Class of 1910
Who has heard anything from or about Ted Smith and Allan Fowler in storm-torn Cuba? .... Harry Beal, new president of Sullivan Machinery Co., has moved to Chicago. Harry, wife, and youngest daughter live in the Windy City, while the two older girls are in Wellesley and Edgewood School at Greenwich, Conn 1910 has a formidable group in California, viz., Ted Baldwin, Guy Spokesfield, Al Barker, Chet Coffin, Walt Wilson, Dana Hammond, Grover Hoyt, Elmer Stryker, Atkins Nickerson, Cliff Rice, Winsor Wilkinson, Malcolm Bissell, Ernest Cushman and Leo McCusker .... Dr. Frank Meleney visited Andy Scarlett in Hanover and Russ Meredith at Troy last summer .... Howard Bushway of Bushway Ice Cream fame is spreading its territory into Maine, and reports keen opposition from Down-East Dartmouth men engaged in similar line . . . . Howard, aided by another Tenner, Homer Mills, puts out a mighty fine brand of goods .... his son, Jay Howard, is back in Manlius School this year finishing his preparation for Dartmouth .... Bunny Armstrong, full-fledged insurance agent hot on trails of Big Shots, spent part of the summer trying to pick right ponies at Rockingham .... friends of Friendship, Maine, will be glad to hear from Bunny that taxes have been reduced; the town voted dry, but polls were delayed four hours because one ballot clerk had died three months previously; lobsters 25 cents pei lbs. clams at 60 cents per bu.: Sears Roebuck still doing leading business; a town poor farm has been remodeled up above the Advent meeting house . . . . Capt. Winsor Wilkinson of the Reserve Corps spent two weeks in training at the Artillery Camp in Monterey, Calif we hear that Gay Gleason and wife spent a week at Hanover prior to the Norwich game, and that Jim Everett was the only other visiting Tenner reported at the season's opening .... Bill Harlow, dad of first Tenner son to graduate from Dartmouth, was in Hanover in August . . . . Mr. and Mrs. Slip Powers have announced the engagement of their daughter, Polly, to Dr. Richard H. Overholt of the Lahey Clinic in Boston, wedding date set for December 2 . . . . Ben Williams and Lew Wallace now call Slip "Grandpa" . . . . George Underwood is holding out on me . ... he has kept the postal enclosed in recent circular letter .... names of other hoarders will be published from time to time .... Ralph Paine and wife attended the New England Kiwanis Convention at St. Johnsbury in late September .... Dr. George Allen's son George has entered University of Michigan to start a course in landscape architecture .... George, Senior, as you all know, is assistant medical director of the National Life Insurance Co. at Montpelier .... he attended a medical directors' meeting in Toronto early in October .... Herb Woods is doing spe- cial work in Washington .... thanks to Nick Carter we have the following item from the Somersworth (N. H.) Free Press:"John W. Bates of Tulsa, Oklahoma, paida 'flying visit' to his mother, Mrs. Frank C.Bates, the first of the zueek. He had been inWashington and New York for some timefor business purposes, and took the opportunity to come to Somersworth to pass ashort time in his old home town. He ismaking the entire trip by plane" .... we have heard several times that Jack had made plenty of money in oil, and it looks as though he were one of the few that had been able to hang onto it .... his ability to extract gold out of Oklahoma muck has been aided and abetted, no doubt by his youthful experience in digging hockeypucks from Hanover snow.
One of the bright and fine things in our lives is seeing the number of sons who enter each freshman class at Hanover .... this year is no exception as far as 1910 is concerned .... last fall we led all other classes by a wide margin .... this fall we rank high with the following sons entered:
Wm. G. Brown Jr., son of Bill Brown. Edward T. Bryant, son of Don Bryant. John H. Dingle Jr., son of Jack Dingle. Wm. C. Heneage, son of Tom Heneage. Russell D. Meredith Jr., son of Russ Meredith.
Brice H. Sheets, son of Ray Sheets. "Fat" Prescott has a son in the class also, but he should really be credited to 1909.
