1926

'26-gun salutes to Ken Weeks and DickMandel for Class services above and beyond the ordinary call of duty. Ken initiated, assembled, produced and helped finance the fine new Class Directory most of you have already received. A compact, complete and workmanlike job. (And a special boon to your Secretary, in addressing birthday cards!)

Dick Mandel is and has been the moving force behind our new Class Memorial Book program. As a result of Dick's initiative, and two meetings in Hanover, the 1926 Memorial Book Fund will henceforth be devoted to acquiring for Baker Library, in the name of our departed classmates, a collection of books on New England book illustration during Dartmouth's first century, 1769-1869. The names of these classmates will be inscribed in a Memorial Volume to be kept alongside the collection. Working with Chairman Mandel in this great endeavor are a '26 Committee of Dick Nichols, Phil Benjamin, Herb Darling and Sid Hayward ... together with Edward C. Lathem, Assistant Librarian; Prof. Herbert F. West, Director of the Friends of the Dartmouth Library; and Prof. Ray Nash, Lecturer in Art.

Since we are putting these notes togetheron the afternoon of the Penn game, we haveno football gatherings to report. In fact,little news of any kind. (From October feastto November famine!) We received a copyof Congressman Ed Dooley's Fall Newsletterto his constituents ... including the following:

By the time you receive this newsletter I will have spent all but a few months of four successive years in the Congress of the United States. The experience has been most gratifying. To work with Representatives and Senators from all over the country, to witness"* their intense patriotism and dedication to our nation, is inspiring to say the least. With your continuing support I shall be privileged to serve you in the 87th Congress.

Some excerpts from letters received during the summer. From Bob Minton: "I am still on the New York Stock Exchange, and manage to travel a bit. Golf and painting are my hobbies, and for 56 I do not feel too badly, except when I look in the mirror.'" From Sunny Tilton: "I'm practicing law at the same old stand,, still playing some golf, with my handicap going up one or two strokes every year, instead of down. Do quite a lot of fishing and woodworking. I see BobHarrington quite frequently, George Duffy less frequently, and Dick Sagendorph quite often." And a summer letter from BobCleary:

Our daughter, Susan, was married a year ago last June and, since then, has been living in San Francisco. Our first grandchild is expected in another two weeks and we are in a dither awaiting the big event.

John and Robo, now 18 and 17, are working this summer on ranches - one in Montana and one in Wyoming. From all reports, they are enjoying the experience immensely.

John's great interest in life is hockey. He captained the Holderness team last year and will do so again this winter. Right now, he is spending two weeks in a Canadian hockey clinic in Taber, Alberta. It will be quite an experience for him to be competing against some of the top Canadian boys.

We have just received word of the death of Joe Donohue. An In Memoriam notice will appear in a later issue.

Doane Arnold '27 recently completed thirty years of service with New England Life. He joined the company in 1930 as an under-writer and is presently a second vice president.

The "Collected Poems, 1930-1960" of RichardEberhart '26 were published in October byOxford University Press. The book includes51 new poems. Eberhart is now consultant inPoetry at the Library of Congress.

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