Class of 1910
THE BOSS of the family and your Sec'y are just back from over a month in Canaan, N. H., with frequent jaunts to Hanover, one to Barre, another to Boston, where it was our distinct pleasure to sit at the annual Dartmouth dinner between those two extremely substantial citizens, Art Lord and Hal Sprague, who were Hanked by ever-willing Else Jenness, and some of the great bull-leaguers of all time, Win Nay (of abbreviated mustachio), Tom Foster (whose Me. style whiskers lake in more territory), King Brady (with wife just back from winter-vacationing at Hen Teague's and Perry Fairfield's famous Miami hostelry), Nate Sherman (fat and jocose), Charlie Fay (who with perfect dead pan launched a powerful discourse on how much easier it used to be to play basketball in days of Ben Lang at al. than now when the boys are really tough .... but no rise from Brady, the Great) .... at the overflow table were such dignitaries as Robert Raymond Gorton (looking like 1,000,000 bucks), Whata Man James Richard Everett (reflecting the sale of a coupla boatloads of Wonalancet bedware), last, but by no means least. Sir Howard Fall (enjoying himself to an Einsteinish degree) .... someone said that Lew Wallace was not feeling extra well and had gone to Honolulu for a trip.
BOSTON is a grand Dartmouth town, and at these dinners and around town, as well as at the class affairs before the Harvard game, you're always meeting scores of friends .... it was nice to see our old friend and teacher, George French '01, who personally fitted Joe Davidson and myself for Dartmouth in the days when you had to take about 10 doz. exams in June with another Crack at your heartbeat misses in Sept. .... George has been teaching over 30 years at Phillips Andover, and has had a remarkably fine life with youngsters who have been famous in sports and after life .... we laughed our way through the food section of a Boston Rotary dinner with our old friend John Cushing '08 of the old N. H. Cushings and now successful publisher of 'he Boston Record Down at Durgin Park's we ran across Geo. Sinclair, prosperously corpulent .... at Mrs. Parker's Hot Roll Hotel we glimpsed Slip Powers .... and in Johnny K. Lord's best Latin, so on ad infinitum .... of more than passing interest to 1910 is a committee meeting we attended in Boston The Alumni Council at the Oct. meeting elected a comm. of Bob Holmes '09, Warde Wilkins '13, Dick Pritchard '14, Sid Hayward, and your Sec'y to devise methods of improving class organizations and through them putting Dartmouth's famous ALUMNI MAGAZINE into the hands of every Dartmouth man to maintain and stimulate interest in the College Princeton has done this very successfully for so many years that the custom is now a tradition . . . . down there class dues run from $5.00 to $10.00 annually with the class treasurer collecting enough to pay for the class group subscription .... for some 8 years you fellows of the class of 1910 have been in Dartmouth's van for this extremely worthwhile movement .... you set an example which the College is adopting .... while other classes have had group subscriptions, none of them have approached 1910's high percentage of actual coverage, and we have done it on a $3.50 annual dues system Pres. Hopkins sat in our meeting and gave the administration viewpoint and desires .... the class is the hub of Dartmouth alumni activities, and through it a tremendous service can be rendered to the College in placing the extremely readable ALUMNI MAGAZINE in the hands of "everyDartmouth man who will read it," to quote our own Ben Ames Williams.
RETURNING to N. H., we did something that every Dartmouth man should do at least once before he dies, attend the Winter Carnival We had done it some years ago (before we Florida-ed and got soft), and if any doggone living person had told Marion and me last Oct. that we would sit, and like it, for a couple of hours on bleachers in Hanover golf links, with Old Man Zero showing on the thermometer, to watch Carnival's Outdoor Evening, we'd have told them to buy a one-way ticket to some Siberian Institute for the Insane, .... It would do your hearts good to see some of those Hanover youngsters about 2 ft. 6 in. high, and not over 2-10, come sailing down the icy slopes in the dark with the grace and nonchalance of a Durrance .... they're Dartmouth's future ski heroes We did it, had a grand time and may do it again (after buying some thicker woolies) It's a grand experience that some of you older bucks should be checking off before senility creeps up. .... You can pick your spots and have a swell time for two or three days Trouble with most of us is that we have lived so much in smokeladen, coldly humid cities that we have forgotten what that clear mixture of Hanover oxygen and nitrogen, really is 20 below up there is not half as tough as walking a block in 10 above to zeroish city temperature, during which you feel as though you had been dunked in a bbl. of ice water, the cold is so penetrating No longer is the Vox Clamant-ing in Deserto during Hanover's midwinter . . . . the "In Deserto" days are over.
BUCKY ALLEN and wife are taking a much needed vacation in Florida Keith Pevear is a material handling consultant, office at 11 Broadway, residence at 113 Hancock St., Brooklyn Jess Lake lives at 640 Oak Ridge St., Greenwich, Conn Sam Powers, Slip's male offspring, semester averages are too good an example of scholastic progression to pass up 2.6 his first freshman semester, then 2.8, 3.0, 3.2, 3.4 in succession, meaning about 4.0, or perfect, when he graduates in June, '39 .... we do not mean to show up his old man, who sort of specialized in bum snowball-throwing Walter Norton was instrumental in giving Charlie McCarthy a testimonial party at Waterbury on Dartmouth Night Charlie, who played centerfield on the Dartmouth varsity of '88, visited Hanover a lot in our undergraduate days, and made many warm friends in 1910 Don Palmer lives at 169 Maple St., Springfield. .... Harold Robinson Jr., a Dartmouth junior, wants to go to medical school, is anxious to earn as much money as he can to pay his way if such a thing is possible .... he will have to get some outside help, however .... the boy came over here alone from China, has done a remarkably fine job, scholastically and otherwise, meriting every bit of assistance that can be given to him. His work, in chemistry and other courses indicate that he would make a fine doctor.
