Class of 1910
Ben of Pipestone vacationed in St. Petersburg, Fla., during March .... Billy Williams has organized a new advertising agency with John R. Reilly .... firm to be known as Williams & Reilly .... Printers' Ink says: "A new advertising agency,Williams & Reilly, has been established atChicago by Lewis M. Williams and John R.Reilly. Mr. Williams was for many yearswith Williams if Cunnyngham. Mr. Reillywas formerly with the Chicago Daily News, and before that with Crowell PublishingCompany and Marshall Field if Cos. Officesare at 6 N. Michigan Ave." .... Here are some new address changes to maintain your records:
Herbert S. Woods, Hotel Grafton, Conn. Ave. & DeSales St., Washington, D. C.
Raymond F. Cutler, 476 Alpine Terrace, Ridgewood, N. J.
James J. Kerley, Office, P.O. Building, McKeesport, Pa. Res., 3103 Orchard Ave., McKeesport.
Melvin L. Straus, Office, 33 N. La Salle St., Chicago, 111. Res., 2315 Sheridan Rd., Glencoe, 111.
George F. Gonyer, Office, 32 Whitney Ave., New Haven, Conn. Res., 7 E. 9th St., Derby, Conn.
Harold I. Goodere, Office, 448 N. Austin Blvd., Oak Park, 111.
Arnold L. Barrett, Res., 415 Burns Drive, Detroit, Mich.
Walter G. Wilson, Office, 601 Broadway Arcade Bldg., Los Angeles. Res., 5035 Lock Haven, Eagle Rock, Calif.
E. Russell Palmer, Office, 221 N. LaSalle St., Chicago, 111. Res., 854 N. Sheridan Rd., Highland Park, 111.
Theodore Smith, Office, care of J. B. Diaz & Co., Prado 125, Habana, Cuba.
Jim Kerley and Ed Raabe visited in Pittsburgh this winter .... they reuned with Karl Maerker .... Jim attended the Pittsburgh banquet given in Craven Laycock's honor .... we saw a picture of Dick Floyd, ex-'10, in the Boston University Club Bulletin recently .... and he sure has retained his age well .... he gets the following write-up .... "DickFloyd, human encyclopedia of track andfield athletics and Ail-American clerk ofcourse, is one of the best known figures ofthe present day in track and field .athleticsin the East. He began his clerk of coursetraining at Harvard, where he was undergraduate manager of track team. Since thattime he has acted in his present capacity asclerk of course at public and private schoolmeets, intercollegiate meet, and the trackand field meets conducted by leading athletic clubs and fraternal organizations."
Some day some Tenner ought to look up "Ossie" Shenstone in Toronto .... or "Ossie" ought to look up some of us when he comes down to the States .... and plan to attend the "25th" along with the other Tenners who have been absent at the past few reunions .... "Ossie's" address is Osborne Harris Shenstone, Massey-Harris Cos., King St., Toronto .... that Twenty-Fifth in 1935 promises to be a corker .... good old-fashioned fellowship galore .... and we haven't heard from that guy Bardwell, who's a Big Shot in Minneapolis .... and have any of the Chicago Tenners seen Harry Beal since he became president of Sullivan Machinery Cos you New Yorkers can watch "Caesar" Young's pitch for Brooklyn Poly Prep this spring .... the lad's good, and ought to go to Dartmouth in another year or so ... . that great good fellow and coach, Jeff Tesreau, could use him . . . . Marion and I are still down here in Florida .... Katherine came down to spend her Easter vacation from Northfield Seminary with us ... . don't know just when we are returning North, as I want to get full benefit from this hot sun before leaving .... however, we do plan to be in Hanover in time for the secretaries' meeting on May 11-12 .... it would be sort of an ideal life to spend a few months down here each winter .... and balance of the year not far from Hanover . . . . B. Armstrong, who got a taste of Florida a couple of months ago, vows that he is going to make enough money this next time to spend his summers in Friendship, Me., and his winters in Florida.
Kav Dyer is with Dirigo Cabinet Cos. of Hallowell, Me Jim MacPherson made another hurried trip to Lake Worth, Fla., in March, when his mother passed away .... Roge Pierce is an expert fire adjuster with offices at 40 Broad St., Boston .... Roge is one of those fellows who established himself in life with a fine family of a wife and two children, enough to eat and a sound philosophy, "There isalways a little sunshine somewhere for thefellow who is willing to look for it."
