Class of 1910
This be our ANNUAL PROGNOSTICATION NUMBER. (Ed. note: get that Big Word, You Wise Ones) . . . we're (I mean J. Downey, G. Underwood, and Yores Trewly) doin' the Per-dictin' now . . . our staff of advisers including L. Prescott, J. Finn, and L. Williams, has gathered Expert Unsystematic Opinions on a nation-wide program, which, if adopted by the Administration, would start the Old Commercial Club Biscuits bouncing through the streets of America the way Gen'l Grant and L. West uster slip the fast ones over the plate (at the Commons). We're going to give you a bunch of bunk that will knock the eyelashes off anything us forecasting and financial advisory bureaus have put out since the winter of '77.
M. Teall, Pittsburgh barrister, suggests C. Tobin, ex-marshal, sock expert, man of leisure and parts (not Otto), to open our program of reconstruction, which Sig. Tobin modestly does: "I assure you, menof intelligence, that we Democrats (applause) are going to do a good job (applause) in this country (applause) underthe able leadership of Mr. Roosevelt (wildenthusiasm), and that everyone here inNew York (where's that, Tobet) has fullconfidence in the situation, believing thatthis present panic was necessary to makeeverybody realize that we were on thebrink of disaster." Well spoken, fireman! Hi thar, Fay and Everett, cut out the woodin'-up, the 17th of Ireland is by till ernuther year.
Ben Williams, in response to a request from this bureau's diagnosticians, had an article in April l Sat. Eve. Post, labeled "Help! I'm Drowning!" . . . boy, and how that hit the situation on the left ear. . . . Your bureau ADVISES sleepwalking members to frame it and hang on the bedroom wall . . . you slow-thinkin' sons of Hanover Plain better take time out to digest ADVICE for short-time losses given to date . . . while you're doing that, we will give you a dose of C. C.'s (not what you think, but Class Chatter).
It seems that the Dartmouth alumni gatherings of this past winter made an unusual impression on the Tenners fortunate enough to attend. . . . Micky Holmes in speaking of the Northern N. J. dinner says: "I am still overflowing with enthusiasm . . .wish I could put into words the changethat was to be felt rather than heard inthe men there . . . not meaning to becritical of the past, there is more of thekindly, neighborly spirit to be felt. . . .'Hoppy's' words fell on fertile ground. . . .I do not hear him speak often, which isperhaps why he seems to me each time tohave grown even larger in breadth andvision and, to use his own word, understanding. There is a man who will grow aslong as his mind can function, whereas somany of us do a mushroom act and thenstagnate."
Thanks to "Bones" Jones and Jim MacPherson we have a nice report on the Boston dinner, at which Art Lord, "Monty" Fall, Ed Shattuck, Jim Everett, Art Allen, "Abe" Woods, Bill Harlow, Jim Ingalls, "Slip" Powers, Heinie Hyde, "Bones" Jones, and Jim MacPherson were present ... as usual 1910 had one of the largest delegations present . . . stripped of display and grandeur with a $3 charge, the affair is stated to have been one of the best ever held. . . . "Hoppy" was at his best, speaking encouragingly and inspiringly.
Returning to our Weakly Forecast. . . . "Else" Jenness ADVISES: "I am sure if we allkeep our shirts on, business will graduallyresume a normal basis and be on a muchbetter foundation than it has been for aconsiderable number of years." . . . Gosh, "Else," who's got eny shirts left? . . . which reminds us of the w.k. Tenner who went into "Toot" Worthen's Math I exam, saw that he was stuck and wrote an essay explaining that his mind went blank whenever taking Math exams and that he could not remember a thing, closing his essay in the exam book with "by the grace of Godand 'Toot' Worthen I can pass Math I" . . . the next day he received a postal with this on the back, "May God Help You. 1can't." Signed "T. W. D. Worthen" . . . now, that's good ADVICE, better than any forecasting bureau can give.
The San Francisco "Squeaks" ADVISES US "Eck" Hiestand becomes general manager of Halliburton, Abbot Co., affiliated with Sears, Roebuck & Co., Tulsa, Okla., having been previously at Atlanta, Ga., Cincinnati, and Los Angeles ... hope he looks up that man Bates. . . . "Squeaks" says "WinsorWilkinson is the only 'ioer we ever see anymore." . . . Dick Boerker, Kingston educator, writes "Just working like h.. .. tokeep things going. Family all well. Hopeto get up to God's Country this spring." Thar's A COUPLE OF GOOD INVESTMENTS ANDSUGGESTIONS in Dick's words.
