1926

Charlie and Mary Starrett last April checked out the Panama Canal situation, having sailed from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., after farewell drinks with Nate and Lois Parker, who were also vacationing there. After their transit of the canal and cruise up the California coast, Charlie dug up a priceless picture of five classmates on a Montreal pee-rade in 1926 (see last month's issue). Not content with local doings, the Starretts headed east for fall football in Hanover, Cambridge, and assorted waystations. It was great to see them.

The chairman of the building committee for a new building for the Gulf Gate Branch Library of Sarasota, Fla., was none other than a Dartmouth '26 man, Holt McAloney. Even in retirement Holt is a busy man.

Post-marked Parishville, N.Y., deep in the Adirondacks, Keith Blake's card indicates that he still enjoys summer quarters on Joe Indian Pond Road (should it be Joe "bleep" Pond Road?). Incidentally, Keith approved the reminiscences of the class birthday card.

Art and Inez Wilcox had a fine European trip in May, returning on the Queen Elizabeth II, which Art thinks is owned by Charlie and LoisAbbott, who are regular commuters and also were aboard. Art is busy as associate editor of "Smoke Signals" giving Hub Harwood a helping hand during his recuperation at his home in Chestnut Hill, Mass. Not to be outdone, Inez is also recovering nicely from recent surgery and is now home in Greenwich, N.Y.

We leave it to the College-news section of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE to relate in detail the many honors bestowed on our talented classmate DickEberhart. 1926 is very proud of Dick for his accomplishments, such as winner in the poetry category of this year's National Book Awards by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and of the president's medallion of the University of Florida "in recognition of disinguished service." Dick has traveled widely lecturing, leading seminars, and giving readings - his latest trip being in Alaska.

Also, Ed Hanlon's sharp eyes spotted an item that another noted 1926 poet, Dick Lattimore, was honored as a guest translator at a symposium held last spring by the Poetry Society of America.

Wallace (Wally) Mac Donald, Ridgefield, N.J., when acknowledging the 1926 card, was sorry to tell of the death of his wife Marian after 37 years of happy married life. The Class sends its sympathy to Wally.

Stew and Mary Lou Orr and a small boy holding aloft a Dartmouth banner are featured in a picture which appeared in Hanover football programs this fall. The picture is a grandstand scene taken last season, and of course it indicates loyal 1926 support of the team.

Kier Boyd, reading about '26ers who have known other '26ers for long times, wonders if any classmate arrived in Hanover with less knowledge of the College than he had. He knew no one who ever went or who was about to go to Dartmouth. His trip from Pittsburgh to Hanover in 1922 brought him to New England for the first time. Kier said his luck could not have been better.

1926 dues bills were duly mailed in September by our ever-alert treasurer Jack Roberts, who now beams about resulting returns but also says there is room in the treasury for more checks. Jack says that an excellent voluntary response is being made to underwrite a class gift to the William Jewett Tucker foundation for a fellowship of $1,000. A full description went with the dues notice.

George and Catrina Allen of Salt Lake City were sorry not to revisit Hanover this year after enjoying so much the wonderful 50th. Trina was particularly pleased with her 2D6 pendant.

We had a great letter in June from Ruth Kelley, widow of Buck Kelley, enclosing an Alumni Fund gift in memory of Buck, in which she reminisced about her visits with him in Hanover. "Smoke Signals," co-edited by HubHarwood and Art Wilcox, will doubtless have more details.

26 persons of 1926 were in Hanover for the opening game with Princeton, to wit: Charlie and Edith Bishop, Henry Blake, Ed Emerson, Ken and Ruth Foster, Barbara Hayward, Bill Hughes, Al and Ellen Louer, Johnny Manser, Hal and Caroline Marshall, Tom and Grace Murdough, Dick and Ruth Nichols, Don and Libby Norstrand, Charlie and Mary Starrett (all the way from California), Hank and Grace Whitmore, and Steve Mandel '78, grandson of our late Dick Mandel (Steve was the official bartender at our 50th). Many thanks to John"Manser, perennial Hanover '26 host, who on a rather damp day provided comfortable quarters in the Oberlander Lounge, together with all the essential set-ups and tasty tid-bits for the social hour for the big group, which included a representation of Princeton alumni as invited guests.

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