1926
40TH REUNION JUNE 13-15
Harold Trefethen, chairman, and Russ Clark, treasurer, reported in early March that more than 120 classmates have already signed up for the '26 Frabjous Fortieth! During the past few months my notes have provided names of many classmates who plan to attend. By the time you receive this you will have received a more detailed listing of names prepared by Holt McAloney for our "Smoke Signals." There is no doubt but what the final count will show at least 135 classmates, plus many wives and some children, grandchildren and friends, in Hanover on June 13-15 to celebrate our Frabjous Fortieth! If you haven't already sent in your reservation form you better do so now. Mail it to Russ Clark, care of First National Bank of Boston, 67 Milk Street, Boston. A bang-up 3-day program has been planned for your enjoyment, so let's all head for the North Country in mid-June. Hal Trefethen assures you that the class tax ($35 per person) includes all events listed on the program including breakfast and all cocktail parties. (The only extra will be your room charge.)
It now looks as though more than a dozen couples will spend a few days at the Lake Morev Inn (Fairlee, Vt.) immediately prior to our 40th (June 13-15) reunion. This includes Mike McClintock, Dick Burlmgame, Bob Cleary, Fred Hurd, Snipe Esquerre, Ritchie Smith, Nate Parker, John Gearhart, Ken Weeks, Kendall Foster, and doubtless nthprs For further details write Ken Weeks, or better yet, write Mr. Robert N. Ward, Manager, Lake Morey Inn, Fairlee, Vt. They have their own 18-hole golf course, excellent bathing beach, boats, canoes; perch, bass and pickerel fishing, all-weather tennis courts, excellent meals, etc., etc.
It is with extreme sorrow that I report the sudden death on Feb. 28 of our classmate Robert K. McConnaughey who died of a heart attack in his office (United States Court of Claims) in Washington, D. C. Further details will appear in the "In Memoriam" section of the May issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
George Snodgrass, for 27 years associated with the coal by-products department of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. (Pittsburgh), retired in late 1964 and moved to Easton, Md (Box 104, Rt. 1). His son Richard is now a senior at Deerfield Academy which was also George's preparatory school.
A review of Dick Haywood's latest masterpiece "Ancient Greece and the Near East" appeared on Page 4 of the February issue of this MAGAZINE.
Dolores Chipman, now living in Kettering, Ohio, recently returned East for a visit with Art and Madeline Wilcox, Ed and Evelyn Hanlon, and other friends.
Bob Cleary, recently in Arizona for a meeting of Board of Directors of the Milk Industry Foundation, got together with Del and Billee Worthington for a round of golf at Mountain Shadows in Scottsdale. Ritchie and Betty Smith, on their way home (San Francisco) from a hunting and fishing trip in Mexico, stopped in Tucson in mid-February for a visit with Del and Billee.
Hub Harwood, Board member and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Travelers Aid Association, will attend its Biennial Convention in San Juan, Puerto Rico May 10-12, 1966.
The Class Officers' Meetings in Hanover on May 13-14 will be attended by Hub Harwood, Ken Weeks, Ed Hanlon, Holt Mc-Aloney, Herm Trefethen, and Harold Trefethen. TTiese meetings afford an opportunity for all class officers (1898 to 1965) to reminisce and to exchange worthwhile ideas on class activities and operations.
Gail Bordon writes he is still actively operating his own company as a manufacturers' representative dealing primarily with the brass at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. (You will perhaps remember he was a Lt. Col. in the U.S. Air Force during W.W. II, 1941-45). The B-29's which he then flew were considered the greatest bombers ever built - but his flying is now a thing of the past long gone. Gail and Betty went to Turkey last June to attend son Gail's wedding in Samsun. Gail Jr. and his bride from Seattle have been in the Peace Corps in Turkey for almost two years. Gail and Betty hope to go to Lebanon this next winter, but in the meantime they expect to see many '26ers in Hanover this June. Gail reports that at a Dartmouth luncheon in January he met Tom Colt and "Tish" Hoerner. Tom is Director of the Dayton Art Institute (see Feb. issue of ALUMNI MAGAZINE), and for the past 20 years Dr. "Tish" has been Surgical Consultant at the Kettering Institute of Experimental Medicine in Dayton.
Don Norstrand was married on March 5 to Mrs. Elizabeth C. Briggs at the Union Church Chapel in Waban, Mass., and they have just returned from their honeymoon at St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. They are now at home at 9 Gammons Road, Waban.
Wedding bells will also be ringing before summer for Russ Clark, our vice chairman of the Reunion Committee. His engagement to Mrs. Betty Cudworth Berberian of Newton Highlands was announced the latter part of February.
Russ and Jane Webster record the birth of their first granddaughter, Sarah Pedersen, on Feb. 4, exactly a year to the day following birth of their first grandson, David E. Pederson, born Feb. 4, 1965. Russ and Jane expect to be in Hanover for our 40th reunion.
As Holt McAloney reported in "Smoke Signals," a gift of six insulated old-fashion and six highball glasses on a tray appropriately inscribed with the appreciation of the class of 1926 for their hospitality to so many of us at their farm "Hyla-Brook" at South Reading, Vt., was presented to Edand Peggy Emerson at the time of the Alumni Dinner in Boston on Feb. 1. Peggy responded in her gracious way in a note of thanks to the class with added footnote that they will not have to borrow glasses henceforth from the neighbors, and that a new bedroom and bath have been added at "Hyla-Brook" so it is hoped that classmates driving to Hanover for the 40th reunion will drop in to see them. The class will be happy to further know that Ed and Peggy's son Tom, who was so seriously injured when run down by a speeding automobile in Oct. 1964, has responded well to the medical rehabilitation program laid out for him these past 18 months.
Art Smith writes on occasions from Milwaukee that he is still an old bachelor, and reports his football is now confined only to observing a few Green Bay Packers games in the course of a season. He bitterly complains about the midwestern press coverage (or lack thereof) of Ivy League games. It took him two weeks after the close of the past season to find out that Dartmouth had won the championship. He has had only one trip East (1962) during the last several years when he stayed overnight with Hub andDet Harwood in Boston on his way from Maine back home to Wisconsin. He hopes, however, to make the 40th reunion.
Carl Schipper and Dick Nichols, partners in Boston's famous law firm of Goodwin, Proctor and Hoar, have moved from their State Street office to the 49th floor of the new Prudential Center Tower and invite visiting classmates to drop in and partake of their magnificent view of the city and its harbor. As this is the uppermost office floor in the tallest building, we might now say they are the top lawyers of Boston in more ways than one.
A couple of old notes from Jack Straight have just come to light and we belatedly find out that he and Ruth have also joined the ranks of grandparents. He is active with Citgo (Cities Service) in Bartlesville, Okla., and reports doing some traveling which has given him a chance to see an occasional classmate even though circumstances have prevented him from getting back to Hanover since graduation those 40 years ago. He saw Sew and Donna Mills while passing through Mississippi a couple of years ago and also gets to see King Dickason once or twice a year in Tulsa. Jack, too, hopes this will be the year to return to Hanover.
Speaking of Bartlesville, a Christmas card from Ed McClintock reports that he is retired now and is planning to live in Arizona.
1926 Class ReunionHanover - June 13-16, 1966
Secretary, Box 10299, Elmwood Branch Hartford, Conn. 06110
Class Agent, Skytop, Pa. 18357
