1926

NON-VITAL STATISTICS

Our Class now numbers 493 ... 347 grads, 146 non-grads. This makes us the smallest of all classes since 1921, and accounts in part for our 1960 Alumni Fund objective being the smallest in the 1923-1933 group. We have lost a total of seventy classmates... 39 of these in the last ten years, nineteen in the last three years. Somewhat less depressing are the Alumni Fund figures showing that we have not yet reached our maximum "Individual Giving Power." We do not enter that nine-year peak-period till two years from now. For this year's Fund Campaign, Class Chairman Reg Hanson has a strong team of Regional Agents. Tubber Weymouth, now fully recovered from the birth of a fourth grandchild, will handle the entire Midwest. Harold Trefethen will take care of New England. (Incidentally, it's easier now to tell the Trefethen twins apart - bachelor is Harold!) In the New York area, twelve District Captains will be coordinated by Don Hopkins and Bob Stopford.

The Chicago Alumni Fund luncheon was ably and wittily M.C.'d by Hank Parker. Al Louer, Jim Oberlander and Bob May completed the '26 delegation. At the Dartmouth Dinner Dance that evening, the Tom Murdoughs, Al Louers and Henry Parkers were on hand, to hear the amply amplified laryngitic whisper of President Dickey.

IMPRESSIVE HONORS

Ken Andler was elected president of the First National Bank of Newport, N. H. Ken has served as a director of this bank since 1947, vice president since 1950. The National Association of Retail Clothiers and Furnishers has elected John P. Heavenrich, of Whalings, Detroit, vice president. Our Class Chairman, Hal Marshall, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Shawmut Bank of Boston. We quote the Boston Globe:

A native of Boston and a resident of Dover. Marshall joined the sales staff of the Kendall Company after graduating from Dartmouth, class of 1926. In 1950 he was made director of merchandising and in the same year was elected vice president and director of sales. In 1951 he was elected to the board of directors.

He has served as president, Sharon Civic Foundation; president, Sharon Country Club; chairman, Dover Heart Fund; chairman, class 1926 Dartmouth; chairman, Medical Section, Sharon Civil Defense; chairman. Trustees Intercollegiate Athletics Study Committee, Dartmouth; member, Sharon Warrant Committee and American Management Assn. Marketing Council.

Bob Salinger has been named a director, vice president and general counsel of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation. Bob has been associated with that firm's law department since 1932, and has been general attorney since 1955. The Library of Congress announces that:

Richard Eberhart, who is serving as Consultant in Poetry in English to the Library of Congress for the 1959-60 term, has been reappointed to that post for the 1960-61 term by Librarian of Congress, L. Quincy Mumford.

Mr. Eberhart is on leave of absence from Dartmouth College, which has granted him an extension of leave to enable him to continue his duties at the Library of Congress for a second term. His initial appointment was for a one-year term which began in September 1959.

Mr. Eberhart, professor of English and poet in residence at Dartmouth, is the author of nearly a dozen volumes of poetry and winner of several poetry awards.

Since Mr. Eberhart's first appointment to the Library of Congress consultantship was announced in March 1959, he has been appointed by President Eisenhower to the Advisory Committee on the Arts to help plan for the National Cultural Center, and has been elected to membership in the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

A Brattleboro, Vt., clipping adds some interesting facts to our April items on OzzieFitts. "Fitts is the first New Englander ever to be named to this American Bar Association top office. He is the son of the late Clarke C. Fitts, former attorney general of Vermont. He was president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Vermont 1942 to 1946. For a year and a half before he entered military service in World War II in the Judge Advocate General's Department, he was reporter of decisions of the Vermont Supreme Court."

The program of the International Flower Show features a large picture of Chuck Webster, first vice-chairman of the show, and President of the Horticultural Society of New York. Wife Natalie, by the way, not to be outdone by her green-thumbed husband, is President of the Federated Garden Clubs of America.

IMPRESSIVE TRIPS

Hal Marshall, to South America. (Strictly business, he says.) Dick and Jo Gunthorp, Del and Billie Worthington, to Hawaii. (Strictly pleasure.) Al and Ellen Louer, to Rome, Athens, Istanbul (and a visit with Bill Hughes) and a cruise on the eastern Mediterranean. (Strictly terrific!)

AN IMPRESSIVE GUY

A Buffalo newspaper recently ran a feature article on Herb Darling. Here is just a part of it:—

When a busy contractor takes over the presidency of the YMCA, it must be assumed he has a vital interest in the city's young citizenry and is anxious to assist in promoting their welfare.

Herbert F. Darling Sr., 55, senior partner in the engineering contracting firm bearing his name, has that interest.

As further evidence of his widespread interests apart from company functions, Darling was named Hotel Statler Hilton's "Man of the Week" during last year's cancer drive. He also maintains a vital interest in the Cerebral Palsy Assn.

Darling's influence in the heavy construction industry is widespread. His company presently is sub-contractor for the relocation of sewers and water lines for the State Power Authority.

In recent years, some of his major jobs included: Sewer and water lines for the TNT plant at Lewiston. This was a rush job that involved 20 miles of sewers.

Construction of the Kensington drain along Amherst St. to quarry for the Buffalo Sewer Authority.

Terrace grade elimination and the piers for the north approach to Buffalo Skyway.

For the Town of Tonawanda, the Niagara River intake and tunnel for water treatment plant.

New road tunnel for the City of Niagara Falls and the water intake tunnel in Lake Ontario for Oswego.

The tremendous scope of these projects is evident in the fact that each represents a job costing well in excess of a million dollars.

Born in "White Plains, Darling graduated from Dartmouth College in 1926 and Thayer School of Engineering a year later.

He holds life memberships in the American Society of Civil Engineers, being a past president of the Buffalo Chapter, and the Society of American Military Engineers. He is on the board of overseers of Thayer School of Engineering and a trustee of Westminster Presbyterian Church.

NEW ADDRESSES

Patten D. Allen, 3900 Cathedral Ave., N.W., Washington 16, D. C; Thomas Herlihy Jr., 3201 W. 11 St., Wilmington, Del.; Dr. Arthur F. Cunningham, 1414 Woodcliff Road, Spokane 33, Wash.; John P. St. Clair, .1510 Fisher Bldg., Detroit, Mich.; James K. Somerville, 5560 Thomas Road, Sebastopol, Calif.

Eddie Dooley '26 (1), Congressman for NewYork's 26th district, is welcomed by Col. William F. Jackson, commanding officer of FortSlocum, N. Y., prior to an address before approximately 250 recent graduates of Slocum'sU.S. Army Information School.

Secretary, 9301 Hamlin Ave., Evanston, Ill.

Class Agent, 31 Downing St., Hingham, Mass.