1926

A few reverberations from the 60th reunion: Perk and Arlene St. Clair tarried two days in Hanover and then visited on Cape Cod for three days, which Jake Jacobus said evoked a continuance of '26 celebrations; former class treasurer JackRoberts had transportation to New Jersey with present class treasurer Jack Bickford and Dawsy, which gave Jack R. a chance to visit his daughter and friends before returning to Ft. Myers, Fla.; Art andKatherine Smith added Maine to their reunion visit and enjoyed seeing again under more relaxed conditions Joe andHelen Kinney at Bridgton and Georgeand Rhoda Snell at Bar Harbor. Art inquired about names to identify classmates in the reunion picture and an updated list of names and addresses of all classmates -answers shall be forthcoming; Fred andKay Hurd, having returned to their Darien residence, managed their first swim of the season. Fred is now a trustee of the Children's Aid Society, one of the oldest and largest service agencies in New York City.

Nine of Charlie Mac Donald's 10 grandchildren were at his Rockport, Mass., birthday, after which Charlie and Helen Clare were in Vancouver for another family gathering and the Exposition.

College and high school graduations of two granddaughters caused Warren andDorothy Fellingham to miss the 60th reunion. Class of 1926 grandparents are very much in demand at such events.

At the May annual dinner in Newton, Mass., of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Eastern Massachusetts, it was interesting that four sons of '26 fathers were there, all of whom are very active in class, college, and alumni affairs Bob Blake '65, Danny Drury Jr. '48, Bob Mac Donald '57, and Dave Orr '57. Also in attendance -Henry Blake, Hank Whitmore, and Don and Lou Norstrand.

Jim Wooster's letter of thanks for his class birthday card told how sorry he and Anne were that health considerations made it impractical for them to be at the 60th reunion. Their grandson, Chuck '89, spent the summer working at the Appalachian Mountain Club at Franconia Notch, making him practically a year-round resident of the "North Country."

Also responding to a '26 birthday wish, Dick Nichols told of his daily visits to his law office "to destroy and clean up files all accumulated since September, 1929 a tedious but necessary job."

Courtney Brown has sent some memoirs of his years at Columbia Business School to share with the '26 media, but Uncle Sam's postal service seem to have misplaced it somewhere between North Hill K-204 and Friendship, Maine, where your scribe and Lou spent the summer. It is hoped that replacement will be possible.

Ed Hanlon was sorry that health made reunion attendance impossible, but was pleased to see the reunion pictures and added his thoughts as to who was sitting next to whom. He recalled that quite a long time ago there was a New York City 1926 club that met for dinner once a month at the old Dartmouth Club shared, he thought, with Princeton. Chuck Webster organized it, and later Herm Trefethen carried it on. Ed remembered some members Charlie Singleton, Ed McDuffie, Pete Johnson, GibRobinson, Carl Allen, Nick Nickerson,Lloyd Sanford, "etc." Ed said that he and Evelyn were able to swim in their pool two or three times a week, but visits to the Gulf were less frequent.

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