1926
Florida news is in full flower at this time of year and noteworthy is the purchase at Delray Beach by Snipe and Kay Esquerré of a "small condo," which they are not redoing.
From Ft. Myers, treasurer Jack Roberts reports more dues in hand than at same time last year, with the books remaining open for those who may have forgotten to remember.
Norm and Dorothy Clarke in winter quarters in St. Petersburg are looking forward to their 50th anniversary within the year. Norm counts his blessings and thanks '26 for 75th birthday greetings.
Ed and Ollie Raisbeck, owners of a condo in Sanibel, presumably are in residence, but in a letter to Hub and Det Harwood last fall they told how they missed out on Florida by being in Spain with their son and family.
Larry Scoville, writing from Crescent, Ga., thanked '26 for recognizing his 75th and recalled that in 1912 when at age nine he was at a boys' camp on the Ompompanoosuc River near Union Village, Vt., three counselors (Dartmouth students) took their charges for an outing to Hanover - by train no less! Thereafter Lafry had only one choice for college.
Word from Tony and Janet Gleason from Scotch Plains, N.J., concerned activity in Red Cross, Civil Defense, and duplicate bridge (not necessarily in that order) and also travel to visit grandchildren in California and friends in Arizona.
From Long Beach, Calif. Hump Campbell wrote that coming through Laguna Beach he had stopped to chat with Charlie and MaryStarrett at their seaside home. Hump mentioned that Charlie had special praises for Ed Hanlon's fine class history.
Steve and Helen Mitchell had a busy 1978 with travels in Denmark, England, and California, and when not elsewhere they are at home in Port Washington, N.Y.
Ken Joy has a most interesting 1922 memory: he and Ed Duffy, homeward bound at the close of freshman year, chatted with Cal Coolidge on the B & M noon train south while speeding between White River Junction and Northampton, where Silent Cal disembarked. Much more on this to be read in Hub Harwood and ArtWilcox's "Smoke Signals."
The December class notes told of HalMarshall's heart attack last fall, and sadly we report his death on December 31, as well as the deaths of three other classmates, Walter Innes,Clinton Kelley, and Charles Tagliabue. Their obituaries will be in this or a future issue of the MAGAZINE. Also, it is with deep regret that we report the death on December 23 of MaryWeymouth, wife of Tubber Weymouth. Mary was one of the pioneers who led the way for wives to take part in the 1926 fellowship. To quote Barbara Hayward: "I think Mary is the one lady 1926' who has done more to create the class spirit than any other woman in our midst." The Class will indeed miss Mary and extends its sincere sympathy to Tubber.
Our honorary class member, Royal CaseNemiah died December 21 in his 87th year, and 1926 has lost its favorite professor. He was held in high esteem by classmates for many years. The Class offers its deep sympathy to Mrs. Nemiah and thanks her for her thoughtfulness in suggesting that memorials might be made in the name of Dartmouth 1926 for the Alumni Fund.
April 1 is not far away and that is when the annual Alumni Fund gets under way. Al Louer's nation-wide network of agents is poised, ready to bring the message of Dartmouth's crucial need for alumni financial support. In this period of skyrocketing costs we are aware of the problem, and if the past is any criterion, 1926 will respond with yet another Green Derby victory.
The Class is immensely proud of Carle Blunt for his very generous gift to the College, which makes possible the Blunt Alumni Center. This is the second building in Hanover to bear the name of a classmate - the other being Murdough Center, named in honor of Tom Murdough.
We believe the first classmate to be pictured on the cover of a DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE was Dick Eberhart last September. We long since have been unable to find room to list all the awards given Dick for his outstanding talent in poetry - Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, etc., etc. Franklin Pierce College, when conferring the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, said of Dick, "Few living poets have earned as much praise, and perhaps we should emphasize the word 'living.'"
Back in the twenties, who besides your scribe got lower marks in English because he was found to frequently split infinitives or when prepositions were used to end a sentence with? If we had studied with a teacher as knowledgeable as Wad Woods, now of Portsmouth, N.H., we would have had no problem. Before he retired Wad taught Latin and English grammar and developed a wonderful example recently quoted in The Boston Globe of how not to compose a sentence: "A child is sick in bed in a room on the second floor. Mother comes upstairs with a book, planning to read to the child. The child says, 'What did you bring that book that I don't want to be read to out of up for?'"
During 1978 Dick Husband was definitely the 1926 Marco Polo, having traveled well over 30,000 miles. Perhaps his most unusual experience was aboard U.S.S. LaSalle for a two-month tour of duty teaching psychology during naval exercises in the Persian Gulf, Red Sea, and northwest Indian Ocean. "Smoke Signals" will do more justice to Dick and Dot's worldwide wanderings, but here is. Dick pictured with - who else? Dartmouth compatriots!
Just as we went to press we learned that Natalie Webster, wife of Chuck Webster, died suddenly of a heart attack on January 28 at her home in Islip, N.Y., and we wanted Chuck to know that our thoughts were with him at this time.
"The Dartmouth Club of the Persian Gulf": from left, Dick Husband '26 (instructor,USS LaSalle), Sam Packer '47 (Commander Middle East Force, USN, flagship USS LaSalle), and Dave Graves '66 (executive officer, USS Vreeland) pose with big boats.
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