CLASS OF 1910
The sympathy of the Class will be with "Beezle" Parker, who lost his father early in January, and just about two months after his mother passed away. Mr. Parker was a well-known and highly respected citizen of Reading, and chairman of the school committee.
According to advice just received from Harry Wells the College has granted us permission to install a memorial bronze tablet on the pier just to the right of the Dick Hall bas-relief in the entrance of Memorial Field stands. The tablet will commemorate those departed Tenners who gave up their lives in the World War. Details will be announced later.
Howard Bushway rates his picture in the Boston Globe by virtue of being one of the Big Boys at the recent convention of the New England Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers. Howard looks the part of a successful business man all right enough. He is due at some of the football gatherings next fall.
On the evening of January 12 a rather notable gathering occurred at Clarke Tobin's home in South Orange, N. J., to pay reverential regard to Edward K. Hall, the ideal Dartmouth man. Larry Bankart went down from Lynn to be present, and the others attending were Mr. Hall, George Howard, Ben Greer, Tom Powers, Cy Aschenbach, Nate Lenfesty, Jack Clark, Tom Streeter, and Tobe. George Howard and Jack Clark were in College during our time. The group presented Mr. Hall with a splendid watch of the split-second type which he can use in connection with athletic events. On the outside back is a Dartmouth green pennant with the word Dartmouth inscribed thereon. The inside cover contains the following inscription —"E. K. Hall, January 12, 1921—From Dartmouth Men at New York." While only a few were present, it is safe to say that they were expressing the finer thoughts and sentiments which Dartmouth alumni feel for E. K. Hall, who has rendered a wonderful service to the College and whose name stands for all that is good in intercollegiate athletics. Tenners are proud of the part which Tobe and Larry were able to take in this deserving tribute.
Word trickles through from the shire town of Cumberland County, Maine, that "Doc" Foster was re-elected to serve another year as vestryman of St. Luke's Cathedral in Portland. From the Orrill Club to St. Luke's vestry is a mighty long jump for anyone to take—but if the truth were known there are many other Tenners who have taken similar steps during the past twenty years. With age comes a sobriety of thought and purpose that is so lacking in the late teens and early twenties. And 1910 was never known as a "shrinking violet" class, which fact many of our immediate predecessors in College can testify to. Re-elected at the same time was Dr. Spalding '66. Tenners present at the reunion will recall Dr. Spalding as the lively young man who adopted our class, and who actually displayed more activity and pep than plenty of men born long after he graduated.
1910 has the rather distinctive honor of possessing in its membership "The Freshest Freshman Who Ever Entered Dartmouth College." I wonder if by chance any Tenners have forgotten who he was.
Herb Woods welcomes all Tenners to New Britain, Conn. "Jerry" Graves called on him not long ago, and a great visit was had.
Pres. "Pineo" has just returned from a trip to Milwaukee, and while there saw quite a bit of "Eastie" and Jack Ryan. He saw Jack's young daughter, Dorothy, win second place in the fifty-yard crawl at the Athletic Club swimming meet. "Eastie's" health is O. K. again, and he is functioning as president of the Milwaukee Rotary Club this year.
Speaking of Chattanooga reminds us of Tommie Leonard's post-Dartmouth athletic career as a tearing end and a raging catcher on some Tennessee teams. Outside of these two sports Tommie specialized in Lookout Mountain, according to some most interesting yarns we heard at our Fifteenth.
Two guesses, one wise-crack, and a coupla ejaculations as to who this poor old man is. According to Collier, the Boston Herald cartoonist and honorary member of 1915, it is none other than our own Freddie Batchellor as he looked at the Nugget Theatre in Hanover last June when 'lO and '15 STAGED some kind of a party. Freddie, who is sales manager of General Atlas Carbon Co., a Cities Service concern, throws some mean French if we are to believe O. B. Keeler's column in the Atlanta (Ga.) Journal: "Following the dinner, I attended a sort of group meeting elsewhere in the hotel, where a gentleman (you clicked that time, O. B.) named Freddie Batchellor, with an absolutely amazing command of French-Canadian patois (Freddie never heard that word before), also the cockney and upper-clawss English, collaborated with various and sundry compatriots in songs, stories, limericks, dialogue, pantomine, and other divertisements until near midnight." It pleases us natives to know that one of our fellow North-Countrymen can rate so much attention in a Southern column. Freddie, we are for you, even though it was 20 below this morning.
