Class of 1910

The broadside in March resulted in a 10% reply in two weeks. Some of you advertising sharks can tell whether that is good or bad. Anyhow, it has resulted in the most news I have seen for some time. Here are the replies to date:

From H. C. Comey: "Don't know what you really want on this card. It isn't big enough for a life history, but it certainly is a means of your getting in touch with the boys, and I for one am for it, as I believe that many Scotchmen like myself will 'spend' the time to write when that is all they have to spend. By this means your column in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE should blossom forth and be of real interest, as this is the first thing a 'Tenner' reads. Our family is now complete with little John Hale Comey, 2d, born December 13, 1928. I am still helping make the Best Paint Sold with the Patterson Sargent Company, and while we have a warehouse at Boston, the factory at Long Inland City is about as far east as I get. Give my regards to the old home town boys in Boston when you see them."

From Frank Meleney: "Since my return from China in 1924 I have been on the surgical staff of the Presbyterian Hospital, which is the nucleus of the new medical center in New York city. I have a laboratory for research in bacteriological problems of surgery, and I have teaching responsibilities in the medical school, as well as a moderate amount of private practice. I expect to remain permanently in New York. I have been very happily married for ten years. We have just completed a new house, to which all 'Tenners' are cordially invited."

From Johnnie Hobbs: "Mrs. Hobbs and I recently returned from a three months' automobile tour of Great Britain and the Continent. We were guests of a Leland Stanford man and his wife, who shipped their car over. Covered 5,000 miles. Drove our car over the top of the Alps and visited seven countries. Played golf in Scotland and in Paris with Jackie Coogan (14 years old and shot an 87 at St. Cloud.) Had a highball in London, a stein of beer in Germany, and won (honest!) some money at Monte Carlo. Enjoyed Germany the most, and found the Germans most cordial to us."

From Vic Willis: (United Engineers and Constructors, Inc.) "Building the most modern and largest express terminal in the country for the Terminal Railroad Association at St. Louis, the 'crossroads of the continent.' Also providing twelve-hundred-footlong passenger platforms, so trains can be parked without breaking up into sections."

Pineo says: "George Sinclair has accepted a fine position with the Southern Surety Company as manager of the Boston office of that company. Ed Sickman is with the Independence Indemnity Company in New York city. John Cassidy has built up a very nice life insurance business in New York city. Grover Hoyt is in the electrical supply business in San Francisco."

Harold Winship has kept up Ms interest in singing. For several years he has been a member of the Choral Club of Hartford, Conn., and also of the Associated Glee Clubs of America. "Win" married a Hartford girl and has a husky eight-year-old boy, Sumner Robertson. Yes, he has a dog, too, with a "Wah Hoo Wah" bark!

"Russ" Meredith is one of the most multioccupied men of the class. For a livelihood he operates an advertising agency in Troy, but this requires only eight or ten hours daily. He spends the rest of the 24 in church work or on vocal society rehearsals or at Rotary committees or in the cleanest politics of his city, or in a thousand and one activities that claim him. In addition to that he and Mrs. Meredith are bringing up a fine family of one girl and two boys—the latter being already headed for Dartmouth. "Russ" is an asset to any community, and is giving freely of his time to advance many of the finer things in life.

H. A. Wells has just run successfully for the office of precinct commissioner of the village of Hanover, N. H. He ran on a platform of better roads. Harry says it would take a quarter of a million to improve all the streets of the village. "Tenners" who wish to beautify the College and ensure Harry's popularity may contribute to this worthy cause.

Harold Washburn and family are spending his sabbatical leave in France.

Eck Hiestand has resigned his job at Los Angeles for the job of merchandise manager of Rollman's, Cincinnati. "It hurts like hell to leave Los Angeles, but we must keep stepping up, and the new job is a bigger one."

There sure is a husky bunch of youngsters headed for Dartmouth if all the proud fathers are to be believed. Thayer Smith still seems to lead, with four who should be in college at one time. Jim Nourse says he has three who are headed for Dartmouth.

Leon Kendall takes time from helping to operate the "best railroad in the best of the West" to teach two boys and a girl to cheer for Dartmouth.

Dinney Pratt has a youngster 13, Dinney Jr., who is headed that way. Apparently in the next five years there will be a good many sons of 1910 in college.

Don Bryant writes that his father died suddenly last December from a heart attack, so that he has been extremely busy. No change has been made as yet in the bank, but probably we shall hear soon that Don has stepped up.

Noah Foss sends word of the missing Chadbourne. "Chad" and his wife are living in Glazier Park, roughing it and doing some writing.

From F. A. Rainey: "Married. No offspring. No dog. No canary. Teaching in Simon Gratz High School, Philadelphia. Also foreign reviewer for the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Studied Belgium caves and made two archaeological studies there last summer. Write-ups published in Paris and in Philadelphia Forum for March."

You may be sure someone has been making money out of this wild stock market, and that is the broker. Lou Wallace is on a six weeks' trip to Germany.

From L. P. Sherman: "My oldest girl graduates from high school this year. We are planning to point the old Buick westward this summer for a change, and take in Yellowstone, the Northwest, California, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, etc. Next year we'll head for Hanover and our 20th! Tell 'Tenners'to look us up here. We have a large house and the latchstring is out."

