Class of 1910
Happy New Year, you intellectual prodigies of decades ago, the Stove League sends its greetings! We're trying to keep warm this winter and the same to you! Times've changed since most of you guys fun-cumlaudied through college .... not a beard in the class, excepting Tom Foster's red walrus A Bon Voyage through 1936, first part of which looks O. K. from this here stove-side .... the darkest hours, like those before an exam, have gone, and there are still chances to get sanely right with the world and take the economic rents from the seats of our pants before we become senile.
Herb Woods, than whom no one writes worse excepting one Chinaman (not even two Pineo Jacksons), pens a lot which we can't read .... but he's a good egg, and came up from Washington to see what a snowstorm looked like in Princeton, N. J., Nov. 23 .... others known to be snowcuring that day were J. Porter, P. Forristall, Fletch Rogers, Obbie Coleman, C. Tobin, W. Norton, Treas. Paine, Dr. Hunt, Walt Golde, Schoolteacher Reynolds, Doctor Meleney, F. Batchellor, Ray Seymour, Ben Williams, Pineo Jackson, G. Gleason, Lawyer Lyon, L. Wallace, and Lawyers Tucker and Powers (Messrs. Seymour and Gleason are law men, too) .... musta been their natural weather, and also for J. MacPherson, the Scot, still another barrister present .... probably some others who got their identites mixed up with the snow flakes Vice-Pres. C. Walworth Tobin, b. and educ. in Mass., prior to Sept., 1906, master ceremonied at the N. Y. Dartmouth Club night before Princeton game the way he used to flail oratorial arms and tongue at Hanover smokers 72 years ago .... in attendance were Tenners Seymour, Batchellor, Gleason, Bucky Allen, Meleney, Carpenter, Forristall, and Haserot .... we know one or two nice things being done in the class right now, concrete evidence of Dartmouth days and friendships inching one's capacity for doing a bit of good here and there.
Phil Forristall's address is care American Tobacco Co., 111 5th Ave., N. Y. City, where he directs their cigar sales...... Bill Knapp is distributor for Sinclair Oil, 102 Spedina Parkway, Pittsfield, Mass. ....Freddy Batchellor lives at 121 Madison Ave., N. Y.... one of the best pictures of Ben williams we ever saw was run in the syndicated magazine sections of Sunday papers throughout the country.... said magazines, starting Ben's new serial, "A Letter from China," said that he had written in 20 years goo stories, 22 novels, and more than a dozen movies, "earning himfame, fortune, and a tremendous audience" .... also relating "he is a regular fellow,enjoys tramping in the woods with a dog byhis side and a gun under his arm; trying hisluck at a tinkling stream; flying high aboveMother Earth; golf, bridge, and backgammon .... what they didn't say was that Ben is a 100% Dartmouthite and one of your own executive.committeemen, anxious and ready to work for the class Ralph Noyes, Littleton grower of flowers, is one of the "Y" board of directors in Northern, N. H Thanks to Stephen Perry, we have heard that Scott's son, Frederick, age 15, is one of the "crack" swimmers of South America, and that he is going to Peru this summer (winter to you) to compete in the South American championships .... Scott lives in Buenos Aires, and is one tough customer to extract much news from, which reminds us of those fantastic costumes his fertile imagination conceived for our Third Year Reunion. Send us someitems.
"BROTHER MAN" FOUNDER
Harold Winship is one of the Tenners consecrating his life to the spreading of Christian belief .... Rev. Harold, who preaches in a Baptist church, works actively with boys' and girls' clubs, and recently founded the "Brother-Man Movement" for the advancement of the hearty handclasp and fellow-feeling, says in reply to "so-called science and efficiency takingthe place of old-fashioned religious belief,""It is my personal conviction and beliefthat 'science' and 'efficiency' can never takethe place of one's personal experience ofGod. For those who prefer Christianity astheir religion, it means a personal acceptance of Jesus Christ as their Saviour, a personal surrender of self, a loyal and lovingdiscipleship under Him, serving ourbrothers and sisters in God's great humanfamily, in His name." .... N. J. claims 13 Tenners, Ohio 11, Minn. 9, Pa. 7, Maine and Colorado 6 each Les Wiggin is active in WPA at Washington .... at the regular Tuesday Dartmouth luncheons may be seen Les, Charlie Libby, George Chamberlin, and Herb Woods .... it is quite possible that Marion and I may go to Washington this winter for a week or two of sightseeing and browsing around .... there's a lot to see down there, and at times plenty to hear Henry Hutchins of the Yale faculty lives at 137 Cottage St., New Haven We saw recently where Johnny Hobbs, 1910's ancient artilleryman, banker-real tor-golfboy who refuses to become a fossil, headed up the "entertainment" committee of Exeter's annual alumni reunion Our heart feels sad at the passing of Natt Emerson, that grand Dartmouth man; secretary of 1900 for 35 years; active in ALUMNI MAGAZINE affairs, the Outing Club, and everything else pertaining to Dartmouth .... it's one of those things so hard to balance up, which faith alone can carry you through.
