1926
In Al Louer's book, 1926 is at the midmark in the Green Derby Race, and from now until June 30 his team of Alumni Fund agents will be spending their finest hours in reminding classmates of the importance of gifts to Dartmouth.
Once success has been achieved in the above, attention can be given to the upcoming annual informal 1926 summer reunion August 25-27 (preceded, of course by Alumni College, August 13-24)—two outstanding events to place on all calendars.
A good letter from Chappy Jones from his life-time home in Kittaning, Pa., brings us up-to-date on his activities. Chappy still practices law but takes a long summer vacation every year in the Muskoka Lakes region in Canada. A widower for eight years—his only child—a son—is an engineer by way of Lehigh, who keeps busy traveling all over the country. When and if he retires, Chappy has plans to winter in Arizona. Walt Armstrong writes from Reno,
Nev., that retirement does not provide enough time to do the things he'd like to do. After seven years of health problems, .Walt feels that there is improvement year by year and is much stronger. He and Mary are connected with the Masonic Service Association in Reno and both do volunteer work in the Veteran's Hospital library. Their son Bill '59 and MS '68 works with the Navajo tribal council as geologist. Walt has seen his Topliff roommate Jack Watson in Reno and urges any 1926 men passing through to call at 942 Roberts Street.
John Hopkins University has an active program of teaching and research in the problem of too rapid growth of human population, and Professor Paul A. Harper as Secretary of the University Population Committee which guides the program is, of course, deeply involved. Perhaps HubHarwood, who chatted with Paul recently, will some time be able to arrange a zero population edition of Smoke Signals.
Stockholders of International Paper Co. were pleased to note in a recent proxy statement that George Champion was nominated to become a director. As HubHarwood's recent Smoke Signals pointed out, George is president of Economic Development Council of New York, Inc., an organization dedicated to the improvement of the economic climate in New York City with its many ramifications. Great progress is being made in betterment of the city and its citizens are the beneficiaries.
Professor Dick Hayward, assuming that most of the Class must be retired by now, admits to his plan to remain active until June 1973 when he and Margaret will consider a quiet place with fairly pure air in Western Virginia or North Carolina or in a college town in Ohio, Indiana or Kentucky. Dick wonders if anyone in 1926 has any suggestions.
Comes word from their home on a wooded hill of about ten acres in Bellbrook, southern Ohio, that Gail and BettyBorden are living there in semi-retirement, Gail most recently being a representative of companies doing business with the Air Force. A trip to Great Britain is currently in the making, and in other years, travel has been to Turkey, Greece, Lebanon, Iran and three winters in Mexico.
Brant Wallace, back in Mendham, N. J., after an extended trip reports a fine week of golf at Hilton Head, S.C., and then a Florida tour which included seeing Don Church at Bellevue-Biltmore, talking to Gib Robinson in Sarasota, failing to connect on a phone call to Dick Burlingame in Clearwater, spending several days with Fritz and Ruth Lawson in Naples and seeing Reg and Samie Hanson in Tequesta. Brant also stopped when nearly home at Jamesburg, N.J., to see Charlieand Edith Bishop. Edith is recuperating rather slowly from an automobile accident, and 1926 is sorry to hear it and wishes her a speedy recovery.
Emmett and Mary Elizabeth Willis had as luncheon guests at their North Hampton, N.H., home, Hub and DetHarwood. Red was with the United States Lines for 42 years being in Paris and London for 25 of those years. They are enjoying retirement in a most attractive house with a beautiful view across their terrace and pool into woodlands. Mary Elizabeth was a professional singer and in her retirement is a soloist in the choir of one of the old historic churches in Portsmouth.
John Gearhart. "more or less" retired for about five years says he drives himself to some odds and ends of activity—and right now he is probably at one of the high points—since the Alumni Fund is on. He and Hazel (44 years married) enjoy travel, and Florida is a favorite winter warm spot.
One of the facinating things about searching out and finding illustrated books published in New England 1769-1869 for the 1926 Memorial Book Collection for Baker Library is looking at the illustrations in these books printed long ago. An example is shown, taken from William J. Snelling's THE POLAR REGIONS OF THE WESTERN CONTINENT (Boston 1831) one of the many outstanding books donated to the Collection by Dick Mandel.
"The Polar Regions of the Western Continent" by William Snelling, the title pageof which is shown, is a recent donationof the Class of 1926 Memorial BookCollection to Baker Library. The volumewas published in 1831 in Boston.
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