1926
The Alumni Fund count-down is on with the approaching June 30 deadline and Al Louer and his veteran team need 100% support of the Class to turn in another Green Derby victory. Dr. Kemeny's Five Year Report in the April Alumni Magazine points out the vital importance to the College of the Alumni Fund. There is still time to mail a check or even an additional check.
After mailing that check, send a card to JohnManser, Box 667, Hanover, that you will be at the August 22-23-24 informal summer class reunion, and also tell him about your plans for Hanover football games: Oct. 11 - Penn, Oct. 18 - Brown, Nov. 17 - Cornell. Also keep in mind the away games: Oct. 25 - Harvard, Nov. 1 - Yale, Nov. 22 - Princeton with more news on these later.
Nine of the Class attended the Boston Alumni Club dinner in April and had the distinction of appearing on the late late show when the roving TV camera zeroed in on our table starring Russ and Betty Clark, Ed Emerson, Hub and Det Harwood, Don and Libby Norstrand, and Stew and Mary Lou Orr.
Other news in the Hub of the Universe has Chet Morrison traveling three days.a week from Marblehead to Boston where he consults on securities for two investment trusts and continues as a director of the Loyal Protective Life Insurance Co.
Carl Schipper commutes almost daily to State Street, Boston, attending to legal matters and again has been elected as a vice president of the Newton Cooperative Bank.
Henry Blake comes to Boston daily from Wellesley to manage his advertising and mail order business, and enjoys keeping active in this way.
West Newton's Henry Whitmore continues on a modified schedule to keep real estate in the Hub on an even keel. He and Grace, however, are off for a visit to Halifax, Nova Scotia, with their daughter Bessa, who with her husband teaches at Dalhousie University.
And at Russ and Betty Clark's home in Waban the first regular meeting of the 50th Reunion Committee was called to order by Russ and Hub Harwood, Paul Newhall, Don Norstrand, Stew Orr, and Herb Redman reported "present." Walt Rankin is reserving his invaluable thoughts for the next meeting.
In Francisville, Ind., our gentleman herdsman, John Blair, wrote "sold some cattle - best I ever had - but lost money on them. Roast beef should be cheap."
Monty Colladay in San Diego, Calif., has modestly admitted that a year ago Nina and he twice became great-grandparents - once in June (a boy) and again in July (a girl). It should be noted that there were two sets of parents!
When sending the class birthday greeting to Rollie Eaton at Hydraulic Road, Charlottesville, Va., your secretary inquired from whence cameth the name of the street. Rollie came back with a learned reply quoting from such sources: N. Davey, A History ofBuilding Materials, London, 1961 op. cit., 103 which said that the use of crushed brick to make "hydraulic" mortars seems to have been a common practice of the Roman architect Vitruvius. Rollie went on to say that his daughter Ethel, a candidate for a Ph.D. in Classical Archeology at Brown, delivered a paper at the American Archeology Assoc. December meeting in Chicago, and the subject happened to be Vitruvius! Ethel goes on the faculty of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, in June. Oh, yes, Rollie says Hydraulic Road passes over the Rivanica River on a bridge.
The annual meetings of officers of all Dartmouth classes took place May 2-3-4 in Hanover. Russ and Betty Clark, chairpeople, and Stew and Betty Lou Orr, treasure-people of the 50th Reunion Committee joined Charlie and Edith Bishop, Hub and Det Harwood, Don and Libby Norstrand, and Tubba Weymouth to represent 1926. Jack and Dot Roberts were delayed in Florida by a hospital diversion on Jack's part so were unable to attend. Jack is up and about and feeling fine and both are looking forward to the class informal reunion in August. Al and Ellen Louer are also planning on the August get-together, but Al feels he can serve 1926 better if he stays busy with the Alumni Fund job rather than attend the Hanover meetings.
A good letter from Paul Leussler from Claremont, Calif., brings us up to date on his activities since Dartmouth. Paul went to work for Omaha Steel Works as a laborer and became executive vice president in 1940. He left Omaha to be in Europe for ECA and upon return to U.S. was general sales manager for Wellamethe Iron & Steel Co., Portland, Ore. In 1951 he was vice president and general manager of Graver Tank & Mfg. Co, and then semi-retired in 1961, now taking occasional management consulting assignments. Paul has related some fine Hanover "townie" history in the twenties which will make great reading in Smoke Signals when space permits.
Curiosity led your secretary to compare residence addresses by states of 1926 men in April 1975 vs September 1922 with some startling results. Here are a few of the major ones, and if Hub has room maybe more will follow.
1922 1975 1922 1975 Calif. 3 29 N.H. 38 22 Conn. 19 20 N.J. 42 25 Fla. 0 33 N.Y. 96 41 Ill. 48 19 Ohio 17 14 Mass. 142 48 Pa. 30 15
Governors and Chambers of Commerce will probably demand equal time to explain the shifts in population.
At about the time this June issue of the Alumni Magazine reaches our captive 1926 readers Don and Libby Norstrand will be cruising up the coast of Norway during the longest days of the year when the sun never sets, as Hans Donald visits the land of his forbears. But don't count your blessings yet as more deathless prose may await you when the summer is over. Skoal!
LATE EXCLUSIVE
At the concluding meeting of all the alumni class officers, Mike McGean, Secretary of the College, read a citation naming "The 1974 Class of the Year" - the winner: THE CLASS OF 1926! We can't tell the story here of the years from 1922 to 1975, but watch for Smoke Signals for full details.
A truly three-D family are the Austins:Chuck '24, Vicki '77, captain of girls tennis team, and Fran Jr. '50. Chuck saysthree generations of lettermen may not beunique, but one being a girl may.
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