1926

Class of '26 readers, having attained or being about to attain three-quarter-century age status, will be glad to note that less energy is necessary to read 600 words — our new allowable class notes limit, down from 800.

The 42nd annual mid-summer Hanover reunion was attended by 32 persons, whose names are recorded in "Smoke Signals." Les Talbot, besides arranging things beautifully with the aid of John Manser, presided at the Saturday morning meeting of the memorial book committee, which he chairs. In addition, our able President Tubber Weymouth, Treasurer Jack Roberts, Newsletter Editor Hub Harwood, 55th Reunion Chair Art Wilcox, and your secretary reported briefly on the state of the class. We missed Bequest Chair Charlie Bishop, home due to illness of Edith, to whom the group sent a best wishes-get well card. Al Louer, class agent, was also unable to attend, but a letter from him told the great news of winning the 15th Green Derby and setting a new record of dollars given the Alumni Fund in a non-reunion year. It was another of the tremendous jobs Al has done for 1926 and Dartmouth over many years! This news added more joy to the weekend, which started with a cocktail hour and dinner at the Inn and ended with a delightful picnic Saturday at the Tom Dent cabin. One final item of interest: a picture of the group was taken in front of renovations at Crosby Hall — soon to be the new CarletonBlunt Alumni Center — to show how proud we are of our classmate's generosity to Dartmouth.

Our Bostonian legal beavers, Stew Orr, CarlSchipper, Jim Sullivan, Sunny Tilton, and SteveWeston, all 50 years out of Harvard Law School, are now proud owners of plaques from the Massachusetts Bar Association. DickNichols, also 50. years out of Harvard Law but a member of the Boston Bar Association, recently reported on his and Ruth's travels to Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Israel, Norway, and China (not all at the same time).

Graduation exercises for four grandchildren kept Dan and Sally Drury busy in May and June — a telling sign of the times.

On the other side of the coin, congratulations to Bill Farnsworth and welcome to the fellowship of Dartmouth 1926 to his new bride, Sophie Anderson.

Congratulations are also due to Hub and DetHarwood on their 50th anniversary — a family affair at the country club in Brookline, Mass. The event was attended by ushers CourtneyBrown, George Champion, and Chuck Webster (see photo on opposite page).

A July cruise through the inland passage of the Canadian and Alaskan coast was a substitute for the usual visits to Newport, R. I., and other New England haunts for Floridians Claryand Betty Taylor.

Since the June class notes, we have lost four wives very active in 1926 affairs; our sympathy goes to Tony Gleason, who lost Janet, ChuckWebster, who lost Natalie, Tubber Weymouth, who lost Mary, and Hank Whitmore, who lost Grace. Janet was active in music in the schools of Westfield, N.J.; Natalie was a horticulturalist of note and president of the Garden Club of America; Mary, besides being very deeply interested in church and music, was (to paraphrase Ed Hanlon's expression) one of 1926's "Founding Mothers" — she had much to do with bringing cohesion to the class; and Grace was, for a number of years, a very effective member of the school committee in Newton, Mass.

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