1926

Jack Roberts enjoyed a late summer visit to his native New England turf: spent a week with son John and family in Cambridge; checked out his boyhood haunts on the North Shore; in Rockport called on Charlie and Helen Clare MacDonald, his former neighbors at Heritage. Village, Southbury, Conn.; had dinner at North Hill with Don and Lou Norstrand; and had a brief visit in Hanover, contacting Tubba Weymouth. On his travels in New Jersey he had stayed with his daughter and family and caught up with his successor, class treasurer Jack Bickford, in New Vernon. They talked shop and agreed that over the past 59 years their classmates had certainly responded well and promptly to the call for class dues, as evidenced by the recent financial statement.

In July Ed and Evelyn Hanlon celebrated their 35th anniversary in West Palm Beach. Ed's health problems interfere with travel plans, but they hope soon to visit Evelyn's two sisters in Missouri.

Class notes in the Summer issue of this magazine listed the 1926 members of Alpha Chi Sigma chemical fraternity as per the Aegis but did not include the name of Canfield Hadlock. Had, however, is indeed a member, having made his living as a very distinguished chemist with E.I., duPont de Nemours. During 1926-1928, while an instuctor of chemistry at Dartmouth, Had became a member of the fraternity.

In the same magazine issue your scribe, due to lack of rudimentary arithmetic know-how, listed Sigma Pi as the name of the Mathematical Society. Larry Kennison, co-winner of the Thayer prize in mathematics his junior year and professor of mathematics for 38 years at Brooklyn College and for five years at Southern Massachusetts University, was highly qualified to correct the impression that the letters on the fraternity key were not initials of Greek words, but indeed were mathematical symbols. Meanwhile your scribe stands non compos mentis.

Les Talbot and Tubba Weymouth handled arrangements for the class mini-reunion at the Princeton game weekend. Some 31 classmates, wives, widows, and guests enjoyed some or all of the events: luncheon at Oberlander Lounge, the game, or the buffet dinner at Hanover Inn after the game. This weekend replaced the mid-August Hanover get-together of 47 years which ended in 1984 when 37 attended the final event.

Reg and Samie Hanson reported a fine summer vacation at their favorite Ogunquit, Maine, resort where the class birthday card caught up to them; Wad andNardine Woods also acknowledged the '26 natal greeting, saying they attended the University of New Hampshire game but couldn't make the Harvard game. Wad had an unbeaten New England tennis summer; Chet Morrison on his class birthday card was welcomed into the 1926 octogenarian club, and his Marblehead, Mass., hometown celebration of the event was much fun. He and Betty have the 60th reunion on hold no commitment as yet; Lou Conant, Washington, D.C., appreciated his 1926 birthday greetings and hopes to be at the 60th reunion, this time with no broken bones and no crutches as at the 55th. Lou is a docent at the Air and Space Museum where he enjoys leading visitor tours.

During the holiday season Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer is making his annual appearance at Hopkins Center, and in memory of his father, Bob May, sends greetings to all - especially his classmates!

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