Can you imagine Jack Ryan, ex-'10, saying of his old roommate Leonard, "I alwaysthought Tom would make a good politiciandespite the tone of his voice?" .... well, he did .... and can you picture Tommie peeling off his coat and saying, "Ryan, defend yourself!" .... well, we can . . . . Reminiscences: That old Norton-MacPher-son-Kinney ram-pasture in Sanborn Always a red-hot argument, backed by emphatic fists, pointed words, and buckets of water at times Habitues; George Ray Wicker (God bless his great soul!); Tom Keady; Eddie Daley, the Irish debaters, Leonard and Ryan who used bricks for confetti, and others and others Politics, athletics, campus gossip, J. Haggerty, and what-not! Right now we needsome news items.
The more we think of young Harold Robinson, who came 10,000 miles from northern China via Japan, Honolulu, Victoria, Seattle, and Calif, to become a Dartmouth freshman this fall, the more we marvel at the Dartmouth love, the personal sacrifices of Robbie and family to make the lad's education at Hanover possible .... the boy will be needing a job this coming summer, and anyone could do a good turn to help him get one .... an excellent student, who could tutor in summer camps, a typist, who could do office work, a waiting job, anything that would be suitable for a lad whose home influences have been of the highest order Commander Ernest Small, U. S. N., who was promoted in 1932, completed his three years on the staff of the Naval War College at Newport in 1934, and was assigned to the staff of the Vice-Admiral, will complete his sea cruise next June, and may be ordered to the Naval Intelligence of the Navy Dept. next .... at present he is on the West Virginia .... Ernest is married and has a is-yr.-old son, who seems to be headed for Annapolis even though his dad would be satisfied to have him at Dartmouth.
The class of 1910 send its special greetings to Charlie Noone, who is staging another comeback from a long series of operations and convalescent periods that started from a hockey injury freshman year at Hanover .... that man has been through enough to break down the courage of ten ordinary persons .... in the winter of 1907 he was "sent home to die" . . . weeks and weeks in bed .... he fooled them .... went South to Rollins to complete his education in a warmer climate, of which institution he is now a trustee .... very successful law career in Chattanooga .... occasional physical setbacks but he fought each one .... last winter he called on us in Fla and now an operation that removed five ribs and a growth under the right shoulder, a direct result of the old freshman hockey injury empyema .... but again he's fooling everyone, and fighting successfully back to health.
Horace Chadbourne is state supervisor on a large WPA project that is a resource survey of Montana, an enormous area large as New England, New York, and Penn. combined Harold Benjamin and young Bennie watch Univ. of Minn, play several games annually, but the lad is headed for Dartmouth just the same Joe Kinney has forsaken bridge for backgammon. .... Ralph Paine is doing a swell job as treasurer, demonstrating the truth of Dick Carpenter's slogan, "It's painless to pay payne!" .... Ralph announces that the treasurer's office will be open 6 days per wk. for some time to come. And uie needsome items. Anyone see B. Armstrong of Friendship, Me., recently?
HERE AND THERE
A great big-hearted, enthusiastic guy known as C. Tobin (and he don't know that we know it) approached Mutt Ray's father after the Yale game, saying, "If Icould feel as you should feel this minute, I'dnot give a for anything in theworld." .... and stalked away, leaving Daddy Ray speechless, gazing at him, only to say afterwards, "He was right." . . . . and unless we miss our guess, Carl Wells '12, Dartmouth's old hockey captain, is going to feel just that way when his scholarathlete son, Dick, one of Massachusetts' football sensations this season, stars for the Old College in the near future .... another of those Dartmouth father-son combinations that means so much in after-years to both.
Eddie Sickman once ascended Mt. Ascutney in late-fall afternoon, and descended aftfer darkness set in, a trip replete with mental uncertainty and physical hazard . . . . rather fitting that Lyman Armes '12, who was in College with us two years, should be elected commander of the famous Crosscup-Pishon Post in Boston, named in honor of our own beloved "Spuddy."
Secretary, Barre, Vt.
