1926
November, gray and bearded, stalks this townAnd pulls the early dusk, like silver smog,About the city's head and tries to drownIts red and blue and yellow neon fog.He whips the lake till sky and water merge!
Out in Cleveland the gray days of November have settled down in earnest and with the shortened afternoons we know the football season must be drawing to a close. This fall has given us a pleasant season with renewals of many old friendships at Hanover, Cambridge and New Haven. The last game comes on November 20 at Princeton. Remember to meet beforehand on the Terrace Club lawn on Washington Road, just a stone's throw from Palmer Stadium.
Since Labor Day there have already been many accomplishments among our classmates. Last month George Champion successfully conducted the United Hospital Fund (New York City) to new records in its 75th anniversary campaign as general chairman. That is a job well done, George - our congratulations! Chuck Webster has also been occupied in the Islip (N. Y.) Hospital drive since his return from a vacation in Scotland with Natalie.
Then a new book has just come on the market, The Man Who Lives in Paradise by Messrs. A. C. Gilbert and our Marshall McClintock, which Publisher's Weekly heralds as the most advertised book of the year. Watch for its appearance at your bookstore this month.
Hardly a month can pass without some news of Dean Courtney C. Brown of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. The American Gas and Electric Company announced his election as one of its directors this fall and he journeyed to his first board meeting at the A.G.E. system's newest steam electric generating station at Beverly, Ohio, adjacent to the new Atomic Energy plant. For those who may have missed it, go to your local library and look up the May 16, 1954, issue of the New York HeraldTribune wherein1 Courtney scans semantics of economics. For example he says,
"Capitalism, in , its simple economic meaning, is the process of saving and the use of savings to provide tools or machinery for the enlargement of production and distribution." Brownie also thinks there may be some confusions, too, in economic terms, for when socialism was conceived by the Christian Socialists, it meant ownership of means of production by the people, and yet in this capitalistic country more people own the means of production than was ever dreamed of by the early socialists. He concludes wistfully, "Perhaps that is why I left business to come to Columbia - I thought I might have time to think out such things."
Turning to lighter but equally important subjects, LeRoy "Buck" Kelly, past president of the Eastern Association of Intercollegiate Football Officials and presently to be seen most every Saturday afternoon at this time of the year on television screens as one of those gentlemen in the white knickers outpacing the footballers of half his age, spoke before St. Alphonsus Association and the Men's Holy Name Society in Boston on - you guessed it - "Sports." Roy's Monday through Friday occupation is physical instructor at the Immaculate Conception High School in Everett.
And Jack Bickford after announcing his retirement from business at the New York class dinner on May 18 has become bored with too much leisure and has joined the investment counsel firm of Naess and Thomas with offices in New York and Baltimore.
Ritchie Smith has sent in an appropriate poem written by his partners, entitled "Be Fifty - It's Nifty" and presented to him on the occasion of his recent birthday.
The report I have is that you've come to fear That half-century mark as it draws near; So it's time to remind you it's not the ninth inning, For, as you will see, your fun is just beginning! To grow to be older is not a fate to bemoan For age is not told by numbers alone. And with old Ritch, his age won't show When others are draggin', he'll be rarin' to go!
He writes of the event,
"Yesterday was really quite a day, starting with a birthday cake in the office, with all the trimmings, a noon luncheon at the Kiwanis Club with much whoop and holler there and topped off in the evening by a family dinner at my mother's home. I am sure the multitude of daughters and nieces and nephews in attendance there were quite as excited about the event as I.
"This summer I had my family at a ranch in Wyoming, at which time wife Betty put on a preview birthday celebration with benefit of gilded horse shoes, gold belt buckles, gold golf tees and golf balls and a gold cigarette lighter, so I feel well indoctrinated; in effect surfeited with the whole idea.
"Just to show there is still a little life in the old body, while deer hunting last weekend I got a nice buck down in the canyon and packed it all by myself up to the top of the ridge, about a mile back to the road, and apparently suffered no serious consequences therefrom."
