CLASS OF 1910
Old Bill Brown, staid Gloucesterian, can throw his chest out with considerable rectitude, for his son Robert F., headed Dartmouthward in the not distant future, led the published list of "outstanding" scholarship honors awarded for the fall term at Tabor Academy.
Bill Dussault, Franklin banker who needs but slight excuse to attend Hanover football games whether or not he has an overdue note in that section, has returned recently from an extended flivver trip through Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Interesting states to visit, as we can testify, but a darned long way to travel in a Fordette. However, business be business.
Gay Gleason is more than an ordinary attorney-at-law. Through his legal connection with the Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation he has acquired much insurance knowledge, and this winter is listed as a lecturer during the course sponsored by the Insurance Library Association of Boston. He speaks on the subject of "State Legislation."
The life of a class secretary is a tough one if he tries to do a good job—yet it has many compensations, which lie largely in receiving willing and dependable support from men who live close enough to Dartmouth's activities to participate in many of them. This group necessarily constitutes the backbone of the class and the alumni body, and must continue to. But now and then letters come through from men who for various reasons —some of which are geographical are prevented from maintaining many personal contacts with their classmates at college gatherings. These letters always register high with a secretary, and show that perhaps, after all, class efforts are not in vain. Among such men of recent date are Harry Driver, Ed Keith, Frank Meleney, Ed Higbee, Herb Woods, Talley Holmes, Ernest Unangst, Ed Dusham, Art Bucknam, Charlie Thomas, Howard Smith, John Slafter, Brown Cooper, Walter Price, Phil Brooks, Charlie Levermore, Eddie Sickman, Charlie Libbey, Horace Chadbourne, John Shambow, and Charlie Noone. These names contain much interest to those Tenners who attend all activities and wonder whether such and such a man has lost interest because he never shows up. It looks to your Secretary as though the Twenty-fifth Reunion in 1935 is going to resemble (just about 95% numerically, at least) the same gang that signed up with "Chuck" Emerson in September, 1906. And what a "beef-fest" it will be!
"Fletch" Burton claims that President Pineo was "sartorially perfect" at the Yale game—and "balanced his derby just as though it was a part of his early education."
Rollie Reynolds paid his native state a hurried visit early in December and delivered a couple of addresses to the Vermont Principals' Conference in Montpelier. One interesting suggestion made by Dr. Rollie was that the development of responsibility by affording more opportunity for self-expression is a commendable course to be pursued with the nervous, quick-thinking boy who is poorly trained in study habits and who cannot be controlled during the school sessions.
Your Secretary needs items—old and new. Forget 1931—and try writing letters for a change.
Ed Loveland is a dairy expert of more than ordinary note, and spends much time lecturing throughout the state of Vermont.
Horace Chadbourne, baseball player of yesteryear, has been prevailed on to emerge from his Montana silence and let the class know something about his life. Chad wrote such an interesting letter that we can do no better than reprint it here:
"Our family is three: Cecilia (Hollingsworth, Wellesley '12), Melissa aged ten, and myself. Our life here in Glacier Park is of the simplest. We live in a large and fairly sophisticated log cabin, but otherwise we carry on during eight months of the year somewhat as did they of earlier tradition who raised the voice if little else in the wilderness. Post office and general store are twelve miles distant sometimes snowshoe miles at that. Melissa is having a correspondence school (Calvert) education unhampered by movies, and we elders tie to the principle of one day at a time and some joy in it.
"Summer brings us various folks who want to get out to pasture, where it all is, so to speak, but to date not many of the Dartmouth clan. Noah Foss, naturally a man of much wisdom, comes at least once a year to crop the bear grass of mountain meadows. Harry Hunter stopped long enough last summer to say 'Hello.' Two or three artists have been with us from time to time, titillating me to a hobby that joins well with fishing and climbing, to wit, sketching with pencil and brush.
"The wishbone of the high-hanging goose is embedded in the choice meat of some tremendously attractive summer-home sites. Advertising ethics permitting, I may suggest that we have some lake frontage here that should look grand to anyone wanting a summer place, with or without cabin already built, in the midst of a national park. Really good investment at depression rates of what have you.
"The reminiscences in Tenner Topics are fine."
Chad's address is Lake McDonald, Belton, Montana, and Tenners will do well to follow the precedents established by Noah Foss and Harry Hunter. If family coffers would permit, I know of some Tenners who would pay a visit to Lake McDonald early next summer.
