1926

News has already been circulated to the class that due to recent heart problems, Head Agent Al Louer has heeded his doctor's orders to forego this year's Alumni Fund activity, and that Tubba Weymouth will carry on for him. The class wishes Al a speedy recovery and already is rallying to meet the situation in helping Tubba surpass the $94,526 goal.

A 1 Morris, a retired U.S. navy captain living in Aiken, S.C., writes of another reminder of the passage of time — the fact that Dartmouth's new president Dave McLaughlin is a classmate of his son George '54. Al, a born ana bred New Englander, .didn't get too excited about a somewhat colder than usual winter in the South.

The class of 1926 had the largest representation at the annual meeting of the Dartmouth Club of Southwest Florida on March 16 at the Wyndemere Country Club in Naples. Attending were Snipe and Kay Esquerre, Hub and Det Harwood, Fritz and Arlene Lawson, George Leyser, Jack and Dot Roberts, and Nort and Myrtie Van Duyn. Mike McGear. '49, secretary of the College, gave a super talk according to Jack Roberts, who with Hub Harwood sponsored the '26 table. Larry Leavitt 25 also spoke, explaining his program to brine promising athletes to Hanover for 48-hour ex posure in their senior year in secondary school.

Reporting from Grenada on the condition of the West Indies chapters of the 1926 Dartmouth clubs, Perk St. Clair deplored the lack of members, but spoke highly of the Caribbean quarters. Upon returning to their Clearwater base, he and Arlene found no dearth of classmates and others at a meeting of the Dartmouth Club of Florida, seeing Dick and Edna Burlingame and Clary and Betty Taylor.

Replies to class birthday cards came from Cupe and El Minuse, who sold their Florida home two years ago because at their home in Stony Brook, N. Y., it is easier to handle Cupe's health problems; from Boz Bozovski of Buffa- lo, N.Y., who wrote of big city subway doings there and recalled unforgettable incidents relating to Professor Poor; from Ralph Bristol, who commented on his being capable of wielding a saw, hammer, and paint brush at age 77 to some of us this is just a dream; from Worthy Walters who, after four years in Hanover, says he now hates snow no word from Highland Park, 111., since the record winter there; from Dick Lamb in Rapid City, S.D., who likes what he hears about progress at the College under Dave McLaughlin and states he is a regular reader of Hub's "Harwood Chronicle"; and from Hump Campbell, who said he and Doree had spent a vacation last fall in Guadalajara and Guanajuato which sent your scribe scurrying to an atlas. Result? Maybe you knew — Mexico. Hump's comment - a lot of old-world charm.

The Norstrands enjoyed a two-week stay in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea when, due to Libby's much-improved health, Dr. Tim O'Connor '6B okayed the trip. Some highlights besides the beach: the luncheon meeting of the Dartmouth Club of the Gold Coast in Ft. Lauderdale, where Bob Kaiser '39 brought the natives up to date on Hanover affairs; a visit with Reg and Samie Hanson at their great retirement home in Tequesta; an afternoon seeing Frank and Dottie Nelson at their Ft. Lauderdale apartment on the Intercoastal Waterway (Frank walking very well after his accident previously reported); cocktails at Margaret Dooley's delightful home in Boca Raton (Margaret doing very well), with Deerfield . Beach neighbors John and Ruth Straight also there; and a phone conversation with Bill Farnsworth, Pompano Beach, whose activity is somewhat limited due to eyesight problems. Regards of 26 were given to his wife Sophie, who, having completed freshman and sophomore terms, now has junior status in the class fellowship.

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