1926

My notes this month are a little "thin." The Christmas and New Year's holidays have kept us all busy doing things "with the family." Here are a few items of interest. But I'm sure many of you could add an item or two. Do write me, or send newspaper or magazine clippings covering activities of the '26 family.

Sally Blinn Lower, daughter of Martinand Nancy Lower, was married the day after Christmas to Charles P. Darrow '60 at the United Presbyterian Church in Westvale, N. Y. Nancy is a graduate of Pebble Hill School, Bradford Junior College, and is continuing her studies at the Katharine Gibbs School in New York. The groom, a member of C. and G., was president of the Dartmouth Glee Club. He is now studying for an M.B.A. degree at Columbia University. The bride's brother, James '63, Tuck '65, was in the wedding party. Her brother Martin A. '60, Tuck '61, was busy at home caring for his daughters while his wife gave birth to another daughter. For more than 20 years with Sealright Co., Inc. at Fulton, N. Y., most recently as vice president of that company, Marty retired last month. He expects to keep well occupied by the activities of his five granddaughters!

Another highlight in the story that had a modest start in Chicago in the spring of 1939 was the special NBC-TV adaption of Bob May's "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," a fully-animated color-filmed musical Christmas program presented early in December as a special holiday feature of the General Electric "Fantasy Hour." Bob's "Rudolph," one of the few genuine pieces of American folk-lore, is still tremendously popular, especially with the younger generation. To date "Rudolph" has sold 25 million books and 40 million records.

Mighty refreshing to hear from one of our loyal non-graduates - "Chim" (T. Chalmers) Curtis who was with us in Hanover for a couple of years but who graduated from Yale in 1927. Chim writes "I have always had a very warm spot for Dartmouth as well as for Yale. It is very difficult to find two better colleges and they both deserve the support from all their alumni, whether they graduated or whether they didn't."

Chim, now Chairman of the Board of First National Bank of Petoskey (Mich.), will soon round out 38 years with this family institution (since 1878)—one of the very few family banks still in existence in this country. His brother, Christopher F. '33, is president of the same bank. Both Chim and Chris are also active in the management of three wire products manufacturing companies in Michigan and Arkansas. Chim and Louise, married 33 years this June, have twin children. Thomas and Margaret, and four plus grandchildren.

Toastmaster of our 35th Reunion banquet, the distinguished Bill Hughes, has now explained a couple of recent address changes. He writes "Palmer (Puddin) and I spent five and a half years in Turkey where we lived in an apartment overlooking the beautiful Bosporus and on towards the mountains in Asia (snow-capped in the winter). We enjoyed every minute of it but were ready and happy to come back home in time for our 35th reunion. Last May I was asked to go to Paris for several months to help in one of our offices there. Needless to say, we were very glad to accommodate, hence we sailed early in June and spent almost four months in Paris. It was delightful. We are now back in our New York apartment, but looking forward to returning to our house in Andover (Mass.) when I retire in less than two years." Bill has been with Mobil Petroleum Company, Inc. and its affiliated companies, for the past 27 years. He and Palmer recently celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary.

After nearly 30 years in the employ of the United States Government, and the State of Vermont, Charlie McKenna reports that he retired early last month. Perhaps he has retired from his work with the State Unemployment Compensation Commission but I dare say that Charlie hasn't really retired. Former owner of the Dartmouth Trading Post, the Lamp Post Grill, and a real estate developer in Norwich, Helen and Charlie expect to do some sightseeing, both in this country and abroad.

Don Robinson, born and married in New Jersey, and for many years a commuter to the last stop on the Lehigh Valley, recently moved to Hampton Falls, N. H. For 27 years editor, and more recently owner and publisher of "The American Press," Don recently sold that magazine but continues his editorial and advertising activities under the name of The Don Robinson Company. He explains that this includes "a few sideline businesses of selling things. to newspaper publishers." (Very specific I must say!) He and his wife Margaret decided to give in to a long-term yen to live in New England, and influenced by the fact that their son Jerome B. '60 and his wife and their three children live in Maine, the elder Robinsons picked up stakes and moved to Hampton Falls, only an hour's drive from their son and his family. Address: Drinkwater Road, Hampton Falls, N. H.

Dr. George D. Snell of the Jackson Memorial Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Me., has been awarded a $106,183 research grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health for his investigation of "Mechanisms of Resistance to Tumor Transplant." This is the fifth grant he has received in five years of work on the project. George has been a member of the Laboratory's scientific staff for nearly thirty years, and is now a senior staff scientist. He holds a Research Cancer Award from the National Cancer Institute, and among the honors that have come to him is the Bertner Award for Fundamental Cancer Research in 1962.

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