1926
Come, let us dance for the piperOctober,Vivid in colorful carnival raiment!Time and enough for our heartsto be sober,Sure, when winter comes whistlingfor payment.
Summers seem to go faster with each passing year. Even the well publicized heat did not slow down the one just past, and here we are at another academic year. It is now thirty years since our senior year in Hanoverl
News continued to come throughout the hot months, indicating it was a good summer for the class. The Alumni Fund ended with a '26 record of $23,228.46 with gifts from 368 members of the class. Only the phenomenal records of '24 and '25 and the large participation factor of '27 kept us from leading our division. That goes to show the importance for everyone to be counted in, no matter how small the gift may be. Don Hopkins and OkeyO'Connor are now aiming for $30,000 for our 30th in 1956.
The secretary made his second annual good will tour of the Pacific Coast in July, but found most of the class members away on vacations at the cities visited. However, it was compensated for in the seeming brief stay at Portland, Ore., with three days of visits with Tom and Priscilla Colt. The director of the Portland Art Museum and his wife are also connoisseurs of the king crab and hamburger picnics on the hills of the Columbia River Valley as well as the art objects of the Pacific Northwest Indians. We recommend a visit to the Portland Museum to those Easterners who think all the fine art is stored in Boston, New York and Philadelphia. Tom is doing a great job in building up and exhibiting all of the arts for the people of Portland.
Even the usually gay San Francisco seemed a bit quieter with Ritchie and Betty Smith on a yachting cruise with friends through Puget Sound and British Columbia waters.
The major portion of the secretary's trip this year was in the Canadian Rockies and the Pacific Northwest where our '26 members are few. Unfortunately, Hub, too, has to work and returned directly from San Francisco. However, the rest of the Harwood family stayed on and visited San Barbara where Granny and Eileen Knight were found in rare good form.
Speaking of the West Coast and our classmates in that region, Bus Heydt is a versatile fellow. One of his latest bits is to play the part of a nuclear scientist when he explains a model of an atomic power plant to a large assemblage in a scientific museum in the Westirighouse film, A Dawn's Early Light. Heis very convincing when he demonstrates theworkings of the reactor and the radio-activewater stream generating steam which activatesthe turbines. Bus disproves that scientists arenot impeccably groomed, for he still lookslike the arrow collar ads of 1926.
Elsewhere news is being made by our classmates. As indicated in the Wah-Hoo-Wahcolumn of the July issue, the Indianapolis(Ind.) Times now announces the appointmentof Dr. Robert H. Lowe as superintendent ofGeneral Hospital and has this to say:
'Stephen C. Noland, Chairman of City-County Health Board which appointed Dr. Lowe, said today the new superintendent was 'the answer to the board's prayers for a competent man to take over the hospital'. ... Dr. Lowe was administrator of the Rochester Hospital from 1948 to 1953. During that time he revamped the entire operation of the hospital, including both business and medical divisions. He is a graduate of the University of Vermont Medical School and holds a Master's degree in hospital administration from Columbia University. ... Dr. Lowe, 50, served 66 months with the Army Medical Corps assigned to administrative posts. He held the rank of lieutenant colonel."
It appears that Bob has recently been a hospital inspector for the Joint Committee on Hospital Accreditations, a rating group operated by the American Medical Association and American Hospital Association before his appointment to Indianapolis General Hospital. A comparison of Bob's photograph that accompanied the Times article with the 1926 Aegis shows very little difference.
Life magazine announces the appointment of John P. St. Clair as manager of the Detroit advertising sales office. John joined Life in Detroit in 1945, having been formerly with Crowell Publishing Company and the Chicago Journal American after graduation. As you will recall we had other news of John in the June issue.
Warren Fellingham reports that his colleague Henry "Peany" Parker of the Harris Trust and Savings Bank at Chicago has now joined the ranks of bank vice presidents. He has spent his whole career in the Trust Department after joining the Harris Bank following his graduation from Harvard Business School in 1928. Henry has had many important duties in the bank including his chairmanship of the Trust Account Investment Review Committee. He is also a trustee of two Harris *1 rust profit sharing funds operated for the employees of the bank. He is a director of the Chicago Alumni Association and chairman of the very important interviewing committee for New Trier Township.
