1926
Opening dates for the baseball season and trout fishing season vary by localities, but the Dartmouth Alumni Fund which transcends locality opened April 1. AlLouer, our 1971 Green Derby winning Class Agent, was again at the starting gate with a fine string of hard-running regional, state city, town and village assistant class agents ready for the 1972 race. A prompt 1926 response will be a great help to Al and his helpers, to say nothing of the more meaningful help to Dartmouth with much-needed alumni financial support.
More news from '26 Southwestern USA territory—this time from Phoenix (a short stage coach ride from Tucson). FrankPoor wrote that Fred Rowe, Sausalito, Calif., and Ben Kent, Montpelier, Vt., were his guests at the monthly Dartmouth alumni luncheon. Ben and Mercedes were en route from Key West to Sedona, Ariz., and stayed with Frank and Clair for a few days. Frank had nothing but nice things to say about Arizona and Ben agreed.
Bob McIndoe announces a 100% increase in his and Jerri's grandchildren—their total now being two. Their son. Bob '61 and his wife Margaret are the proud parents of David Tilton McIndoe born on February 12, who, if he goes to Dartmouth, will be number four in a direct line.
We already have classmates planning 50th reunions in June 1972—secondary schools, that is. Hub Harwood and BobMinton are so occupied for the class of 1922 at Horace Mann School, Riverdale, N. Y. When not busy otherwise, Bob is an active partner in Burnham & Co., stockbrokers, and as such holds a seat on the New York Stock Exchange.
From Woodside, Calif., Bill Forrest writes with news that his grand niece, Stephanie Forrest, 17, won the Women's National Downhill Championship at Aspen. Bill also said that he. lost his wife Ruth last fall after 44 years of marriage. 1926 offers him and his family its sincere sympathy.
Dick and Kay Mann have been wintering in a suburb of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Dick reports improvement in a foot condition that has bothered him for some time.
Our foreign travel department placed Snipe and Kay Esquerre in St. Cap Ferrat in an apartment sleuthed out for them by Emmy Merrill, also a winter resident of this delightful haven on the Mediterranean between Nice and Cannes.
Up North Russ Williams advised from charlotte, Vt., that Lake Champlain as of February 10 was frozen over to the delight of the smelt fisherman. However, Russ admitted that he was bound for a warmer climate for a cruise with friends on a 40-foot yawl in the Caribbean.
Dick Mandel keeps busy as chairman of The Friends of the Dartmouth Library, and recently announced that a series of prizes would be awarded to Dartmouth undergraduates for demonstrated excellence in book collecting, the art of the book, and bibliography.
Plans are in the making by Chuck andLois Abbott for an April visit to the Orient—a section of the world they haven't as yet traveled.
The impressive spread in Hub Harwood's recent Smoke Signals noting the large number (38) of 1926 classmates who are year around or winter residents in Florida has caused a few lifted eyebrows in New England Yankee circles. Reason? Massachusetts—well known year-around playground and retirement area, Cape Cod and the Islands (although some do go South or West in winter), should have equal time to state its case. It may be a small area, sir, but there are those who love it; namely, ten families: in Falmouth, TomFloyd Jones, Bob Harrington, Syl McGinn, Walt Rankin; in Harwich, JesseMorgan, Madeline Oberlander; in Pocasset, Winifred MacKay; in West Dennis, Charlie Collins; in Nantucket, DickMaloney; and in Vineyard Haven, PatFrankenberg.
Rumor had it that Gordon Douglass was in Boston for the boat show in February with his renowned line of sailboats. Being an experienced sailor he must have sensed the approach of a record Nor'easter and exited without a word to local denizens who couldn't, before over a foot of snow descended on the Hub.
Speaking of snow, Ed Emerson reported, via a letter to Frank Poor in Arizona, that in spite of two feet of the stuff, Hyla Brook Farm, Peggy, Tom, the horses and he are all OK.
Our April DESIDERATA LIST for illustrated books published in New England 1769-1869 for the 1926 Memorial Book Collection is:
MOTHERLESS MARY, A TALE...By the author of Arthur and Alice, etc. Boston: Munroe and Francis, 1827.
A BOOK FOR MASSACHUSETTS CHILDREN, IN FAMILIAR LETTERS FROM A FATHER, FOR THE USE OF FAMILIES AND SCHOOLS.
Boston: Hilliard, Gray Little and Wilkins, 1829.
Your Secretary, illegibly as usual, wrote the April class notes; his daughter by marriage, Linda, translated and typed them: his wife Libby mailed them... and then the Don Norstrands left March 1 for two weeks in Tobago—hopefully to return in time to do the May notes. In this business you almost lose out on vacations by being a month ahead of yourself.
Secretary, 9 Gammons Rd. Waban, Mass. 02168
Class Agent, Route 2, Box 761Z Tucson, Ariz. 85715
