Class of 1910
RUSS MEREDITH has just had two interesting eye operations at the increasingly famous Eye Clinic at Hanover Russ' eyes needed checking up, he went to Hanover, had his examination, with the Clinic specialists telling him that by severing certain muscles in each eye, they could correct his eye trouble and at the same time enable him to cease inclining his head, a practice which he has maintained since childhood .... it seems that a certain muscle in his eye' has drawn his vision to one side, and unconsciously Russ, for some 40 years, has pulled his head over to assist the sight .... it seems almost like a miracle, yet we have heard some mighty interesting things about those eye specialists in Hanover.
CONGRATULATIONS TO JACKDINGLE on his election to presidency of the Chicago Alumni Association Chesty Tenners to see Delaware-born John Harvey installed as No. 1 Dartmouth Man in the Windy City were Howard Fogg, Paul Albert, Bill Taylor, Bill Williams Sorry to have missed Shtieman Bunny Armstrong, who stopped in Albany last week just as we were leaving for Michigan Ran across Bud Schell 'll here the other day Any time you want to see how Sid Whipple looks these days, buy a copy of the N. Y. World-Telegram, turn to the theatre pages, where he operates as a critic, personal foundation for which was laid when he roomed with eminent psychologist, Mike Elliott, in their tender Hanover days, spelled daze at times for poor Mike.
JIM LOWELL practices law at 68 Devonshire St., Boston If anybody gets up around the State House in Augusta, Me., give State Budgeteer Bill Deering a kick in the pants for Your Sec'y. Getting news out of Larry Bankart is like catching trout in a pickerel pond Stan Howard is in the manufacturing business, lives at East Milton, Mass. . . .". Rollo G. Reynolds, principal of Horace Mann School and what not, published a very interesting booklet, "Some Larger Tasks for Elementary Schools" . . . . How Rollie gets time to lecture, write, educate at Horace Mann is difficult to understand His able predecessor, textbook author Henry Pearson, once told me that Rollie had the ability, the experience to write some valuable school books jind create an independent income for imself if he ever gave up lecturing.
GEORGE DA VIES is coming on from Ohio to see his son Richard graduate from Holderness Banker, realtor George visited Joe Bartlett at Antioch College recently, giving us this welcome information of long-silent Joe, "He is professor of French .... has never married,and as his mother died two years ago, heis rather alone in the world, but he stillhas that smile which made him so manyfriends during his four years at Hanover.I received his promise to drive up to the1940 Reunion and in the meantime, Ihope that some of the class will makean effort to drop in and see him."
WHO ARE THE SONS ENTERINGDARTMOUTH next fall .... we'd appreciate that information Micky Holmes has one Bob Strong completed his difficult pickings recently, and almost immediately disappointments appeared in this neck of the woods . . . . we feel terribly sorry for a boy whose heart has been set on going to Dartmouth and who fails to make the grade .... but what can anyone do about it Certainly, Dartmouth College cannot accept a freshman class of 2,000 or more boys who apply Right at the start some 14% (or 92 out of 680 in last year's class) are alumni sons who have qualified .... then you get another group of lads whose brothers are in College now or have been there, at cet According to our observation, Bob Strong is very conscientious, and uses good judgment, as records will prove, subject to an occasional disappointment but certainly no more error in judgment than that of the alumni who may have endorsed the boy in No. 3 Blank and interviewed him with No. 5 Blank Some alumni pop off when the College does not accept boys who they feel should be accepted, but most of them pop back again, although never quite realizing that the College is bigger than any person connected with it, anywhere, in the past, present or future Recently one pop-off non-Dartmouth father offered to bet me $100O that his disappointed son would outstrip in five years of business activity any of the other boys now in Dartmouth from that school I believe that the boy probably will, but how in the world can any college maintain scholastic standards if you accept boys who take a dozen Regent exams, flunk them all, take no more, and spend five years getting through high school I tried to be very nice, considerate, and diplomatic with that man, much more so than I would have
been in a private business matter . . . . but the poor deluded father (a college man himself) probably never will realize that somewhere along the line, he might have helped to make things different if he had paid the kid a little more attention, applauded the boy's extra-curricular activities a little less, and eased off his own business and social aggrandizement In some cases we feel sorrier for the boys rejected than happy for the youngsters who may have been selected in their places Handling Alumni Interview Blanks is an experience which we wish every Dartmouth alumnus might share.
