Class of 1910
They're staging all sorts of fancy comebacks these days "Schmitty," Sheldon B. Smith, Troy barrister and one-time college tennis champion, emerged from his smug legal atmosphere to take up golf seriously and battle his way to the finals of the Troy Country Club championship. .... The winner had to shoot smart golf to lick our Tenner "Schmitty" ought to write a book on "How to Stay Young" .... for here we go again, Eck Hiestand's daughter, Mary Elizabeth, was married on November 10 to Russell Link Fay (don't know whether he's relation to Ten's old history Prof., Sid Fay, because Eck gave no particulars) .... the young folks were married in Tulsa and will live in Atlanta Old Man Hiestand (we can call him that now without searching statistics) is traveling some himself .... he was chosen one of three new members of the board of trustees of the University of Tulsa, and so "chosen because of theircharacter, business ability, humanitarianinterest, and sympathy with the universityprogram." .... Bill Moe sent me a picture of Eleazar Wheelock's home at Columbia, Conn Eleazar's first schoolhouse stands nearby Columbia is on the road between Middletown and Willimantic .... in the village itself stands the home of Mr. and Mrs. Porter, where Eleazar lived Bill suggests that we hold a Pow Wow at Columbia, which is not such a bad idea, providing it is held some months away from our annual party at the Yale Bowl Columbia also suggests certain phases of undergraduate life, for it was originally a part of the town of Lebanon Rev. Moe, who is minister of the First Congregational church at Guilford, delves into early Connecticut history and has published a most interesting pamphlet entitled "Pioneers of Connecticut" .... we are sending it to the Archive Room at Baker Library for preservation among alumni works .... peculiarly enough, in almost the same mail there came a letter from George Sinclair containing reference to our classmate Moe .... it was a real pleasure to hear from George, who writes a mighty fine letter. "My brother-in-law is Dr. John M. Phillips,pastor of the Center Congregational churchin Hartford, Conn. While visiting withhim about a year and a half ago I went toa midweek luncheon at the parish houseand found myself sitting beside our worthyclassmate Aloe, whom I had not seen sincewe graduated. He looked the same exceptfor some added thickness in the waist (orwaste?) line, which seems to have becomerather prevalent among iyioers. He said hehad a church at Guilford, Conn., had beenthere about five years and was well pleasedwith his situation. I introduced him to Dr.Phillips and quite a conversation followed,as it appeared that Moe's daughter wasattending Illinois College at Jacksonville,111., which is my brother-in-law's AlmaMater.
"About two hours later I was walkingalong Main St. in Hartford and ran intoChet Comey, whom I had not seen fortwenty years. We had a visit right there forabout an hour. Chet is an insurance brokerwith headquarters in the Hartford city office of the Travelers. He has a bachelorestablishment on Asylum St., and apparently 'female charm' means nothing to himand never will. It seemed odd that I shouldrun into two long-lost classmates on thesame day."
Sid Bull continues to be a leading apple grower at Lexington .... he has his orchards in a fine state of productivity, raising some excellent fruit .... his older boy graduated from Lexington High School last June .... Horace Eberly, high up in United Drug circles, has recovered from the serious illness which he had last spring
.... Chan Baxter, whose line of business is wholesale plumbing, heating, and mill supplies in Tacoma, Wash., pens interestingly: "A little government work, and oncein a while we pick up a little on bid. Itdoes often seem that the money the government spends does very little good in thecommunity where spent .... competition from all around and somebody alwayscrazy enough to make a very low bid . . . .
however, I do feel that we are going towork out of this sometime and we'll all befeeling fine by the Twenty-Fifth . ... 25years ago I was rooming in Wheeler withCharlie Remele 'll ... . began takingEcky courses and finding studies interesting.... never did fancy Latin or Greek. ... in winter indoor relays came alongand we used to pound around that woodentrack by the Gym .... there would beThayer Smith, Mickey Holmes, Scotty, SidBull, Guy Spokesfield, Nate Sherman ....Thayer Smith and I talked about going toEurope on a cattle boat the summer aftersenior year, but it fell through .... havealways wished we'd made it some way."
A certain fascination always attached itself to a man who defies the superficialities of urban social life and maintains an indifference towards the man-made drive for money and power .... Allen Doggett is such a man in our opinion, and if we are provincial, we are proud of it .... we know that this kind of a letter will be read more than once by Tenners who long to steal away from their helter-skelter existence and do what "Doggo" has done and will probably do again .... "In a sum-up ofwhat has happened since my last real contact with the class at our tenth reunion, I'dof course like to indicate some sort of brilliant personal success, but that would betedious and inconsequential, even if it couldbe done. However, the intangibles duringthe years have been very much worth while,and I'd trade places with no man. As youmay know, we had twelve good years in theSouth where I farmed, taught technicalagriculture and sociology, traveling in between times into the states below the Line,visiting former students on the job there,and turning out a few articles and newsstories and community surveys. In Virginia,the duck blind was but half an hour fromthe office, and the sunrises out of the Chesapeake looked pretty good from it. Allen,the oldest of my three, got his first duckfrom it. We had our shack and an openfront shelter always ready for an overnightstay or a camp fire, and there were alwaysthe fish and oysters in plenty for the outdoor fire. An ideal mixture of work andplay while there.
