1926
Hub Harwood, Class Chairman, has just announced the appointment of the 40th Reunion Committee (June 1966), Chairman Harold Trefethen, and Vice-Chairman RussClark. Other committee members include Joseph M. Batchelder, G. Henry Bixby,Robert Carr, H. Donald Norstrand, StewartG. Orr, and Walter M. Rankin as consultant. Preliminary predictions proclaimed by three-fourths of the committee members, cruising up the Charles River on board the "S.S. Jenesther" en route to the Harvard Stadium, indicate that the 40th Reunion will far surpass all previous reunions.
1926 has been well represented at the Dartmouth football games this fall.
Those who journeyed to Hanover for the Penn game on October 6 found the weather most uncooperative. Our "Smoke Signals" Editor Chip Chipman has already reported it "a real soaker, weatherwise." Some sat through the first quarter of the game, and a few brave souls stayed to the bitter end. My '26 scouts reported seeing in town that weekend George Scott, Bob Patten, DaveHarriman, Herm Trefethen, Stew Orr, HalMarshall, Russ Newcomb, Hugh Morrison, and Sid Hayward, most of whom were accompanied by their wives. Brave souls all of them, but few saw each other because of the heavy rain.
At the Brown game in Providence on October 13, the weather was clear and warm. Only a handful of our class were seen there, including Hal and Marion Marshall and son Peter, Stew and Mary Lou Orr and son, David, Ken and Helen Weeks, Royal Baker, and Gordon and Delores Chipman.
It was a beautiful day at Hanover for the Holy Cross game on October 20. Once again my clear-eyed scouts reported seeing HankParker, George Tully, Doug Everett, CharlesMcKenna, Bob Patten, Herb Redman, HalMarshall, Jack Roberts, and Bob Carr. A crisp report from George Tully carried this message, "Henry Parker has a son (Henry IV) in the senior class - a glamour boy - which Henry was not! (and you may quote me on that)."
On October 27, twenty members of the Class, together with many of their wives, children and guests, brought together a total of 61 for the delightful cocktail hour and buffet luncheon, followed by 1926's unique Charles River cruise to the Harvard Stadium. We are all very much indebted to Don Norstrand who, in his most efficient and quiet manner, has for many years made all of the preparations for these delightful parties at Cambridge.
Those present included: — AI and EllenLouer, Hank and Jane Parker, Bob and AnnStopford, Joe and Peggy Batchelder, RussClark, Hub and Det Harwood, Wee and DotMcClintock, Stew and Mary Lou Orr, LeePowers, Walt and Billie Rankin, Herb andFran Redman, Henry and Grace Whitmore,Don Norstrand and his sister, Mrs. Signa Quayle, Harold and Dorothy Trefethen, Haland Marlon Marshall, Ken and HelenWeeks, Doug Everett, Steve Weston, DonSteele and Ed Emerson. Eunice Lenson, widow of George Ulysses Lenson, was also among those present!
Walt and Billie Rankin were honored at this 1926 gathering for their untiring efforts as chairmen of our delayed 35th Class Reunion. Hub Harwood presented them with a beautiful silver tray engraved with the Dartmouth seal and with an inscription reading "Walt and Billie Rankin, 35th Reunion Chairmen, Deep Appreciation, Dartmouth 1926, June 11-13, 1962." It really was a happy occasion and in the words of Parker Merrow '25, "I wisht some of you fellers could of ben along. You might of liked it."
An excellent and concise summary of the after-college activities of some of the members of Dartmouth National Championship Football Team of 1925 was reported by our Ed Hanlon in the October Class Notes of the Class of 1909, which was the Class of the late Jess Hawley who was well known by all of us. Many of you will want to turn back to the October ALUMNI MAGAZINE, Page 48, and read this excellent article covering many of our classmates including Nate Parker, George Tully, George Champion,Hal Marshall, Jim Oberlander, Charlie Starrett, Ed Dooley and Dutch Diehl.
Warren and Dorothy Fellingham returned from a European tour just in time for the wedding on September 14 of their son, Warren L. Jr. '56 to Miss Judith Cutler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Cutler '28 of Wilmette, Ill. Our Class, and the Harris Trust and Savings Bank, were well represented by Horace and Ruth Moderwell, and by Henry and Jane Parker.
Another '26 wedding took place on November 24 in Providence as Marsha Rankin, Smith '59, daughter of Walt and Billie Rankin was married in St. Martin's Church to Philip Lyon Piatt of Port Washington, Long Island. The groom, Lafayette '57, is a geologist in the employ of Lucius Pitkin, Inc., consultants to the Atomic Energy Commission. Marsha and Philip are living in Las Vegas, Nev., where the Lucius Pitkin organization is presently working.
Del Worthington, Senior Vice President of Cresmer, Woodward, O'Mara and Ormsbee, Inc. (National Advertising Agency for many leading newspapers throughout the United States and Canada) has deserted the windy skyscrapers of Chicago to establish a branch office for his company in a seven-story sky scraper in downtown Tucson, Ariz. Del and Billee are building a Spanish hacienda on the slopes of the Santa Catalina mountains, just north of Tucson, and hope to be moving into their now home by Christmas time.
At a testimonial dinner, held at the Hotel Astor on October 17, sponsored by the Protestant Council of the City of New York, George Champion, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Chase Manhattan Bank, was duly honored as the recipient of the Council's 1926 Award for Distinguished Public Service.
Word has just been received of the sudden death of classmate Leon E. McDonald at Chicago on September 3. An "In Memoriam" notice will appear in this or a subsequent issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
A recent letter from John Hammond (3304 "O" Street, N.W., Washington 7) indicates that in addition to his architectural office in Washington he also maintains an office in Christiansted, Virgin Islands, where he has been doing much tropical residential work for the past several years. His daughter Wynne is doing graduate work in dietetics at Tufts College (Boston) and his son John is now a Junior at American University in Washington. He reports that he rather frequently sees Bill WiHard our Washington banker.
You will be glad to know that Larry (Peewee) Wolff, after a long illness, is now back, at work part time at Frenkel & Company, New York City. Larry's home address is 24 Valley Road, Scarsdale, N. Y.
New addresses noted during the past month follow: — William S. Hughes, Apt. 3-A, 181 East 73rd St., New York 21, N. Y.; Thomas J. Needham Jr., 1319 Elizabeth Place, Jacksonville 5, Fla.; Donald T. Steele, 14 Ripley Road, Cohasset, Mass.; and Delwyn J. Worthington, Room 704, 199 North Stone Ave., Tucson, Ariz.
Let us consider this paragraph as a multiple and gigantic Christmas card .. . with each of us wishing to each of our old-time 1926 friends a "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" May yours be bright and happy ... and may the New Year be filled with joy and peace!
Secretary, Box 305, Elmwood Branch Hartford 10, Conn.
Treasurer, 6 Stanwich Rd., Greenwich, Conn.
