1926
With May flowers in full bloom it should be noted that the August 20-21-22 annual informal 1926 summer get-together is not far off. Chuck Webster's Memorial Book Committee will meet Saturday morning and all classmates are invited- to attend. 1926 Scholars at Alumni College will join the many weekend activities.
After weathering the first full winter of retirement at Hyla Brook, Ed Emerson took off in March for the warmer Mediterranian countries. Peggy stayed on in the Reading, Vt., farm to plow roads, chop wood, tend the live stock and otherwise enjoy the year-around beauty of their home overlooking Mt. Ascutney.
Don Church, relaxing after all ,his guests were bedded down at Bellview Biltmore in Florida, read in the "Saturday Review" about two classmates: A guest editorial "Inflation: The dangerous sedative" by Courtney C. Brown, the George E. Warren Professor of Business at Columbia Business School and Editor of the Columbia Journal of World Business. and
A review of the new book "Richard Eberhart: The Progress of an American Poet." It is believed that this is the first time an entire book has been written about a Dartmouth 1926 man. Hub Harwood will have more details on the book in SMOKE SIGNALS.
Speaking of Hub-his travels with Del during the springtime read like a New York Central timetable of old: Washington, D. C., for U.S.O. Council; Wilmington, N. C.,- Society of Cincinnati meeting (Hub is vice president of N. H. chapter); Birmingham, Ala.,-Society of Colonial Wars.
Even though enjoying Florida sunshine a tough New Jersey winter, Jack Roberts kept communications open with Hanover on the financial state of the class, preliminary to meetings with other Dartmouth class treasurers. (Are your dues in yet?) Jack also channels news items into the '26 editorial rooms, and one such "Dear Jack" note from SyI McGinn reports he retired in 1968 from his medical practice as a heart specialist. He and Jan built a home in a wooded area on a Cape Cod pond in Forestdale, where SyI keeps busy with flowers and vegetable gardens. He says one way to find their house is to inquire from half the birds on Cape Cod where they feed in winter.
Al Louer and his army of assistant class agents are halfway through their well planned Alumni Fund Campaign seeking another Green Derby Victory. The ingredients for victory are elementary: (1) every '26 man making a conitbution and (2) the contribution taking into account the importance of keeping Dartmouth strong through adequate financing.
Fourteen men and wives attended the Boston Dartmouth Alumni Association dinner: Russ and Betty Clark, Hub and Det Harwood, Bill Hughes, Hal and Marion Marshall, Don and Libby Norstrand, Stu and Mary Lou Orr, Bob and Dot Salinger, and Carl Schipper. After hearing Dr. Kemeny's excellent report on his first year in office and his look into the future, we wonder what 1926 granddaughter will earn the first Dartmouth diploma.
Ed Hanlon recently noted in the Wall Street Journal that Carl Allen, a trustee of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and former vice president of General Motors Corp., was elected a director of Marlennan Corp. (formerly Marsh and McLennan) insurance and related business firm.
Unexpectedly meeting on one of the smallest of the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean, Perk and Arlene St. Clair and Don and Libby Norstrand combined to establish pro-tem The Dartmouth Club at St- Barthelemy. At the closing annual meeting and award night it was voted that Perk and Arlene be authorized to carry the club pennant to the Virgin Islands where a St. Croix chapter of the club be installed at the three-month duration winter residence of Walt and Billie Rankin. The newer St. Croix chapter made up in numbers what it jacked in date of founding, its membership deluding besides Walt and Billie, Tomand Marion Floyd-Jones, and Bill andPalmer Hughes.
Hub Harwood while baby sitting for his daughter Georgia in Duxbury, Mass., visited briefly with Obbie Barker, well known local architect, with no thought of retiring, who specializes in designing police stations. Obbie and Fran live in a charming old colonial home filled with antiques, but the well known Barker banjo of the 20's is not in evidence, having been relegated to the attic according to Obbie. Fran keeps busy running a Duxbury bookstore.
Lest We forget, the MAY DESIDERATA LIST for illustrated books published in New England 1769-1869 which are wanted by Baker Library for the 1926 Memorial Collection: THE RIDDLE BOOK: For the entertainment of Boys and Girls. New Haven: Sidney's Press, 1824.
AMERICAN GIRL'S BOOK: OR OCCUPATION FOR PLAY HOURS, by Miss (Eliza) Leslie. Boston: Munroe and Francis ... (cop 1831).
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