1926

Herm Trefethen, our Alumni Fund Head Agent, modestly reports final 1926 accomplishments in this year's campaign: "The outstanding results of the 1964 Golden Anniversary Dartmouth Alumni Fund are a matter of record. $1,624,810. 22,434 donors and 70% participation.

"The Class of 1926 again came through by exceeding their quota and increasing their participation percentage. We contributed a total of $43,970 — 102% of our objective of $43,310 - an increase of $3,056 against 1963 total of $40,913. We reached a total of 334 contributors — an increase of 11 over last year's 323, which gave us a percentage of participation of 86% compared to last year's 82%.

"Our '26 Smoke Signals will soon report some interesting statistics regarding the class participation in the Alumni Fund. The achievement of the Class was due in large measure to the special efforts of 45 classmites who acted as your class agents."

Our hearty congratulations and sincere thanks to Herm for a tough assignment well concluded. And thanks to all of you for your loyalty to the College!

The many classmates assembled in Hanover for the August reunion unanimously requested the preparation of this resolution which speaks for all of us.

"WHEREAS Gordon Chipman is sensitive to the lives of the entire Class of 1926, having watched it from the days of our green youth through the burgeoning years even to the present day of its still lively existence, and

"WHEREAS Gordon Chipman has done us an invaluable service in keeping signal fires burning about what all of us are doing, so that we may better know each other and appreciate our mutual fellowships and relationships, and

"WHEREAS Gordon Chipman understands the sense we feel of those no longer with us, who are always in our thoughts when he is telling us what we ourselves are doing this day or this month or year -

"NOW BE IT RESOLVED that the Class of 1926 deeply appreciates the keenness and thoroughness of interest, the marked responsibility, and the spirited style of our classmate Gordon Chipman in editing Smoke Signals for us, and that by these presents we extend to him our total thanks, and by so doing we as a class pledge anew our devotion, our loyalty, and our love to Dartmouth."

The September 1964 directory of alumni officers includes the following '26ers - SidHayward, secretary of the Alumni Council, and secretary of the Secretaries Association; Tom Murdough, member of the Alumni Council and member of its committee on enrollment and admissions; Herb Darling, member of the Alumni Council; Hub Harwood, vice president of Class Chairmen and Presidents Association; Homer Rowe, secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Georgia; Bob Breyfogle, president of the Dartmouth Club of London; and our own class officers and representatives, Harwood, chairman; Weeks, secretary; Hanlon, treasurer; Trefethen, head class agent; Chipman, "Smoke Signals" editor, and Eaken, bequest chairman.

Dick Husband has been elected to the Council of Representatives of the American Psychological Association. He has been on the faculty at Florida State University since 1954, and served as president of the Florida Psychological Association in 1957-58. In his work he is considered a specialist in the area of business and industrial psychology.

The Class Memorial Collection Committee held its annual meeting in Hanover in August simultaneously with our informal reunion weekend. Dick Mandel, chairman, reported that our 1926 Memorial Collection now numbers nearly 1000 volumes - all illustrated books and broadsides published in New England during the 100 years from 1769 to 1869, Dartmouth's first century. The collection has more than tripled in size during the past year, one classmate having contributed more than 150 books to the collection.

In addition to Dick Mandel the Memorial Collection Committee consists of Phil Benjamin,Dean Chamberlin, Sid Hayward,Hugh Morrison, Howard Rice, and CarlSchipper.

1926 enrolled nine members in the August Alumni College. All reports indicate a most unusual and inspiring experience. Applications are already being made for the 1965 term!

ANNIVERSARIES: Tony Gleason recently completed 35 years of research work for Esso Research & Engineering, formerly Standard Oil Development Company, and will retire next February 1. His son and daughter and two grandchildren are living; in the San Francisco area. Tony and Janet were in Hanover for the August informal reunion, and vow they will be there again next year.

Frank Healy has completed 38 years in the transportation field — first with New York Central Railroad, and since 1941 with the Bureau of Pupil Transportation of the? New York City Board of Education. His letterhead titles him as "Director of Transportation." You guess how many thousands and thousands of kids his buses transport each day! Frank added a Fordham law degree to his Dartmouth accomplishments.

When George Buck left Hanover in 1926, he went to work for Aetna Casualty & Surety Company. After 12 years in Hartford, Boston, and Providence offices, George joined the Wm. H. Wills agency in Bennington, Vt., in 1938 and has continued ever since as a general agent for Aetna. George and Isabel, married 35 years ago this September, recently visited with Frank andClaire Poor in Phoenix. The Bucks' twin daughters, Anne and Martha, both graduated from Skidmore, and both were married in 1961. Martha, now Mrs. William Cogswell (Dartmouth '61), lives in Hanover where Bill is with the local school system. Anne lives in Saratoga Springs (back to Skidmore) where her husband teaches also. Address: 388 Elm Street, Bennington, Vt.

Bill Blanchard reports everything quite "routine" as he completes 36 years in the investment business. After graduating from Tuck, Bill joined Russell, Berg & Company which merged in 1954 with Franklin Management Corp. Bill continues active with the latter. Address: 391 Broadway, Somerville 45, Mass.

1926 in Hanover for Alumni College: (from left) Bob Cleary, Kay Esquerre, PenseCleary, Ruth Millard, Snipe Esquerre, and Janet and Shub Owen.

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