1926

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Reunion Chairman Don Norstrand announces the dates for our 45th reunion in 1970 to be Monday, June 15 through Wednesday, June 17. Whatever your travel plans for 1970 be sure they include '26's Philemelic Forty-fifth. Let nothing interfere with you and yours being there. And for heaven's sake compete for that fifth. Think up a better name than that

Carl Allen has been elected a member of the Board of Trustees of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York City. A vice president of the General Motors Corporation since 1962, he is coordinator of their pension fund investments. Before joining GM, he served for six years as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Earlier he was president of Campbell, Wyant and Cannon Foundry Co. of Muskegon, Mich., and vice president of the National City Bank of New York.

On a card from the Royal Danieli in Venice, with a fabulous photo of St. Mark's Basin Bleek Williams writes: "Marion and I are enjoying a five-week vacation in Italy. Our son joined us for two weeks. It has been great. Not retired but taking a little more time off." Thanks, Bleek, and arrivederci.

From the land of the Fountain Blue, Miami, the magic city, Ed Hanlon writes: "Winding up the recuperation here. Hope to be back on the job by the middle of May." We hope so too, Ed.

From his Belleview-Biltmore, Belleair, Fla., on the other coast of Florida, DonChurch writes "Dartmouth's Dick Eberhart really gets around. Enclosed is a clip from this morning's 'Tampa Tribune.' " He goes on "Have seen Dick Burlingame on several occasions and we have promised each other a golf match, but to this point it has not developed. This has been an exceptionally busy winter season." Cheer up, Don. You will soon be in Whitefield. These observations of Dick's from the "Tampa Tribune": "The great thing about poetry is its generalizing power. It is able to make profound generalizations about the significance of our short stay on earth, to evaluate what we do or cannot do and to set forth feelings which in the retrospect of history give a time its tone and character. For instance if you want to discover the feeling of England in the 1820's you could do nothing better than read Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Byron, Shelley, Keats and others. Poetry lives at the heart of an age but is associated with its cultural values rather than its political values."

In Evanston, Ill., Tom Murdough was elected an honorary director of the American Hospital Supply Corporation. He is only the fourth man in the company's history to receive the honor. He began his association with the corporation in 1936 and became its president in 1954. He was elected to the board of directors the same year and in 1964 was named vice-chairman of the board. He retired from his full-time responsibilities this year but continues as a consultant. Tom has served Dartmouth as a member of the Alumni Council and as a generous donor of building and scholarship funds.

The official '26 contingent at this year's annual class officers weekend consisted of Hayward (Barbara), editress of class notes of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, Weymouth, Harwood, Norstrand, Roberts, and Esquerre. Greatly missed were Mary Weymouth and Det Harwood, but present were the wives of the last three men. Well, almost. Kay flew up from Washington, D. C., to join us. Driving alone up Route 91 of a glorious May day I could not help reflecting that at 70 to 80 M.P.H. nature cannot best be enjoyed but her beauty is not lost. The further up the winding Connecticut River valley you go the better the vistas become till all at once there ahead is ever-changing Ascutney. With it in view the pulse speeds, the blood warms because between it and Smart's is God's Country.

Thanks to the presence of permanent Hanoverians Dan and Sally Drury, Hal andCollie Gibson, and Dick Eberhart the highlight of the weekend was a '26 dinner at the Country Fare in East Thetford preceded by a swinging tailgate bash. Commodore Norstrand released the flaps on his General Motors Road Plane for a perfect three-pomt landing at the Inn's parking lot and Vermont ain't seen anything like it since Henry Ford and the Wright Brothers started it all. A cold had bedded Johnny Manser but the pleasure of his company was warmly felt over breakfast the following morning at the Inn. The Sage of Hanover sports gave us a dissertation on the fitness of all the Big Green teams versus the fearsome improvements in all their opponents that was a gem of coachly double talk. At this rate Johnny can soon take over the coaches' alumni speeches for them.

Deadline time for these June notes about equals the halfway mark in the '26 Alumni Fund Drive and we are now only about equal to last year. By publication time every good '26er should have come to the aid of the College via his '26 Alumni Fund contribution. Enough said for any who yet have not. Help Al Louer and his assistant agents over the top. Put '26 in the Green Derby circle ,

Anyone able to answer present to a '26 roster call including the names of the following classmates please report to your secretary: Harold F. Bingham, Richard J. Bammann, Clement L. Kingman, Theodore A. Rambeau, Dan C. Staton Jr., Jared D. Wolfe 3rd, and Shao-Kuang Yu. These men have not been heard from in 25 years and Alumni Records would welcome any news from or about them.

Doane Arnold '27 (l) was honored by hisclass at a dinner in New York with DonMcCall, regional chairman, presiding.

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