John- Slafter's son Hubert is a student at Bay Path Institute in Springfield, Mass. .... William E., son of our late classmate, Bill Dussault, is studying forestry at University of New Hampshire .... the next son, Bob, a freshman of Dover High School, is headed for Dartmouth .... Nancy Norton spent March in St. Petersburg, Fla., with Walter's parents .... incidentally, her dad, who has followed college hockey rather closely since his college days, says that this winter's team was the best he ever saw at Dartmouth .... Walt's looking ahead to football next fall, and you can count on his attending most of the important games .... which sort of reminds us that we are apt to see plenty of enthusiasm if the New Deal gets away to a good break in the first games.
Harold Robinson is well settled again in North China after his year's leave in this country .... the Robinsons are located at Techow, Shantung .... all of the children returned with them, although it was considered leaving young Harold in this country preparatory to his entering Dartmouth in a couple of years .... after summering in Vermont, they started across the continent via train with stop-over at the World's Fair .... then two weeks at Long Beach, Calif., finally sailing from Seattle on September 2 . .-, uneventful trip across the Pacific .... impressed by industrial activity at Yokohama and Kobe, Japan .... to quote: "In Yokohama andKobe we were impressed with evidences ofindustrial activity. With the possible exception of Washington, D. C., we saw nocity in America tuhere there was as muchbuilding going on as we saw in those Japanese cities. In the warehouses on the dockswe saw large consignments of boxes markedfor five- and ten-cent stores in the MiddleWest of the U. S. A. Some of you may begetting some of the contents for Christmaspresents. (We wish that we had stocked upwith more supplies from those stores before we sailed for China.) At Yokohama wewatched our boat unload tons and tons ofscrap iron and used auto tires, and wecould not but wonder what the final formsof those old railroad rails would be, andwhat they would be used for. The militaryand naval authorities still seemed to havethe controlling power in the government,but there was a good deal of feeling thatmost anything could happen to history inJapan. When we reached Moji, we weredelayed unexpectedly a whole day becauseof a typhoon" .... then they went to Shanghai, after which to Paotingfu to pack up their goods and leave a community which had been their home for twelve years. A subsequent letter contains the following: "I went to P'ang Chuang lastSaturday afternoon and had to pump mybicycle against a strong head wind forabout 15 miles .... Sunday we had abaptismal and a communion service ....about 200 people .... seven baptizedand eleven joined on probation ....there were others who wanted to join butI didn't accept them as they did not knowenough about Christianity to be admittedto the church. It is quite a problem toknow what is a fair examination. Peoplewho have never learned to read cannot beexpected to know a whole lot. I am morelenient with the older people than withthe young ones. It seems to me that weought to do everything we can to encourage the young ones to learn to read. Thosewho are interested in the church but havenot joined need more training, and thosewho have already joined need to learnmore than they know . ... I came backfrom P'ang Chuang yesterday and broughton my bicycle 30 pounds of fresh roastedpeanuts .... they raise many in thatregion and they are very cheap this fall. ... I got 52 pounds of unshelled roastedpeanuts for $l.OO Mex. That is about 35cents in U. S. gold now." .... Robbie's letters are always interesting, and we hope to get some more .... though we don't envy him his job and location.
Class finances are still in a tough spot . . . . and Juddy needs all of the help he can get .... some subscriptions to the MAGAZINE have been canceled, and some more are in the process .... there seems to be no alternative for him to follow .. . . Juddy's company, the Lamson & Sessions Cos., is operating at capacity . . . he writes: "The business of this companyhas very nearly trebled for the first quarterof this year over a like period of last yearwith a promise of continued orders forthe next two months, so that if generalbusiness over the country is anywhere nearlike ours, the money should be a little freerin its flow toward our class treasury, andI hope to be able to give a little more timeto it than I have in the last couple ofmonths."
This business comment combined with others we have received are hopeful signs that make us all feel good .... anyone who has survived the "Great Experience" which is now in its sixth calendar year can certainly stick the rest of the trip . . . . the old human carcass can stand an awful lot of punishment .... we sort of figure that a man in his fourth or fifth decades is in the most enviable position .... age has mellowed whatever radical dreams and ambitions he may have had .... the G. E. (what we have been through since '29) has burned his fingers and taught him a few things .... and his business or professional experience prior to the Blow-Up laid the foundation which he still has .... nothing can take such things away from him .... the 4th or sth decade man is neither too liberal nor too intellectual, but he has common sense, which will be in demand long after brain trusts and legislative cure-alls are forgotten .... the country is not going to the dogs or to the radicals, not by a danged sight .... if a man works with assurance and faith, there is little beyond his ability to accomplish.
