1910*
BLIND CLASSMATE .... so much publicity has been given to Dartmouth's blind freshman, John Pine, and his Seeing-Eye dog, Bozo, that an article about our own Joe Bartlett in the Cincinnati Times is particularly timely. .. .the front-page, threecolumn story with a splendid, two-column picture of Joe in his study captivates attention .... Joe, who was born in Newburyport (Mass.), in 1884, entered College directly from Perkins Institute and always was one of 1910's most interesting members refusing to accept his loss of sight as a major tragedy, he was all over the Dartmouth Campus, attended classes, lectures, punched out his own notes in Braille, read them afterwards better than many a Tenner decoded his own handwriting .... we used to watch him with great fascination and admiration.
"I never spent five minutes wishing I could see," quoted the Cincinnati article which describes "Professor Joseph Bartlett" as "a living example for Antioch College students of his philosophy that everyone's life should be useful regardless of handicap."
Joe teaches French, Greek and Shakespeare at Antioch. .. .plays the piano, loves Chopin, Grieg, Liszt and Brahms.... keeps abreast of the times through RadioNewscast, a weekly news magazine in Braille, and has the daily newspaper read aloud to him.... entertains groups of young people in his home .... has a Government "talking book" machine which has given him professional readings of everything from "Uncle Remus" to Biblical selections.
"We all worry too much about the minor things of life," said Joe to the newsman, "If I can have my share in the work of the world, that is the important thing to me."
COMING GENERATION. .. .Cynthia, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Johnson was married to Lieut. Albro L. Parsons Jr., U.S.A., Dec. 27 at Waban Charlie Jackson is editor-in-chief of Vermont Academy's paper, for sports specializes in cross-country skiing Katherine Jackson returned just prior to the invasion from Pearl Harbor where she worked at the Naval base Kim Jones, son of "Bones," likes to ski, entered Vermont Academy last fall, splits his skis on rocks, nicks his Schrafft's dad for $3.00 per Morris Payne is in the anti-aircraft division of the Coast Artillery David Fay, headed for Hanover in 2 yrs., is a very promising young sprinter at famous old Roxbury Latin that gave us Charles Jackson Fay, Henry Kelley, John VanderPyl. ... .Jack Shattuck is in the air service In an interesting anniversary issue of the Bangor Daily Commercial excellent photos of General Manager Bob MacPherson and Father Jim add much to the paper, Bob being generally credited with doing a fine job up there Muriel Kent, Mount Holyoke sophomore, is on the board of the college paper Jack Tobin is on Dartmouth's ski team this winter, really being a star performer.
AL MEEHAN, famous Stuttgart, Arkansas, barrister, wrote us a great letter recently. . ...Al, Concord, N. H. product who landed in the South, philosophizes "If I were advising any of the present classes, I would tell them that the maintenance of contact and knowledge of their college friends and classmates could be one of their greatest pleasures in life.... and their failure to do this, one of their greatest unnecessary losses. It is my loss, and one that I am often deeply conscious of."
JOHNNY HOBBS, long in the Quartermaster Reserve Corps, was called back in, suddenly and unexpectedly, on Jan. 38 with rank of Captain. .. .the Army examinations must have found him sound as a pump, which is something the little cuss can gloat over even though it was tough to leave his wife and little Jackie. .. .the 54 yr. old N. H. born officer is smart and successful in business. .. .and it's a safe bet that Cap'n Johnny will do a swell job for Uncle Sam. 1910 salutes!
THIS COCK-EYED WAR will need all kinds of manpower, and men of our generation who have had some of the decks dealt against them in recent years, can now blossom forth in positions where they can accomplish much in the work to be done.
CHARLIE GIBSON was highly honored by being elected potentate of Mt. Sinai Shrine in Montpelier, Vt., which is the third oldest in the United States Slip Powers and wife were in Hanover not long ago. .... Harry Sandberg has established business interests in Rhode Island Bob Rich lives in Kittery, Maine Ted Hill has a difficult assignment in being appointed air raid warden for that worldfamous collection of glass flowers in Peabody Museum at Harvard The entire Gay Gleason family went to Cambridge to witness Dartmouth trounce Harvard but came away in deep chagrin Jack Dingle lives at Hotel Dupont, Wilmington, Delaware Cy Richmond continues to enjoy congratulations on his appointment as N. Y. State Deputy Administrator for Defense Savings.
"BOB STONE had that something which sets certain men apart," writes his lifelong friend and schoolmate, Ralph Paine, "Working his way through Dartmouth when nickels and dimes were at a premium, he did not have time for broad contacts, which was distinctly the loss of the class. He was a natural leader. He had a keen mind, a rare sense of Yankee humor, and a zest for living. He valued his code of honor and lived according to his convictions. He disliked sham and sometimes defied the conventions. His was a free soul."
Ralph's fine testimonial for Bob who died Oct. 4 makes us realize how much we miss in life by losing intimate contacts with our early friends.... it also recalls something which we read somewhere, some time, "If you are rich, watch your friendships. If you are poor, you don't have to because you are human."
EASTY played host to the Dartmouth hockey team when it took those two "knock-down-and-drag-out" games from Minnesota during the Christmas vacation .... two of the "wildest college contests Minneapolis ever saw". .. ."two fights involving almost every member of both teams".... if some of you old bucks think that the lads at Hanover have gone soft, read or listen to tales of those frays.
At his party Easty had Noah Foss, Mike Elliott and Ken Phelps to complete a group of Tenners. Tom Steward didn't show up and Ed Paul wasn't located.
THE HAROLD BENJAMINS and sophomore son, Bennie, Christmas-vacationed in Florida Clif Lyon and Bert Kent are members of the Board of Governors of Holyoke's live Dartmouth Club Win Nay is Real Estate-Insurance Appraiser for Workingman's Cooperative Bank, 73 Cornhill St., Boston, lives at 85 Myrtle St Bill Deering has been made treasurer of the Augusta State Hospital at Augusta, Maine. .. . .Bucky Allen has some promising youngsters from his Rivers School among the Dartmouth undergraduates.
WAR ECONOMY is reducing the amount of your Class items hereafter. .. .according to official edict from Sid Hayward, all class notes are to be reduced one-third, starting with the April issue.... increasing costs are forcing the change.
It's little enough to do. .. .and no one can quarrel with the soundness of the reasoning. . . .some day the clouds will lift again, and America's greatest collegiate alumni magazine will go forward again to new heights.... in the meantime, it is comforting to know that some 14,000 Dartmouth men have it delivered to their doors, month in and month out.
Sid told us to clean up our accumulation of notes.. ..and we have done just that
. . . .unless more are received within the next thirty days, your columns will be cut more than one-third. .. .so forget your wheezing bellows, rheumatic stiffness and creaking of joints.... it's time for them to wheeze and whistle. . . .send us some items about your family, yourself, some other Tenner that we may close the year strong. And while you are in the mood, get some classmate to do likewise.
Secretary, Canaan Street Canaan, N. H.
