Class of 1910
CHRISTMAS CARDS .... we may be in our dotage but we like these friendship reminders that come once a year, each establishing anew contact, starting a chain of thought .... an infrequently seen minister friends writes, "At least, Christmas cards serve to remind us of ourfriends, old and new, near and far."
In our childlike simplicity we like those nine blocks spelling "CHRISTMAS," each block having a "baby" picture and initial of Thayer Smith's family, very cleverly done by the good wife and mother .... Lefty West's hearty "TEN UP!" . . . .
Charlie Noone's annual letter, "The spiritof Christmas always awakens in me a desire to commune and mingle with thosewhom I cherish as friends. To love and beloved is the greatest happiness of existence. In a fast moving world .... the exactions are many .... and if we onlyapproach our problems .... with thespirit of fortitude .... then 'Peace onearth, goodwill toward man' will beyours."
And Art and Priscilla Allen's own fireside picture .... Johnny Finn's "Mayyour ship come in!" .... the two Bankarts taking their three dogs for a walk
. . . . Ollie Johnson's truly beautiful show horses (and who doesn't like horses)
. . . . Harold Robinson's annual greetings and news letter from storm-torn China, "So may we all enjoy a very HappyChristinas and enter into the New Yearwith a stronger spirit that the spirit ofChrist will ultimately triumph in this oldworld of ours!" .... we pass a card along to Marion, she exclaims, "Isn't she adarling!" .... it's Jean Lowrie Wilkinson, born Nov. 5, 1936, not THE Class Baby but THE YOUNGEST Class Baby, unless some ambitious Tenner has papa-ed since .... and within the class there are dozens of other cards, each with a name, bringing a lump, a serious note, a burst of laughter, flashing back through 30 years of space .... a whole current of rich memories .... if liking Christmas cards is a sign of mental simplicity, then we gladly consign ourselves to the ranks of the mentally simple.
JIM DRUMMOND, Amesbury, Mass.; lad who foot- and basketballed for 1910 at Dartmouth, Omaha, Neb. high school teacher for many years, is wintering at Atlantic Beach, Fla. (address, P. O. Box 2552) . . . fortunate Tenners in that neck of winter sunshine should look up our old friend Jim ... . and then go with him to call on Dr. Harold Winchester at Dunedin on Florida's West Coast.
1937 LOOKS GOOD .... and it ought to be a good year for men of our generation, men who are in the summertime of life .... the resiliency of man is astounding .... it is not difficult to revitalize faith in the future .... and if smarter brains than ours can not guide this old world, why should we destroy any peace of mind or comfortable illusions we may possess .... 1937 is a good year to concentrate on one's own affairs and to strive to make progress along whatever lines that mean most to you.
FLASHES .... Tommie Leonard Jr., headed Dartmouthward, awarded trophy for winning Exeter's Fall Golf Tournament Les Wiggin just recovering from spending three months reading "Anthony Adverse" in a Calif, lemon grove a few years ago Ben Ames Williams, nationally known Tennerauthor, fined five bucks by Judge Timothy Ahearn (Jim Everett orter investigate this) on charge of "failing to slow down atintersection even after officers testifiedthat he was going 28 to 50 miles per hr." .... College Debater Ben appealed, put up $lOO cash bail, while the mass-production judge "disposed of 150 cases at today'ssession." .... Art Rollins, Rochester, N. H., superintendent of schools, to have "best high school in state," a spacious modern structure designed for 1,000 students. . . . . Don Curtis living at 302 West 22d St., N. Y. City Johnny Hobbs, trustee of Exeter's New England Alumni Association Tom Heneage scouting Mid-West for a good lineman Messrs. Blaik, Ellinger, Gustafson, Donchess can use backs, ends, guards, tackles, centers any time .... don't send them elsewhere .... no S-R-O signs yet awhile.
BEING AN admiring reader of Dartmouth alumni "Squeaks from the Golden Gate," we learned that Clarke Tobin San Franciscoed in October .... then we followed Editor Winslow's suggestion, ordered a fa 5 lbs. box (redwood) Calif. Giants from Stillman Batchellor '04, Venado, Sonoma County, Calif, (no adv., this) . . . . and does that lad Winslow know his prunes .... we admit that we know good maple syrup or one of those russets that used to taste so good along in March .... but no prunes we ever ate tasted like these fresh ones from the land of "Squeaks" .... we're still not adv., but you can get them with or without native grown walnuts.