We had the pleasure of hearing Harold Robinson speak before the Barre Rotary Club in April . . . this time he cited personal experiences in China . . . they were very entertaining ... on May 3 he gives two talks at Northeastern University in Boston under auspices of Jim Ingalls . . .
one at noon and the other in evening . . . you Tenners around Boston would be interested in hearing him . . . you might phone Jim Ingalls at 95 Erie Ave., Newton Highlands, for details ... for entertainment and information without any WRITEOFF, we can ADVISE nothing better.
L. Bankart wore his first batch of garden seeds all out handling them while waiting for ground to thaw . .. we'll match "garden truck" with that guy or any other ... we love to putter around dirt and see things grow . . . last summer at camp on Canaan Street we started a vegetable garden, had lots of fun selecting seeds, hired some land plowed and a man to help plant, then we did the rest all summer . . . each morning we would pick fresh vegetables . . . and were they good? . . . none of your halfpuckered, flavorless breeds you buy . . . peas, beans, lettuce, beets, carrots, corn, summer and Hubbard squash (we ate the last Hubbard about a month ago ... it was stated that we had the "best squash in town") . . . and we did a bit of forecasting by setting out 100 strawberry plants and 75 raspberry bushes, which will PAY GOODDIVIDENDS this summer . . . there just ain't nothing to the claim that you can buy cheaper than you can raise . . . the actual cash outlay is small, and your own waste time is worth nothing anyway . . . and besides when fussing around the garden and watching things grow, you are pretty near what God intended you to be and are not wondering where your next dollar is coming from. Messrs. Bankart, Jenness, Hitchcock, Bull, Blake, and some more of us have the right idea . . . that's some "short term" and "long pull" ADVICE all together . . . going to fool with flowers some this year.
We heard Earle Pierce was walking around New York streets recently . . . that N. J. Foursome offered entertainment but E. hurried home . . . rather looks like he made a good FORECAST . . . only one more mess of class notes before summer vacation ... if you guys got anything that orter get into print, shoot it along . . . don't try to be conservators with your news ... we got enough of them already. . . . R. Paine and wife came up to Hanover recently from Waterbury to see R. junior ... by the way, we heard that not a single 1910 offspring flunked out at mid-years . . . who don't belieye in heredity now?
Gordon Bill still claims that this freshman class is nuts in studies but we hain't seen any All-Americas in it yet . . . enyway, the boys seem to be having just as good a time in Hanover as we uster . . . ef thet's any salve for those who don't like "moral victories" and "glorious defeats" ... we had a little visit with Craven Laycock and Dean Bill recently . . . Craven says it was Prof. Robert L. Taylor of the French Department who got the liquor license when Norwich went wet, but he never used it . . . keeping it in his pocket . . . this same Craven is a mighty smooth-appearing youngster today ... he has kept his age far better than dozens of his former students . . . which reminds us of his courses in oratory and argumentation and voice culture, and we would be almost inclined to add mimicry ... he can still tell a good story.
