1926

Starting our fifth secretarial year, with a whole summer's accumulation of news ... and, from the editors, a two-page epistle lauding the virtues of brevity. So, we'll briefly summer-ize ... and stash the plumper paragraphs for leaner days ahead. Considering the fact that our "mean age" (if you'll pardon the expression) is fast approaching sixty, we still manage to make our share of news.

CLASS ACHIEVEMENTS

Thanks to the unceasing labors of RegHanson and his corps of assistant Class Agents, and some generous eleventh-hour gifts, '26 went over the top in the 1961 Alumni Fund Campaign, with a grand total of $31,290... fourth highest among all classes. (Candor compels us to point out that the three to beat us were our neighboring classes in the roaring mid-'20's.) To all who worked, and to all who contributed, congratulations on a job well done.

The Class Memorial Book Collection has continued to grow, and has received its first gift from an alumnus of another class. Sinclair Hitchings '54 has generously donated four illustrated books published in New England in the early 1800's. In addition. Anna (the widow of Chris) Bailey has written Dick Mandel offering our Memorial Collection "a number of Early New England illustrated and printed books from our library and attic, including a Holy Bible published in Concord, N. H., in 1849 and a Dictionary of English Language published in Boston in 1840. Also, lots of old organ hymnals, and a good collection of old almanacs."

INDIVIDUAL HONORS

Gordon Chipman was elected vice president of the Class Newsletter Editors Association ... an honor well deserved. Since modesty prevented Chip from writing himself a biographical letter last year (for Newsletter publication), we'll quote from the College release: —

Mr. Chipman has been sales manager of the Denominator Co., manufacturers of grouped manual counters, since 1953. He received a Master's degree from Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, then entered hotel work as field auditor for the Hotels Statler Co., Inc. He was auditor of the Fenway Hall Hotel in Cleveland in 1940-43, director of training for the Hotels Statler in 1943-46, then proprietor of the Hotel Chip-Ahoy in Cocoa, Fla., for the next six years. He was editor of the revised edition of a standard text on "Hotel Accounting" and has written several articles for hotel management publications.

Charley Collins, principal of Everett High School, was awarded the honorary Doctor of Education degree at Suffolk University's 1961 commencement exercises in Boston. The recently published "Intravascular Phenomena," by Dr. Edmund P. Fowler details the proceedings of the meeting Ed ran in Washington in 1959, with Sir Howard Florey as the guest of honor, when Ed was Chairman of the Microcirculatory Conference. In addition, he was recently made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. We'll let Ed tell of it: -

Olivia and I ran over to Dublin for a weekend and were regaled with quantities of liquor, a magnificent rugby game between England and Ireland and a ceremonial dinner complete with mitres, ceremonial swords and "decorations." Then I was walked up to the dais and was asked to swear that I was over 25 years of age and would not sell medicines. I was escorted the entire distance by two eminent surgeons each carrying a barber pole. Afterwards there was a dinner with speeches and again much whisky and wine. Altogether quite a shindig!

Norm Clarke, for the past fifteen years executive director of Albany's Clinton Square Neighborhood Association, has become executive director of Hartford's Church Homes, an organization formed by a group of Hartford churches pioneering in the field of housing for the aged. E. Cummings "Ted"Parker has been elected a director of Blair and Co., and will be in charge of that brokerage firm's Chicago office. Tom Murdough was elected vice president and Bob May a member of the executive committee of the General Association of Dartmouth Alumni. And Courtney Brown was one of 26 prominent citizens invited by Secretary of Commerce Luther H. Hodges to draft a code of ethics for modern business.

MISCELLANY

Small-World Dept. - The suit brought by the Hanover Shoe Co., Inc., against the United Shoe Machinery Corp. has been assigned to Federal Judge Edwin D. Steel . . . with Robert D. Salinger as United Shoe Machinery's General Counsel. This coincidental bit was supplied by eagle-eyed Ed Hanlon, who also wrote in considerable detail regarding Charlie Singleton (see below) and reported that wife Evelyn Hanlon won the golfing Thunder Mug at '26's informal August reunion. Dick Eberhart has ended his term as Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress. During two weeks in Bermuda, Ken and Helen Weeks ran across Dick andKatharine Mann and Bob and Pense Cleary. The Bermuda Weekly billed Bob as "President of the Advisors Research Council." (Sounds even more impressive than Bob's old-time nick-name, "Million Dollar Cleary.") "Shorty" and Margaret Bengston's daughter Ann had to make a 15,000-mile round-trip last winter in order to come home for the Christmas holidays. It seems she transferred for one year to Silliman College in the Philippines!

With sorrow, we report the death of Charlie Singleton.... In Memoriam will appear in November. The sympathy of the Class has been extended to Johnny Manser, on the loss of his wife Elise. Wee McClintock and Dutch Hall represented '26 at the funeral. And we have just received word that LuChiang Wu, who was with us in Hanover junior year, died in 1936, in Canton, China.

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