1910*
BREAKING BREAD TOGETHER. . . .what COuld well become an annual custom with some very interesting possibilities was the Night Before-Harvard-Game-Dinner held jointly with 1911... .Chet Butts and Else Jenness did a grand job with the details. ... the long tables in a sizeable dining room at the University Club were filled. .. .jollity and sanity reigned everywhere even though speaking tubes were not needed. The party could scarcely be labelled an intellectual orgy... .rather more of an oldfashioned, extremely comfortable gathering of friends.
DICK PAUL made a worthwhile suggestion that during the year the two classes (at comparatively small cost) have a 15 or ao minute record made of the highlights of the famous 22-0 game for running at a similar dinner next fa 11... .a committee of one man from each class could go through newspaper files, memories and records of the game, select and record interesting points for entertainment at the '42 affair . .. .your Secretary favors Dick's plan. Nat Burleigh writes up from Washington where he is helping to run the Govern ment this year, "I understand that the joint dinner was a great success. Let's do it again!"
TENNERS PRESENT were Chas Bardwell, Sid Bull, Jess Wilson, Earle Pierce (in customary fine form), Ed Shattuck, Maurice Blake, Ed Keith, Geo Underwood, Gay Gleason, Johnny Hobbs, Inky Taylor, Irv Jewett, Fletch Burton, Walter Norton, Charlie Fay, Bones Jones, Ray Gorton, Shing Sherwin, Else Jenness, Scott Perry, Slip Powers, Jim MacPherson, A 1 Salmon, Bunny Armstrong, Julius Warren, A 1 Ferguson, George Sinclair, Jim Everett and your Secretary. All were in good form, and extremely well-mannered.
THE HARVARD GAME WEEK-END Still pulls the orchids from this corner for being the best party of the year. .. .you meet more friends, young and 01d.... you have more fun.... the game has more c010r.... you can leave your hotel an hour before the whistle, see the practice, game and whole caboodle.... and be back in town before dark. .. .what more can anyone want?
MELANGE .... Ben Williams was very prominent at the increasingly famous Bos- ton Book Fair in late October. .. .Boston is said to be the only city where such a fair has been successful Kay Dyer works at 120 Boylston St., Boston, lives at 38 Whipple Road, Kittery, Maine The two old cronies, Sugar Tycoon Ed Keith of Porto Rico and Major Jim In- galls, head of Norwich University's Bureau of Industrial Research, attended the Col- gate game together Maurice Blake was in Hanover for the Amherst game A recent issue of the Concord Monitor ran a picture of "High School Cadets of 1905" in which were none other than our own A 1 Meehan and Jess Wilson... .sole oc- cupants of the front row, the soldierly youths were striking figures A 1 held his own hands, Jess a sword....the cap- tion was "Ist. Lieut. Albert Meehan, son of a former owner of this paper; Sgt. Maj. Jesse Wilson". .. .back of them stood " Ist. Lieut. John A. Swenson," none other Art 'O9.
RALPH HEDGES whose death we reported rather sketchily in last issue for lack of information, seems to have done a splendid job in life... .after leaving us he attended Norwich, then graduating from Middlebury in 191 a, to receive his Master's Degree at Columbia later Principal of the Harding High School, largest in Bridgeport, he was a popular leader in school and civic circles Member of Rotary, Odd Fellows, 32nd degree Mason, United Church, active in college and New England education organizations, Ralph left a community shocked by his passing.
