1926
Results over the years have shown that 1926 remembers to support Dartmouth through the Alumni Fund. Nevertheless, Al Louer and his team of class agents make sure that if memories at our age need jogging - they are jogged. Everyone is aware of the financial problems facing Dartmouth this year, so all that needs be done is contribute to the extent of one's capability. As Al has voiced the '26 slogan during his many years as head class agent "Let's win the Green Derby."
Vernon (Tuff) Hill retired in 1964 as an officer and director of Davey Tree Expert Co. after 38 years with the company. He and Bertha Francis live a leisurely life in Cranston, R.I., and enjoy the company of their son and his family who live nearby.
Reporting from Los Angeles, Calif., HalRosenberg says he is still working very hard in all kinds of involvements including his job as executive director for Myasthenia Gravis.
Dick and May Major live in the western mountainous section of North Carolina in Flat Rock after Dick's retirement from the New York Telephone Co. Both have been very active in the Church of St. John in the Wilderness, Dick as senior warden and May as superintendent of the church school.
Dean and Enid Chamberlin maintain a way station in Freeport for any and all Dartmough travelers who have entered the Maine domain. Dean's hobby is his "Book Cellar" which offers out of print books ranging from Booth Tarkington to Horatio Alger and some poetry and biographies. Recent lookers and possible buyers were Hap Johnston and Jack Roberts.
We recently learned that Bob and DotSalinger will retain their Boston apartment overlooking the Charles River even though they had to buy it as a condominium. A reason - to oversee the Dartmouth '26 fleet maneuvers en route to the Harvard game?
In Clearwater, Fla., Dick and EdnaBurlingame and Don Church enjoyed a lunch at the Belleview Biltmore with Perk and Arlene St.Clair who were on their way for a vacation from retirement to the Caribbean island of St. Barts.
When acknowledging the greetings from the Class on his 70th birthday, Hump Campbell told of his local activities in Long Beach, Calif., such as foreign language study classes, painting classes, and between time writing letters to wayward newspaper editors.
Herm and Dot Trefethen wintered at Lake San Marcos, Calif., where they, too, busied themselves with local activities (who had gas for anything else?). This summer will be spent at Skytop, Pa.
A welcome note from wife Gladys said that George Tully was pleased to receive his 70th birthday greeting from the Class. George has been incapacitated since his first heart attack in 1966 but does get about the house and greatly enjoys hearing from Dartmouth friends.
Mai and 'Ann Merrill are on location at their Beachmere Inn at Ogunquit, Me., having enjoyed a long visit with their daughter, son-in-law, and two granddaughters in Hawaii, as well as an annual stay in Tucson, Ariz.
Sanibel Island, Fla., was the vacation spot in March for Charlie and Helen Clare Macdonald, which afforded them the chance to visit nearby with Jack and Dot Roberts. Jack reminds anyone who forgot to remember - 1974 class dues can be mailed to him at 932-A Heritage Village, Southbury, Conn. - provided, of course, a pledge or contribution has already been made to the Alumni Fund.
George Champion took his 70th birthday greetings from the Class in stride, advising that he is still working every day. He is chairman and president of the Economic Development Council of New York City, which is trying to improve the economic climate of the city, and is meeting with some startling successes but still with much to do. Careful readers of the March issue of the Alumni Magazine saw in the 1927 Class Notes that 50 years ago George was in the handball finals with Wayne Sturdevant '27.
Among the itinerant Floridians last winter were listed Jack and Ruth Straight, Nate Parker (who met up with them at Deerfield Beach, and Tom and Grace Murdough, who after grandchildren sitting in Evanston, Ill., were revived with Grace's cure-all (two teaspoons of honey with one of apple cider vinegar in a glass of water) and then recuperated in the land of sunshine.
Hub and Det Harwood missed sitting at the '26 table at the annual Boston Alumni Association dinner due to being in Delaware with the Society of the Colonial Dames touring historic points of interest including the Winterthur Museum in the duPont Museum. Outnumbered in the group on a ratio of six women to one man, Hub found that his Dartmouth coeducational indoctrination was most helpful.
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