Joe Davidson is making splendid progress at Oteen, N. C Herb Wolff's son, who has been with us at recent reunions, plans to enter Dartmouth next fall . . . . Tom Heneage, who with Norton Cushman of Worcester helped to make the Equitable Life Assurance Co. what it is, writes enthusiastically: "Well, I'll say thatthe best news I have had in many a day isthe fact that my son entered Dartmouththis jail as a freshman, and, believe it ornot, I'll have another along in a few years.Of course, you know this is a pretty good1910 town and we often see many of ourclassmates dashing around our busy Loop.The fellows we see most often are ShortyStern, Russ Palmer, Lew Williams, JohnDingle, Paul Albert, Don Bryant, ShortyWorcester, Harry Hunter, and then aboutonce a year from out of town I see BabeSteward, Easty, the Pride of Milwaukee,and Cap Hedges of lowa. We expect to gettogether as a class at the time of our gamewith Chicago . ... I confer with manyboys each year about going to Dartmouth,and it is very gratifying indeed to be convinced by actual facts that the interest inDartmouth and its popularity are growingsteadily. Unquestionably, we now occupy avery enviable position in this district." We agree with Tom that Chicago has a great bunch of Tenners .... it was our happy privilege to attend both Pow Wows, and what a time that group put on .... I do recall quite vividly Tom proclaiming Dutch Schildmiller as Dartmouth's Greatest End .... Dutch carried his honors rather nicely that evening .... one of our real regrets of 1933 is that we shall be unable to attend Pow Wow No. 3, but we will be there mentally, and shall hope that 1910 carries away again the honors for having largest number present .... we had 40 men at the last Pow Wow dinner ....
Heinie Hyde is going great guns as a customers' man for Ed B. Smith & Co., i Federal St. He also enjoys the excitement at Rockingham. You know Heinie. Allen Salmon is now associated with W. S. Hammons & Co., 75 Federal St. They are an investment house, and Allen handles the wholesale end. Earle Pierce is a busy man these days. The leather industry has had quite a boom the last few months, and smiles are quite prevalent in the district. Fielder Jones and Gay Gleason are now members of the Brae Burn Country Club. Else Jenness' boy is still taking all the scholastic honors at Rivers School. He continues to amaze Else, who should realize by now that the boy probably takes after his mother .... Hiram Norton Cushman, bald as a billiard ball but still possessing the old 1910 enthusiasm, is right now the leading producer in the Worcester office of Equitable Life, and as such gets everything gratis for a White Mountain Conference .... "Caesar" Young has a six-foot son at Brooklyn Poly Prep who is a baseball player of 110 mean ability .... in about two years we hope to see him following his dad's footsteps to Hanover . . . .
"Mac" Stanton, who has not written us since Hek was a pup, pens that anyone who says business has been good for the past two or three years would be automatically elected a charter member of the Pseudologists Club .... some of you guys who lack vigorous intelligence better start searching the fuzz above your ears for that word .... some of you same fellers who see James P. Nourse, Worcester Businesser, occasionally probably have not recognized greatness in disguise .... we herewith inscribe in the annals of the class of 1910 his election as commander of the General Charles Devens Post of the American Legion .... without delving into class research to learn exact number of female-less Tenners, we do not hesitate to say that the Grand and Decaying Order of Anti-Fern-inism suffered a staggering wallop when Brown Cooper, College Drum-Pounder of by-gone years, walked out on the gang and became a June groom (what a chance to do some rhyming) .... the lucky lady was Camille Robinette .... home address for the newly-weds, 836 West Berry St., Fort Wayne, Ind the gang orter go out there and walk in on them sometime .... Brown just about runs that town .... Jack Richmond is taking one of his periodical trips to Twin Cities, Omaha, Missouri, Tenn., and Texas .... Harold Winship sings second tenor for the Clef Male Quartet, which broadcasts occasionally over WDRC at Hartford, Conn here's another desertion from Brown Cooper's old order .... Stormont Josselyn married Emilie Kritter of Haverhill, Mass., and Yonkers, N. Y Miss Kritter graduated from