Class of 1910
THE HEINIE BARRETTS OF DETROIT beat oil, silver, Japs, spent a month in, around Mexico City by train, traveled by hired auto, had wonderful time, digested some Mexican food. .... Heinie waxed eloquent over phone to your Sec'y in Detroit of recent, "Oneshould see Mexico in the next year or sobefore the country becomes Americanized." .... He neglected to add WHEN, and IF Harold Washburn, 1910's Vermont Yank who teaches French ably and entertainingly to Dartmouth undergraduates, played some mean hands in Hanover's winter duplicate whist tournaments. .... Jim Drummond teaches in Omaha Technical High, lives at 3518 Harney St Ed Shattuck keeps active in Dartmouth alumni work on the Pacific Coast, now being a member of the committee on "Dartmouth Information." .... Another active Tenner is the Cleveland barrister, Dave Johnson, who serves on the local "Committee on Gifts and Endowments" that comes under the guidance of the Alumni Council Easty serves on a similar committee in Milwaukee .... as does Nick Carter in St. Paul.
HAY SEYMOUR, looking like an Oriental statesman, got himself pictured in the N. Y. Times with a lot of Sons of American Revolution big-wigs Don Curtis is with Summit Thread Cos., East Hampton, Conn., living at Middletown Charlie Noone's new office address is 50a Volunteer Building, Chattanooga, Tenn Through intercorporation arrangement, Waitt & Bond, Congress Cigar and Porto Rican American companies split up, Jim Porter serving exclusively as president of Waitt & Bond Eddie Wells in mid-March won Appal. Mt.-Hoch. Ski Club down hill race, breaking course record in pink ham Notch The sympathy of the class goes to Frank Meleney, whose father a well known educator, died late in March Dr. Meleney, who was 84 yrs. of age, had led a very full and life in his field .... and we just have an idea that Frank, who besides being professor of surgery at Columbia do considerable research work, is going down through life in a way similar to that Of his well known dad From The key Reporter, the Phi Beta Kappa newsa magazine we lift "Joseph Bartlett, Dartmouth'IO, who as an undergraduate achievedsuccess in a performance of Oedipus Tyrannus, is now a teacher at Antioch College
OFF THE RECORD, our mind flits back to a visit we had a few months am with Bill Cunningham in his Boston penthouse, actually painted "Dartmouth green" by a Cunningham stipulation in the lease, high enough to see a lot of the Charles, etc., serviced with grand piano, refrigeration, a Bill Terry telephone .... the walls were covered with more framed, autographed photos and cartoons of famous celebrities than you could pat in Hanover's old Grange Hall .... they sort of made you feel dizzy .... we never knew Bill very well, had watched him play some grand football back in those days when we weren't missing games home or abroad, liked his piano playing, didn't always like his column in the Boston Post, and sometimes wondered if his timing was as good as when he played a swell game at center .... but looking at one wall, we saw a Bill Cunningham that the world scarcely ever sees .... hanging solely on that section were (a) group picture of as beautiful a mother and two daughters as you could hope to see, Mrs. Bill Cunningham and their two fine children, aged 7 and 12, (b) his Dartmouth diploma, (c) his Honorable Discharge from the Army Nothing else can touch that wall, for it represents the three big items in the life of this exTexan, whose two grandfathers were Presbyterian and Methodist ministers, whose father and mother were school teachers, father dying young, his mother working to put Bill through school and teaching him the music that helped found Dartmouth's famous Nugget Theatre. . . . . Bill's been married 17 years "Thanks to his wife," he says.... pointing to his older daughter in the picture, he adds enthusiastically, "You oughtto see her hands. Dartmouth lost a greatcenter but she can play classical musiclike nobody's business!" .... When you see Bill look at that wall with softening eyes and expanding chest, you view t 1 interesting distillate of the Methodistpresbyterian Presbyterian churches, Texas school system pipe-organ and piano, football, war in france sports writer and columnist, radio broadcaster and author of scenarios, all wrapped up in one behind a veneer of extraordinary power and emotional forces that are necessary for success in his profession .... we all know Bill Cunningham in the business and profesional worlds,deceptively veneered on the outside but with a down-deep touch of religion, and a sensitive love for his family and college.
OL' H.PINEO JACKSON, who took some wise-cracks at J. VanderPyl's and goth, president Bankers Indemnity Insurance Co.., is busier than a one-armed paper-hanger, always speechifying anywhere in the U. S., recently very active in Safety Council work of Newark, believing that "Traffic is a community problem," addressed the 9th Annual Convention of the Greater N. Y. Safety Council. We wish that some fertile brain would devise ways and means of placing before the class all of the fine addresses and writings that pour forth from Tenners during each year Leather Tycoon Earle Pierce gets another promotion with the Swift subsidiary, the A. C. Lawrence Cos., now being manager of the Side Leather Dept., with headquarters at the Peabody tannery Unless our arithmetic is wrong, young Howard Pierce is due at Hanover within not too many years Nancy Norton, who is even smarter than her old man, not only leads her class scholastically at Walnut Hill but is a versatile athlete, probably heading for Vassar or Bryn Mawr.
