1926
Very shortly after you read this column, the 1963 Alumni Fund Campaign will be under way. Our Class Agent, Herman (Trcf.)Trcfethen, urges 100% participation. In his own words, he reports:
Last year the class of 1926, with Reg Hanson as Class Agent, attained the largest amount ever recorded with $46,135.00 contributed by 311 donors to win the coveted John H. Davis Trophy Award.
For many years, 1926 has shown a relatively low position in the participation index - the percentage of contributors to the number of living graduates plus one third of the living nongraduates. I especially ask every member of the class of 1926, both graduate and nongraduate, to consider some contribution in 1963. We are aiming for 90% participation as against 77% in 1962 but only you can make this goal possible. Also, this year for the first time, those of us who are still paying on Capital Gift pledges will not automatically be counted as Alumni Fund participants. Therefore, a special request to these men for at least a token contribution.
As a neophyte following a long line of notable and successful Class Agents, 1 ask your cooperation whether it is as Regional or Local Agent or merely to send in your contribution as soon as possible after the campaign starts on April 1.
Let's all get behind Tref. Your contribution, mailed early in April, will greatly aid him and his assistant class agents!
The Alumni Council and the Athletic Council co-sponsored a victory dinner to honor the 1962 undefeated football team in Alumni Hall of the Hopkins Center on January 18. Members of the undefeated National Championship 1925 football team were invited guests. The 1925 team included, from our Class, All-American Jim "Swede" Oberlander, and many others whom you will remember, including George Champion, Harold Marshall, Dutch Diehl, Captain Nate Parker, Charlie Starrett, Art Smith, George "Babe" Allen, Bob Loomis, Jack Straight, Winfield Robinson (now deceased) and George Tully. Del Worthington was team manager. Those who were able to attend the football banquet in Hanover were Dutch and Dell Diehl, Nate and Jane Parker, George and Gladys Tully, Hal and Marion Marshall and Jim Oberlander. Other members of the Class who were also in attendance were Tom and Grace Murdough, Snipe and Kay Esquerre, Red and Emmy Merrill, Francis Drury, Doug Everett and Sid and Barbara Hayward.
Jim Oberlander, spokesman for the 1925 team, made no comparison between the 1925' team and the 1962 team, other than to point out what a tough schedule the 1925 team had starting with Norwich, 59-0; Hobart, 34-0; Vermont, 50-0; and Maine 56-0!
John P. Heavenrich has just completed his term of office as President of the 3000-member National Association of Retail Clothiers and Furnishers. He reports that it was a very interesting year, with considerable travel and speech-making in various sections of the country. The Heavenrich's daughter, Mary, presently a senior at University of Michigan, expects to spend the next year in Europe. Their son, John, is a sophomore at Dartmouth and their youngest daughter, Martha, a freshman at Cass High School in Detroit. In a feature article in the Detroit Free Press, John was characterized as the "Central City's Foremost Merchant Optimist." Whaling's, now operating three men's wear stores in Detroit, has been owned by the Heavenrich family since 1905. It is now operated by John, and his younger brother Walter.
The Boston Traveler recently carried a picture of Edgar A. Farnum who was a participant at Boston's 24th Annual Sales and Marketing Management Conference at which some of the newest telephone equipment was displayed. Ed, with the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company since 1926, is now General Sales Manager. Ed's extracurricular activities are quite numerous but he still finds plenty of time for family affairs in Dover during the winter months, and at Squam Lake during the summer months.
The fame of some classmates certainly travels afar. Dean Chamberlin, recently in Oslo for U.S. Information Service, clipped from the Nov.-Dec. 1962 issue of "Norwegian American Commerce" an article for Bob May, "The Realm of Rudolph-The-RedNosed Reindeer" which tells of the, thousands of reindeer which every spring and fall defy icy currents to swim across narrow straits to and from their summer pastures on the islands along the Arctic coastline; and a further report of a luncheon cosponsored by the European Free Trade Association and Norwegian American Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Courtney C. Brown, chairman of the luncheon, attended by more than 600 persons at the Americana Hotel, was pictured with several Norwegian notables.
Another 1926 wedding took place in the Verona, N. J., Presbyterian Church on December 29 when Roland A. Jacobus III, '58 took as his bride the most attractive Gail Garnar of Verona. The groom, son of Jakeand Evelyn Jacobus, is associated with the family business of A. G. Jacobus Sons, Inc., brush manufacturers. The best man was John M. Foster '58, the son of J. F. Foster '23, and one of the ushers was Paul Jameson also '58. Bob and Pensee Cleary, and Bit! and Puddin Hughes, saw the bride and groom march down the aisle.
Those of you who may be in Europe this spring, keep an eye out for Ritchie and Betty Smith, and daughter Deborah, who is studying this winter at Geneva University. Their itinerary will take the Smith family to the French Riviera, with three weeks touring through Spain and on up to Paris and home again on the West Coast by May 7.
Robert and Stephanie Hodgdon of Taunton, Mass., have recently announced the engagement of their daughter, Mary Lee, to Caleb Lawrence Paine of Schenectady. Mary Lee is a senior at Wheaton College, and her fiance will graduate in June from Amherst. An August wedding is planned. The Hodgdon's son, Keith, attended Bowdoin College but his college career was cut short by a serious accident from which he is gradually recovering. He is devoting his time, during convalescence, to writing. Bob is a Sales and Heating Engineer with Southern Massachusetts Oil Corporation with headquarters at Taunton.
We note, with deep regret, the death of two of our classmates, Morrill S. Ryder Jr., of Wareham, Mass., on January 8; and JohnR. Dunn of San Francisco, on January 11. In Memoriam notes appear in this or a subsequent issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
Our August "Informal Reunion" will have an entirely new atmosphere this year because Hanover will be a beehive of student activity during the summer co-ed term which runs from July 1 to August 24. Your class officers have scheduled the 1963 informal for the weekend of August 16-18. The Hanover Inn is holding 10 rooms in the name of Hub Harwood. Better make your reservation very early because Hanover will be a busy place this summer.
Secretary, Box 305, Elmwood Branch Hartford 10, Conn.
Treasurer, 6 Stanwich Rd., Greenwich, Conn.