Blow the Tooter long and loud! Chet Scott has been heard from! Driving through Tacoma, Wash., in September, "Scotty," the emissary of infectious fellowship and onetime mandolinist, gave Chan Baxter a ring on the phone—and then the reunion began. Chan says one Tenner visits him annually last year* Harold Sprague, this year Chet Scott. Who's next?
"Mac" Kendall is another Tenner who has interested himself in the Boy Scout movement. Scouting can be made a powerful factor for good in the life of youngsters and particularly so when a parent works with his son.
Speaking of sons brings up a line of thought —Sons—Dartmouth Can he get in? Can he earn some of his way? Can he get a good roommate? etc., etc. There are affirmative answers for all of these queries, but a father should occupy himself a bit with them some time prior to the actual necessity for decisions. It would save much frantic and generally useless effort. A request to Bob Conant, the Registrar, will bring that highly interesting book, the catalogue, or Bulletin, as it is called. A letter to Dean Bill will answer a bothersome question. A little investment of time and thought in these matters brings oftentimes a high return.
Harry Wells is one of the leading architects of New Hampshire and Vermont, and as such does considerable work for nationally known summer residents of these two states. Harry has created some very attractive homes and public buildings.
A little bird told us not long ago that Walter Golde has given up climbing apple trees and was now contenting himself with stretching on the ground and singing "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree."
Russ Palmer gets his picture in the magazines with the famous Batten, Barton, Durstine, and Osborne line-up. This boy Palmer, who made history as a class agent and editor of Darned Funny Wise Cracks, does not look on paper one minute older than he did "thutty year ago."
The sympathy of the class goes to Allen Dorr, who lost his dad recently. Mr. Dorr, 84, a direct descendant of an old New England family, founded the butter and egg commission business which Allen has been conducting alone for the past few years.
"Kid" Fowler, who visited Hanover this last summer, had to duck machetes, red tomatoes, and crude epithets while passing through the war zone on way back to his Cuban home. He writes in part as follows:
"Anyone in the sugar business just at this time has very little to write of an optimistic character, unless it is 'l've still got my job.'
"Thanks to the new Cuban highway, we were able this year to drive all the way from Chaparra to New York for a vacation. Later continued on to Boston, Hanover, and Rutland before making the return trip. Got back to Cuba at the height of the so-called revolution in August. The 400-mile drive from Havana to Chaparra was rather exciting and uncertain. Except for being searched some twenty times there were no unpleasantnesses. The big battle of the war (?) took place the day we arrived at home; that was at Gibara about twenty-five miles from Chaparra, but we saw nothing of it except the troops going and returning, and much reconnoitering of aeroplanes. Many of our men hooked up with the rebels, but they all came back, so we are asking no questions.
"Allan Jr. is slated for the class of '38, and he and I are both looking forward to the time he enters. At present my only direct contact with the College is over the radio during football season; got both a great kick and a great let-down over the Harvard game last Saturday."
Hoitt Charlton and wife called on Dr. George and Mrs. Allen in Montpelier this last fall. Hoitt's brother-in-law is principal of the Montpelier High School.
Mrs. Arthur Yergin has moved to Texas, and her new address is now 718 Harold Ave., Houston.
Brown Cooper gave a recent address on "The Movement of the Indian Tribes of the Northwest Territory" before the Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society. No doubt, he acquired his first knowledge of "Indian" movements while at Hanover. Brown has traveled far in Masonry, and has been given a Past Illustrious Master's Jewel by the Fort Wayne Council, R. and S. M. This is his fourth jewel, he having received others from the Blue Lodge, Chapter, and Commandery.
Talley Holmes is teaching in Washington, but on the side serves as a bank director and a member of the board of commissioners of Highland Beach, Md. He and Mrs. Holmes have a couple of sons that occupy considerable of their time—Talley 111 and McDougald.
Ed Keith sent up from Porto Rico a Christmas card in the pure Castilian—interpretation of which made your Yank Secretary appear dumber than usual. It's O. K., Ed, but next time send up an interpreter with it.
John Shambow sends one down from Montreal in the real "Parlez-vous" lingo it bothered us not and the verse was very fine.