Ed Loveland of the Vermont Extension Service sure knows his livestock ... he lectures all over the state, uses figures and charts and gets quoted in plenty of farm journals . . . March 18 Rural New Yorker contained a story of his findings. Now, here's some "real dope" by one of our best forecasters for the upturn. . . . Milwaukee Advertising Club put "Easty's" picture on the front cover and gave him the following write-up prior to his address, "The Outlook for 1933." . . . "Because of his unusually wide national affiliations, Mr. Eastmanis probably better qualified than mostbusiness men to discuss his subject. In addition to being president of the Associationof Commerce, he is also president of theMilwaukee Chapter of Izaak WaltonLeague and of the National Soybean OilManufacturers Association. He is chairmanof the Industrial Rehabilitation Committeefor Wisconsin; and he has been an officeror director of such organizations as Milwaukee Athletic Club, Spencerian College,Goodwill Industries, Milwaukee RotaryClub, Milwaukee Boy Scouts, etc. He is analumnus of Dartmouth College; and hispresent business connection is president ofWilliam O. Goodrich Co." The picture showed Easty real natural-like below his brow, but to be real honest with you it looks as though he had kept his riches and lost some hair while the rest of us . . . well, we're hanging on (no Tenner is ever licked) while the conservators, rehabilitators, resuscitators, and "skinny" Marshall's H.B. (hard-boiled) pertators are still doing their work . . . this Eastman boy orated good in above speech (we wonder if he ever had Craven ... if he did, he knows what he looks like when he does a bum job). "The pessimist cannoteven help himself, but stands idly by, hoping that someone will come along and bywave of a magic wand get us out of ourpresent mess . . . we are passing through afast changing period . . . one in whichmany old traditions, customs, and practicesare being scrapped by a new school ofthought . . . in order to justify and preserve our capitalistic system it must undergo some changes . . . we must find someway to make available for use the hugesums of dammed-up capital . . . socialevolution throughout the world is in progress . . . the depression has been marked bythe almost complete absence of conflict between capital and labor . . . business is notan exact science because there are so manyvariables and intangibles . . . the recentstroke of fiyiancial apoplexy which we suffered fundamentally, the trend is now upward . . . the spirit of confidence and optimism will quickly return to Americanpeople, and we will soon be on the road tobusiness recovery ... be a true optimist,have faith in the nation, and lastly, havefaith in yourself." ... Us Tenners can proudly say "Well, we knew him when."
Walter Price has a rather prominent part in "Run Little Chillun," one of the big hits on Broadway ... we are ADVISED that Tenners and their friends cannot go wrong by seeing it. . . . Ray Sheets and wife were in Hanover to see son Roger, just before Easter vacation . . . which reminds us that President Pineo had luncheon with Ray and Bill Knight 'OB in Rockford not so long ago ... at the annual dinner of the Dartmouth Club of Northern New Jersey the following Tenners were present: Mickey Holmes, President Pineo, Tobe, Dinnie Pratt, Ed Raabe, Doc Thayer Smith, and Phil Forristall ... to Tobe fell the honor of introducing President Hopkins . . . strangely enough, it was in 1910 that he presented the undergraduate gift, a gold watch, to "Hoppy," and on this recent occasion he made the presentation of a silver loving cup ... a paragraph from Tobe's speech will be of special interest to Dartmouth men at this time ... an inside tip on something that did not "go sour." . . . "You may or may not know that aftera secret survey of all the colleges and universities of the country by a group competent to judge, it was voted that of all thehigher educational institutions Dartmouth,at the moment, is doing the best job." . . . Pineo was elected vice-president; Tobe and Ray Cutler (although he was not able to attend the dinner) were elected to the board of governors . . . now, we can watch the EFFECTS ON BUSINESS . . . those seven Tenners found a piece of paper and each wrote a nice personal note on it to your Secretary, which was appreciated greatly even though some of the writers are good prospects for typewriters like other w.k. Tenners. . . . "Hoppy" certainly got under their hides, and they in turn got under mine.
We'll excuse Mr. George Dickey, secretary of 1880, for stealing some of our thunder . . . but it was never more pardonable than in this instance where he announced ]in the April issue a Tenner's INCREASED MOMENTUM, Harry Beal's election to the presidency of the Sullivan Machinery Company. . . . Harry's dad, M. A. Beal, was a member of 1880 ... by the time we received an official verification from Harry and persuaded John Brooks to send us a copy of the Claremont paper, it was March 17, which was considerably too late for the above number . . . the following clipping tells the story: "Mr. Beal, who expects toassume his new duties at Chicago on Monday, has been connected with the Jones &Lamson Machine Company of Springfield,Vt., since leaving Dartmouth College.
"He has served in various posts of responsibility with the company, holding theoffice of sales manager, assistant generalmanager, and more recently general manager and has resigned the office of generalmanager to accept the appointment ofpresident of the Sullivan Machinery Co.
"Born in Rockford, 111., in 1888, Mr. Bealwas educated in the grammar and highschool, continued his education at Dartmouth College, and spent one year in studyin Berlin, Germany.
"He is a member and has been active inthe affairs of the American Society ofMechanical Engineers, has been a directorfor the past three years of the NationalMachine Tool Builders' Association, and isat present president of the latter organization. He is married and has three daughters.
