1926

A sizeable Cape Cod '26 group gathered for lunch and golf at Woods Hole Golf Club last fall and are identified in the accompanying photo. Acting Falmouth secretary Tom FloydJones, who provided the candid shot, mentioned he is now a landlubber, having sold his boat - a sad parting.

Many Christmas greetings include an account of the year's doings, and Margaret Bixby told of many welcome visits of family and friends and said she is coming along very well health wise. Hank and Jane Parker in their Christmas summary told of two trips to California, one including travel to Oregon and British Columbia. Numerous 1926 families picture children, grandchildren, and selves, which are always interesting — the Harwoods, the Murdoughs and the Hank Parkers, to name a few.

A welcome letter from Ed Gulbenkian told of his new address at 812A Larchmont Acres, Larchmont, N.Y., and his being in business with his son supplying swimwear for teams at colleges and schools. He still keeps his hand in in his original business (since 1929), oriental rugs and carpets. Ed takes in all Yale-Dartmouth games in New Haven, reports pretty good health, but says his wife's is not that good.

Oz Fitts had a Heart attack while at the August American Bar Association meeting in Chicago, but has recovered very well - enough so that he walks three or four miles .daily and, though retired, drops in almost every day at his law office. Dot and he are on their boat Wizardof Oz on Lake Champlain during summer.

Come the first of April our ever-ready '26 Alumni Fund team will bring the message to classmates of this year's pressing needs of the College. Head agent Al Louer, in planning for 1978, reminds us of the unusually fine response by 1926 in last year's campaign, which won a citation for outstanding performance which he accepted for the Class. Surely a repeat performance is in order.

In a "Dear Jack" note to treasurer JackRoberts, Art Stack wrote that he was pleased to contribute to the Tucker Foundation fellowship and that he took his grandson to Hanover last summer to expose him to the possibility of a Dartmouth education. Art lost his wife Margaret in April, but he was thankful she had been able to be at the 50th reunion with him. Also, Hump Campbell wrote Jack of the death of Margaret, his wife of 44 years, after a long illness. Art and Hump have the sincere sympathy of the Class.

Roily Eaton wrote thanking the Class for his birthday card and said that two of five children and six of twelve grandchildren were at the party. Besides having a birthday party, he won an AMC Pacer in a Pete Rose Baseball Sweepstakes! (Mark this down as possibly the first time someone you actually know won a sweepstakes.)

Steb Stebbins, class birthday card recipient, reports activity of some teaching and advising on research projects at the School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, from which he retired as dean 11 years ago. He and his wife Helen have more time to travel and recently toured Egypt. Steb corresponds with his old (should we say former?) roommate, WarrenFellingham, and frequently sees Paul Harper, also retired from the university as a department chairman.

The Florida 1926 midwinter reunion was held at Ed and Margaret Dooley's place at Boca Raton earlier this month, but we went to press before the event and hence have no details to report. Margaret and Ed are most generous in opening up their home for this outstanding class get-together.

Worthy Walters sent thanks for his class birthday card in this manner: "Frankly, I never expected to be around this long — just another example of my misjudging the market." He said his candy company sold out in 1966 and since 1969 he has been retired except to play the commodity market. (We hope he had no options with the infamous Boston firm!) Worthy sent a newspaper item relating a story told at the Campaign for Dartmouth dinner in Chicago by President Kemeny about his interesting connection with the Manhattan Project. The '26 attendees at this dinner were CarleBlunt, Male and Lydia Jones, Al and EllenLouer, Tom and Grace Murdough, Ross Welch, and Tubber and Mary Weymouth.

When Jack Straight read last fall in "Smoke Signals" about the seasonal appearance of The Country Club golf course in front of HubHarwood's Chestnut Hill, Mass., condominium, he compared it with his Bartlesville, Okla., course and found things pretty much the same. We look forward to his comparison when he reads Hub's description of our local course after the Great Boston 22-Inch Snowstorm of January 20.

Ed Lathem, Dean of the Dartmouth Libraries, has told of a library fund established by an alumnus of the Class of 1925 in memory of John Heavenrich, it being the donor's hope that others will be inclined to add to the fund for the purchase of books and other materials for the College libraries.

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