1926
A month of miscellany, as our several hundred separate paths continue to criss-cross the map ... meeting in occasional class or college get-togethers, then off again on our separate ways. Biggest November-December get-together was the Princeton game, attended by '26-ers: - Charlie and Lois Abbott, Paul Allen, Bill Barclay, Phil Benjamin, Jack Bickford, Charlie and Edith Bishop, Ed Chaffin, Bob and Pensé Cleary, Snipe and Kay Esquerre, Tom and Marion Floyd-Jones, Walt Granville-Smith, Fred and Kay Hurd, Charlie Jost, Jake and Evy Jacobus, Al Louer, Holt and Lil McAloney, - Charlie Munson, Herb and Frances Redman, Jack and Dot Roberts, Bob and Dot Salinger, Les and Dot Talbot, Herm Trefethen, Brant Wallace, Bill and Florence Willard, and Larry Wolff.
Alumni Fund Planning Dinners were attended by Gordon Chipman, Tony Gleason, Ed Hanlon, Fred Hurd and George Scott in New York . . . and by Al Louer, Hank Parker, Tubber Weymouth and Bob May in Chicago. The annual New York Class Dinner is reported by Ed Hanlon: - "Herm Trefethen was a very non-disciplinary chairman. Chip talked about the Bulletin and the Memorial Book program, and I reviewed the Class finances briefly. Congressman Ed Dooley talked about his Washington experiences in a light and interesting fashion. More interesting than light, perhaps, as our erstwhile star quarterback now weighs-in at 255. Despite atrocious weather, sixteen hardy classmates assembled, including: - Lloyd Sanford, Fred Hurd, Bob Stopford, Holt McAloney, Tony Gleason, George Scott, Les Talbot, Paul Allen, Steve Millard, Andy O'Conner, Larry Wolff, and Bob Cleary."
A first-time-in-years report on Joe Kinney may be credited to the fact that Joe cross-countries regularly from Pennsylvania to Michigan and Maine. On a recent stop-over in Boston, he phoned Hub Harwood, who reports: -
As President and owner of the Joseph Kinney Metals Co. Inc., Joe is still the hustling young businessman. He has a patent for a metal tubing that can withstand extreme heats and is used in jet and missile engines. From his home base in Carnegie, Penna., he travels regularly to Detroit and Maine, to attend directors' meetings of other companies in the metals and engineering fields. Joe has three sons and one daughter . . . the eldest thirty, the youngest eighteen.
Henry Blake was among the 650 people who attended the Medford (Mass.) reception honoring the 30th anniversary of the priesthood of Rev. Richard P. McClintock. Those honoring "Wee" included members of his parish (Medford's Grace Episcopal Church), faculty and students of Tufts University, townspeople, and delegations from his former parishes in Lancaster and Littleton, N. H.; Watertown, N. Y., and Auburndale, Mass. The newspapers reported that "The Rector was presented with a purse" (whose bulge, we trust, befitted the occasion) . . . and that: -
Mr. McClintock has served as rector in Medford for five years. Born in Winthrop, he graduated from Dartmouth College where he played football. He later studied at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge and did postgraduate work at Boston University.
While in Auburndale he served as a member of the Newton Recreation Commission, the Old Age Assistance Board, and the governing board of the Community Council. He was also chaplain of the Newton Fire and Police Departments and a director of the Newton Rotary Club.
Ken Weeks believes in keeping the young 'uns close to home: - "Son Ken Jr. and wife Sally (and their son Ken II) have nearly completed a new house in Farmington, a half mile from where we live in West Hartford. They will move in by New Year's. Ken Jr. works with me at the Walton Company, as Purchasing Agent and Sales Manager. Daughter Carolyn and husband have also built a new house, almost next door to Ken and Sally." Ken and Helen will desert their young, this spring, for seven weeks in Europe.
Russ Newcomb's path has taken him back to Norwich, Vt., where (since 1955) he has run "Russell Newcomb's North Country Store," in which emporium he was recently pictured (in "Vermont Life") slicing cheese for Norwich's Olympic skier, Betsy Snite. As you'd expect of a Marine Corps General, Bill Stickney's path has taken him to many climes, "from the Halls of Montezuma" to the Cleveland, Ohio, American Legion Veterans' Day luncheon, where Bill was the principal speaker. The Cleveland papers pointed out, among other things, that Bill enlisted in the Navy at the age of eighteen, served aboard submarine chasers during World War I; was commissioned a lieutenant in the Marine Corps Reserve in 1930; saw service in Guadalcanal, New Guinea, Saipan and Japan during World War II.
Two elections: - Sid Hayward, to the Lebanon Regional Airport Authority; Stew Orr, to the Board of Trustees of the Leland Powers School of Radio, Television and Theatre.
One engagement: - Walter and Jean Granville-Smith's daughter Beverly, to George A. Bullwinkel. And tragedy: - the sudden passing of Chris Bailey (In Memoriam in March).
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