"Four years ago I decided to make thebreak North toward more lucrative climes,and have since been directing fund-raisingcampaigns for Tamblyn and Brown of NewYork. As it proved, I dove right into theedge of the depression whirlpool. For thepast couple of years, needless to say, fundraising has been on crutches and may nowbe said to be all but nailed in a neat pinebox. As with many others, I've weathered aseries of false bottoms, an experience a bitbewildering at times. The real bottom camelast winter, and when hit, I found it solid,with none of the essentials of real livingchanged or lost, and a grand adventureahead in making the ascent to the morespacious regions at the top. Just now I amhelping to build enrollment here at theHun School in Princeton.
"Allen, my oldest, just eighteen, is having his fourth year at Deerfield Academy,and the youngest will be going there in twoyears. Jane, my sixteen-year-old daughter,is also in the Academy. All three live in OldDeerfield with their mother and they havefound it a delightful and happy place inwhich to live. The children and I had aglorious month in the Adirondack forestthis summer. All three are great campersand can go about any place I can with rodand pack. Allen throws a mean fly, and theyoungster whetted his enthusiasm to apermanent edge when he cranked in a bigpike. During this month the problems ofour super-civilization dwindled to the sizeof a small peanut.
"The Twenty-fifth with Billy Williamsat accelerator is not too far ahead, andhere is one who will not miss it. Of courseI hope to see you and others before thattime."
We hear that Ed Raabe is doing a great job with the American Tel. & Tel. Co. • • • ■ he the ONE expert in the United tates who can tell you what everyone, every place, in all trades is being paid • • • ■ and he can even tell you what you would be worth to any community . . . . Mai Bissell is associate professor of geology at the University of Southern California, but concentrates principally on geography .... we have heard that he could tell a few stories about the football "racket" on the Coast .... Dud Kohler is lawyering in N. Y Dick Hursh is still an "old bach" .... probably no sensible girl would have him now .... but you can never tell, for those old bucks fall awfully hard when they do fall .... and they generally don't listen to rime or reason, solicitous friends or covetous relations .... some youngster in the lower brackets might wean Dick away from business, golf, and winters in Florida .... here's something interesting .... Don Bryant's freshman son, Edward, drew the same room in Crosby that Don, Mun Cole, and Frank Meleney occupied their first two years .... Edward rooms with Bob Burns' ('O9) son, Bob, Jr Don says that it makes him homesick to get the boy's letters all about football, Delta Alpha, Commons meals, Hanover fall, etc George Davies, who gave up teaching to unload farms that had flopped into his lap, pens (no, scrawls .... he's a darn poor penman and another typewriter prospect): "At present our bank has so manyfarms that whenever I come home at night,I look on the floor when I hang up mypants to see if any farms have fallen out ofthe pockets. We are nicely settled here inWauseon; the children seem to be enjoyingthe smaller classes of a small town school,and I am trying to fathom small town psychology. Everything is much more placidthan in Cleveland. Fear and hate, whichare so in Cleveland, are notpresent here. We may economize, but we donot worry about the future" .... George lives Route 20 to Chicago, and the old latchstring is out .... "Dusty" Craft is now national president of Chi Phi with headquarters in Chicago.
After several decades o£ trying, we finally got a mighty fine letter from Art Rollins, one of 1910's many successes in school ranks .... as a fitting reward for his untiring efforts, Art received the election as superintendent of schools in Rochester, N. H. .... he is back in the old home state again, and is happy .... "From 191 until last July 1 was located in Lancaster,Mass., where 1 spent a very happy twentyyears in charge of the schools of that town.Supplementary activities consisted of someslight contributions of time and effort tosuch worthy enterprises as Boy Scouts, GirlScouts, and social service. Incidentally, theLancaster organization for social work is,in my opinion, the finest of which I haveany knowledge. Along fraternal lines itwas my good fortune to serve as master ofTrinity Lodge of Clinton and in 1931-32 asdistrict deputy grand master in the Fitchburg district. During that same period 1frequently met Harold Sprague, who servedin a similar capacity in the Brockton district. There is nothing else of note aboutmy term in Lancaster except that I stayedso long that the youngsters of the townmust have considered me old enough tolead out before the firing squad.
"In June, 1933, Fortune was kind to me,so that I received election as -superintendent of the schools of Rochester. Besides being of real professional advantage to me,that election brought me back to a territory I have known and loved since boyhood.
"My wife's family is in Farmington, onlyeight miles away, and less than an hour'sdrive takes me to my boyhood home andsummer place at West Alton. Howevermuch a superintendent may be cussed anddiscussed, and nominated to the 'Select Society of Public Financial Enemies,' thereare still many compensations.
"You now have all the worth-while factsabout my life and work for the last twodecades. My experience can be still morefully rounded out if any Tenners who arenear Rochester will look me up. They willbe welcome in my home or at my office inthe City Hall; surely they can locate me inone place or the other."