ELSE JENNESS' son Jack continues to mop up scholastically at Bucky Allen's Rivers School, will be in Dartmouth some day High Muck-a-Muck Am. Machine & Metals John VanderPyl, who with Ray Seymour will be dunning you soon for Alumni Fund, installed one of his outfit's bifurcators to ventilate the new VanderPyl mansion in Conn., it did such a good job that five of his neighbors have followed the lead Andy Scarlett is on faculty committees at Hanover, but his most interesting assignment is faculty Advisor to Dartmouth's rowing enthusiasts .... we doubt if Andy knows a coxswain from a No. 5 oar, but we do know that he'll give those lads just as sound business advise as they could get from, a metropolitan specialist. .... A nice letter in from Nick Carter, telling us about Charlie Bardwell moving to N. H., and closing, "You may be 50 but don't admitit. You don't need to. And I envy you foryour frequent contacts with so many of theclass, for that helps to keep you young." .... Rollie Woodworth, chess player extraordinary, was elected sec'y-treas. of Vermont Chess Ass'n Ernest Cushman lives at 5615 Pine Ave., Maywood, Calif Easty and Wfe. are vacationing in Palm Beach.
DICK VINCENS' junior son, Jack, has just been elected head of Dartmouth's Jacko. .... Sir David Johnson and Easty bumped into each other at Cleve land's Midway Club during a recent moon Ben Williams' latest novel, "The Strumpet Sea," 388 pp., has just been published by Houghton Mifflin. .... What has been conceded to be the most authentic book written on the Hauptmann case, "The Trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann," written by 1910's own Sid Whipple, who covered the case as United Press' No. 1 man, received a nice review by Ralph Holben, professor of sociology, in the March ALUMNI MAGAZINE. .... Incidentally, Ben and Sid were cub reporters on the Boston American at the same time.
CHET COFFIN'S new address is 3225 Liberty Ave., Alameda, Calif 1910 has a nice group of men in California, and we'd like to get more news from that neck of the woods .... residing there are Winsor Wilkinson, Ed Shattuck, Chet Coffin, Al Barker, Cliff Rice, Ted Baldwin, Grover Hoyt, Elmer Stryker, Malcolm Bissell, Leo McCusker, and Walt Wilson It's not often that you get a couple of strikes on Editor Hayward, but his assigning my brother John '08 to Class of 1910 on occasion of being elected pres. of the Canadian International Paper Cos. brought some interesting rises, at cet, best of which was from an undergraduate, who thought that I was the one in the paper industry, and who wanted a job doing research work in the Canadian forests during his next summer vacation The class was signally honored in having Ben Williams one of the Dartmouth Night speakers at Hanover Ben rated the recognition A friend sent us a marked copy of the St. Petersburg Times, which arrived on Albany's coldest, blusteriest, meanest day of the winter Harry Hillman could not have done a nicer timing jot Those coaches in Hanover are carrying their football, basketball, hockey championships in a matter-of-fact way, even though they know that the old cyclical Law of averages in college sports mean a couple of nose-dives some fine day No outfit can stay on top forever, and we personally have never felt that it was good for the College, the undergraduates, and alumni to stay up in the athletic heavens too long We'll skid, and when we do, let's not start chopping off coach scalps too quickly. . . . . There have been some darn good coaches at Hanover in the past, and there is a swell outfit there now .... but they're just as human as our minister was when he swatted his finger with a 3 lb. hammer and let a couple of beautifully gentle little cuss words slip out In the meantime, some of you fellows can try developing about two varsity pitchers for Jeff Tesreau .... he'll need them this spring before he ever gets through that baseball schedule.
DICK FLOYD, our former classmate who has done such a good job in both Harvard and intercollegiate track work, rates, according to our humble opinion, an orchid from college sports followers. . . . . Before the H-D-Y-C track meet in Boston, Dick, president of the Harvard Varsity Club (all H wearers) sponsored as a preliminary to the games, the eighth annual reunion of college track managers. . . . . Originally starting as a gathering for managers and former managers, it has increased in scope until now athletic directors, coaches, former athletes, and enthusiasts of the four colleges are included .... after the dinner Dick was host to the group at his home in Brookline. . ... In these days when serious-thinking college administrations and alumni are endeavoring to keep collegiate athletics on an even keel, Dick's interest and activity are noteworthy The promotion of goodwill, the establishment of confidence are as basic in sports as in business, professions, politics.
ADDENDUM Since writing these items we have had the pleasure of hearing Dartmouth professor of chemistry, L. B. "Cheerless" Richardson, speak before the annual alumni meeting of this area .... since he developed into one of Hanover's most entertaining and instructive speakers, we have heard him many times, and he's just plain good Any of you fellows needing a headliner will make no mistake in booking him, that is, providing that you can get him away from Hanover.
Secretary, Box 368, Albany, N. Y.
