1926
The class organization for the '67 Alumni Fund under the leadership of Head Agent Al Louer follows: Special Gifts Chairman, Robert M. Stopford; Memorial Gifts Chairman, Walter M. Rankin. Regional chairmen: Massachusetts, H. Donald Norstrand; New England (outside of Massachusetts), Charles M. McKenna; Metropolitan New York (A), Charles D. Webster (B), Lloyd M. Sanford; Up-state New York, Charles W. Abbott; New Jersey, Lester Talbot; Pennsylvania, Nathan K. Parker; Southeast, Thomas Herlihy Jr.; Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, John P. Heavenrich; Illinois, Arthur B. Seibold Jr.; Colorado and miscellaneous including foreign, Tom R. Ryles Jr.; Northern California, Nevada, and Utah, Ritchie C. Smith; Arizona and Southern California, Delwyn J. Worthington.
Get behind these workers in the vineyard and put '26 over the top in the Green Derby competition. Our rightful place in our group is #1 Let's get there.
Kindness of Abe Winslow '2O, your Secretary takes pleasure in quoting "Pioneer Families Plan for Merger" from the Orinda (Calif.) Sun. "The close friendship between two families for three generations will culminate in a wedding June 24 at Orinda Community Church. The bride will be Deborah Marie Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ritchie Cornelius Smith of Orinda, and the groom Frank Wesley Wentworth, son of Mr. and Mr. William Pond Wentworth of Berkeley. The young couple's intentions to marry were revealed at a family dinner Christmas Day at the Santa Lucia Road residence of the bride-elect's parents. The affianced pair has known one another since they were young children. Their respective grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Selden Cornelius Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wesley Wentworth, came West to the Bay Area from New England at the beginning of the century after the men's close association as Dartmouth graduates. Both settled in the Thousand Oaks section of North Berkeley and the close relationship between the two families began. Both grandfathers were instrumental in the forming of Dartmouth Cove, an exclusive section at Echo Lake."
The following are gleanings from a returned questionnaire by (Charlie Zimmerman's '23 Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company General Agent in Chicago), Norrie Williamson, "Son Peter D. '59 is now in his third year residence at Yale-New Haven Hospital (neurology) and will teach at Yale." Norrie is in his second year as enrollment chairman for the Chicago district and refers to the job as "very rewarding and time-consuming work." Truer words were never uttered. Save for his innate modesty he might have added "nor for the present and future well being of the College is there more important work." So your Secretary will add it for him and on behalf of us all extend the appreciation and thanks of the Class for the job he is doing in this field.
Eagle eyed Ed Hanlon sent me a feature article from "The Plainsman" on Pete Barnes' Kansas City, Mo., securities firm H. O. Peet & Co., entitled "Warming Up the Cold Investor." After graduation Pete started with Lamson Brothers & Co. in Chicago and was sent to its Kansas City branch in 1927 as cashier. By 1939 he was a resident partner. He came with H. O. Peet in 1943, and has been senior partner since Mr. Peet retired in 1958 ... Pete's philosophy of creating warmth so that the smaller potential investor won't freeze up, which has been his trademark and is now the policy of his company, is the essence of the article.
George Tully, as Walt Armstrong before him, is fighting a tough foe with the will to win. Again it is to Ed Hanlon's thoughtfulness and his office photostat machine we are indebted for the following excerpts from Grace Tully's letter to Bob Cleary. "It was extremely nice to hear from you and from the many others in the class of 1926 at Dartmouth to whom you wrote and told of George's unfortunate illness. Both George and I are most grateful to you and the others for making so many of George's days in the past few weeks such happy ones. He watches for the mailman each day and is so pleased when an unexpected letter arrives so you can just imagine his delight when so many came so fast and so often. He is improving slowly and I hope before too long his recovery will be complete." Through Bob or Ed your Secretary hopes to be able to make periodic reports to the Class on George's progress. Meanwhile even though George and Grace must know how greatly his many friends admire his pluck and how sincerely they pray for his full recovery, still it would be nice of '26ers to keep his mailman busy with their well wishes.
With the election of Henry G. McDonough as Bronx County Democratic Party Leader the New York Press produced a spate of articles, profiles, biographies, etc., on Mac and his career. Charlie Jost, Ed Hanlon, Frank Healy all sent in clippings. Ed in addition sent me Mac's "Roll Call" letter to Chip with the comment "I know how much Chip appreciated this swell letter," so Class Notes decided to quote a paragraph from that letter it particularly liked. Here it is: "Community-wise, I have been a member of the Mayor's committee on unity, am now the chairman of the Bronx Council of the New York State Commission Against Discrimination and chairman of the 40th Precinct Youth Council. Also, a trustee of my parish church. I still reside in the community in which I was born and which probably is classified as a slum area. I have felt no need to travel as the whole world has come to me and if I were a linguist, which I am not, I would be speaking German, Gaelic, Italian, Yiddish, and now Spanish. To my regret, I speak none of these languages, having trouble enough with English, but I "became friends with my neighbors, who did. I am ever mindful of Dartmouth and what I learned has guided me ever since and the fellows I met and the bull sessions enjoyed have inspired me these many years."
Your Secretary almost can't read the New York papers without coming across a picture of or reference to classmates. For example the January 31 financial section of the Times carried a picture of the board chairmen of four prominent banks which might have been entitled "A Study in Contrasts — Mr. Stern, Mr. Amused, Mr. Jovial (George Champion), and Mr. Glum." Actually it was captioned "Chairman of Chase Defends Cut in Its Prime Rate." Next the February 5 Times carried a featured article Winterfest Puts a Bostonian Accent on Culture" which listed another classmate among the prominent visiting lecturers. Then Feb. 6 reading about the Bollingen Poetry Prize award he saw that one of the three award judges was that same classmate, former Bollingen Poetry Prize Winner and Dartmouth Professor of English, Dick Ebernart Finally another feature article at about the same time, this time in the Wall Street Journal, was headed "Paul Revere Corp. (Robert D. Harrington, president) formally issues offer for Avco Stock, discloses Merger Talks." Q.E.D.
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Class Agent, 12 Roger Williams Ave. Highland Park, Ill. 60035
