1926
Present day Hanover inhabitants as well as 1926 alumni with long memories are well aware that spring comes somewhat late at Dartmouth. Last year the first athletic contest was a tennis match on April 20. The sport last to have its first meet was crew on April 29 (the Connecticut River doesn't give up its ice easily). The 1926 favorite sport, however—the Green Derby—has been under way since April 1, and Al Louer has fielded his area captains who already are getting the team members loosened up. To Al this definitely is not a spectator sport, and our number to beat is $65,898 given last year to the College—the largest ever from 1926, to provide excellence in education at Dartmouth not to be rivaled anywhere.
Before all the Floridians pack up and come north let it be said that Bill and Miriam Sharp enjoyed their fourth winter at Nokomis Beach; GibRobinson, Holt McAloney and Fritz Lawson were sighted at a Sarasota Dartmouth luncheon by Jack Roberts; Van Van Duyn has been observed on Naples golf courses; Dick Burlingame and Clary Taylor and wives get together for dinners in Clearwater on occasions; and Don Church having another great season at Bellaire Biltmore. Space and lack of communication leave us in the dark on the many others in the citrus country.
Moving westward to the '26 Tucson, Ariz., preserve: the Ted Seeleys have enjoyed a long winter sojourn; the Charlie Bishops dropped in; the Henri Esquerres were two-month residents, and of course the regulars who were present and accounted for—the Al Louers, Ed McClintocks,Mai Merrills and Del Worthingtons.
A note at Christmas time from Harry Weare indicated all well at Stratford, Conn. Harry gets as far as Rhode Island to visit his son and family, and maybe he can be lured further north next fall to take in the class luncheon/boat ride at the Harvard game.
Jack and Dot Roberts announced the recent arrival of their fifth grandchild—Caitlin Katherine, daughter of Jack Jr. '57. They will soon make her acquaintance enroute to class officers meetings.
The 1926 Aegis gave our class George UlyssesLenson 26(?) and now the 1924 Aegis at this late date has another interesting sidelight. HubHarwood's Smoke Signals is portraying scenes during our freshman year and the '24 Aegis pictures George S. Kenney as a left wing on the '26 hockey team. However beneath the picture reads the name J. N. Kinney, better known as Joe Kinney, then of Brooklyn, N. Y. Bob Cleary, also a left wing, well remembered that it was Ken Kenney who alternated with him and hastened to set the record straight—even if 50 years late. Joe has taken the cut from the squad philosophically, noting that his present home in Bridgton, Me : further north than Hanover and hence his ice' much better.
Outstanding in activity among the non-retired '26 men in the Greater Boston area is Did Nichols, the senior partner in the law firm 0, Goodwin, Proctor and Hoar, and as an indication that he keeps really active is the fact that he is a trustee of Babson College, Beverly Research Foundation, Museum of Science and Newton Savings Bank to say nothing of beino director of 11 large corporations. Carl Schipper also a senior partner in the same firm, is yen' much on the job and is keeping the legal mills grinding exceedingly fine. Other Boston barristers who still travel to and from their law offices with bulging brief cases are Phil Woodward, Herb Red. man, Steve Weston, and Jim Sullivan.
Perley Merry made the "Duxbury Clipper" with a picture of him boarding in Miami the "Emerald Seas" for a sojourn in Nassau. A former Duxbury resident and a continuing owner of cranberry bogs, Hank may be promoting the red berry in a new market?
Some classmates who couldn't afford to winter in Florida or Arizona are now drifting back from their stays in the Caribbean. Among them the Perk St. Clairs who were on a chartered ketch in the Leeward Islands and who then met up with the Walt Rankins in Antigua; the Herb Redmans who made Saint Maarten their headquarters; the Russ Clarks who cruised through most of the West Indies, and the Don Norstrands who found haven in the off-beat British Virgin Island, Tortola. Others who followed Christopher Columbus' travel lanes are invited to request equal time.
Granny Knight has mentioned seeing on occasions fellow-Californian Chuck Hornburg of Beverly Hills, whose business is purveying Jaguars and the like to the Hollywood trade and others. Readers of The New Yorker will see his name listed as a Rolls Royce dealer, and any '26 man who would like to kick the tires of an original-owner driven Rolls should see Chuck. Who knows—it might have been driven by actors Charlie Starrett or Bob Williams.
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