1926
Retirement and travel at this time in the lives of 1926 men loom on our horizons as large as the harvest moon. This fall BobWilson has retirement plans from Curtiss Wright Company's Aeronautical Division in Wood Ridge, N. J., where he has many years of service. He will remain at his home in Wayne, N. J. except when he and his wife are not otherwise enjoying their anticipated trips.
Beg Hanson and Samie have made their retirement home in Tequesta, Fla., but plan to vacation in their native New England. Bruce Eaken and Kay had a most interesting trip with the Cleveland Council on World Affairs which took them to Japan, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Cambodia, Taipai, and Hawaii. Bruce is active in the field of law, but could be said to be basking in retirement after his devoted stint as Class Bequest Chairman.
Word from Dick Major indicates a switch from Mother Bell to Mother Earth. Dick was with the telephone company, but now has a ten-acre farm in Flat Rock, N. C. He reports good crops and keeps busy in church, business, and civic affairs. To reminisce a bit . . . Dick led the saxaphone sextet playing "Annabelle" between the halves at the 1924 Harvard game. It was instant success, and we won the game 6-0.
An accomplished pianist at Dartmouth, Bob Riotte made music his career specializing in the teaching of piano after graduating from Juilliard School. Bob and Fran live in Montclair, N. J., and spend a month each summer on Martha's Vineyard.
Additional travel notes have Doug Everett and Vida on a Round-the-World in How Many Days, Doug? Perk St. Clairand Arlene are on the Continent for a two-month stay. Mai Merrill and Ann are off for Australia via their winter home in Arizona. Our Class Treasurer, Jack Roberts took Dot on a "See America First" trip to the Grand Canyon, followed by a visit to see their son in Boston, followed by embarkation (for the first time) on the annual 1926 Charles River Cruise to the Harvard Stadium, followed by a general mailing of the 1970-'71 Class Dues bills. Jack is now home again in Morristown, N. J., taking care of the avalanche of checks as a result of the above mailing.
Prof. Richard Mann, son of Dick Mann of Kingston, Mass., received the E. Harris Harbison award for Gifted Teaching for 1970. This $10,000 award, the highest in teaching, is given to 10 out of the 4000 nominated. This is the first time the award has been given to a University of Michigan teacher and also the first time it has been given to a psychologist.
Dr. Mann who lives in Ann Arbor, Mich., with his wife and three children, received his A.B. Magna Cum Laude from Harvard and his A.M. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. The Class of 1926 salutes Dr. Mann for this high honor, as well as his proud father who originally hails from Quechee, Vt.
Oz Fitts, one of 1926's better known yachtsmen, and Dot have already long-range plans to cruise in Scandinavian waters next summer. Oz and Dot anchor their boat at Shelburne Harbor, Vt. (Where else would or could a Vermonter find deep water?) Wherever navigable waterways exist in USA, Canada, France, Ireland—the Fittses have found them and had exciting experiences in most of them.
Paul Dillingham, one-time "sweetest sax" in the Barbary Coast Band, relates from Binghampton, N. Y., that as a manufacturer's representative he has thus avoided retirement by the simple expedient of slowing down a bit. He and Betsy, happily married for 43 years, have two children (one, Paul Jr. '53 ) four grandchildren, all gratefully in good health.
For those searcher-outers of illustrated books published in New England 1769-1869 for the Dartmouth 1926 Memorial Book Collection at Baker Library . . . here is the Desiderata List for this month:
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN A BLIND MAN AND DEATH, by Richard Standfast, Boston: Printed and sold at John Bogles Printing Office in Marlborough Street, 1773.
THE HOLY BIBLE ABRIDGED: OR, THE HISTORY OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS ILLUSTRATED WITH NOTES, AND ADORNED WITH CUTS, for use of children . . . Boston: Printed by Robert Hodge for Nathaniel Coverly (ca. 1782).
Six residents of Sanborn Hall in the twenties. The center four, Lyn White, LarryLeavitt, Lou Kimball and Bill Jenkins, '25 classmates, gathered at "Lake Sunapee,N. H., last summer for the first time since the picture was taken. The others areDon Lyman '25, right, and Frosty Howland '26 on the left.
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