1926

If "The Dartmouth's" eleven columns of coverage is any criterion, Dick Eberhart has made the biggest '26 news since we won (1925 readers, please detour) the historic Picture Fight... 36 years ago this month! As you may already have read, Dick was appointed Poetry Consultant at the Library of Congress ... succeeding none other than Robert Frost! "The Dartmouth's" front-page feature story has already been reprinted in Chip's Newsletter. Speaking as a strictly-juvenile jingler, we don't envy Dick the job of finding new and suitable rhymes for words like "Republican," "Eisenhower," or even "Rockefeller." (We can picture him pulling hard, if secretly, for the simpler rhyming problems presented by a "Nixon.") Speaking as a Classmate, however, we say: - "Congratulations! All '26 is proud."

While we're bragging, we're pleased to point out that the $359,970 our Glass contributed to the Capital Gifts Campaign put us in first place, of all classes, prior to the February receipt of the magnificent $500,,000 gift donated through the Class of 1915 by the Sloan Foundation. And we're still a mighty proud second! Continuing the financial vein ... Ford Whelden '25 has sent us some very complete figures for the Classes from 1913 through 1927. Among these fifteen Classes, our $291,283 Alumni Fund total ranks fourth; our $126,093 Memorial, Fund gift ranks second; our $1,073,477 Grand Total Gifts ranks third.

A Dartmouth College News Service release reports that "The nucleus of a collection of Wallace Stevens' poetry and letters has been given to Dartmouth College's Baker Library by Donald B. Hopkins, a New York advertising executive and alumnus of 1926, and his wife.

The collection was gathered by Mr. Hopkins with the aid of Samuel French Morse '36, Stevens expert and professor of English at Mount Holyoke College, to establish a memorial for his son, Nathaniel R. Hopkins II a Dartmouth graduate of 1954, who died in 1956 after a long illness.

The material includes several first editions of Stevens' work, among them "A Primitive Like an Orb," an essay on Raoul Dufy, and Three Academic Pieces." There are also five microfilm reels of his correspondence and a number of poetry magazines containing his work. . .

Wallace Stevens, an insurance executive with the Hartford, Conn., Accident and Indemnity Co., who won the Pulitzer Prize for his poetry, died in August 1955.

The gift of the valuable collection of Stevens' work was arranged through The Friends of Baker Library, and Mr. Hopkins plans to add to it.

Dutch Hall, assisted considerably by Dolores and three of their four children, has taken a commanding lead in the Contest for Class Grandpa. Dutch and Dolores can boast no less than seven grandchildren! We are happy to announce, however, that the Contest is a long way from over. At the request of Harold Trefethen ("to give an eligible bachelor like me a chance"), the closing date of the Contest has been changed to June 1996, our 70th Reunion!

NEW ADDRESSES:Henry Andretta, P.O. Box 296, Unionville, Conn.; Major Ralph S. McClure, 9076 Duarte Road, San Gabriel, Calif.; Richard Randall, 1446 .Burlington Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

Ritchie C. Smith '26, prominent citizen inOrinda, Calif., helps launch, by check, thedrive to provide Miramonte High School witha new swimming pool. The drive made it.

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