"He will make his headquarters in Chicago, and expects to spend his time aboutequally between his office there, the Michigan City factory, and the company's Claremont plant."
We have been told that while Tobe was in Florida this winter, he was seen on the golf course in company with prominent members of the Artists and Writers Club, among them being Grantland Rice and Rube Goldberg (we can thank A 1 Garcia, secretary of 1912, for this information) . . . us secretaries co-operate some, but not nearly as much as could be done. ... Jim Porter came back from Porto Rico. . . . Phil Forristall claims that scrip will no longer be accepted in The Foursome. . . . Jack Bates, formerly of N. H., still lives in Tulsa, Okla. . . . Pipestone Ben visits Nick Carter at St. Paul occasionally, as does Bob Woodcock. . . . Fritz Rainey, Philadelphia educator, relates interesting experiences in connection with his diggings in the Old Country . speaking of one specimen he says:
"I have named him Mercutio Winterbottom. I call him Murky because I foundhim in a fog, and Winterbottom becauseno pilgrim could have lived in such aclimate without possessing one. (Ed. note: That is undoubtedly good ADVICE.)
"I am still reviewing books for the Public Ledger, trying against the will of 'thepeepul' to teach classes far larger than anyhuman can really teach, and serving aspresident of the Temple University chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, national graduateresearch fraternity in education . . . all ofwhich keeps me moderately busy.
"My wife has been enjoying poor healthof late, and I have been getting the meals.If she does not fully recover soon, I shallhave a bad case of indigestion. You shouldmeet my wife. But I won't bore you withher excellent qualities, even in recital. Inshort she has everything . . . including thegrippe." (Ed. note: Fritz is not BEARISH on his wife.)
Thayer Smith, he who raced Herb Wolff in birth statistics before the depression, claims he hasn't seen a decent winter since he left Hanover. . . . Thayer looks like the perennial youth, so they claim . . . this Raabe lad has a worthwhile farm that he plays with at Madison, N. Y.
G. Carpenter, the red-head who loved his history under another well-known R. H., will now perorate on "How to Lose Money in Speculation . . . the Key to the Hidden Joys of Life" ... his speech was different, and the end of deflation is in sight. . . . (Ed. Note: Sorry, but deletions so riddled the masterpiece that there was nothing left to print.) . . . some day that boy promises to collaborate with Mr. R. Hyde, "Hanover as I Saw It!"
Last call for news items for current MAGAZINE year . . . shoot the works . . . for you will never get another chance to invest in news during the world's greatest depression . . . the end o£ which is in sight . . . there are better times ahead ... we have existed in live calendar years of the affair ... a little faith, courage, and common sense will now carry us all through.
Now just a word about the Alumni Fund . . . had a nice visit with Prof. Andy, wife Bertha, and daughter Marjorie in Hanover recently. . . . Andy announces the following assistant class agents for this year's Alumni Fund campaign. . . . Gay Gleason for Boston; Ray Seymour, New York; Don Bryant, Chicago; Guy Spokesfield, Far West; Hap Hinman, Vermont, up-state New York, and Canada; Jim Nourse (eh, eh, Percy) Western Mass., Conn., and R. I.; Harry Mitchell, Penn. and Southern States; Dave Johnson, Ohio, Minnesota, and Midwestern States; Andy Scarlett, Maine, New Hampshire, and foreign countries . . . same bunch as last year. . . . Andy says: "Pleasedo not play up my name as head agent. Icouldn't do a thing without my eight helpers, and they get little enough credit" . . . that's Andy, one of the most level-headed men in the class and on the Dartmouth faculty . . . clear-thinking, straight-shooting, always ready to do his best . . . who wouldn't work for a guy like that?
No high pressure on the Fund this year, (Hoppy insisted on it) . . . give if you can ... all Dartmouth men will do that ... no quota . . . sort of a "free-will ofEering" . . . neither the College nor the agents have the slightest idea of embarassing anyone this year, although the money is needed greatly ... it is the old-fashioned, friendly method of "We know you will give if you can. Ifyou can't we will get along somehow" . . . a campaign of this kind is sure to put the College closer to many hearers who have the will but not the means of giving.
Secretary, 168 Hill St., Barre, Vt.
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