1926
Class Treasurer Jack Roberts, with all the acumen of a retired banker, rendered an excellent financial report in "Smoke Signals"; mailed out 1971-72 dues bills; put a bushel basket under his mail slot and took off with Dot for a tour down Maine. Fall and winter are when we can float the dues dollars into 1926 coffers and at the same time enclose a "Dear Jack" note telling of our doings.
Snipe Equerré, retired Class Secretary, keeps la plume de son tante in working order by sending in news items—this one a letter from Dick Haywood postmarked "Bled, Jugoslavia." Dick wrote that he and Margaret had three noteworthy experiences in Europe: in Austria they hired for 140 schillings a narrow gauge steam locomotive and one car which they drove themselves: for 15 pence Dick rang the carillon at St. Anne of Shandon, Cork, Ireland, but not enough notes to render "Dartmouth's in Town Again", and to commute from Ireland to France they took no less than RMS Queen Elizabeth 2.
Dick and Edna Burlingame (and the local Chamber) hope that some of the Class will winter in their Clearwater, Fla. area, but Dick did mention that they planned a fall trip to France, England, Switzerland, and Italy "to get away from the heat."
Another Florida booster, Prof. Dick Husband, taking time off from his psychology department at Florida State University notes that 32 class members and three widows live on the Florida peninsula. To make the scene even better, Dick by his own admission says "I do a good deal of boating, deep-sea fishing, mow my own lawn and bowl in the city league."
Bowling also seems to be the favorite hobby of Kier Boyd, who has started his 45th year in the J & L Steel Bowling League. His ten pins average of 173 is his high water mark. Kier will miss a string or two when visiting twin granddaughters in Clinton, Md. Kier reports an interesting letter from Ralph Bristol whose closing paragraph read "I've kind of settled down in my declining years to the idea that the essence of the game is to do the best you can with what you have and to run it out to the end as gracefully as you can."
As Chairman of the Executive Committee of The Friends of the Dartmouth Library, Dick Mandel spends much time to interest new members to participate in the continuing growth and enrichment of the College library.
Hub Harwood reported in "Smoke Signals" that Ed Hanlon was hospitalized early in September with a mild heart attack. Just prior, in a note to JackRoberts dated September 1, Ed wrote that pending a decision whether to retire to Florida or northern New England he continues "to do a day's work for perhaps a day's pay at Calvin Bullock." We miss his numerous class news scoops and feel sure that by now he has made full recovery. Your scribe visited for the first time since Dartmouth sophomore days his former home in Greenwich, N. Y., and, of course, he and Libby looked up Bill and MiriamSharp at their very lovely home in this picturesque town. Both well and had enjoyed the company during the summer of one of their five granddaughters.
A picture taken on a Hawaiian cruise ship of John Manser surrounded by at least ten winsome widows was a conversation piece at the '26 summer reunion. John is now handling with a new finesse the many 1926 Hanover doings.
Writing to Hub Harwood, Ed McClintock described the incredible drought it Arizona, told of his and Margaret's travel? to Tulsa and Houston, mentioned the enjoyable visits with children and grand- children, and noted that their paths crossed with Al and Ellen Louer, Nate and JaneParker, and Jack and Ruth Straight.
Having spent a quiet (?) summer in Michigan with considerable time on the water on "Arjon," a 42' Chris-Craft, Pert and Arlene St. Clair have sailed for Athens, the Greek Islands, and Rome, and will fly home in time for the holiday activities Also, they have plans to further the sphere of influence in the Caribbean of & Dartmouth 1926 Club of St. Barthélemy by setting up headquarters there in March.
A new season opens for those who search for hard-to-find illustrated books published New England 1769-1869 .for addition to the 1926 Memorial Book Collection m Baker Library.
"Desiderata List: INFANT SABBATH SCHOOL QUESTION AND BIBLE PICTURF BOOK ... Third Edition. Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1844.
THE CHILD'S DAILY FOOD... Prepared by a Father. Revised edition, with engravings. Springfield: G & C Mernam, 1835.
PASSAGES FROM THE HISTORY OF A WASTED LIFE. By a Middle-Aged Man (John Dix, alias John Ross). Boston: Benjamin B. Massey and Company, 1853.
VICE IN ITS PROPER SHAPE: OR, THE WONDERFUL AND MELANCHOLY TRANSFORMATION OF SEVERAL NAUGHTY MASTERS AND MISSES INTO THOSE CONTEMPTIBLE ANIMALS WHICH THEY MOST RESEMBLE IN DISPOSITION... First Worcester Edition. Worcester (Mass.): Printed by Isaiah Thomas, 1789.
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