JOHN VANDER PYL AND RAYSEYMOUR attended the class agents' dinner in N. Y. on April 6 to get last minute instructions on the Alumni Fund drive Mac Kendall lives at 851 Ash St., Winnetka, 111., since moving to Chicago to run the C. & N. W Katherine Jackson graduates from Kimberly School in June, enters Wheelock School in Boston next fall Pineo's other children, Charlie enters Vermont Academy, and my old pal, "Peanuts," will go back to Eaglebrook for another year Tobe and Pineo are active in an effort to rehabilitate their No. Jersey Country Club, which needs a new clubhouse plus debt liquidation Nat Emerson, who enjoys farming in Etna, is one of the Hanover town fathers, having served many years on the school board Irving Scott is with the Vocational guidance department of the Boston school system Anyone interested in studying "Gems of American Architecture," a well put-up little booklet dealing with "an additional amount of leisure time" and "satisfied customers between Plentywood, Montana, and Skowhegan, Maine" should write to Chan Baxter, 315 So. 23rd St., Tacoma, Wash. .. . . Your own Chauncey certainly knows his subject.
1910 LEADS THE FIELD''John Cassin's motor bicycle has a rivalin the machine of C. K. Pevear, who byits possession holds the distinction of being the first among the students to keepa vehicle here at college." .... Hanover Gazette, April 16, 1908.
RALPH TAYLOR is operating successfully the window and door screen factory which his father established many years ago in Lawrence .... one of Ralph's specialties is an overhead garage door which he has produced in considerable quantities Pineapple Hank Haserot was seen not so long ago in Tacoma, Wash., is now in Europe leading cheers for "Haserot Products." .... Harold Winship, who has done a remarkably good job in revitalizing his Congregational parish at Plainfield, Conn., was recently elected secretary of the Benedict Library in his town Harold established an attendance record for his church by having 212 present on Easter Sunday. . . . . Through the initial efforts of Dr. Unger, zoology professor at Hanover, Victor Johnson, 1910's sole Indian graduate, has been located at The Dalles, Oregon, where he is district supervisor, U. S. Indian Service Vic's office is in the Federal Building and he lives at 107 W. 13th St.
1910 AT HANOVER shows Ben Williams Jr. one of 12 seniors invited to submit a paper in the annual competition for Commencement speakers; Jack Vincens, a cheerleader; John Cowan and Judson Lyon elected to Green Key, John also being assistant football manager; Ray Unangst winning third place in the 880 at Harvard meet; Joe Shenstone sailing in the Dartmouth dinghy races; Blake Johnson an actor of unusual ability; Vining Sherman in fraternity track; writing about these boys at Dartmouth reminds me of an unusual-looking athlete I saw in the Gym last winter, one freshman Gus Broberg, large Swedish type lad from Conn, with thighs the nearest like those of Jack Marks we have seen in a long time .... he is a star basketball player and should be heard from aplenty Freshman stars have a peculiar way of fading, but somehow we don't think that lad will.
THIS BATCH OF ITEMS pulls down our curtain for the current college year . . . . somehow we are not sad about it . . . . nine months of steady grind accumulating news for nine deadline closing-dates are by no stretch of the imagination easy .... human success can be no better in the end than human effort, therefore It's dig, and dig some more. . . . . I appreciate greatly the support given by the class and others Marion and I are heading for Canaan, a grand country to be in, one-half hour from Hanover .... we're closing these items with a few lines from a Syracuse, N. Y., lady who attended Dartmouth summer schools four years, reads the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, read what was printed about Harold Robinson's experiences in China, wrote me for additional information, incorporating the following in her letter: "My four summers in Hanover deepenedand intensified my love for mountains. Icame to love that country and can understand why Dartmouth men who spentfour years there can never grow awayfrom affection for the College and itssurrounding countryside."
Secretary, Canaan, N. H.