OFFSPRING. .. .We love to write about this second generation of Tenners for they are an interesting group that helps to maintain faith in a dizzy world That they are capable of thinking and acting for themselves is well indicated by the case of Sam Powers Sam seemed to have a predilection for classical subjects, and at Hanover took all of the Greek and Latin he could get hold of. .. .but upon graduation went to Harvard Law School to become a lawyer in line with family tradition established by his grandfather and father ... .after s years at Cambridge he chucks law out the window, starts graduate work to make classics his lifetime work Yankee-twanged Prof, of French, Harold Washburn has a couple of sons coming along, Freshman John is doing a good job on the Dartmouth golf links, huskier and younger Wid plays on the Exeter line this fall Jack Jenness did well scholastically as a freshman ist year Bill Murphy's son, Herbert, graduated from Annapolis in '39, is now an Ensign on the destroyer Badger Jack Shattuck is an Aviation Cadet at Randolph Field in Texas Dick and Jack Everett are Navy Ensigns, Dick on the Army Transport Dickman, Jack at the Naval Torpedo School, Newport Nicky Benton went to Exeter this year so as to get into Dartmouth earlier Nancy Norton ranks among the first five students in her class at Bryn Mawr, in addition to being very active in athletics. .. .Nancy is a tennis player of ability, and is ever able to give anyone in the top flight a tough game.
AT THE COLGATE GAME were seen Art Bucknam, Sid Bull, Russ Meredith, Burt Miller, Fletch Burton, Tobe, Larry Bankart, Ed Shattuck, Slip Powers, Tommy Leonard, Scott Perry, Norton Cushman ... .plus several better-halves, and most of them are just that.
TRUSTEE-ING Rarely, if ever, does it fall to the lot of an Alumni Council Nominating Committee to participate in the selection of three Dartmouth trustees—yet that is just what happened recently through the death of Colonel Little, the unexpected resignation of that great Dartmouth man, Mr. Parkhurst, and the approaching term-end of Phillip Marden.
Your Secretary as one of the Committee enjoyed the privilege thoroughly. Learning trustee qualifications from President Hopkins (and no one knows them any better), those responsible for the selections gave thorough study to the job that had to be completed before the November Council Meeting.
As you probably know, some 80 per cent of the Alumni body was without Trustee representation in the age brackets .... the median age line of Dartmouth alumni is the Class of 1928 Class of '0l has one trustee, '02 one, '03 two, '06 one, '07 two, all of whom could conceivably pass from existence on this earthly sphere within a very short time of each other, leaving Jay Gile '16 as the senior member, a distinction which he probably does not seek at the moment, at least.
From 3 to 5 years are required to make a Trustee who must have sufficient command of his own time and means to attend meetings .... which for a period not long ago went 15 years without an absentee.
"Hop" told us all of this, and more, too . . . . aside from the absolute advisability of selecting younger Trustees and having them "going through the mill," so to speak for future use to the College, no man was ever more openminded, more manifestly fair in considering names than he throughout the discussions The College Catalogue, recent bound issues of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, every conceivable source was studied .... lists of names were drawn .... and re-drawn .... everyone including Dartmouth's President got groggy.
Actually, you could have chosen the three Trustees from any one class out of College 25 years or more .... those groups are loaded with splendid material, and it's a lasting regret that some of those loyal, able Dartmouth men could not have been so honored .... it was not as easy to select men in the 20's and 30's although there are dozens in those brackets now in the process of proving their own individual worth.
Each man was discussed thoroughly .... his personal aptitude for the honor and responsibility was weighed .... the names were completed, and not a single nominee knew of his selection prior to the N. Y. Council Meeting.
Our own feelings embrace the following .... "Hop's" philosophy of organization for the Dartmouth of tomorrow is so logical as to be without argument.... some way of utilizing that tremendous wealth of talent among the older classes might be devised .... younger men should be brought along and developed for the years to come, and no one resents being called old, or having his contemporaries called old any more than we do.... College trustees, or at least, Dartmouth trustees do not have to possess any mystic virtues or capacities .... in fact, an able trustee who is personable can do more for the College, can build more goodwill among the alumni and elsewhere than an able trustee who carries his honor high on his left ear.
Anyway .... "Trustee-ing" is a highly enjoyable experience when they come in bunches o£ three when you have a leader like "Hop" so logical, so desirous of being fair, to deal with.
Secretary, Canaan Street Canaan, N. H Treasurer, 1 Weybosset St., Providence, R. I.
