1926

Health permitting, Ed Hanlon will be in Hanover with his wife, Evelyn, for the 60th reunion. He was in the hospital with angina and missed a Sarasota Dartmouth Alumni Club meeting when president David McLaughlin spoke, but did get to the luncheon for Doug Greenwood '66, editor of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. Our class historian seldom misses a '26 item, and Ed for some reason was reading the Harvard Magazine in which was a poem, "Memory," with this notation about the author: "Richard Eberhart, celebrated poet and recipient of the Bollingen Prize and many other prizes, reveals that he will turn 100 in 2004." A 1926 birthday card is being readied for that April 5, 2004, date.

Charlie Gibson continues to commute five days a week from his West Newton home into Boston where he has been 60 years in the investment business, 55 of these years with one company under its various names. Charlie joined the class in 1923, transferring from Kansas City Junior College.

Having spent eight days in Newton- Wellesley Hospital Henry Blake went home, only to return to intensive care when he had a reaction to a prescribed medication. Now home again and this time feeling fit, his next trip is a wisely planned visit to Hanover for the 60th reunion. Henry had heard from Jerry Jones, Aurora, III., who told of his plans in May to gather his family in Southampton, England, to celebrate his wife Lydia's birthday, and for all of them to embark on a North Cape cruise.

Tubba and Barbara Weymouth took off March 10 for their favorite Bermuda resort, Waterloo House in Hamilton, thus avoiding the impending Hanover mud season. Their Norwich, Vt., neighbor, EdEmerson, did his traveling much earlier. November saw him in Arizona visiting Frank Poor, his roommate for three years in Reed Hall. Frank was in the hospital at the time but was well and on his way home when Ed left. Then in January Ed visited two Caribbean islands, Guadeloupe and Martinique, and in early March returned from a safari in East Africa. His comment: "The spectacular wild animal vie wings are unforgettable."

Art and Inez Wilcox have brought back "Smoke Signals" from their South Carolina editorial office to their Greenwich, N.Y., home after a good winter vacation. The two class scribes have noted a decline in news items received from classmates which might indicate fewer newsletters per year - a matter for our class meeting next month.

The Florida Keys provided a pleasant sojourn for Don and Lou Norstrand, who were at Marathon, two miles from Seven Mile Bridge. Eighty-degree temperature and 75-degree Atlantic Ocean swimming seemed quite acceptable.

March 8 was D-day to sign up for Dartmouth 1926 60th reunion with a letter from Jake Jacobus to everyone in the class (including widows) telling all about the great events planned and listing the modest cost of this "last hurrah" reunion. Jake has heard from classmates all over the USA, checking in with their "yes" and "hope to" notes. All are urged to come June 9-10-11, 1986 - why wait until 1991 for the 65th? Having returned from their Caribbean cruise through the Leeward Islands, Jake and Evie are polishing up final details and are looking for final applications for the 60th.

The 1985 Green Derby-winning head agent, George Scott, is gunning for the 60th reunion Alumni Fund $192,600 target from now through June 30. The key for victory: (1) every '26 man making a contribution; (2) the contribution taking into account the importance of keeping Dartmouth strong through the support of loyal alumni.

In the summer of 1926 a group of Dartmouth and Swarthmore students set sail for Europeon the SS Bremen to visit universities in London, Berlin, and Paris and the League ofNations in Geneva. "We went 'student third-class,' " wrote passenger Don Norstrand '26,"and our cabins were just over the propellors ... just large enough to back out the doorto turn around. I believe the cost of the three-month event was a little less than $1,000.... To earn our way into first-class areas on the boat we put on skits for the entertainment- especially of the college girls who were not traveling 'student-third'!" On the top row,left to right, are Ed Emerson '26, Sandy Liverwright, and Art Forrest '26; standing, leftto right, are Jack Blair '29, Joe Stevens '26, Dick Fox '27, and trip organizers Commonsand Rothschild; sitting, left to right, are Bill Howard, Norstrand, Ed Cavanagh '29, RogBudlong, and Don Clark; kneeling is Bill McCarter '19, at that time an instructor of Englishat Dartmouth and a chaperone of the group.

WAHOO RAH! 19D26 6OTH REUNION June 9-10-11 Wahoo: exuberant shout Rah: short for hurrah Arrangement by Dick Major '26 Dartmouth bandleader in the twenties

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