25 YEARS AGO
Les Wiggin's fingers were just getting back into piano condition after having beaten rugs all fall several w.k. Tenners decided in midwinter to not even minor in Freshman Math the class was finding out that "Skeet" Tibbetts' real name was Howard, and that he was not half as hard-boiled as the impression he sometimes gave. Many Tenners who had landed in Hanover with just enough money to pay their first necessary bills were now getting settled at various means of earning their way through college.
The hockey training table started early in January with the following men: Foote, Pierce, Crocker, Richardson, Brett, Doe, Erhard, Leighton, Marston, Perry, Pettengill, and Stucklen. It had defeated Rindge Manual Training School 6-0 and M. I. T. 3-2 during the holidays. On January 9 it met a 5-2 defeat at the hands of Princeton. On January 16 Yale was defeated 4-2. Coaticook was defeated 9-2 Doggett, Thurber, and Johnson being Tenners to play in the game. Because of water on the knee Gene Brooks resigned as captain of the team, and W. C. Foote was elected.
The basketball team was shaping up into a strong aggregation, and had added Mass. Aggies to its victims, 52-1, and Rensselaer, 88-10. "King" Brady at forward and Jack Dingle at guard played fast basketball in both games. On January 17 Pennsylvania was trimmed 31-15 in a sensational game at Hanover. The line-up was Brady, If; Grebenstein, rf; Lang, c; Schildmiller, Ig; Lane, rg. Capt. Grebenstein scored 11 baskets from the floor and shot five fouls. Tufts was trimmed 50-15—the summary being Grebenstein, Schoppelry, rf; Brady, Morrisey, If; Lang, Thompson, c; Lane, Dingle, rg; Schildmiller, Tatterson, lg.
"Hap" Goodere was appointed temporary captain of the freshman basketball teamand George Thurber temporary captain of the 1910 hockey team.
"Ski" Shaw, Talley Holmes, Cliff Lyon, and Arthur Yergin were Tenners elected for the final trial of the College debating team.
In. those days Harvard was unusually friendly to Dartmouth, and stood for everything good in sport as she does today. TheDartmouth ventured this prediction "we do not feel that it is too much to prophesy that before many years Dartmouth will be playing her championship games with Harvard, arid that Harvard will be playing her championship games with Dartmouth."
The class of 1910 was the first freshman class to use Dartmouth Hall at the beginning of its college year, the building having been completed in February, 1906.
Nate Sherman was elected manager of freshman basketball, Mart Hannon of hockey, and Larry Bankart of baseball.
Dartmouth, mainly through the stubborn persistence of Manager Nichols of Harvard, was admitted to the Intercollegiate Hockey Association, which was comprised of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia. Freshmen were barred from playing league games, so that excluded 1910 men.
Dr. John C. O'Connor was appointed football coach for the 1907 season.
Charlie Libbey was the only freshman in five men to win the 1908 Aegis Grind Prizes.
Skating on the Connecticut river was attracting many Tenners. A party comprised of Irv Jewett, Ray Gorton, Al Salmon, and Earle Pierce skated to Pompanoosuc one day. They liked it so well that they made a trip to Thetford. Upon arrival there Earle Pierce felt so boisterous that he essayed to display his physical condition by dashing up a high river bank. Unfortunately, the attractive black ice was not very thick and Brother Earle did the disappearing act. He and his corduroys were finally pulled out of the icy waters, and a visit was made to the village hotel. Earle played Eskimo in the innkeeper's bearskin while his apparel dried out, and the party started for Hanover in the moonlight. At Pompanoosuc Irv Jewett did not see the thin ice at the old rope ferry, so went in all over, but in the absence of a kindly innkeeper Irv had to skate back to Hanover, wet, cold, with clothes freezing.
Brown Cooper transferred his residence from Prof. "Pussy" Groves' house on Occum Ridge to 28 Wheeler, where he joined with Cliff Lyon. Jim Colgan and Harold Winship still rate as "Chuck's" best freshman marriage. Can anyone beat it?
Your Secretary heard recently that Carl Peterson, the "College Tailor" of our day, was seriously ill at a Boston hospital.
Chicken rustling was started in Hanover about this time and rumor has it that one Tenner of considerable fame lost a valuable gold watch during one of these raids and never did dare to claim it.
Telephone men were very busy installing a new system in Hanover with an office upstairs over the rear of Carter's jewelry store. A pay station was installed in Storrs bookstore. The Hanover Gazette said: "The present system will enable one to ring central by the simple act of removing the receiver from the telephone."
Secretary, 168 Hill St., Barre, Yt.