Jim MacPherson's son, Bob, is on the varsity hockey squad and has played in all of the games to date .... Henry Kelley is teaching at Wilbraham Academy, Wilbraham, Mass Kel received his M.A. degree at Boston University last June . . . . Walter Wilson is working in insurance with Kid Richardson 'OB out in Los Angeles .... Johnny Shambow is a production engineer at Salem Depot, N. H Bob Woodcock heads the General Electric air conditioning sales at Minneapolis .... Fred Batchellor resides at Harrison, N. J Skeet Shaw is professor of public speaking at University of Illinois. This is being written down in Florida, where Marion and I landed early in December .... we are situated very comfortably here at Apt. 4, Spangler Apartments, 4.17 S. E. Ist Ave., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and would be delighted to see any Dartmouth men coming this way .... our mail address is Box 2658, Fort Lauderdale .... we have a box so as to get our mail any old time, as the P.O. closes from Saturday noon until Monday morning .... it's a great life .... lots of fruit and fresh vegetables at cheap prices .... rents fair .... plenty of sunshine .... weather just about like July and August at home .... had thought of borrowing a second-hand wooden leg for the winter, but am sort of changing my mind now .... callers can find us at the beach (where we spend several hours daily) when not in apartment .... had an invitation from Doc Winchester to go fishing .... he is igio's sole year-round Florida resident, being a doctor of considerable repute at Dunedin over on the West Coast .... his hobby is fishing, which is a sport of magnitude down here.
We stopped in New York for a few days on the way down .... during which time it was our delight to attend a 1910 dinner at the Dartmouth Club .... one of the few ever held in that city .... it was informal .... full of reunions and reminiscences .... All-America Class President Pineo Jackson planned and steered the affair .... Clarke Tobin led songs and cheers .... that guy just dropped 25 years from his dome and cavorted as of yore .... he was ably assisted by Mr. McClintock, Dartmouth's One and Only Lennie .... also by 191 I'S Jack Ingersoll, who was invited in for the occasion .... our 1911 friends had another representative there in Commander Snow, U.S.N., retired (Pineo's cousin), who though he transferred to Annapolis and starred in track and football, has maintained a deep affection for Dartmouth, where hi"s stay was short .... we know many such men who are even better Dartmouth men than some who went the whole four years .... seated around the joyous board were barristers Ray Seymour, Bill Tucker, Jim MacPherson, and Dud Kohler; medico men, Thayer Smith, Frank Meleny, and West Hunt; accountant, Otto Taylor; insurancists, Pres. Pineo and John Cassidy; businessers, Guy Perry, Clarke Tobin, Lennie McClintock, Obbie Coleman, John Vander Pyl, Phil Forristall, and red-headed Dick Carpenter, who really should have a special classification . . . . What a night! What a night! .... Tobe's farming experiences with Ben Lang .... memories of Jim Colgan and Tom Knox .... lost watch in the hen coop . . . . the Hanover resident who used to cook "borrowed" chickens at 25 cents each .... "Doc" Bond .... football of then by Signors Tobin and Ingersall, and football of today by Herr Jack McAuliffe 'l6, who joined us before the evening was over .... we are leaving a mighty lot of things unsaid, but it would have done yore ol' hearts good to have lived that session through with us ... . from soup to Mc-Auliffe .... from Tobin to deviltries of yester-year .... and quietly flowing beneath it all, a spirit of camaraderie that was capable of bringing a lump to your throat .... those years spent at Hanover gave us all something that nothing can take away from us .... a priceless gift as we gaze back.
Saw Joe Kinney in N. Y. (Mac Rollins has labeled him Jo-Jo) .... he's in training for the tough bridge schedule this winter .... we don't know whether it's mental or physical training .... but anyway, it's a rigid course, for Harvard, Yale, and Princeton must be met across the table .... Jim Nourse (Obbie Coleman sez he's going to call him Percy as of yore), Worcester's Tire-Teer, browsed around Vermont last fall .... young Bill Heneage was captain of freshman touch football team in the Intramural League at Hanover .... Father Thomas admits the lad inherits most of his good stuff from the maternal side .... Bill Brown's son, Bill, is a heeler for the Aegis .... Johnny Finn's dad, who was a widely known authority on checkers and newspaper contributions, passed away in December . . • • his column on checkers was published in both American and British newspapers .... Nick Carter was laid up in the hospital during late November because of a light heart trouble .... we hope that the rest fixes him O.K Tenners are reaching the period of life when a little attention to the physical side of life pays big dividends .... "Caesar" Young has a son at Brooklyn Poly Prep who will bear watching in the baseball world in another year or so .... he would fit into the Dartmouth picture mighty well .... this month's items would not be complete without an announcement of Bunny Armstrong's baby daughter born December 5; weight 6 lbs., 10 oz.; named Judith ... . last reports, Bunny and Boston Tenners still celebrating.
Secretary, 168 Hill St., Barre, Vt.
