1926

This year's class birthday card is testing classmates' abilities to find themselves in caps and gowns in the 1926 graduation picture taken in the Bema. Dick Major succeeded a little pale after a bout with jaundice. Hank Lamb remembered wearing darkrimmed glasses and also succeeded. ArtSmith and George Champion failed though both remembered the picture. George had an appropriate quote: "80 years of age is not difficult to attain if you live long enough."

The secretary has received 22 biographies since 200 forms were mailed with the January "Smoke Signals." Sometimes the Hanover Alumni Records Office and the class archives lack basic information when the need for same exists. Hence, newsletter editor ArtWilcox has arranged a repeat mailing to round up the remaining 178 reports.

Some news was generated by biographies. Charlie Macdonald told of 18 grandchildren - ten being his and eight being Helen Clare's. Who else can list similar numbers? Welden "Wilk" Wilkinson's return from California brought news of his doings since his 1922-1924 years at Dartmouth. He earned his B.S. and M.D. degrees at the University of Minnesota and has specialized as a psychiatrist. In good health, he golfs, fishes, and follows the ponies at Santa Anita. His hobby is wine vinegar flavor, and he says he makes the best wine vinegar west of the Atlantic Ocean. He is working on a manuscript on the subject.

We also learned from returned biographies that Harry Savage's wife of 53 years, Ella, died last December, and that Ken Godfrey's wife, also of 53 years, Mary, died in February. Ken and Doc have the deep sympathy of the class.

Though both Tom and Priscilla Colt are retired from the art museum profession they seem to be busier than ever. In January they attended a meeting of the Association of Art Museum Directors in Miami, and they were present at the opening of the impressive Miami Art Center - a triumph for Jan van der Marck, former director of galleries at Hopkins Center at Dartmouth. They also spend two months in spring and fall in New York to keep up with events and the art market.

A month remains for 1926 to attain 100 percent participation in the 1984 Alumni Fund. Head agent George Scott and his team urge timely response for this all-important "living endowment" for Dartmouth.

The beautiful obituary which appeared in last month's Magazine, for Richmond Lattimore, who died February 26, was written by his classmate, close friend, and fellow poet Dick Eberhart. This epic "song of praise" which so wonderfully depicts Dick's life and accomplishments leaves it to this column to recall his undergraduate years and to detail some highlights of his impressive career.

Dick, class poet, a member of Round Table, Mitre, Le Cercle Fransais, Delta Upsilon, and The Arts, which he served as vice president, was also on the boards of The Bema and TheTower. His post-graduate degrees were M.A. at Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Illinois, and honorary Litt.D. at Dartmouth in 1958. He also was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

He was a professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College for 36 years. Publications of his poetry were numerous, and he was a preeminent translator of Greek poetry and drama. Just prior to his death he was named as the 46th recipient of the fellowship "for distinguished poetic achievement" by the Academy of American Poets.

The class extends its sincere sympathy to his widow Alice and sons Steven '60 and Alexander '62.

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