For awhile, every mail into 500 Terminal Tower brought the full-page story of the NewYork Herald Tribune on Mayor Ed Dooley of Mamaroneck which some member of the class had read and thoughtfully forwarded to the Secretary. That is the kind of cooperation we love! The story has, of course, been fully covered in Holt McAloney's Bulletin, but as added information, the White Plains (N. Y) Herald of Westchester has this article:
'Mayor Edwin B. Dooley was as good as assured of a third term with his endorsement as a candidate for re-election by the Republican GOP in Mamaroneck. He will run on a platform of a kind that is hard to beat - tax reductions three years in a row." Ed's athletic career, of course, came in for a review. However, it contained one item that you have probably forgotten. His record 72-yard forward pass against Vermont University in 1924 has still been unsurpassed. The article further states: He went into journalism as a sports writer on the New York Sun. He studied law at night and was graduated from Fordham Law School with honors. He became a radio sports commentator and the best paid of those in that line. ... He authored a syndicated column through International News Service that appeared in 200 daily newspapers. In 1948 he joined the Health Insurance Plan of greater New York as advertising manager and director of public relations. ... as Mayor, he receives no salary."
This very interesting article appeared in the Spectator of Somerset, Mass.
"A textile engineer in the employ of the J. G. White Engineering Company of New York and Washington, Sidney L. Buffington arrived in Somerset Tuesday evening to spend a few days with his parents, after four years in the cotton and jute mills of Formosa. Mr. Buffington, after graduation from Dartmouth College, worked seven years in the mills of Fall River learning textile engineering. In April 1951 he was sent to Taipei, Formosa, where he has remained until his present summons home for conference at headquarters, following which he may return to the Island.
"Mr. Buffington flew from Tokyo to Anchorage, Alaska, then on to Seattle and Indianapolis, stopping at Kansas City to see his daughter, Mrs. J. Bruce Sledd. He went on to Roanoke, Va., where he visited his son, who is a student at Fairborn Military Academy.
"Mr. Buffington describes the climate of Formosa as agreeable and his living accommodations and food supplies as entirely adequate save for the absence of milk. 'I got along splendidly with the Formosans,' he said. 'They are a pleasant, cooperative people. I saw very little of military operations and up to the time of my leaving, found Taipei a very quiet place in which to work.'"
Life begins at fortyI've read in book and verse,But does it then begin to getMuch better or much worse?
Although they are getting fewer in number now, we still have our boys (?) turning 50. Here is the round-up since the last report in June.
July - Hap Johnston, Al Metzger, H. Morton Van Dyn, Jack Bickford, Bruce Eaken,Russ Clark, Bob May, Bill Viall. August Don Mackay, Ed Dreier, Chuck Webster, BobBrown, Dave Harriman, Art Alexander, BillMitchell, Ralph Thomas, Carlie Blunt, LarrySmith. September - Charlie Countryman, EdEmerson, Dick Mandel, Walter Moore, Chester Morrison, George Buck, Larry Kennison,Steve Weston and Don Robinson. October Hal Gibson, October 5; George Yaffe, 11; Howie Post, 14; Gordon Bell, 16; Ozzie Fitts, 21; Freddie Wenck, 23; Hoyt Hilton, 24; BobWeil 29, and John Hammond, 31.
There have been many responses to the half-century greetings but Charlie Widmayer's space limitations only permits this one from E. Worthy Walters on the letterhead of Melville Confections, Inc. "Makers of Fine Can dies," Melrose Park, Ill.
"Many thanks for your kind greetings, which I received on my 50th. It was nice to hear from you after all these years - even on such a horrible occasion.
"Should you ever get to Chicago, be sure to call because I would love to renew our old acquaintance and hear of the activities of the boys from you. Give my best regards and appreciations for this thoughtfulness to all of the class."
