1926
1926 rejoices that the 29 classmates, wives, and friends who were present in Hanover for the Penn game and the 71 who attended the Harvard game activities in Cambridge (making a total of an even 100) had the courage and the fortitude to sit on cold wet concrete seats and to endure steady as well as wind-blown rain in both locations without as much as a whine or a whimper, and that all survived. John Manser saw to it that Oberlander Lounge was all set for company for the pre-game picnic and that Lake Morey Inn accomodations for Saturday night dinner left nothing to be desired. In Cambridge two Boston Harbor boats provided dry transportation up the Charles River to the Harvard Stadium after a pleasant social hour and luncheon at the Sonesta Hotel. We will pass lightly over the storm-tossed game and score and the dripping second half and return trip. A listing of all the doughty game-goers will be found in Hub Harwood's Smoke Signals rather than to encroach on 26's allotted 800 words in our class notes.
45 of the Harvard game drenchees dried out sufficiently and dared the flooded highways to attend Paul and Mary Newhall's and Don andLibby Norstrand's after-party at 9 Gammons Road, Waban. Tubba Weymouth phoned in presidential greetings from Mary and him from Winnetka, Ill., and Charlie Starrett was on the horn from California with kind words for all from him and Mary. Weather and score seemed forgotten during the happy reuning at this aftermath of the 23rd Annual 1926 H-D Luncheon/Boatride, and attention turned in the direction of the up-coming "Finest Fiftieth."
A by-product of the notices of game plans brought responses from those missing the events with their reasons for same, to wit: Dan andSally Drury - California salmon fishing with Dan's brother and his wife; Tubba and MaryWeymouth celebebrating their 45th anniversary in conflict with football plans - a very reasonable excuse and resounding congratulations from the entire class; Ed andMargaret Dooley with Ed feeling much better after a recent prostectomy; Bill and PalmerHughes in Virginia and Bob and Pense Cleary in Montreal - both instead of New England; Steve and Dot Mitchell with Dot somewhat indisposed but improving and with Steve continuing his well earned retirement after years with IBM; Doug and Vida Everett away on still another of their many travels and Hank andJane Parker babysitting (grandchildren, that is) in California.
Treasurer Jack Roberts and Dot missed the game due to health upset and then hospitalization for Dot. While Dot is almost back in A-1 condition, their trip was scratched. They are now in winter quarters in Ft. Myers, Fla. where Jack has his pen poised to tick off class dues as they roll in, and surely his classmates who appreciate the great job he does for 1926 will speed their checks to him.
Bob Salinger's health prevented his being at the H-D luncheon, having had a very rough 1975 with emphysema causing three hospital visits. At this writing Bob is improved and gaining strength every day - sufficiently so that when the 1926 fleet sailed by the Salinger apartment on the banks of the Charles he and Dot waved a salute to the boats.
Brant Wallace also has an emphysema problem which is somewhat complicating a possible operation to correct a hip condition which has been bothering him. 1926 wishes both Brant and Bob good health.
Ed and Evelyn Hanlon sent regrets for missing the game, but Ed was most helpful in arranging for tickets for Mrs. Joe (Peggy) Batchelder and her two sons. (Also Floridians Bob Stopford,Bob Patten, Dick Burlingame and Bay State's Bill Blanchard and Hub Harwood were willing participants in the search program.) Ed and Evelyn have settled in as New England transplants with George and Janie Yaffee as Sarasota neighbors who are showing them the Florida ways.
A $500 tab for travel and keep was a chief reason why Dick and Dot Husband passed up a Florida-to-Cambridge trip for the Harvard game, but on Labor Day they visited Art andInez Wilcox in Greenwich, N.Y. Dick and Art took a tour around town on the Wilcox tandem bike, reminding them that 50 years before they had biked 90 miles from Hanover to Mt. Moosilauke which they then climbed. Next spring the Navy has asked Dick to teach psychology on an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean. It sounds like a great experience, but we hope he makes it back to Hanover by the 50th!
A post card mailed from the Canary Islands in the early fall said that Herb and Fran Redman had been resting up for a few days prior to the strenuous days ahead. No doubt he was referring to the hard work expected of him on RussClark's self-styled hard working 50th Reunion committee which is beaming in on the June 11-12-13, 1976 target. Of course you are carefully marking these dates in green on your calendar.
Just prior to the dawn of the new year - 1976 - the year of the great 50th Reunion of "the class" - can we pause at this time of the holy days to count our blessings of the past and of the present? And can we 1926 classmates look forward to the 50th year of remembrance of those wonderful years together at Dartmouth, and briefly to relive those days next June?
Secretary, 9 Gammons Road Waban, Mass. 02168
Treasurer, 5554 Boynton Lane Ft. Myers, Fla. 33901
