1926

Ten hardy classmates and 21 spouses and guests gathered in the Oberlander Lounge to have lunch and wait out the rain which never did stop at the Princeton game September 19. The score was satisfactory; the weather not. Those who thought so were Charlie Bishop, Dick Eberhart, Doug Everett, Ed Emerson, Ken Foster, Bill Hughes, Charlie McKenna; Stew Orr, Les Talbot, and Tubba Weymouth; After the game the weekend wound up with a '26 dinner, for which the group was joined By Danand Sally Drury, at the Sheraton in West Lebanon.

Treasurer Jack Roberts reports that class dues are arriving at a good rate at his northern headquarters in Southbury, Conn. Come November, he will be in business at his Ft. Myers, Fla., establishment, prepared to handle the pre-Christmas rush of dues as well as all the "Dear Jack" news briefs which are so valuable to Hub Harwood and Art Wilcox's "Smoke Signals," not to mention to the secretary's class notes.

If we have read , his handwriting correctly, Don Hopkins relates in a ."Dear Jack" note: "Now we have four in or out of college one Dartmouth '78, one Middlebury '8l, one Williams '84, one Bath '85, plus two to go." (Children? Grandchildren? Great-grandchildren?)

A "Dear Jack" letter from Frank Knowles of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., told of his being hospitalized for three months and recovering at home for six months after a December 24, 1980, tragedy. He and his daughter Diana were walking on the edge of Federal Highway when a car hit and killed his daughter and broke his legs and pelvis. An excellent doctor saved his legs, and Frank can now walk again. We are happy for Frank's return to health after this sad accident.

Don Church will officially retire on December 31 after 60 years in the field of resort hotel management (including his summer vacation years while in high school and Dartmouth). He leaves the Belleview Biltmore in Clearwater, Fla., after 34 years as general manager. During his 60 years he has been host to many of our classmates and Dartmouth alumni. Don plans to live in Whitefield, N.H., where he first spent several summers at the Mountain View Hotel under the tutelage of Frank Schuyler Dodge '11 and family.

Al and Saide Morris of Aiken, S.C., celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on October 31, and they became great-grandparents on August 28. Grandfather is their son George '54.

Lou Neuman and his wife left San Diego, Calif., last December, when the temperature hit a record high of 98 degrees, to take up residence in Eastford, Conn., where around Christmas time the thermometer read 15 below zero. We think the expression "reverse English" applies, but it is always good to get back to New England where it all began.

Our 1926 teachers seem never to stop teaching. Dick Husband says that he will continue into 1982 with a class in business and industrial psychology, and as previously mentioned, Gob and Marion DesMarais also are continuing into next year. When Dick is not rescuing improvident sailors on his U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary patrols, he and Dot find travel to their liking. This coming December they will make a trip to Portugal and Spain.

Carl Schipper, intrepid traveler, recently returned from a flight around the world which included visits to Moscow, Siberia, Outer Mongolia, China, and way-stations on the Trans-Siberian Railway which your scribe cannot spell. For many years Carl had hoped some day to travel on this famous railroad, but having done so is not about to arrange for a round-trip ticket.

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