A fine brochure just published by the new American Insurance Building at Washington Park in Newark, N. J., shows the "Private Office of Mr. Jackson, President of the Bankers Indemnity." It must be tough for our Pres. Pineo to be obliged to work in any such palatial stall.
Bill Taylor has passed a New Year's resolution to attend more alumni meetings in the future, now that the soy-bean crop has been harvested* marketed, and consumed. Not a bad idea, Bill. Pass the good word around to others we both know—but whose names we will not mention right now.
The Alumni Fund campaign starts April 6. Andy Scarlett is getting organized. George Chamberlin was seen passing through Chicago recently en route to St. Louis.
The Dartmouth Association of Northern California lists the following Tenners among its members: Ted Baldwin, Al Barker, Chet Coffin, Guy Spokesfield, Elmer Stryker, Kid Stuart, Winsor Wilkinson. Seven Tenners living in the northern half of the Sunkist state. With the exception of 1929, which has seven members there also, it is the largest class delegation in this territory—which again proves that 1910 is maintaining its record of having been an unusual class from the very day of its matriculation.
Jimmie Frame is legislating in the vicinity of Concord, N. H.
Charlie Noone's name heads the list of six fellow-barristers practicing law in one firm at Chattanooga, Tenn. If Tenners get in trouble within 800 or 400 miles of that city, it's a safe bet that Charlie can wield considerable useful influence.
In Chicago "Pineo" ran across R. H. Stone, who with us a while before transferring to 1911.
From time to time as Tenners change their addresses, we will advise the members. This will permit an accurate directory.
Changes since the Class Report was published are:
Whitney H. Eastman, Residence, 4716 N. Wilshire Rd., Whitefish Bay, Milwaukee, Wis.
Wilbur L. Taylor, Jr., Business, 927 Blackhawk St., Chicago, Ill. Residence, Allerton House, 701 No. Michigan Blvd., Chicago, 111.
Louis P. Nissen, Residence, 139 Appleton Ave., Pittsfield, Mass.
James W. Ingalls, 95 Erie Ave., Newton Highlands, Mass.
Maurice C. Blake, Merrybrook, Southfield, Mass.
Allen B. Doggett, Jr., 360 East 19th St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Richard C. Floyd, Business, East Walpole, Mass. Residence, 342 Clark Rd., Brookline, Mass.
David A. Childs, 23 Hanscom Ave., Reading, Mass.
Leslie J. McKay, 1324 Clayton St., Denver, Colorado.
George C. Sinclair, Business, Bankers Indemnity Ins. Cos., Newark, N. J. Residence, 292 Berkeley Ave., Bloomfield, N. J.
Clarke W. Tobin, Business, 389 sth Ave., Room 604, New York city. Residence, 491 Berkeley Ave., So. Orange, N. J.
John C. VanderPyl, Business, 600 West 58th St., New York city. Residence, 4 East 88th St., New York city.
Paul Whitcomb, 485 Madison Ave., New York city.
Howard K. Dyer, Residence, 381 Ocean St., So. Portland, Maine.
Chase K. Pevear, Business, Chrysler Bldg., Room 4411, New York city. Residence, 355 East 50th St., New York city.
H. B. Dore, 425 Winthrop Ave., New Haven,. Conn.
E. A. Wagner, 227 State St., Bangor, Maine. Sidney B. Whipple, Business, United Press, World Bldg., New York city.
John L. Slafter, Business, Montpelier, Yt. Residence, 18½ Pearl St., Montpelier, Vt.
James Frame, Residence, Canterbury, N. H.
Herbert S. Woods, Business, Union Mfg. Co., New Britain, Conn. Residence, 57 Court St., New Britain, Conn.