Univ. of Maine in 1920 .... they live at 6 Highland Ave., Haverhill, Mass Storm is Eastern District sales manager of the Chilton Pen Co he has led a full and busy life .... has two daughters from his first marriage and has joined the grandfathers' class .... Karl Maerker was one of the Tenners who took his whole family to the Chicago Fair .... sometimes there is a guy in our midst whom you cannot get much on ... . thanks to Obbie Coleman, we are able to publish this information 011 Cliff Edgerly, and we are mighty glad to do it ... . "Cliff Edgerly has been head of the Frenchdepartment at New Rochelle High Schoolfor the past decade. He has done a lot tohelp my boy and many other boys in thistown, the best of whom he sends to Dartmouth. I like his way with kids. So wouldyou." .... There's nothing much more satisfying than working with youngsters, and we have a tremendous amount of admiration for the men who have helped boys either through teaching contacts or through digression from cold, mechanical business puisuits which we formerly thought so necessary .... a great many letters have been received from classmates during the past few years .... many of them telling about the ups and downs that go with life .... lots of humor, lots of sheer philosophy that would do any heart good to read .... but never a word of complaint, never even an insinuated word that life had done them wrong .... all seemed to reconcile themselves to what has happened and to adjust themselves to a new mode of living, one in which there is less superficial luxury but more stability .... we somehow feel that people are going to emerge from this industrial and social transformation to an infinitely happier existence .... Tenners are doing their part with "Chins Up" ....
Jim Lowell of Boston legal ranks has a surprise visit from Ken Phelps, who came on from Minneapolis to attend a convention of physicians .... Jim says: "Kengave us an overnight visit. I don't knowwhen I have enjoyed seeing one of the oldtimers more . ... 25 years since I'd had atook at him" .... here's another one to go with that .... Jim Ingalls had a phone call in late September from a party who claimed to be Ed Keith of Puerto Rico .... Jim writes: "I had him rushed to myoffice. He came out to the house to dinner.Went to New York by sleeper that eveningand left the next day for home by boat. Edhas grown stout and older, but he is thesame old 'Eddie'" . we're getting some dope on the "Skeeter Foursome" from N. J Jim Porter lived on Long Island this summer .... Phil Forristall has moved from an apartment to a house at 230 Turrell Ave., So. Orange (we can't read his writing .... he's another pros- pect for a typewriter) .... Pres. Pineo presented Tobe with Alex Morrison's "How To Play Golf" as a new form of insurance against the stogies Messrs. Porter and Forristall hand out on the golf course .... Tobe allows how they're deadly smokes and a pernicious influence in any man's life .... Jack Dingle claims that Liz Prescott was the T. T. (Tallest Tenner) at the World's Fair this summer .... we expect to have some news on that Cleveland gang before long .... Ray Sheets now has two sons in Dartmouth to share the honors with Dave Johnson .... Roger Sheets is a sophomore and Brice has entered the freshman class .... the latter graduated from Lake Forest last spring, where he was captain of the light-weight football team, business manager of the year book, and on the honor roll scholastically .... Ray has brought his boys up rather sensibly, and, as Ray comments, "You know that it is a surprise to me tosee the seriousness with which my boyshave taken the matter of schooling as theyget older. I have always given the boys anallowance since they started junior highschool, and they have financed themselvesvery well. Roger did the whole year atHanover for S1,085." We would call that a mighty good record .... we know boys who get by on considerably less than that, but they work for board and whatever else they can pick up .... a boy can spend just about as little as he desires or as much .... we are inclined to think that plenty of them are quite sensible in their expenditures .... and ceitainly their dress does not indicate that they spend much money for clothes .... they really look about as slouchy as we did 25 years ago .... only on a modified style change ....
Don't forget to send back those postals .... or letters.
Secretary, 168 Hill St., Barre, Vt.
