1926

One of those sudden ills which sometimes hit our age group has knocked your scribe into a six-months' leave of absence from the office and at least three months' leave from these notes. More able guest editors will take over the next three issues while Kay and I, starting August 1 with the Dublin Horse Show will be vagabonding through Ireland, the UK, and France. At least those now are our plans as I hastily prepare these notes in July for October release. For their paucity your understanding, please. For the guest columnists please flood them with news of yourselves and classmates directly through Hub Harwood, editor of Smoke Signals who will be writing this column for November. His address is 59 Fairgreen Place, Chestnut Hill, Mass. Bob May will take over for the December issue and you can write him at 9301 Hamlin Ave., Evanston, Ill. And for January Ritchie Smith (Care City Transfer and Storage Company, Box 7794, San Francisco, Calif. 94119) will be happy to hear from you before he writes his column.

A note from Hub on June 21 said "We are off for Pittsburgh to help Nate andJane Parker celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary (ours, too, by coincidence) on Saturday." To Nate, Jane, Hub and Det, our sincere wishes for many more healthy and happy anniversaries together.

Remember how Midwesterners used to jibe at the sedateness of Easterners? Well our hardy Mid-America chairman, TubberWeymouth visiting son Skip '54 in Somerville, N. J., reported by phone that he and Mary were to be visited there shortly by Bob and Pensé Cleary but neither bribes, blandishments, nor six-lane highways could lure the Weymouths to visit Southwestern Connecticut classmates. There is some sap left in the old boy though. Witness his receiving from the Hadley School for the Blind, Winnetka, Ill., the 1969 Volunteer of the Year award with the following citation: "In recognition and appreciation of his extraordinary contributions to the development of new materials and techniques in its library, recording studio, and shipping room and in appreciation of his untiring volunteer service in multiple aspects of its comprehensive program." Not only that but he has persuaded Pee Wee Parker and AlLouer to volunteer when needed.

The Granite State News announces the appointment of Donald W. Robinson of Wolfeboro, N. H., as Public Information Chairman of the Wolfeboro Chapter of the American Red Cross. As background data the paper states Don moved to Wolfeboro in December 1968 after having resided for two years in Hampton Falls. The article continues: "He was for many years publisher and editor of 'The American Press' magazine, a trade journal for newspaper people. After selling the magazine six years ago he is now partially retired but continues to head a small company which sells features (columns, cartoons, comic strips, etc.) to the weekly newspapers of the United States. Since coming to Wolfeboro, Mr. Robinson has handled publicity for the annual hospital street fair and is currently serving on the board of trustees of the First Congregational Church."

According to the Paterson, N. J ., "Morning News" the class instructor for the Passaic County Civil Defense and Disaster Control organization's Radiological Monitoring course was none other than our own Tony Gleason. The course basically trained the students in the use of radiation detection and measuring devices, mathematical formulae to determine if radiation conditions are safe and the principles and effects of nuclear explosions. The students were staffers of the Passaic Hospital.

Dick Mandel's joining me for a foray on a private Hartford library for items for the 1926 Collection of Illustrated Books published in New England during Dartmouth's first century, 1709-1869 had to be cancelled by the sudden death of his mother from a heart attack on July 12. Bob May also lost his mother on May 15. To Dick, Bob and their families the sincere condolences of all '26.

Our intrepid traveler, Henry Bixby, sends a post card dated July 2 from Ulan Batour, Outer Mongolia, reading as follows: "We have visited Khabarovsk in Far East Russia, Irkutsk with its Lake Baikal. Now five days in Mongolia. At Karakorum we see where the dinosaurs were found and drink fermented mares' milk." Sure enough the face of the card shows big Asian women milking little Asian mares.

A Wah Hoo Wah for Jack Roberts upped from assistant v.p. to vice president of the First National Bank; for Dick Nichols, newly elected director of Dennison Manufacturing Company; for Norrie Williamson, named general agent emeritus of Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company's Chicago General Agency founded by his father in 1927.

That about does it for this time of year. I am going to miss all you characters this fall in the Bowl, at the Stadium and Memorial Field. Carry on for me. And a very early Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to each of you and yours.

Oh yes, Don Norstrand, how about a champagne brunch the last morning of Reunion? And somewhere along the line a talk on his travels by Henry Bixby?

With deep regrets, your Secretary must announce the passing of our classmates Charles Avery Eastman, Edward JeffressChaffin and Philip Mohr Benjamin all during the past summer. More details are carried in the "In Memoriam" section of this or a subsequent issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.

Secretary, 8 Old Farm Rd. Darien, Conn. 06820

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