1926
This note is by way of apology to PhilBenjamin, Dick Mandel, and our fine Class Memorial Book Committee for making no mention of their great work in my Reunion Report. In any event, you all have received a copy of the Memorial Collection check list, know the purpose of the collection is to build within the Baker Library a special collection of illustrated books published in New England during Dartmouth's first century, 1769 to 1870. So gaze at the fair Indian Maiden on the cover of your check list, read Ray Nash's informative introduction, and browse through the list for fun.
June is Bride's month and '26ers get around. At Princeton immediately following Reunion Kay and I looked right in the church and into the surprised faces of Tomand Pearl Herlihy causing us to mutually wonder who was following whom but not keeping us from having a second and very satisfactory reunion under the marquee.
At Kenilworth, Ill., the following week another wedding turned into another minor '26 reunion by way of having our genial Class Chairman Tubber Weymouth meet me at O'Hare and his gracious Mary cicerone me around Winnetka, where I doffed my hat to that Yale Football Annex, otherwise known as New Trier Township High School as well as to Roycemore in Evanston. Most notable, however, was the 35th Wedding Anniversary reception at the Glenview Country Club of Tim and Grace Murdough where I surprised them and had a most pleasant visit with their delightful sons, Tom and Charles. An "All American" family the Murdoughs. Also there I had a fine but all too short visit with Dick Gunthorp who looked about as fit and flashy in his red coat as forty years ago. (Dick along with WarrenFellingham, Tubber Weymouth and visitor Hub Harwood were recent luncheon guests at his Chicago bank of our new Bequest Chairman, Henry Parker.)
Finally the hosts for my wedding party farewell brunch were Ross and Mary Welch who tickled our palates with their delicious fare and copious servings of perfectly chilled vintage '59 Genevriere and delighted our spirits with the warmth of their hospitality and the charm of their lovely home. It was a treat to visit with Ross and to meet his Mary. I hope they made mental notes not to miss the 45th.
Coincidentally at both these weddings the grooms were young Dartmouth men and in both instances we were on the bride's side of the aisle, so when Roger, the son of Ellenand Al Louer (our new Class Agent), was married July 30 in Washington, D. C., to the lovely Jani Thomas of Oil City, Pa., it was pleasant to be, via the groom's father, in the Dartmouth seats for a change. Roger was supported by his brother Eddie from Arizona as best man and by his younger brother Al who had flown in from London, England as groomsman. The three young Louers made a handsome and impressive trio. Dick and Bunny Mandel, Kay and myself in addition to Al and Ellen and JasonBrookes' daughter Amy were the '26ers in the supporting cast of witnesses.
Reunion regrets came by mail, cable and Western Union —By mail: from Jim Jenkins who went from New York to Nice to New York to California but not via Hanover and from Bob Williams who reported the lull in the picture and T.V. business required him "to live on the interest of what I owe." By cable: from Jack Mcllwraith on the high seas aboard the "S.S. Rotterdam" and from Francis Pann in Hong Kong who made the campus a couple of months too early. Time it better next time, Francis, and bring the lovely Cecelia with you! By Western Union: from Henry Weare in that faraway Chicago of the East, Bridgeport, Conn., who wished to be remembered to the Phi Sig's, New Hampshire Hall, Newtonites, and the rest of us but not necessarily in that order.
Robert D. Harrington is the newest representative on the Board of Overseers of the Hanover Inn for the term ending 6-30-67. Retiring from active membership on the Alumni Council are Herb Darling and vice president Tom Murdough. Continuing as active member and chairman of its regional organization committee is Del Worthington. This leaves Del the only 26'er on the active Council. Our thanks to all of them for their services to the College and the Class past, present and to come.
Those of us living in the New York Metropolitan Area are used to seeing GeorgeChampion quoted in the financial section of our newspapers, reading of his leadership in important charitable philanthropic and religious causes, or receiving well deserved honors for service in one of his varied fields of interest. The latest to come to your reporter's notice is the New York Tuck School Alumni Association's naming George as the recipient of their 1966 Distinguished Service award in the field of management.
"A Poet and a Critic Cited by Skidmore" column heading in the New York Times of June 6, 1966 revealed the Poet, who was also the Commencement speaker, to be DickEberhart, and the citation the Doctor of Letters degree.
And speaking of well deserved honors I have just received notice of Hal Marshall's election to the Board of Corporation of Morgan Memorial, Inc. of Boston. Hal's responsibilities are heavy, president of the giant Kendall Company of Boston; member of the Board of Directors of the National Shawmut Bank of Boston; the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company and the Liberty Mutual Insurance Companies. As we his classmates know, however, he bears them with a grace which is only matched by the ability with which he discharges them. I'll leave it to Hub and Smoke Signals to tell you of the work of the Morgan Memorial and close to note that on top of all this Hal serves Headmaster Ed Emerson and his girls as trustee of Stoneleigh Prospect Hill School in Greenfield, Mass.
A duty in connection with this job I will never become accustomed to and never like is having to report the death of classmates as I now have to report receiving July 5, 1966 a note from Herm Trefethen informing me of the death of Don Hoffman, Sunday, June 26, 1966 as a result of a sudden heart attack. Warm, generous, out-going, self-giving Don was so lively and so much himself a few short days before at Reunion I know what a blow this news is to all of you who were with him then. At least we can be grateful for his presence at Reunion. I also know that to a man the Class extends its heartfelt sympathy to his wife, Emma, and to his family. We share their grief in his loss.
We have just received word from the Alumni Association of Florida of the recent death in St. Petersburg of our talented classmate, Charles Rogers. To his widow, Louise, his son, Jonathan, and his daughter, Candace the Class extends its sincere sympathy.
Via Paul Kyburg comes this sad news of the Don Robinson family: "Shortly after our nice visit with you we got the shoeking news that our daughter in Minnesota had had a heart attack. We hurried out there and found that she had had a cardiac arrest, was in a complete coma, and she died the day following our arrival." I know every member of our class will want Don and Margaret to know that we genuinely and deeply sympathize with them in this tragic, tragic loss.
It is with genuine sorrow also that I report the death, July 4, 1966 of Carl Schipper's mother. The Class extends its understanding sympathy to Carl in her loss.
Your Secretary won't return from "accompanying his wife to Europe," as the Secretary of Alumni College Association, Ike Miller '22, wrote when I chickened out on Alumni College, until just before deadline time for our November Class Notes so please have a houseful of news of yourselves or others of the Class awaiting him at 8 Old Farm Road, Darien, Conn., on his return.
Secretary, 8 Old Farm Rd., Darien, Conn.
Treasurer, Washington Valley Rd., R.D. 1 Morristown, N. J. 07960
Bequest Chairman,
