1926

As the money pours into Treasurer JackRoberts' coffers for class dues and class memorial book fund, his "Dear Jack" letters also bring in news of the 1926 constituency wherever located.

From Phoenix, Ariz., Frank Poor andClaire advise that their daughter Sally married John Spellman (University of Illinois) on Oct. 10. The 45th reunion had to be by-passed due to previous travel plans to visit Oregon, Victoria, Banff, Lake Louise, and Fraser River Canyon in British Columbia. Frank promises they will be on hand for the 50th. What the doctors described as a "small coronary" put Frank in the hospital in September, but he is now home doing what he should to get back to normalcy.

Charlie Jost and Lil were on the Ivy League circuit during the fall taking in Princeton, Yale, and Harvard games. Charlie reports a scattering of grandchildren: three in California, one in Troy, N.Y., and one and three ninths in New Hampshire.

From Pittsburgh Nate Parker regrets that he and Jane did not see the Big Green in action. Jane was taken ill in August but is coming along very well now.

With no sign of retirement up to now—Don Church and Gladys are back at the old stand (hard to take) at Belleview Biltmore, Clearwater, Fla.

Jim Traquair and Retta having traveled from Cincinati to be at the 45th reunion in June proceeded to win in a raffle, put on by the Dartmouth Club of Hanover, two tickets for the Princeton game. On their October return trip they were not disappointed in the game, the weather, the New England foliage or the multitudinous '26 doings.

In "the wonderful desert outpost" of Tucson, Ariz., as Del Worthington describes it, there are many things to keep you busy and happy. Del eases up in one field of endeavor and launches forth in two others. He is now honorary chairman of American Atomics Corp., an outfit he was instrumental in starting seven years ago to make self luminous light sources and radiation sources from nuclear radio isotopes. Forthwith, he took on the distributorship of the remainder of the Dartmouth Medals through the World of Coins in Tucson, as well as accepting the general chairmanship of the 1971 Heart Fund for Southern Arizona.

Harry Weare, now semi-retired in his home in Stratford, Conn., regretted missing the 45th. Harry unfortunately lost his wife Eleanor and oldest sister Marge within the year. Both had been visitors in Hanover for class affairs over the years and will be missed by 1926.

Rancho Bernardo, San Diego, Calif., is the letterhead under which Art Selbold describes his retirement living since last March. He was a senior partner in a patent law firm with which he had been associated since graduation from law school, with the exception of three years spent in the U.S. Navy in both the Atlantic and Pacific. Art reports two married daughters and "two very cute granddaughters in Tucson."

More far-west news has Art Forrest happy, healthy, and busy in San Antonio, Tex., associated with the North Side Recorder. Art remarried two years ago and we assume it was with a Texas accent that he reported a combined total of fourteen grandchildren.

Bill Sharp has posed a 1926 mystery and seeks a solution from any source. He was given a bronze plaque of the Dartmouth Seal that was found under the floor of a building about 100 years old on the site of the British surrender at Saratoga—not far from Bill's home in Greenwich, N.Y. No explanation has yet been forthcoming as to whose it was or how it got there. Bill has given the plaque to the College for its archives. Your witness, Perry Mason!

Our travel department finds that DonHopkins and Marjorie were visiting their daughter in Geneva, Switzerland, last spring and enjoyed both family reunion and Swiss scenery. Then in the fall at the Yale game they enjoyed more excitement with their other daughter and family. Also traveling in Europe for a month Al Morrisand Sadie visited their daughter who is married to an Air Force officer stationed in Weisbaden, Germany. A highlight on their extensive tour was a stop at Zwolle, Netherlands, Sadie's birthplace.

At a small family gathering Nov. 19 in the house to become their new home in West Newton, Mass., Signa Norstrand Moran married Robert B. MacPhail Jr. '62. The Rev. Boyd M. Johnson Jr. '53 performed the ceremony. The other men in attendance were H. Donald Norstrand, father of the bride and H. Peter Norstrand '62, brother of the bride. Did some one mention Dartmouth?

To all book-lovers wherever they may be—and who have read thus far:

DESIDERATA LIST

Illustrated books published in New England 1769-1869 wanted by 1926 Memorial Collection, Baker Library:

BE MERRY AND WISE: OR, THE CREAM OF THE JESTS, AND THE MARROW OF MAXIMS, FOR THE CONDUCT OF LIFE. Published for the use of all good Little Boys and Girls. By Tommy Trapwit, Esq. The First Worcester Edition. Worcester (Mass.): Printed by Isaiah Thomas, 1786.

THE ROYAL PRIMER: OR, AN EASY AND PLEASANT GUIDE TO THE ART OF READING. Worcester (Mass.): Printed and sold by J. White and Co., Cambridge, 1791.

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