1926

While Art Alexander missed having his 75th birthday in Hanover at the August minireunion he was rewarded by having all eight grandchildren with him and Edith at their home in Brockton, Mass. Art mentioned an inquiry about how many classmates were not yet 75, and your uncertified actuarian scribe found the number to be 11 as of November 1. Three will be 75 in 1980: Walt Pillsbury, Bob Mclndoe, and Tony Gleason; and in 1981 the remaining eight in this order: Ken Godfrey, Henry Lamb, Ted Greeley, Al Morris, Bob Cort, Dick Lattimore, Pat Allen, and on August 31 our youngest classmate, Ritchie Smith. "Safe at last in the senior class?"

A case of "man bites dog" occurred twice last August when Bob and Jerry Mclndoe mailed care of the Hanover Inn a birthday card to the secretary, and Lou and Margaret Neuman, likewise careful readers of Hub Harwood's "Smoke Signals," noted the natal date. Lou reported that he managed his 75th event in stride as well he might in beautiful San Diego, Cal.

Ralph Bristol did not mention why he was last fall on a staging that collapsed, "smashing his left elbow into splinters." Fortunately he has made good recovery, saying the cure was worse than the injury.

A big 50th wedding anniversary party was given Chuck and Dorothy Morton by Ramada Inn, Darien, Ga., where Chuck is one of the few remaining "gainfully employed" classmates. Chuck retired in 1969 from United Technologies and has found the Georgia climate and hospitality very enjoyable.

From Delray Beach, Fla., Dinty Moore explained his whereabouts in September 1922, when most of 1926 had arrived on the Hanover plain. Dinty was a freshman at University of Wisconsin and transferred to Dartmouth in the middle of his spphomore year. "Good move," was his comment.

Another Floridian, George Leyser, wrote in appreciation of the class's remembering his three-quarter-century birthday, saying all is quiet in Cape Coral until the busy Dartmouth doings in the winter months.

At a large dinner-dance party at the University Club in Cincinnati, Jim Traquair celebrated his 75th. Sounds like it was a real blast! He and Retta enjoyed a June junket to the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, S.C., and if their schedule has not been interrupted they might now be in the Near East, particularly in Egypt, where Jim had a brief tour of duty during World War II.

Our class birthday card tracks down those whose Hanover addresses were not known in September 1922, and Bud Bush advised he was then a sophomore rooming at 48 South Main Street with Hal Rider '25. However, there was excellent 1926 representation there Ed Hanlon and Bill Sharp in one room and Harry Thomas and Larry Wolff in the other room. Osteomylitis caused hospitalization and an operation in 1923 and Bud lost a year. Thus 1926 gained a stalwart classmate.

Reaching his 75th year brought forth some Dartmouth remembrances from Tommy Thomas, Pittsburgh, Pa. A Thanksgiving spent with George Snell at the Snell family home in Brookline, Mass., getting to know John Dallas, rector of St. Thomas Church in Hanover (later Bishop of New Hampshire) and recalling the ever-busy Ed Dooley, a neighbor on his floor in South Hall freshman year. (See the wonderful news about Nobel Prize winner George Snell on page 26.)

We certainly have knonw where our Poet Laureate of New Hampshire Dick Eberhart has been since graduation, but about the only littleknown fact of his career was where he was in September 1922. Dick said that in 1922 he was a freshman at the University of Minnesota, joining Dartmouth 1926 in the sophomore year. What a great transfer!

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