1926

Jake and Evie Jacobus keep busy planning the 60th reunion, and as this is written in February 48 classmates, 38 wives, six widows, and eight guests, totalling 100, are coming. The announced tax of $llO per person and $15 per night at The Lodge (previously the annex of Hanover Inn now a dormitory) is a real bargain, to go along with a great planned program for the Dartmouth 1926 family. Jake and Evie are back from a Caribbean cruise, having spent Christmas at Myrtle Beach, S.C., with their son Jake III '55 and his family (wife, two daughters, and son Jake IV '87). The youngest Jake, a member of the Dartmouth golf team, had no problem on the local golf course with Dad and Granddad.

Tom Floyd-Jones, Falmouth, is doing nicely with a new pin in his knee and is also busy on the 60th-reunion committee. Have you sent in your card to say "yes, count me in"?

Monty Colladay is planning to travel from San Diego, Calif., with his two daughters for the 60th. We were sorry to hear that his wife, Nina, died last year.

Travel in Europe will prevent PenseCleary from being in Hanover for the 60th. Maybe Ken and Lydia Joy will cross paths with Pense, for they, too, have summer European travel plans which means they'll miss reunion.

We were sorry to hear that Gob andMarion Des Marais can not be with us for the 60th for reasons of health.

Ed and Marjorie Farnum are "keeping the 60th reunion in mind," and perhaps the short distance from their Squam Lake summer place to Hanover will influence their decision.

It is always interesting to hear from Worthy Walters, Evanston. Not only did he thank 1926 for birthday greetings and say that he could hot make the 60th, but he also thought to congratulate the Norstrands on their first anniversary (even though they considered it their 52nd- all of 52 weeks).

Stew and Mary Lou Orr have already made plans to attend the summer courses offered by Principia College, Elsah,Ill ., in August. This will be their sophomore year, as they were students there in 1983. Preparatory to this educational experience they brushed up at the Dartmouth-sponsored March seminar at Babson College, Wellesley.

During the winter season Dick andRuth Nichols were dinner guests of Donand Lou Norstrand at their North Hill K204 quarters in Needham, Mass. Bib Bankart '37 and his wife, Katie, who were visiting next door with a friend and neighbor in K202, were able to come by for cocktails. Dick now commutes to Exchange Place, Boston, the new address of Goodwin, Procter, and Hoar, the law firm where he.was senior partner and now is "of counsel." Carl Schipper, who was a partner of the firm, also continues "of counsel," and both the Nicholses and Carl and his sister Ann are considering future residency at North Hill.

In this first month of the 1986 Alumni Fund campaign, head agent George Scott and his correctly defined "veteran" team is geared up to do everything possible to attain our chosen $192,600 60th-reunion gift to the College. At our age we have long since realized the value of our own Dartmouth experience. Our past record of Alumni Fund giving has shown our interest that those who follow us in Hanover should have the same alumni support that was given us. The class of 1926 feels it can meet the 1986 challenge as it has in the past.

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