1926

Classmates of 1926 feel honored to have shared with other friends and with members of the Louer family in the recent establishment of the Albert E. M. Louer 1926 Memorial Scholarship Fund at Dartmouth College. The Louer Fund, totalling nearly $100,000, will provide grants to Dartmouth students this fall, with preference being given to deserving students who are descendants of 1926 classmates or who come from the greater Chicago area. This is a very fitting memorial to Al, who did so much for Dartmouth and for his class.

Ed Hanlon recently received from DuckyHeacox an autographed copy of his 172-page book, The Compleat Brown Trout. The autograph reads, "For Ed Hanlon a fellow dartmouth alumnus who as class historian has compiled a record of his 1926 classmates unequalled in Dartmouth annals." This is the second book Ducky has sent to him, the other being Education of an Outdoorsman. Ed said he was so proud of Ducky's words, as well he should be as his history was indeed a most unusual story of 1926. Ed continues to have problems with his eyesight which restrict his reading and writing. Recently he spent a week in the hospital for treatment for his cancer, but had no chemotherapy.

Det Harwood missed much of deep-freeze New England weather by taking off in midJanuary for a two-month stay in Winter Park, Fla.

Art and Inez Wilcox also left northern climes to spend two months at Garden City Beach, S.C. Art admits to taking along his typewriter so that the March edition of "Smoke Signals" will be on the streets on time. Our conscientious and able newsletter editor certainly deserves our hearty vote of thanks for the great job he is doing.

Class treasurer Jack Roberts annually winds down the class dues search so that an even more important search for another 1926 Green Derby Alumni Fund victory can begin April 1 under the leadership of George Scott. Here are a few more "Dear Jack" news items to close out the class dues season: Frank Poor landed in the hospital in October with a mild stroke, but says he is now "first string" again, except for age. He added that a man knows he is old when he is ready, able, and willing — but not all at the same time; Charlie andHelen Clare Macdonald visited Heritage Village, Southbury, Conn., but missed seeing Jack and Dot Roberts, who had taken off for the 1926 monetary headquarters in Ft. Myers, Fla.; word came from Celia Blair with news that her husband, Whit Blair, had difficult medical problems for the past 18 months at their Newark, N.Y., home and had asked her to send in his usual class dues check (we hope he long since has been on the mend); BobStopford told Jack that his wife Ann passed away last summer after seven years in a nursing home with a long, difficult illness. Ann was a charming person known to many in the class, knd Bob has the sympathetic understanding of the class.

A beautiful and most unusual service was given in Rollins Chapel in Hanover in memory of Emily Merrill, who died December 9, 1983. Several tributes and musical selections cello and piano duo, Concord String Quartet, and piano solo arranged by her sister, Jean Hoyt, would have overjoyed Emmy, a lover of music and an accomplished pianist herself. Dick Eberhart read "Cover Me Over: Codicil for Emmy Archibald Merrill," and LesTalbot and Tubber Weymouth served as ushers.

At this writing we are sorry to record the passing of three classmates - Syl McGinn,Ted Parker, and Don Robinson. Obituaries will be in this or the next issue.

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