BILLY WILLIAMS is vice president of The Buchen Cos., well known Chicago advertising agency, has two sons at Dartmouth, one Lewis Jr., graduating in June, the other John being a freshman . . . . it will be good to see Billy when he comes East for Commencement, as we have not seen him since our 1930 reunion. .... Son John refers to Pop Billy as "a fat old gentleman .... obviouslyfat, plainly old, and occasionally, a gentleman." .... Mr. and Mrs. Art Allen announce the engagement of Priscilla, a Mount Holyoke senior, to George Colby, a M.I.T. graduate Joe Shenstone, Dartmouth '39, is taking first year Thayer School Bill Woolner's address is care of Boston Envelope Cos., 297 High St., Dedham.
THE LAST OF 1938'S crop of N. Y. State Alumni Interview Blanks have cleared through our hands .... they probably helped to put Bob Strong in seclusion while he selected some 650 or 75 lads for the incoming freshman class, known as the class of 1942 here is a lot of detailed work handling anks for this area, but it is mighty interesting and gives you quite a picture of scholastic young America, something that you cannot appreciate until you have handled a few hundred of these appraisals It sort of looks to us as though Adult America was at fault for some of the bugbears about Young America One very satisfying angle to these alumni interviews is the fact that you can always get some Dartmouth alumnus to interview a lad, promptly and well, regardless of where he lives, thus giving the country boy an equal opportunity with the urban dwellers. . . . . Our best peregrinating interviewer is your old friend Pop Chesley 'OB, who sells Ginn books far and wide by the carload Pop is a grand Dartmouth man, as are some of the other N. Y. interviewers you know, Jim Ingalls, Ed Poole '11, Larry Griswold 'OB The College certainly does get a grand crop of youngsters each year.
CONGRATULATIONS TO ARTLORD who was recently elected secretary-treasurer of the Phi Beta Kappa Association of Greater Boston, and that Association is just plain loaded with educational bigwigs Ray Gorton and wfe. are vacationing in Bermuda, Sir Robert giving the golf courses down there a run for their money Ralph Paine continues to advertise that "It'sPainless to Pay Paine" .... and we are inclined to believe it, our judgment being based on the many personal messages he receives from the payers.
LAST SUMMER we asked one of our friends on the faculty at Hanover, Dr. W. B. Unger of the biology department, who was about to start a sabbatical year among the Pacific Islands gathering specimens, taking pictures, to look up Victor Johnson, our Indian classmate last heard of teaching school somewhere in Hawaii. . . . . Dr. Unger, being a really good fellow, went to some bother to obtain the following report, which he mailed from Honolulu to me, "A visit to the Department of Public Instruction today produced a little information on your classmate of 1910, Victor H. Johnson. He wason the teaching force of one of theislands, but left that work some years ago.The last address they have of him isMarietta, Wash." Chan Baxter, how about you taking up the trail now? If enough of our good friends on the Dartmouth faculty would spend their sabbaticals in the U. S., we'd ask them to track down such prehistoric enigmas as Shorty Worcester, Walt Wilson, Hap Goodere, Irving Scott and Chet, too, Guy Spokesfield, Dusty and Ote Craft and Crafts .... so what? We'd better stop or that whole Hanover faculty will be engaged for the rest of their natural lifetimes.
YOU FELLOWS watch your steps when the Alumni Fund money-grabbers, Seymour and VanderPyl, put the pressure on. ... , Confidentially, those guys have been getting in trim all winter by holding joint family sessions and scrapping over family forbears, the Seymour man and the VanderPyl woman with their Revolutionary and Bull Run background getting after the Seymour woman and the VanderPyl man till John Cornelius breaks up the party with "Beneath the floor of the old church ruins in Owerkerk on the Island of Waldreren in South Holland lies one Nicholas VerderPyl of sandy hair and long nose buried there in 1610."
LOU WALLACE DIES .... just as we were finishing these items, a telegram flashed through from Slip Powers that Lou passed away on March 31 .... in failing health Lou accompanied by his wife went to Honolulu in hopes that rest and quiet would improve his condition . . . . improvement did not come, and realizing the seriousness of his illness Lou wanted to get back home Ed Shattuck met the Matsonia on docking and stayed with them until the transfer was completed to the Pennsylvania at San Francisco, it being felt advisable to not risk the train journey overland. . . . . Slip, who had been in frequent contact with Lou's wife by phone at Honolulu, flew to Los Angeles, boarded the boat and came around through the Canal with them to Boston, arriving on the a 8 th, Lou passing away on the 31st .... here are a few words from Slip's letter, "He was irrational most of thetime. Although he called me by name, hehad no recollection of my being on theboat for two or three days. Thereafter,he apparently improved and for twodays at Havana and at sea was extremelyrational. Then he started to fail. Theimmedate cause of death was nephritiscomplicated with hypertension and myocarditis."
Never was the old saying that "Friendship is a sheltering tree" truer than in this instance .... we have known Slip Powers for a long time, and he is a man who always rises to heights in emergencies, ever willing to pay the price for a friend .... not all of his good deeds have been published, either.
Dartmouth is going to miss Lou Wallace at Hanover, at football games and Dartmouth gatherings .... he was very well known and liked .... we asked Slip who knew him so well to write an obituary, which you will find in the Necrology section.
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