1926
Let it be said in our official class notes how proud 1926 is of the recognition by the college of classmate George Snell who was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science at the June commencement exercises. Details have already appeared in the Magazine and SmokeSignals.
A 1926 cheer for Doug Everett who on October 26 will be enshrined in the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in Eveleth, Minn. The Class is delighted that this recognition is given to Doug whom we have known for years as a truly great hockey player.
"Make the echoes ring for Dartmouth" and for Dick Eberhart, a true son of the College, who was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Colgate University in June. Dick's many accomplishments have been duly noted in previous college and class items.
Kudos also for Al Louer whose Alumni Fund team won its umpteenth Green Derby with the largest amount the Class ever contributed to the Fund in a non-reunion year. At our age it is hard to remember when Al started giving dedicated service to the College with his efforts in class organization on this important work. A rousing wah-hoo-wah for Al and his team!
And speaking of praise ... Ted Seely (who is retiring for the third time from his professorship at Allegheny College) wrote Hub Harwood asking "How many Newsletter Editors are sufficiently well read and well informed to be able to quote that fine Elizabethan poet, Thomas Nash?" Hub's selections of poetry which appear in Smoke Signals are a looked-for feature.
Walt and Billie Rankin and Hub and Det are still reminiscing about their wonderful European travels in May which were centered around their attendance at the triennial meeting in Paris of the Society of the Cincinnati.
Don Hopkins admits still to being a regular commuter, but does find time to leave Monclair with Marjorie to do some traveling - last year the Orient and this year Florida. Their grandson Douglas S. Brown '78 will require Hanover visits for four years, including our 50th.
Your secretary, who never was too good at math, added two years in age in the class birthday note to George Scott thereby getting a prompt response (maybe this should be done more often). George also is a daily commuter to New York from Westport, Conn., but notes fewer '26 men on his Amtrak.
Ward Benton in Edina, Minn., is now carefully planning for our 50th since a hospital visit caused him to miss the 45th. Meanwhile, American Institute of Chemist meetings and trips to the northern shore of Lake Superior have kept him busy.
Fishing, traveling and spoiling grandchildren are Warren Fellingham's principal retirement hobbies. Steelhead fishing in Michigan, an Alaska sightseeing tour, and a visit to California to see a new granddaughter (total now seven) have been the most recent events.
Wad Woods has it made as few of '26 can claim. In fall, winter, and spring Wad teaches at Rippowam School in Bedford, N.Y., and in summer he is and has been for 29 years tennis pro at Wentworth-by-the-Sea near Portsmouth, N.H. His tennis is of the best; in August he won the title in the Massachusetts state tournament held at Middleton, and has beaten all the top ranking players in New England in the 70 division with the exception of the No. 1 man in the States. Wad and Nadine have bought a home in Portsmouth and may sometime retire to it.
In Rock Hill, S.C., Gob and Marion DesMarais continue to lead an active life in the educational field - Gob now being an economics instructor - and they hope to keep it that way at least until the 50th in 1976.
Our Wellesley, Mass., barrister, Dick Nichols, noting in the birthday greeting to him from the Class that approximately 80% of his classmates were in an older age bracket wrote: "You fellows always did look a little ancient to me and now I know why." He and Ruth visited Greece, its islands and Turkey in May. In retrospect, their timing was about right.
Forty-eight 1926 men and wives and one '26 son (Jerry Herlihy '63) were in Hanover during the 37th annual class summer get-together, August 23-25. This included five students at Alumni College - Al and Gladys Metzger, Myrtle Tomlinson, and Bill and Midge Wolfe - and six members of the Memorial Book Committee - Ken Andler, Det Harwood, Dick Mandel, Howard Rice, Carl Schipper, and Chuck Webster. The others were Art and Edith Alexander, Henry and Ellen Andretta, Henry and Margaret Bixby, Russ and Betty Clark, Ed and Margaret Dooley, Ed and Peggy Emerson, Hub and Det Harwood, Barbara Hayward, Tom and Pearl Herlihy, Jim and Eleanor Jenkins, Dick and Bunny Mandel, John Manser, Hal and Caroline Marshall, Charlie and Helen McKenna, Emmie Merrill, Tom and Grace Murdough, Don and Libby Norstrand, Stew and Mary Lou Orr, Warner and Alice Thompson, and Tubber and Mary Weymouth. The Memorial Book Committee plus Hub and Don, the media ex-officio members, and ten others of the Class met Saturday morning at Baker Library, called to order by Chairman Chuck Webster. The committee named HaroldRice as co-chairman and Bob Minton as a new member of the committee. Further plans for the class memorial room in the library and other action of the committee is being reported in Smoke Signals. Ed and Peggy Emerson put on their 17th class picnic at Hyla Brook Farm in Reading, Vt., and as usual there was great weather, great Emerson-style Vermont hospitality, and a great time enjoyed by all.
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