Harold H., Jr. Gleason, Anthony H. Goss, Robert F. Gould, Alpine T. Grady, James H. Granville-Smith, W., Jr. Greeley, Henry E. Greene, John S. 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. Harriman, David E. Harrington, Robert D. Hartley, Edwin F.8 Hartman, Henry Harwood, Herbert H. Hassett, Edward K. Hayward, Sidney C. Healy, Francis D. Heacox, Cecil E. Heavenrich, John P. Herlihy, Thomas, Jr. Heydt, Louis J. Hill, Vernon A. Hilton, H. Hoyt, Jr. Hodgdon, Robert M. Hoffman, Donald S. Hopkins, Donald B. Hornburg, Charles H., Jr. Hudgins, Henry E. Hughes, William S. Hurd, Frederick Husband, Richard W. Ide, Paul 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. Jones, Ralph N. Joy, J. Kendall, Jr. Kelley, Clinton H. Kelley, Leßoy 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.9 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. Louer, Albert E. M. Lowe, Robert H. Lowell, Albert H. Lower, Martin E. McAloney, S. Holt McCarthy, F. Jordon McClintock, Richard P. McConnaughey, R. K. McDavitt, C. G., Jr. Macdonald, Charles J. McDonough, Henry G. MacDuffie, E. Allen McGinn, Sylvester Mcllwraith, 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., Js. Marshall, Harold T. Martyn, F. Sanford May, Robert L. Meader, Jerome C. Merrill, Francis E. Merry, Perley B. Metzer, Freeman W. Metzger, Albert L. Meyer, Vincent Millard, Stephen H. Milliken, Franklin A. 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, Chester A. Munson, Charles L. Murdough, Thomas G. Nathanson, Arthur L. Nemiah, Royal C. Neuman, Louis E. Newcomb, Russell L. Newhall, Paul H. Nichols, Richard M. Nickerson, Winfred M. Nigh, William H.8 Norstrand, H. Donald Oakes, Abner10 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. Petrie, Kenneth H. Pillsbury, Charles K. Pitney, William F. Poole, Edward N. Poor, Frank S. Potter, Everett A. Powers, Leland F. Quint, Maurice11 Raisbeck, Edward A., Jr. Ramsdell, Robert B. Randall, Richard Rankin, Walter M. Ravenscroft, Glenn B. Redman, Herbert J. 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.12, 13 Sagendorph, Richard S. Salinger, Robert D. 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. St. Clair, John P. Stack, Arthur E. Starke, George S. Starrett, Charles R. Stebbins, Ernest L. Steel, Edwin deH., Jr. Sterling, Raymond W. A. Stevens, Joseph B. Stopford, Robert M. Storer, Morris B. Sul'ivan, Frederick T. Sullivan, james F. Tagliabue, Charles R. Talbot, Lester Tarr, John C.14 Taylor, Clarence S. Thomas, Ralph L. Thompson, John G. Thompson, Reginald E. Thompson, Warner F. Tilton, Sumner B. Tomlinson, W. Bruce Tomlinson, Walter C. Trefethen, Herman J. Trefethen, Haro'd P. Traquair, James E. Truesdale, James W. Tully, George C. Tyler, Seward S. Uehlein, William F., Jr.3 Upham, Ralph H. Van Duyn, H. Norton Van Horn, WiPiam K. Volkhardt, William T. Waggener, Leslie, Jr.13 Waggener, Leslie, Sr.15 Wallace, T. 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. Williamson, Norris E. Willis, Emmett Wolfe, William B. Wolff, Lawrence Wollenhaupt. Arthur F. Woods, Wadleigh W. Worthington, Lelwyn J. Yaffe, George J. Zaeder, Benjamin

MEMORIAL GIFTS FROM:

1 Anthony H. Gleason '26.

2 Brother, Henry T.Bourne '23.

3 Anonymous.

4 Reginald W. Hanson'26.

5 Francis J. McCarthy '26.

6 Robert M. Stopford '26.

7 Herbert J. Redman '26.

8 Oliver A. Kobisk '26.

9 Brother, Joseph A.O' Leary '29.

10 David E. Harriman '26.

11 Brother, Edward D.Quint '25.

12 Robert E. Cleary '26.

13 Frank H. Granata '24.

,14 Donald E. Church '26.

15 Leslie Waggener, Jr.Charitable Trust.

The 1926 picnic at the Chieftain Motel before the Brown game in Hanover, October 12: L tor, front row Del and Billie Worthington, Bert Darling, Betsy Blunt, Gladys Church, DotNorstrand, Elsie Scoville, Mary Fisher, Marion Marshall, Det Harwood, Frances Redman, DotMitchell, Don Norstrand, Bob Carr; back row Larry Smith, Carle Blunt, Herb Darling, HubHarwood, Don Church, Larry Scoville, Hal Marshall, Herb Redman, Stew Orr, Steve Mitchell,Harry Fisher.

Bill King '27 and his wife Eleanor have purchased Dexter's Lodge in Sunapee, N.H., and will open it December 28 for the ski season. Son Michael '57 and daughter Sheila will also have a hand in this new family venture.

Secretary, 9301 Hamlin Ave., Evanston, Ill.

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

Bequest Chairman,