Although Diane was not considered much of a hurricane as far as hurricanes go, it did have a telling effect on our summer reunion in August. The extraordinary rains that were dumped all through the East changed those placid New England rivers into torrents that very effectively washed out most of the roads and bridges, particularly in the Connecticut River Valley.
Only those who were already vacationing in the vicinity or were north of the Massachusetts border before the storm struck on Thursday were able to make the opening cocktail party and buffet supper on Friday evening. Stew and Mary Lou Orr, with son Dave '57, Chuck and Lois Abbott, Reg and Ethel Hanson, Les and Dot Talbot and Okey O'Connor were obliged to eat and drink all of the food and liquor that the Inn had prepared for the thirty odd who had previously made reservations and were stranded along the way. Harryand Mary Fisher found themselves anxiously watching their shade grown tobacco crop of the Connecticut Valley which was just then maturing. Ken and Helen Weeks were ma- rooned in the floods of Hartford. Bob andDot Salinger with their friends the Osbornes, Don and Dot Norstrand and Don and Winifred Mackay could not get out of Boston be- cause flooded highways became impassable by Friday.
Jack and Dot Roberts were able to arrive Saturday with Gordon and Dolores Chipman with daughter Patricia, who had been visiting Bob and Ruby Carr at Orford. Acting Secretary Chuck Abbott called off the class meeting and luncheon at the Outing Club because of the absence of the Secretary and the small number on hand.
However, Secretary Harwood finally arrived in time for the picnic at the Keenes' on Saturday evening, after having left Cleveland on Thursday night, and rerou ed via New York to become stranded in Boston. Then that unpredictable medium of travel carried him to Montpelier, Vt., when one of those sharp and misty mornings fogged in the airport at Lebanon. But it was the same wonderful gathering at the Keenes' with those fabulous hamburgers and corn.
As Marge Brown (Mrs. Courtney C.). winner of the famous class golf trophy last year, was occupied in becoming a grandmother over that weekend and unable to defend her championship, no award was made this year. No one had the heart to take the trophy by default and play will be resumed in August 1956 when Courtney and Marge can be on hand.
Someone said it was the best reunion of all because no business was discussed and no one was asked to think. However, the congeniality of the group and fine weather following the storm also contributed immeasureably to make it a fine climax to the summer.
And that brings us up to the fall with the get-togethers before the football games.
HOLY CROSS at HANOVER - OCTOBER 1. Henry Bixby and others will be on hand for the opener on home grounds.
BROWN at PROVIDENCE-OCTOBER 8. Walt Rankin has arranged for us to meet at the Dartmouth tent on the baseball field across the field from the Brown University Stadium. Box luncheons and beer can be purchased. Watch for the 1926 sign.
HARVARD at HANOVER - OCTOBER 22. This is the big one! Put your name in at the Hanover Inn desk and watch for list of other classmates in town.
YALE at NEW HAVEN - OCTOBER 29. Harry Fisher has arranged the usual picnic before the game at the same meeting place, opposite Portal 3, inside the gate. Bring your own food and drinks.
COLUMBIA at NEW YORK-NOVEMBER 5. Always the Dartmouth Club at 37 East 30th Street after the game.
CORNELL at HANOVER - NOVEMBER 12. Same as the Harvard game.
PRINCETON at PRINCETON - NOVEMBER 19. Jack Roberts has made the usual arrangements for picnic on the lawn of the Terrace Club and in case of bad weather to meet in the billiard room. Messrs. Cleary and Jacobus please take note.
Hope to see you at the games!
As Director of the Portland (Ore.) Art Museum, Tom Colt '26 (1) explains a bit of PacificNorthwest Indian sculpture to his classmate Hub Harwood. Colt has collected examples ofIndian art through the Columbia River Valley.
Secretary, 500 Terminal Tower Cleveland 13, O.
Treasurer, Kennedy's, 30 Summer St., Boston 10, Mass.
Bequest Chairman,