JIM IN GALLS, Glens Falls insurancer, with son Jimmie who wants to be a forester, paid us a surprise visit recently . ... in recent months Jim and Velma attended Army-Springfield game, saw Herb Wolff; Cornell game, saw Bill Tucker and wife; insurance meeting in Boston, saw Ray Gorton and Ben Hunt; chatted with Ernest Stephens in Lynn; visited Ned Loveland and family in Burlington; drove to Hanover; brought sugar-tycoon Eddie Keith to G. F., enjoyed greatly the Keith hobby, Puerto Rican colored movies . . . . after which young Jimmie crisply remarked "That's the most interestingDartmouth man you ever brought home!"WE SAW Johnny Dingle play in the last basketball game of a fagged-out prevacation trip Johnny's tall like his Williston-prepped dad, hair not as red, probably not quite as heavy, pretty good ball hawk, and visits like a good lad .... on the squad is another Tenner's son, Charlie Moses, son of Lancaster Lester . . . . and coming along is Jimmie Young, son of our own, "The Original Caesar" . . . . while on athletics, we like the appointment of Bill McCarter as director of athletics .... didn't think there was a chance in the world of his accepting the job, but once again the Athletic Council showed its punch, Phi Beta Bill capitulated, the "Cleats" winning over the "Stacks" .... Harvard A.M., Sorbonne, Oxford, English Prof., Baker Library assistant, he brings something unusual into athletics .... he's already good, but he'll get still better as time passes . . . . and he'll represent Dartmouth very, very well in the intercollegiate world.
MORE FLASHES .... Lew Williams, Chicago adv. expert, is getting a waist-line .... the Detroit Heinie Barretts are living at 8905 East Jefferson Ave. .... Dutch Wagner, shoe mfgr., is with Cannon Shoe Cos. of McSherrytown, Pa. . . . . Blake Johnson, son of our Cleveland Big Shot David, has been doing some excellent work with Dartmouth Players at Hanover Dick Warren, son of Newton's school superintendent Julius, is slated for Dartmouth at a not too distant date .... for reasons undivulged to former roommates W. Norton and J. Mac- Pherson, Josephus Kinney's name adorns a conspicuous bronze plaque in N. Y. Dartmouth Club .... the Dr. George Aliens of Montpelier are doing a grand job for their three children, Virginia being at Simmons, Ruth at Trenton Normal School, George Jr. Completing a landscape architect's course at Univ. of Michigan Andy Scarlett and Babe Hart shor '12 attended famous Gridiron Dinner in Washington, hobnobbing with Jim Farley and other national big-wigs (rigid censorship prevents our saying more). ... Up to Dec. 29, 109 Tenners had paid this year's dues to Ralph Paine 1910 men always keep apace with the times, Charlie Bardwell's putting out prefabricated houses.
GRANTLAND RICE'S mention of Heinie Hobbs in this year's All-America article recalled big Henry's being in our class freshman year, playing on Dartmouth varsity, transferring to Yale, making a grand football name for himself Andover-trained Ken Merritt came up from Yale at mid-year, played on Dartmouth's baseball team, went back to Yale that fall Thanks to Earle Pierce, we have some recent information on the Great Leonardo McClintock, known for centuries as "Lennie, the Star-Worshipper from Boothbay's Clam Flats." .... Fate struck Lennie below the belt .... a quick-starting street car bumped his knee, badly swollen next day, temperature shot up to 103, diagnosed as bursitis with intense suffering for three weeks before the bursa broke, infection, operations, and what not But it takes more than this bursa stuff to K. O. our old Sea Horse Lennie slipped his cable a coupla times, but he'll dig clams at the old family estate in Maine for many summers to come .... to quote, "Ziegfeldwouldn't have any use for me after thecutting-up I got. The d thing kept mefrom work for ten months and has left mepretty lame as yet. Am beginning to believe that it will always be rather stiff.Have tried everything you could think ofexcepting massage, but the doctors taboothat for fear lest it start up the oldtrouble." .... The class knows that it would take more than even a peg-leg to keep him from being right up there in the front ranks.
SOME OF YOU LADS better unhook your writing arms from the peg .... and send us a few items about yourself, your family, your classmates.
Secretary, Box 368, Albany, N. Y.
