1926

As all of us '26ers approach, reach, or pass the octogenarian landmark, we view the event in varying ways. Bill Hughes advised that he enjoyed a five-day celebration, leaving him tired but happy. Palmer and he were soon to leave on their annual spring trip to Virginia and the Carolinas.

In January, at the time of his birthday, Art Smith was worrying about warm weather and no cross-country skiing. However, later national weather reports indicated that Katherine and he had adequate opportunity to ski on Wisconsin's finest quantity and quality snow.

A resident of Freedom, N.H., since 1981, having moved there from Bronxville, N.Y., Hank Lamb said that he was elected to the school board and that he was enjoying the town life somewhat different than that in the Big Apple.

Last December, Rollie Eaton of Charlottesville, Va., had a cataract removed and a lens implanted. He was glad to report success and good vision restored.

Our competent "Smoke Signals" editorial staff was able to take off on February and March vacations without canceling a single edition. Editor Art Wilcox, on the winter tour of duty, twice put the written script into the mail for Hanover to print and distribute, then he and Inez first spent a week in Woodstock, and later visited Myrtle Beach, S.C. Meanwhile, Editor Hub Harwood and Det were in residence at the Belleview Biltmore in Clearwater, Fla., where Carl Schipper and his sister Ann Colburn burn also were on vacation. Lou Ingram spent a weekend there, and both Dick and Edna Burlingame and Perk and Arlene St. Clair came over for lunch with the Harwoods.

Even Palm Springs, Calif., had reason to talk about the weather during the winter months, according to Ted Greely, who said that never in all the 42 years of his living there had he seen the mountains so beautifully mantled in white as after their "big" storm.

Ken and Lydia Joy enjoyed a January trip to Bermuda to celebrate Ken's 80th. This year Ken is serving as president of the Millburn-Short Hills (N.J.) Arts Center a 300-mem-ber organization.

Tubba and Barbara Weymouth also had a pleasant March vacation in Bermuda, well timed to escape the Hanover mud season.

Responding to the class birthday card, Charlie McKenna told that his anemia has improved and that he has put on 15 much-needed pounds. However, he is afraid he will have to cut back 80 per cent on his Norwich garden activities. Just so the class secretary will know what goes on across the river from Hanover, Charlie is kindly sending him Vermont Life magazine.

Our class has reason to be proud of our classmate Ed Steel, senior judge of the United States District Court of Delaware, who was recently honored for 50 years at the Delaware Bar and 25 years as a federal judge. A fellow federal judge said Ed is "noted for his keen legal mind and his terse but scholarly opinions. Each of his many published opinions reflects his ability to focus on the legally significant issues, to identify the principles underlying the relevant precedents, and to reason to a conclusion in tightly drafted prose."

About a month remains for the Alumni Fund, and Head Agent George Scott and his team are out for 100-per cent participation. Our contributions make the Alumni Fund a "living endowment" so important to Dartmouth!

"Bud" Brown '25, pictured above at the left, and his wife Brownie were recently honored by thestate of Arizona with an award for their role in helping preserve the western traditions. In thephotograph above, Brown is pictured with Fred Fuld '40 on the fourth day of the five-dayBradshaw Mountain Trail Ride last year. Fuld wrote that "81-year-young Bud {along with hispack mule) led 50 riders over some of the most beautiful country Arizona has to offer. . . . BudBrown is one fabulous gent." Details of the recent award presented the Browns is in the 1925 classnotes column.

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