Lefty West is still on the Erie; living in Ravenna, but likely to be seen anywhere between Akron, Ohio, and Chicago.

From Stormont Josselyn: "Chilton Pen Cos., 287 Columbus Ave., Boston. 'Twice the Ink.' Wife died October 31, 1928. Two girls, 15 and 17, Mary—Priscilla. New Ford car. Work like slave. No dough. That's all."

From Karl R. Maerker: "No exciting news about myself. Am traffic superintendent Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania at Pittsburgh. My wife died two years ago, following an operation for appendicitis and complications. She was seriously sick for four months. Have one daughter, Barbara, 8 years old. Am getting bald-headed but no gray ones! Am going to Hanover in June, '30. Shorty Worcester was elected president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of West Pennsylvania last week; the added cares do not seem to worry him!"

General Grant has been much interested in some forms of community work in Manchester. His particular pet for some years has been the Interehurch Bowling League, of which he was one of the founders and is now acting as president. It evidently has been very successful, with representatives from 19 church groups, representing all kinds of denominations.

Eberly must have spent some time in Chicago. His bulletin below sounds like a machine gun:

"Hell of note—man can't live a quiet life nowhere—nohow-—Got clear off the beaten path here in St. Louis—no other 'Tenners' in town-—Thought I was safe-—Someone snoopin' around finds address—Slips it to Buss Palmer—Then I am blackmailed for three months steady—Guess Russ joined the 'gang' up there—A guy's gotta come through or get shot in the pantz—Now you start racketeering—Send out a postcard for an autobiography—That is all probably one dares tell—Your job looks so easy—Don't know why I got in the drug game—Anyway here I am—Married—no family—a dog half blind in one eye—getting along all rightStill get a kick out of livin'."

Walter Wilson is still in Los Angeles as manager of the Martin Music Company, 734 South Hill St. He is kept busy chasing the dollars to meet the needs of one wife and two daughters in Hollywood. All of these boys at a distance sound the same note. They are keen to see a Dartmouth man and particularly a 1910 man. Any of you fellows whose business takes you to the Coast ought to look these fellows up.

Ed Shattuck tells a wild tale of a trip in March with Slip Powers and Ben Williams to their summer home at Lake Winnepesaukee. After a wonderful concoction ("sky pilot") they proceeded to Dominoes, (not galloping, just regular) and apparently Ben and Slip took Ed's shirt. Now Ed wants to recoup by matching them against some poor innocents, so beware!!

"Whit" just returned from three weeks' vacation in Florida and back through New Orleans, where he attended the races. I don't know how he made out; he is discreetly silent on that point. He did say that he ran into Babe Steward and that Babe is as handsome as ever. Babe is still engaged in road construction work and looking forward to a reunion in 1930.

Johnnie Mitchell says: "This is my second year as principal of the Lakewood Senior High School. I have been here now eight years—first as head of the English department, and the next years as assistant principal. Our family has not grown very much, but I have a little girl five years old that keeps me pretty busy. I am looking forward to the twentieth reunion."

Tom Poster is just back from a cruise in the Caribbean. He says that during his visit to Havana he found Ted Smith, the famous Spanish scholar, serenely surveying the tobacco market from his first floor front office. He wears glasses and smokes a de luxe Cuban cigaret. Can still see a pretty girl at a hundred paces, and find the best place to eat chicken and rice, beefsteak and potatoes. He is looking well, and, as might be expected, talks Spanish with a real Castilian roll.

Brown Copper finds time for various activities around Ft. Wayne. He has recently been elected worshipful master of Summit City Lodge of Masons, and in February was also elected president of the Allen County Fort Wayne Historical Association.

Thayer Smith's crowing about his four sons has stirred up Herb Wolff. Listen to what he says:

"In the class notes appearing in the April issue of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE, I noted that our good friend Thayer Smith was doing a little cockodoodling about his four sons. I share Thayer's pride, as I myself am a daddy of four prospective Dartmouth men. Fortunately for me, however, in view of the ever-rising cost of a college education, my four youngsters are not near enough together in age that there is any possibility that they will all be at Dartmouth at the same time. In my case, unlike Thayer's, I expect to have time 'to come up for air between drinks.' But like Thayer's, mine also have the habit of all four getting sick at the same time and it indeed makes a nice party.

"You can tell Thayer that at our next reunion, a year from now, I will bring as many of my boys up to Hanover as he, will, provided he gives me sufficient notice in advance of his intentions. And this challenge holds good to any others who are in the four-sons-or-more class."

If this rivalry over sons keeps up, we shall have an interesting time at the reunion. I saw Ed Shattuck's two youngsters at the Dartmouth Play which was given in Boston in April, and I am sure Ed will enter these in any such competition. King Brady writes that he also has a young hopeful of two and one-half, who will be very much in the running a little later. King is now with the brokerage firm of Clark, Childs, and Company of Boston.

A few days ago I happened to sit next to the speaker at a paper meeting, and in the course of conversation found that he was Bill Tucker's brother. He told me that Bill was married a year or two ago, and that last summer he and his wife spent six weeks in the Canadian Rockies and this year they are going abroad.

Secretary, 40 Florence Ave., Norwood, Mass.