1926
Treasurer Jack Roberts has thoughtfully mailed dues bills to all hands and is now confidently awaiting prompt response from the loyal '26 constituency (including the $5 tax deductible contribution to the Golden Gift to the College). Jack has recovered nicely from an operation, has resumed Hanover football visitations, and he and Dot soon will be headed for Ft. Myers, Fla. Our treasurer also had visited recently with Jack Bickford whose new home in New Vernon, N.J., has just been completed and who is busy with the 150th anniversary of the Morris County Savings Bank of which he is chairman.
Many have been receiving their 70th (or thereabouts) birthday salutations from the Class and more than a few have been responding, to wit: George Starke admitting to daily commutation from East Hampton, L.I., to Riverhead, N.Y., to his securities business; Herm Davidson, Sioux City, lowa, who golfs, gin rummys, reads a lot and watches the stock prices slide; JudMcCarthy, Timonium, Md., keeping Dartmouth in sight with son Bill '53 and grandson Mike striving to be '79; Les Talbot, Short Hills, N.J., dreaming of living in Hanover in 1975; Perk St. Clair who had hoped to leave Birmingham, Mich., to travel with Arlene on the not-to-be final trip of the S.S. France on October 2.
And Ken Foster whose Hamden, Conn., summer of golf, mowing lawn, weeding rose garden gave way to fall football; Bob Salinger, who with Dot on their 45th wedding anniversary celebrated with the "Newtonville Gang" (four men and seven wives or widows - which included Carl Schipper and Billie MacDavitt);Keith Blake, summering at Joe Indian Pond, N.Y., couldn't make it to the Hanover Memorial Book Committee meeting; DaveHarriman, North Wilbraham, Mass., who at 69 is waiting for the big celebration next year; BillWillard headed back to Washington, D.C., after a summer vacation in Walpole, N.H., with a side trip to Hanover for the '26 August reunion.
And Dick Gunthorp who is convalescing in Phoenix, Ariz., after major emergency surgery last spring would enjoy hearing from classmates; Dick Mandel back in Bedford, N.Y., after being in Hanover with Bunny for summer reunion; Ralph Thomas havining celebrated his 69th at his home in Pittsburgh Pa; Hub Harwood who managed to take time off from his '26 labor of love and his multitudinous travels to celebrate his 71st at the Harwood ancestral halls in Chestnut Hill Mass., with Det, son Skip, and family.
1926 congratulates Nate Parker on his marriage in Pittsburgh, Pa., on August 23 to Mrs. Lois P. Joyce. Also, congratulations to Ruth Moderwell, widow of Horace Moderwell who was married in Evanston, Ill. to Paul J. Darling.
Officially, Dick Husband has retired from his professorship at Florida State University - however, after he and Dot toured Alaska and Canada last summer they are continuing to make their home in Tallahassee. Some parttime teaching, U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Tallahassee Power Squadron, and various other activities will keep Dick busy for the foreseeable future.
From Woodside, Calif., Bill Forrest happily reports his second great-grandchild, younger sister to #1 who is now six years old! Christine was born on the same day that Bill had a very successful prostatectomy, and for the record, for those who wish to be reassured, he said "no discomfort before, during or after the operation, and so frequently whatever you worry about the most proves to be of no consequence what-soever."
Bill Viall no longer receives mail on Wall Street, N.Y., but he and Gertrude continue their 36 years of residency in Manhasset in happy retirement. Bill wrote that he was delayed in thanking the Class for his 69th year birthday card by misplacing the secretary's address due he said to "old age setting in." Wait until you are 70, Bill!
A blow-by-blow report of the annual August Cape Cod 1926 luncheon and bull fest (chaired by visiting prexy Tubba Weymouth) was given by Sunny Tilton, who allows he was appointed scribe after the second martini. Held at the Coonamessett Inn in Falmouth it was attended by Tom Floyd-Jones, Bob Harrington, Jake Jacobus, Syl McGinn, Walt Rankin, besides Tubber and Sunny. Jack Morgan and Charlie Collins were marked absent with admonitions that just because they live further down the Cape is no reason to snub the Buzzards Bay Boys. A thoroughly good time was enjoyed and Russ Clark, 50th Reunion chairman, will be glad to know that all present are planning to attend the big event.
Bayles Minuse who makes his home in Stony Brook, N.Y., believes in planning ahead, and called on 1926's encyclopedia, Smoke Signals. published by Hub Harwood, to find out about meeting dates of the Dartmouth Club in Palm Beach, Fla., where he and El winter. He now has the word - and this is one of the many fringe benefits one has by being a member of the Class of 1926!
A day at the races brought forth '25 smiles from the group aboard Bob Borwell's"Misty" on the opening day of the Americas Cup Challenge. Seated: Addie Moore,Naomi Borwell, Bob Borwell, Ginnie Haffenreffer, and Pete Haffenreffer. The "Salts"standing in the back row are Bess Knight, Bob Borwell's sister Billie Jenkins, BillJenkins, Charley Moore, Ellie Wallis, and Frank Wallis.
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