1926

Once again, that crazy mixed-up time gap. We write, near the close of the baseball season; you read, near the close of college football. With class football gatherings still unreportable, we'll make like an excerpt expert with recent letters and clippings.

First, a few excerpts from the Introduction to our Class Memorial Book, as written by Edward C. Lathem '51, Associate Librarian, submitted by our Memorial Book Chairman, Dick Mandel, who suggests that their publication here might influence alumni of other classes to contribute volumes our collection might use.

This record, which is meant to be kept with the 1926 Memorial Collection, is intended to serve two purposes:

First, it lists deceased members of the Class. Their names and dates of death are entered herein in fond remembrance and in testimony that this growing Collection stands as a memorial to them.

Secondly, the volume has, also, a separate section wherein are recorded special gifts, in the form either of books or money, made by individuals within the Class and others interested in enlarging and enriching the Memorial Collection. Such gifts, which supplement the provision for regular additions through the use of funds drawn from the Class treasury, are sometimes presented in honor of specific 1926 men. In this second section the names of all donors are gratefully entered and, when appropriate, the names of those in whose memory special gifts may have been made.

The Class of 1926, in providing a Dartmouth memorial and a memorial at Dartmouth to its deceased members, has elected to do so by the pur- chase of volumes for the College Library; moreover, it has resolved to build within the Library, through the careful acquisition of books within a single subject area, a special collection that will be of permanent usefulness and value to the College as a scholarly resource.

The name of its collection is "New England Book Illustration During Dartmouth's First Century." Its object in collecting within this previously unexplored field is to form a record of the growth and development, the kind and variety, of graphic illustration which appears in books published throughout the New England states from 1769 to 1869 - from the year of Dartmouth's chartering to. its centennial date.

A bit belatedly . . . here is Hub 5 Jar wood's report on '26's informal reunion held in Hanover last August:

"Those present included: Hal and Marian Marshall, Don and Dot Norstrand, Ed and Evelyn Hanlon, Herm and Dot Trefethen, Ken and Helen Weeks, Reg and Ethel Hanson, Steve and Ruth Millard, Sid and Barbara Hayward, Harry and Mary Fisher, Walt and Billy Rankin, Dick and Bunny Mandel, Red and Emmy Merrill, Tony and Janet Gleason, Dick and Dot Husband, the Russ Newcombs, Charlie and Helen McKenna, Doug Everett, Phil Benjamin, Ed Emerson and Hub and Det Harwood.

"On Friday evening the clans gathered in a sumptuous suite at the Inn for cocktails and then dined under the stars on the Terrace. Incidentally, the weather outdid itself for the entire weekend.

"As Ed Emerson invited the entire class to his Ascutney farm the next day, there was little golf. The delightful cocktail party and buffet luncheon given by Ed and Peggy was the highlight of Saturday. Of course, Bob and Louise Keene put on their usual outstanding picnic that evening with the golden corn dripping in butter and the hamburgers a foot thick.

"It was a great party and Walt Rankin teased us all with his outline of the official reunion in June."

Excerpts from Du Pont's press release announcing the October 1 retirement of FrankKnowles:

Mr. Knowles' entire 34-year career with the Du Pont Company has been spent at the Deepwater Point location. Starting as a chemist at the Jackson Laboratory there in 1927, he was transferred a year later to the "Ponsol" dyes area where he was named supervisor in 1929- In 1942 he became production superintendent of Kinetic Chemicals, Inc., a Du Pont subsidiary which later became the "Freon" Products Division of the Organic Chemicals Department. He was made superintendent of "Kinetic" in 1944. Two years later he advanced to assistant manager of the Chambers "Works and in 1948 was appointed manager.

Mr. Knowles is a member of the Board of Governors and member of the Board of Trustees of Rutgers University. He is a vice president of the Gloucester-Salem Council of the Boy Scouts of America, a member of the Region II Executive Board for the Boy Scouts of America (New York and New Jersey), and director of the regional "Y" in Penns Grove. Mr. Knowles is a director and past president of the South Jersey Manufacturers' Association and a director of the United Fund of Salem County. He is also a director of the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Delaware Metropolitan Project, Inc. Earlier this year, he received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Glassboro State College. He is a member of Theta Delta Chi and Alpha Chi Lambda fraternities.

Two of Mr. Knowles' three sons, Frank Jr., and Richard N., are employed by the Du Pont Company. The third, John K., is a teacher at the Mc- Donogh School, near Baltimore.

Ducky Heacox made the headlines with an address before the 300 delegates attending New York's annual State Recreation Conference. "Cecil E. Heacox, secretary of the state Conservation Department, said this week that New York's $75 million land acquisition program for public outdoor recreation will go down in history as one of the most outstanding accomplishments of this generation in the field of natural resources management." Most of Ducky's speech is too topical to be reprinted here . . . but we can't help being impressed by our clipping's final paragraph: "Heacox is a member of the American Fisheries society, the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and the Salmon and Trout association of London."

Capsules: Charley Bishop has been appointed supervisor of the commercial banking business of the newly formed Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. Formerly with Hanover's national division, Charley says his new position will require less traveling, and permit more regular attendance at Class gatherings. Hub Harwood has moved from the suburbs into (Boston) town. (New address illegible.) The Bob Mintons are away on a trip to Greece. The Bob Pattens have bought an old home on 25 acres in Sutton, N. H. Bob and Clyth spend weekends and vacations there now, and plan to move in permanently very soon. And Courtney (the irrepressible) Brown has been named a director of the Associated Dry Goods Corp.

CHANGES OF ADDRESS

Herman J. Arenovski, 87-A Troy Drive, Springoeld, N. J.; Norman R. Clarke, 7 Knowles Rd., Middle Haddam, Conn.; Clifford D. Hanson, P.O. Box 185, Westboro, Mass.; Harold S. Lewis, 1410 South 7th Ave., Maywood, Ill.; Edward W. Miller, 274 W. 115 St., New York, N. Y.; Major General William P. Farnsworth, Apt. 302, 10.1 Skyhill Rd., Alexandria, Va.; Donald K. Mackay, 75 Greenleaf St., Quincy, Mass.; Lt. Col. John D. Cannon, U.S. Marine Corps Hq., Washington 25, D. C.; John R. Dunn, 1000 Mason St., San Francisco, Calif.; Leon E. McDonald, 1437 Pratt Blvd., Chicago, Ill .; Edward N. Poole, 408 Briar Creek Rd., Clemmons, N. C.; loseph C. Savage, Maple Ave., Candia, N. H.; Charles R. Tagliabue, 319 N. Citrus, Los Angeles 36, Calif.; Gordon P. Chipman, R.F.D. 1, Pumpkin Hill, New Milford, Conn.; Carl H. Diehl, R.F.D. 2, Mine Rd., Somerville, N. I.; Kenneth S. Semple, 130 Main St., Andover, Mass.; Henry T. Meneely, 5 Shipwright Harbor, Annapolis, Md.; Stephen H. Millard, 2069 E. Webster St., Merrick, N. Y.; John G. Roberts, 37 Atherton St., Wyoming, Pa.

Secretary, 9301 Hamlin Ave., Evanston, Ill.

Treasurer, 6 Stanwich Rd., Greenwich, Conn.