A good and well-wishing Tenner in Massachusetts sent me a clipping from the January 25 issue of the New York Times containing an illustrated article by Rollie Reynolds. Rollie wrote a most interesting article entitled "Schools Fit Pupils for Machine Age," and deals at some length with the mechanical devices that are used in Horace Mann School to bring to the child the problem of an everchanging world. Your Secretary dislikes to think that Tenners in the Bay State are more alert in their appreciation of good things than those residing in the Empire State. The whole article is so good that probably 90 per cent of the class would enjoy reading it—but lack of space prescribes that we must reprint only a few extracts.
Rollie writes: "Let us step into a modern school and see what instruments are taking: the place of the good old tools. Here is a third grade having a lesson in music. Before the group stands the teacher, a violin tucked under his chin; on the table beside him a cornet, a clarinet, a viola, and other instruments, each of which in turn he plays to the children, bringing out the peculiar tone qualities and explaining the function of each instrument. And now comes the 'machine.' From the corner, for it is a regular part of the room's equipment, the teacher rolls out the latest in reproducing machines, and into the education of the children, to become a part of their experience, is woven the melody, the harmony, the rhythm, of a great symphony played by a great orchestra, and bringing to them in reality the tone qualities, the special functions of those instruments which the teacher has offered as his contribution of the day to their education.
"A crowd of fifth and sixth graders are filing into the science room. Here is a machine, a combination of microscope and lantern projector. The children gather around the teacher as he places a drop of ditch water on a glass slide. The lights go out, and there on the screen the 'machine' throws before the wondering eyes of the children the teeming, moving, living life which occupies that drop of ditch water. The story of life in its simplest forms becomes a part of the-children's possession. The teacher lifts out a lens for a split second, thus applying heat to the drop of water, and instantly the busy life on the screen ceases—killed by the heat. The machine has brought into the child's educational experience the principle of sterilization.
"With strains of a stirring march a young man at the piano is drawing the children, like the Pied Piper of old, into a vast cavern, the assembly hall. Again the lights go out, and again a machine contributes to the day's educative experience. From the moving picture booth in the gallery down a shaft of light onto the screen comes the big world of which those children are a part. The weekly news reel. The great ones of the world repeat their last week's activities on the screen. Events momentous in their social and historical significance move past, events to be talked about and discussed when the children get back to their classrooms.
"Then follows a reel telling vividly the story of transportation, from the savage's floating log and the human burden carriers to the great Europa, the Graf Zeppelin and the 20th Century.
"In the library we find small portable moving picture projectors, and a collection of 16mm. films prepared by various large companies. With these in the classroom the children can study the events of history, the story of coal, the achievement of science.
"As we have gone throughout the school perhaps you have noticed a kind of machine, which has been present in every classroom in considerable quantities—the portable typewriter. There are 180 of them in the school— a regular part of the equipment for every grade.
"As the machine age develops new machines, these will be turned to the education of children. Television, the scientists tell us, is just around the corner. If one allows one's imagination a bit of play it is possible to conceive, for example, the geography of the schools of tomorrow quite different from words in a book. Children may be able to sit in their classroom seats and actually see the rushing Niagara and hear its roar.
"There is nothing intrinsically evil in a machine. A machine age is not necessarily a retrogression. I believe that schools should utilize machines in so far as they can visualize and vitalize learning and aid the child to make his own the great store of human knowledge and experience, which is accumulating at a terrific rate.
"A good school will hand on to its children control over machines, in order that these soulless machines may free the human soul to build for itself a better world in which to live."
Bob MacPherson, Jim's older son, is playing a strong game of hockey on the Framingham High School team. I wonder if the next few years will see any varsity athletes developed in the second generation of Tenners. The first generation surely had its share.
Charlie Gibson was in town recently, but unfortunately I was away when he called.
Bill Grant, advertising manager for F. M. Hoyt Shoe Co. at Manchester, attended the Shoe Style Show in Boston recently. Bill is a bowler of some note around his home town, and it might be worth while to match him up with Ray Gorton, Roge Farwell, and a few other Tenners.
"Oh wad some power the giftie gi'e usTo see oursel's as ithers see us."
