1926
If you can remember when a long hot summer meant only sunny days with stretches appreciatively humid; if you can remember when from cradle to grave paternalism by his papa or his Uncle Sam was not an inalienable right of every little American boy, you are getting old and it is sad to me. Not that we '26ers are getting old, but that such memories in such a really short time should be old. Anyhow I hope your past summer, however rainy, was for all of you bright and happy. I also hope this fall and winter will be enlivened for all of us by news from each of you. See to it because these notes can only be as good as you make them. I hasten to add you have been doing so well over the summer that I am faced with a pleasant abundance of material which in an attempt to cover as fully as possible I will treat categorically and chronologically in order of receipt.
Honors Category - Able Smoke Signals Editor Hub Harwood joined the ranks of legum doctorum by receipt in June of an honorary doctor of Laws degree from Emerson College, Boston. The full citation is so fine I am requesting Hub to cast modesty to the winds and carry it in full in the next Smoke Signals, so that it can be read and shared by all.
Similarly from Florida State University News Service we learn that the Florida Psychology Association at its 20th annual convention awarded its first annual Distinguished Contribution Award to RichardW. Husband. As Dick said at the class picnic at Ed Emerson's farm (and what Ed and Peg do for the class each summer rates a special honors award itself): "This is doubly pleasurable as it is my own fellow colleagues who voted it for me and also being the first, it is that much more of an honor."
Del Worthington, as all readers of this MAGAZINE should know, is the new president of the Dartmouth Alumni Council. The only '26 man ever elected to this important post.
Old Herd Rider, Al Louer, under whose enthusiastic leadership this year has been laid the groundwork that will, with increased class support, next year bring us to the #1 spot in our division's Green Derby race, also belongs in this category. So do those workers cited by Al in his magnificent and characteristically modest report of the '26 family on our participation in the '67 Alumni Fund drive: Carle Blunt, Tubber Weymouth, and Herm Trefethen for general direction and special service; Lloyd Sanford, Don Norstrand and Chuck Webster for outstanding regional agents' performance; Bob Stopford for Special Gifts; Walt Rankin, Helen Weeks, Dolores Chipman, Ruth Millard, and Barbara Hayward for memorial gifts; and all the others.
Getting back to honoris causa, CourtneyBrown, Doctor in his own right by a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia, received an honorary doctorate in administration last June from the University of Sherbrooke, Canada. Impressive as "old flying fists" is in English you ought to read all about him in journalistic French particularly if you have a sense of idiom and a feel for words and are afflicted with a slightly pixieish sense of humor. For example I am sure his Canadian hosts never meant to imply our Courtney was "all wet," still how many of you knew the "doyen" of Columbia Graduate School of Business was born "in the Missouri" as well as "diplomed at Dartmouth." And speaking of learned economists I am grateful to our '26 Memorial Book Collection chairman, Phil Benjamin, whose excellent and witty message in September Smoke Signals I hope you keep in mind and look for opportunities to act on, for the following excerpts from the "Monessen Valley Independent" another economist classmate Dr. Ralph L. Thomas, professor economics at California State College who recently authored a book entitled "Policies Underlying Corporate Giving": "His unique combination of corporate background and academic stature peculiarly qualified Dr. Thomas to write such a book. After thirty successful years as a banker Dr. Thomas entered the teaching profession, added a master of letters and a Ph.D. to his B.S. and has been engaged since 1957 as a faculty member successively at the University of Pittsburgh, Ohio Northern, Edinboro State and California State."
And speaking of authors, if you missed Alex Laing's ('25) review of Dick Lattmore's latest book of poems, "The Stride of Time," I hope you did not miss Hudson Review Editor, Joseph Bennett's review in the New York Times Book Review wherein he speaks of Dick's "Genius for sensing the heart and root of language," and the "exquisiteness of the lyric translations of one of our remarkable poetic sensibilities" and concluded "his translations from the Greek seem destined to stand for generations." I close this honors category with the announcement that at the literary exercises last June of the Harvard Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the Phi Beta Kappa poet was our other Dick, Richard G. Eberhart, Professor English and Poet in Residence at Dartmouth College.
Progeny Category - Jerry Jones' son, Malcolm Jr. and Russ Webster's son Sam were accepted for the Class of 1971 entering this fall. Russ moreover became a fourtime grandfather, February 24. Pete and Ann Webster adding to the clan on that date Martha Hills Webster.
Ed Hanlon reports "Bill Farnsworth has a son living in Byram, Conn. Young Bill was turned down at Dartmouth but accepted at Yale. He thereupon came up to Hanover with the Yale swimming team and proceeded to set a new pool record."
On June 25 at the same time President Johnson and Premier Kosygin were meeting in Glassboro, N. J., a much earlier planned and far more fruitful event took place there, the marriage of Dean Chamberlin's son Christopher to Marlene Jetter of Glassboro. To quote Dean "Aside from lots of police, public and general pandemonium, the two parties did not bother each other."
The '26 annual summer reunion in Hanover this year was August 20 and on that date in Lafayette, Ind., Bill Forrest's granddaughter, Leslie Henry (the first grandchild of '26), her mother, Bill's Marion, was married to Rick Hutchins, a Purdue junior. Bill adds that his mother in her early 90's was on hand and he wishes he had her health. He goes on: "Amazing isn't it, to reach the stage of potential great, great parenthood?"
General Category - Dartmouth classmates' lawyer, Jim Sullivan and stockbroker Joe Batchelder have been playing golf together for 41 years. They qualified for the third flight in the Winchester, Mass., Member-Guest Tournament with a seven over par 78. Sports writer Frank Donovan says "The men are not as long off the tees as they were in 1923 when they met as college sophomores but their games are straight and they can still putt with the best of them. They are the oldest team in the tournament with an accumulative age of 126 years, but it is strokes not years that count." May they ever keep it up and their drives ever go straight, their putts true.
On May 29 the Newark News carried the announcement of the marriage on May 6 in Rockville, Md., of Jack Bickford of Morristown, N. J., and Mrs. Wilson Compton of New Vernon. The Class extends its congratulations and best wishes for great happiness to Jack and his bride.
Howie Mullin (left) receives the symbol of1927 leadership from former class president Bob Stevens.
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