1926

With summer officially here, mention should be made of the annual informal summer reunion of 1926 to be held in Hanover August 23-24-25. This event which dates from the 30's is most enjoyable - check with Johnny Manser for details. Also, it is not too soon to think football: October 12 - Princeton at Hanover, October 26 - Harvard at Hanover, and for '26 plans for these games also check with Johnny.

Bill and Palmer Hughes are planning on the Harvard game providing that a scheduled fall motor trip of the British Isles will permit. Meanwhile visits to Cape Cod and return visits to Andover, Mass., with the Tom Floyd-Jones', the Jake Jacobuses, and the Walt Rankins have kept them busy.

After a two-week stay at Mary Hitchcock Hospital Doug Everett is back home in Concord, N.H., with a new hip joint and doing very well. Johnny Manser was a frequent visitor and Nate Parker who was in Hanover for a football dinner dropped in on him. Doug and Vida are looking forward to resuming their bi-yearly travels.

The Compleat Brown Trout, written by CecilHeacox, has recently been published. As noted in the October, 1973 class notes, Cecil has been working on this book since his retirement after 30 years with the New York State Conservation Department. Reviews have praised the book as "the first comprehensive, in-depth study of this wiliest of all game fish ... a sound and scholarly book written by a professional biologist."

Art Wilcox, who with Ed Hanlon, is doing associate editor duty on Hub Harwood's 1926Smoke Signals, wrote to John Greene in Santa Barbara, Calif., and had a very interesting reply which he has shared with us. John had a long career teaching and counselling high school boys and girls until his retirement in 1963. An article in the March 1949 Alumni Magazine attested to the quality of his counselling. John remarried in 1970 after the death of his first wife, and he and Helen toured New England in the fall of 1972 with the Bill Wolfes and the AI Metzgers ending up in Hanover for the Penn Game. John and LesMcFadden are members of a retired men's club, and the two couples are planning to attend the 50th Reunion.

What better place to celebrate a 70th birthday than Bermuda where Hank Whitmore was vacationing with Grace? Hank is on a three or four-day business week, but apparently commutes from West Newton, Mass., on realtor's hours as your secretary has yet to see him on the 8 o'clock bus

Ten '26ers attended the annual Boston Alumni Association dinner in March: Russ and Betty Clark, Ed Emerson, Hub. Harwood, Charlie Macdonald, Don and Libby Norstrand, Stew and Mary Lou Orr, and Don Steele. It was a good evening - an excellent talk by Dr. Kemeny and a thoughtful presentation of the Alumni Fund by Sandy McCulloch. For the first time soprano and alto voices were in the singing group from Hanover and they sounded okay.

Gordon Jenkins brings us up-to-date on the past two years when he and Helen endured the great Agnes flood of June, 1972 in Corning, N.Y., and are now back to normal living. Their home was 13 feet under water with four feet of water on the second floor and they lost everything in the house. They sold the property to HUD and bought a new home some 300 feet above the river level. Gordon is president of radio station WCLI which got back into service with a U.S. Army generator and was the only means of communication with battery radios in the area for two weeks.

Stew Orr, when he isn't chairing the Boston Alumni Association luncheons with guest speakers, finds time to take Mary Lou to such affairs as Bank Trust Officers convention in San Francisco and now an American Bar Association meeting in Hawaii.

We have noted in these columns that Judge Brant Wallace was recently retired; that Judge Walter Pillsbury was still holding court; and now call attention to yet another 1926 judge, who though officially retired, still hears cases in the Federal District Court in Wilmington, Del. - Judge Ed Steel.

When Ed Cole was reminded of his 70th birthday by 1926 he remarked that even so he was still skiing and enjoying it and hopes to continue for x number of years. At age 60 Ed skiied the Exhibition Slope at Mt. Snow and had a certificate for same. His son Jim '60 who saw him skiing in March this year at Killington allows as how his Dad looked pretty good!

Last February in Winter Park, Fla., LouIngram gave a book review on the interesting biography of Alexander Graham Bell by Robert V. Bruce. The news item noted that Lou had won the Lockwood Prize and the Grimes Prize at Dartmouth for essay writing, and that he had taught Political Science, Sociology and History at Dartmouth and at Ohio's College of Wooster.

Farming 7,500 acres of land in Clarksdale, Miss., is what has kept Sew Mills busy for some 30 years, but now his children have the job, and Sew's only chore, which is more like a recreation, is chairman of the board of a cottonseed oil mill. Sew looks back over 30 years and sees more changes in agriculture due to machinery and methods than occurred in the preceding 3,000 years. In spite of golf, hunting and fishing he still plans to take time to attend the 50th.

And one last line before wishing everyone a pleasant summer. Alumni Fund closes June 30. Are all checks mailed in? Everyone knows the unusual needs of Dartmouth this year. Will we show Al Louer that we can "win the Green Derby?"

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