1926

Member of the 1926 family Pense Cleary ran one kilometer in the Ramapo Mountain area near Oakland, N.J., carrying the Olympic flame kindled in Olympia, Greece, on its 15,000 kilometer journey across America to the Los Angeles games. Equipped with official Olympic tank top, running shorts, and torch (which later became hers), Pense took the flame from the oncoming runner and sped it to the next runner. Daughter Susan had transferred this gift from her husband to her mother. What a wonderful present! What a wonderful Pense!

We were sorry to learn that Ed Steel sufered a stroke last spring and wish him a speedy recovery so that he can reconsider his intended retirement in Hanover.

Reg Hanson reported that last April Samie and he, Dutch and Del Diehl, Snipe and KayEsquerre, Frank and Helen Knowles, and Bob and Dorothy Stop ford were guests at a luncheon given by Margaret Dooley at her lovely home in Boca Raton, Fla. Margaret has taken pleasure in making these '26 Florida get-togethers annual events.

Also in April word was received from Tubber Weymouth that Carle Blunt had married Helen Tobey, widow of Newton Tobey '25 who passed away in 1970. Congratulations to Carle and welcome to Helen into the 1926 family!

Lou Ingram lost his brother Fred '29 who died April 1, 1983, as reported in the 1929 obituary of the June 1983 Magazine. Through oversight, however, Lou's name was omitted as a survivor customarily names of all Dartmouth relatives are listed. Since 1926 receives no cross-reference advisories from the Alumni Records Office of deaths of our classmates' relatives, we were unaware of the unfortunate omission, but we do indeed add our regrets to those of 1929 and offer belated sympathy to Lou.

Classmates were delighted to read in the April Magazine Ken Andler's essay on Robert Frost and to see illustrated his painting Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening. Ken had a slight stroke in February and spent six days at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover. His right side was affected, but strength and dexterity of his right arm and hand are good, and he still paints when time permits. His wife Dorie, with Parkinson's disease and partial blindness, can no longer be cared for at home and is at a nearby nursing home. The class sends best wishes with hopes for much improvement in their situations.

Charlie McKenna in a letter to Art Wilcox told of spending a week in July at Boston's Lahey Clinic. His doctor there termed his problem as emphysema and advised that it was treatable and that he will do all right.

Over four years ago Oz Fitts was afflicted with Alzheimer's disease and Dot has been caring for him at their home in Brattleboro, Vt. This disease, about which little is known, including treatment, progressed to the time when Dot could no longer care for him at home. Oz is now at Thompson House on nearby Maple Street, a very fine nursing home. To compound problems, Dot faces surgery for arthritis in her knee at Mary Hitchcock Hospital. The thoughts of 1926 go to both Oz and Dot.

Charlie Mac Donald was at Ohio State University in June to see his son Jack, who has been teaching there for four years, receive his Ph.D. in mathematics. There was also the unexpected pleasure of seeing Nobel Prize winner George Snell receive an honorary doctorate citing his medical research. Charlie and Helen Clare, who toured Ireland last year, will travel this year in Scotland.

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