Well, Ritchie, the following will join you in the Half-century Club this month:
Canfield Hadlock, November 1; Albert H.Lowell, 2; Howie Kolb, 5; Freeman Metzer, 8; Dave Levy, 10; Francis Kuang-Chiung Pan and Morrie Storer, 14; Frank Van Eiszner, 19; Darrell Toohey, 21; Phil Collins, 25; FredBarnes, 27; Bill Carroll and Herb Redman, 28; Red Boyce and Hal Rosenberg, 30.
It has been wonderful to hear from the boys (?) on this great occasion.
Ralph Thomas writes from Pittsburgh and considers the age of 50 is a time of life when a man stops wondering if he can escape temptation and begins to wonder if he is missing any.
Dick Eberhart, Doctor of Letters, who has frequently led off our class notes, writes,
"Thanks for the good wishes on my 50th. I still have all my organs unimpaired, and will be knocking on the proverbial wood for the next ten years. My wife gave me a surprise party in Cambridge by flying in my sister and husband from Albuquerque and my brother and wife from Chicago; we raised a glass to the past, the present and the future. I saw a good group of Dartmouth people (Dickey, West, Morse, et al.) recently at Amherst at the 80th birthday dinner party for Robert Frost. Best to you and yours and the Class."
The New York Tunes recently recorded as a news item that Dick read a paper, "A Poet's Hereafter: Idea and Fact," at a Modern Language Association meeting in Chicago. Last winter he read his poetry at the Y.M.C.A. in New York and the University of Chicago. Dick in collaboration with Peter Viereck, Professor at Mt. Holyoke, also presented a tape recording of their poems and views on the American concept of the free man at the Faculty Club of the University of Mississippi. Dick will be in residence at Wheaton College this coming academic year as the first holder of the recently instituted Wheaton visiting professorship. While at Wheaton he will give two courses in English, advise student writings and give occasional readings from his poetry. To bring you up to date here is a list of the Eberhart books: Undercliff, Burr Oaks, Songand Idea, Reading the Spirit, Poems New and,Selected, A Bravery of Earth, Selected Poems.Gordon Linke writes from the Pacific Coast'
"Think the most unexpected thing which happened to me on the 50-year mark was receiving your letter. My family, subscribing to the accepted Benny theory of large numbers, used five candles on the cake and were most proud that the old man still could blow them out in one breath without getting winded. (Ed. note —do you remember that was the same treatment given Dick Burlingame by Edna?) Although I have not been able to attend our regular Wednesday luncheons, I occasionally see some of the '26ers around San Francisco."
Hump Campbell also reports from Call fornia:
"Thanks for your birthday note in behalf of the Class. The fact that I have not been on the active list is not due to any lack of interest, and I always warm to personal and impersonal messages from members of this select group. Please give my regards to your 'neighbor' in Painesville, SandyDouglass, who has been getting more publicity in the boating magazines these last few years than McCarthy has in the current press. Comparison for lineage purposes only."
Hump, your message was duly delivered but it costs 50c: to phone all the way out to Painesville.
There are also messages from Gail Borden and a couple of others, written in their usual flamboyant styles which we will have to save for next month, along with your Christmas reading.
So that just about winds it up for Novem- ber. Remember the reunion on the lawn of the Terrace Club (or the Billiard Room on second floor in the event of had weather) before the Princeton game. And then on the next week enjoy your turkey at Thanksgiving.
'26 CLASSMATES helped Class Secretary Hub Harwood celebrate his 25th wedding anniver-sary, June 22. L to r: Robert J. Breyfogle, George Champion, Charles D. Webster, Harwood,and Courtney C. Brown.
ONE OF THE TEN BEST industrial advertising campaigns of 1954 won a PutmanAward for Holt McAloney '26 (r), public relations director for the Ford Instrument Co., division of the Sperry Corp. With him are Col.Russell Putnam (I), award donor, and Raymond John, Ford Instrument Co. president.
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