Class Agent Andy Scarlett, sophomore class officer and a few other things at Hanover, announces the following assistants to help put 1910 at top of the Alumni Fund campaign—Boston territory, Gay Gleason; western Massachusetts and Connecticut, Jim Perry Nourse; New York City, Ray Seymour; Ohio, Dave Johnson; Chicago, Don Bryant; scattering precincts, Harry Mitchell—it's another "No Quota" campaignand we just have an idea that Marse Andy and his assistants will have 1910 right up there in the first ranks when the curtain falls in June.
HOW TO REMAIN HUMAN
Eat properly .... sleep enough . . . . live sanely .... maintain a good perspective .... and let your mind wander back into those high-rolling, rollicking Hanover days when intelligence tests were measured with rubber yardsticks arid you could crack into a cockroach any time you bit a Commons muffin .... The famous snowball battle on Main Street business section .... wild scrap• • . . natives and faculty members drivenfrom street .... "Slip" Powers apprehended by L. C. (Local Constable) . . . .said L. C. forced to defend himself innearby store with hot poker .... ClarkeTobin's impassioned pleadings to milling'nob to disperse peaceably.
Walt Norton, Jim MacPherson and Jos.Kinney borrowed some: eggs from J. Haggerty's Feeding Room . ... to decoratefittingly the walls of "14 Sanborn" ....the efforts were rather successful.
One time Pip Cowan and Rog Piercebroke into that same room about 2 A.M. ... . 14 below zero .... with two pailsof water .... when they withdrew, thepails were empty ....J. Kinney, one ofDartmouth's all-time sleeping marathoners,awoke later to find great yellow spots onhis body .... without stopping to inspectthe soaked yellow comforter on his bed, herushed to "Bush" Kingsford, never an openminded medico-man before breakfast, whogame Josephus little sympathy and toldhim to go back to his room and take a bath.
In junior year George Davies, who couldqualify for a real brain trust any time,went down to Concord to take RhodesScholarship examinations .... returningto college on night train, George wasbleary-eyed and bogged down for one of"Toot" Worthen's calculus exams the nextday .... everything went blank in theexam room .... good old "Toot" noticing the condition of a star performer,handed George a piece of paper on whichwas written, "I am sorry that Mr. Davieswas not here today .... the next examination will be on April 10."
Among the trivial human events thathave slipped most of our minds are thosetrain rides from the Junct to the Norwichstation .... cars packed with returningstudents (Dartmouth men always are agregarious lot) ... . conductor and trainmen painlessly jammed and held in endsof cars .... through prearrangementengineer runs train at a snail's pace to permit time for collecton of tickets in thethronged cars .... but it never worked.... and the students never paid.
In the days when Hanover athletes weregoing to classes almost to a man Hanoverhen-houses were fertile fields, but miserably exploited at times .... however, itis safe to venture that 1910 had one of thefinest groups of poultry-fanciers ever assembled in any class .... ranking highin the lot was a well-known Temier now inthe Great Beyond, who developed a technique all his own, much copied but neverperfected by his associates .... once thebuilding was entered, the flash of a matchin cupped hands revealed much desired information .... then moving forwardwith deceptive ease, arms spread-eagled,each hand grabbed necks of featheredbeauties . ... a quick twist, no squawk,and the prey was secure, one under eacharm . ... G. Leonard McClintock has explained in a lucid and engaging style howhe studied the method .... but his bulk,appearance, and inescapable mannerismsin a hen-house nearly wrought disaster onhis gang . ... a certain Boston leather expert was a past-master . ... a few otherstaid citizens of the present day were noslouches .... and plenty of others ....a well-known Hanover character cookedthe chickens for 25 cents each . ... attimes guests partook of the feasts . . .the gang, stricken with remorse one time,invited the unsuspecting owner of themost-recently-visited hen-house to a BANQUET with chicken as the predominatingcourse .... after eating his fill, temperedwith some smooth cider, he pushed hischair back, stroked his stomach contentedlyand enthused, "That was the BEST damnchicken I ever ate."
Secretary, 168 Hill St., Barre, Vt.
