1910*

DAVE JOHNSON is a doggone smart lawyer and a swell fellow to have around the piano at Reunions—but as a "Wild West Cowboy," he looks more like a 1906 Freshman than a roping buckaroo—Mrs. Johnson, Jean and Raynor really "stole the show" on the corral fence of Kenyon Ranch near Tucson, Arizona—Thanks to our Ohio correspondent, we received a marked copy of the Cleveland Plaindealer—unknown to Dave.

THE SYMPATHY of the Class goes to Roge Pierce who lost his wife on March 13 after an illness that lasted two years—Roge has a lot of Dartmouth friends who will feel deeply with him.

JULIUS WARREN, 1910's very able superintendent of the Newton schools, sent us a surprise letter recently which we will share with you—"A few weeks ago I had a good visit with Harold Robinson who went to Rotary with me. It was an encouraging contact because Harold has not changed much physically, keeping his 'girlish figure' and looking young and vital; in other ways he seems to have grown mightily Elizabeth and I spent a night at The Inn in Hanover in January, visiting Dick. It was the first time in 31 years that I have spent a day at Dartmouth while College actually was in session, and I got a great 'kick' out of it. Dick is having a wonderful experience as a Freshman, and is doing well. Best of all, I do not know a more enthusiastic Dartmouth man than he is

Elizabeth and I are going through a period of adjustment with no kids at home and we're making the grade, which is something. Nancy was married to Robert Riegles, Brown '3B, on Feb. 22. They live in Cleveland which, now that we no longer live there, seems a whale of a way off."

Whether you Tenners know it or not, Julius is tops in the school world, and is so recognized. In February he spoke at the meeting of School Administrators at Atlantic City, and on April 6 the New YorkTimes ran an article by him, dealing with teacher education—Julius believes that teacher education is basic, and must be evaluated in terms of the extent to which children in the classroom feel its impact.

JIM PORTER has retired and opened up a very palatial home at Cambridge on the Eastern shore of Maryland. Jim is one of the ace contributors to Treas. Fletch Burton, having good sponsors in Bones Jones, Phil Forristall and Pineo Jackson.

CLARKE TOBIN has returned from an extensive business trip to the West Coast Cliff Rice lives at 186 Canyon View Drive, Los Angeles, and is president of the National Retail Board of Trade with offices at 1151 So. Broadway Herb Wolff is a committee member of Doc O'Connor's "National Conference of Christians and Jews" which aims to achieve national unity through Protestants, Catholics and Jews learning to understand each other.

THANKS TO ABE WINSLOW'S lively Squeaksfrom the Golden Gate, we learn that Winsor Wilkinson has been elected director and secretary-treasurer of the D.O.C. of Northern California; Ed Shattuck keeps his Dartmouth friends in California well supplied with eastern newspaper clippings about the College; Horace Chadbourne visited in Berkeley and with Stillman Batchelder 'OS (Freddie's brother) at his prune ranch in Venado.

CANAAN, SECRETARIAL CENTER. . . .With the coining o£ Dave Austin, 1904's very well-known and popular secretary, Canaan Street issues the boast of having more Dartmouth Class Secretaries per dozen of population than any other community in the world....the 998 inhabitants cannot be measured by the thousand except when Dr. and Sherry Baketel are around Dave has bought the attractive Canaan Street Lodge on the shore of Canaan Street Lake and aims to make it a Dartmouth "hangout" for those who seek rest and quietude in a grand little spot within 25 minutes of Hanover.

KEN PHILLIPS, 1910's crack undergraduate rifle shot, has two granddaughters, 4 year old Patricia Ann and baby, Winsome Evelyn, named after Ken's wife They live in Missouri His other daughter Merlyn, married Charles Buell, a civil engineer in Fulton, some 400 miles from Omaha Ken sees Jim Drummond frequently, and keeps up his marksmanship by popping off plenty of ducks in season.

LEFTY WEST convalescing from the flu, writes an interesting letter of reminiscenses .... "... .my first college game, Brown at Manchester in 'O2 Matt Bullock all over the field and at bottom of every pile. .... Bill Knibbs' grand work in the second half Jack Marks cracking the line open down at Amherst for 15 yards, time after time Jim Baldwin penalized for holding.... the Amherst Aggie basketball player who stuck so close to King Brady that he didn't get a shot all evening King so sore you could have lit a cigar off him Ben Lang and the Harvard player, Amberg, mixing it up Why doesn't Sid Whipple come to Reunions? I'd like to see the little devil who used to go to chapel with raincoat and rubber boots over his pajamas " OFFSPRING. .. .Ruth West enters Ohio Wesleyan in the fall, her next choice after Dartmouth Dick Meredith was rejected in the draft because of a faulty heart. ....Caroline Meredith made the swimming team at Wheaton Chester Williams (Rusty's Dartmouth Senior son) is an accordianist of note in Hanover John Washburn enters Dartmouth from Exeter this fall, his brother "Wid" going to the latter school from Hanover High.

SOMEONE in Chicago who pens a worse hand than Pineo Jackson, very kindly mailed me a lengthy clipping on Dick Floyd who left us after Freshman year for a notable career in Harvard, Brookline and track athletics in general.... the article is worthy of reprinting here but it is not possible to do so because of space shortage. .. .we'll be glad to loan it to anyone who wishes to read it. . . .and will the Chicago Tenner please accept this as an appreciative acknowledgement of his thoughtfulness.

NEW ADDRESSES . . . . Ralph VanZant, Newberry Hotel, 817 No. Dearborn St., Chicago Charles A. Noone, 603 Chattanooga Bank Bldg., Chattanooga, Tenn.

....Herb Woods, 1661 Crescent Place, N. W., Washington "Beezle" Parker, 19150 Washburn Drive, Detroit.

BIRDS....Not all of the ornithologists are Harvard football coaches Our own "Easty" is one of no mean ability Mrs. John VanderPyl is another.... and after listening to my own Marion's "Get the glasses, quick!" for recent years, I found myself feeding 100 lbs. of cracked corn to pheasants, blue jays and grossbeaks this recent winter Will Beebe recorded 50 different birds on the VanderPyl estate in Canaan, Conn, last year Easty identified 24 there in two days last June. .. .even a superficial knowledge of birds enables one to see more and to get more definite enjoyment out of life.

HOP'S 25TH So much has been written about Dartmouth's great President that there is little for this humble but enthusiastic Hopkins pen to offer. We could refer to his organizing genius as exemplified by a splendid Faculty and Administrative force.... to a religious faith as flashed into the open by his prayers at the fall beginning of College.... to a generosity with his own money that the Alumni never hear about....to human wisdom in handling the College family in Hanover. . . .to many traits and deeds that typify the breadth and size of the man.

Then, too, there is his deep love for all that is Dartmouth which is little mentioned because he does not display it on his sleeve. Some years ago he wrote us, "The Dartmouth brotherhood is no figment of the imagination." In another letter received from Washington recently, he said "Every once in a while I get a hard attack of nostalgia from some reference to some typical activity of northern New England It will be mighty good to be with 'mine own people' once again."

It is fitting that all Dartmouth men and Dartmouth friends be permitted to participate in whatever capacity they can, to the Hopkins Fund in recognition of Hop's 25th Anniversary.... a great leader completing a quarter century of service to the College we all love.

Secretary, Canaan Street Canaan, N. H.

Class Agent, 14 North Balch St., Hanover, N. H