1926
Hanover in summer is 1926 country with 12 men and wives attending Alumni College, 29 men and wives including one son and one sister enjoying the 36th annual informal summer reunion August 24 and 25, and eight were present for the simultaneous 1926 Memorial Book Committee meeting, for a grand total of 49. The students were Pren and Ruth Carnell, Ruby Carr, Bruce and Kay Eaken, Tom and Pearl Herlihy, Larry and Jean Kennison, Jack and Jane McIlwraith and Myrtle Tomlinson.
The Memorial Book Committee consisted of Ken Andler, Keith Blake, Det Harwood, Dick Mandel, Carl Schipper, Chairman Chuck Webster, and ex-officio members, Hub Harwood and Don Norstrand.
Those who were at dinner at Hanover Inn on the 24th or at the picnic at Ed and Peggy Emerson's farm in South Reading, Vt. on the 25th or both were Dean Chamberlin and son, Chris, Ed and Margaret Dooley, Dan and Sally Drury, Ed and Peggy Emerson and Ed's sister, Marion Peters, Hub and Det Harwood, Barbara Hayward, Tom Herlihy, Dick and Dot Husband, Jim and Elinor Jenkins, Dick Mandel, Johnny Manser, Hal Marshall, Libby and Don Norstrand, Stew and Mary Lou Orr, Carl Schipper, Les and Dot Talbot, Warner and Alice Thompson, Myrtle Tomlinson, Chuck Webster, Helen Weeks and Bill and Florence Willard.
Ideal weather prevailed and the Emersons and Johnny Manser outdid themselves with their hospitality and perfect arrangements.
The next big event on the '26 calendar is the 22nd annual Harvard-Dartmouth game luncheon/boatride on October 27. There is still room for late-comers - call the class secretary for details.
Congratulations of the Class to DelWorthington who in June received the Dartmouth Alumni Award, highest honor the Alumni Council can bestow, and also to Dick Mandel, who was one of four elected for a three-year term as member-at-large of the council.
Bruce Eaken on his summer travels with Kay through Boston en route to Hanover reported to Hub Harwood that Dick Randall had retired from the National City Bank in Cleveland as vice president in the trust department and was doing considerable traveling through Europe in his leisure. Bruce had no recent news of Junk Anthony, another of our retired Cleveland bankers, except that he winters in Key Biscayne, Fla., possibly as a neighbor of President Nixon?
Word also from Frank Healy via Hub that Prof. Dick Hayward has concluded his academic career at N.Y.U., and has started work on a new book not his usual scholarly work but what Dick terms a more frivilous book titled The Classof 1926. Frank naturally assumed it was about THE CLASS OF 1926, but Dick's work is a bit of nostalgia about our era as seen through the eyes of a Mt. Holyoke girl in her class of 1926. This sounds like required reading.
Frank, as one of "Louer's Legion" of Green Derby hunters also picked up other news about classmates - which is one of the rewards of beating the bush on Al Louer's great Alumni Fund safari. Cecil Heacox is enjoying retirement in Wassaic, N.Y. and is continuing his work in the conservation field. His book on the "Brown Trout" is nearing completion and will be published in 1974.
Fred Hurd told Frank that in chatting with Miller Pierce who lives in Goldens Bridge, N.Y., he learned that Miller has embarked on a new career as credit manager of a wholesale shoe firm and finds the work challenging and is enjoying the change.
Frank skipped news about the Healy family, but we assume that he and Mae will be on the football circuit when we can catch upon their doings. He did say that their good friends, Lloydand Emily Sanford have winterized their Martha's Vineyard summer home which extends their stay from mid-March until early November. Frank and Lloyd are both still on the board of the local savings and loan association and after their monthly meetings enjoy a "night out with the boys." They admit to certain changes in this event as the years go by.
Harold (Tref) Trefethen enjoyed a good summer in Amherst, N.H., continuing his recuperation from a previous stroke. He and his sister Dorothy had the pleasure of visits from Herman (Tref) and Dot and their son Harold and wife and children. Harold welcomes any classmate traveling in the area to stop in - he finds it good therapy.
Preliminary travel reports with more to follow: Les and Dot Talbot have returned from a trip to England. Holland, and Austria; Dolores Chipman, Myrtle Tomlinson, and Helen Weeks teamed up for a trip to England, thoughtfully scheduling things so as not to miss too much football; Stewand Mary Lou Orr toured Greece where they too did some neat scheduling which enabled them to miss some inconvenience of political uprisings; Hump and Margaret Campbell on their December visit with their son and his wife in Nicaragua came in for a very harrowing experience in the devastating earthquake that occurred there. Fortunately they had just moved from one hotel which was virtually destroyed with a number of casulaties to another hotel where they were entrapped for a while but then escaped without injury. More details will appear in Smoke Signals.
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