1910
Our Reunion in early July has all the earmarks of a Humdinger .... undoubtedly, it will be a large gathering .... for never before have we been favored with such dates which will enable our teachers and professors to leave their June work. As it comes officially on July 5-6, one can manage to leave home a few days early, with a Holiday thrown in, and browse around Hanover and northern New England.
The class of 1910's remaining Reunions are becoming fewer.... and some of the fellows who have been planning "one more trip to Hanover" should not pass up this opportunity. The regular attendants will be there anyway.
Thanks to Winsor Wilkinson, we have some direct news about Louis Langdell. They both sat together at Dartmouth Night in Portland, Oregon, and had a grand time. Wilk, who is an Army captain assigned to the POW camp at Camp Adair, Oregon, wrote, "With due regard for the passage of thirty-five years and the fact that he is a grandfather, I would say that he looks just the same as the 'Louie' we knew in College."
Offspring—Jack, son of Cheever and Ester Comey, is slated to enter Dartmouth in September '46 Thayer Smith had three sons in the service Leila Raabe graduated from Wheaton in 1944, was married shortly afterwards to Frederick M. Rosseland Jr. who is now a lieutenant commander in the Navy, having had considerable sea duty on the famous Cruiser 80i5e.... Jim Lowell is puffed up over a grandson.... Shorty Worcester's son, Lt. F. W. Jr., has been in Navy since 1940, and commanded a mine sweeper in the South Pacific.... John Washburn '45, linguist, flew from California to Tokio, thence to Seoul, Korea His brother, Wid '46, is now stationed at Oklahoma A. & M Margaret Lyon was married in June to Richard C. Pierce of Winchester, Mass., discharged veteran with years of overseas duty Her brother, Clark, came back from Italy in late fall for his discharge and admission to Harvard Law School.
What to Call "Hoppy" will be interesting to observe .... personally, we have always called him "Hop" and will continue to, even though he carries the lofty title of "Ernest Martin Hopkins, President Emeritus, Dartmouth College." By custom it is perfectly permissible to refer to him as "President Hopkins" as long as he lives and even now, our generation referred to the great William Jewett Tucker as "President Tucker." So we believe that Ernest Martin Hopkins will continue to be affectionately known as "Hop," "Hoppy" and "President Hopkins."
Lefty West, R. R. Tycoon, and Hank Haserot, Pineapple King of Cleveland and Hawaii, were pleased with Hoppy's endorsement of John Dickey, and concluded that if Hoppy thinks Dickey is the right man, then he is the right man with them.
Julius Warren, Massachusetts Commissioner of Education, has his office at 200 Newbury St., Boston, with home address Box 641, Harwichport, Mass Liz Prescott enjoys life at Laconia, N. H Harry Sandberg lives at 370 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. His son is one of Andy Scarlett's Chemistry students at Biarritz. One of Chan Baxter's young neighbors was interviewed by Andy over there Major Dinny Pratt had fifteen months at the Pentagon Building and all of this year at Camp Upton with hopes of an early discharge. .... Scott Perry presidents the Dartmouth Club in Buenos Aires; Jack Ryan does a similar job at Milwaukee, while Jim Everett presides with dignity at Nashua.
Ben Ames Williams, Dartmouth's and 1910's famous author, is hard at work on another novel which he began in February 1944 A lot of people think that writing a book is a snap but they would be surprised at the true amount of labor which a conscientious writer puts into his product.
This new book of Ben bids fair to run 750,000 words, probably in three volumes—in general, it is a picture of civilian, political, moral, economic, social, military life in Virginia, North and South Carolina during the Civil War.
In his research Ben acquired some 500 volumes of material which he has learned by heart.... to date he has written 675,000 words, 400,000 of them having been done last summer in longhand .... twelve months will be required for the revision .... then the ending to write .... the title is not yet chosen.
That Ben's new novel will be another "Best Seller" is a foregone conclusion .... for he hits the jackpot with regularity.
Prof. Andy Scarlett, 1910's representative on the faculty of the G.I. College in Europe, just sent us this interesting letter: "I have just come in from a round of golf on the Biarritz course .... a fine, sunny day .... we played in woolen shirts without sweaters. But just so you will not be too envious of me, let me tell you that every day last week hit 21 degrees F with the temperature, in my room, my office and my classroom running below 40 degrees. We have coal of a sort but it won't burn well in these French furnaces and the heater at the lab sprung a leak and is all through. I lecture in a classroom where I have to wear an overcoat and where I can see my breath. By the end of the second hour, either my hot air or the animal heat from thirty men in a small room, makes it bearable. It is tougher on the boys than on me but we all seem to stand it.
"This has been a grand experience for me in spite of all the headaches and in spite of the U. S. Army. These students must be the pick of the soldiers in Europe. I have never seen such inspiring pupils. They pay perfect attention and are pathetically appreciative of what they are getting.
"Giving them an education is the best thing the Army has done. I may have an unfair picture, but the fact that all other instructors report the same experience leads me to believe that it is general. They elect chemistry because they want to learn about it and motivation is perfect. Any teacher can succeed with such a group. The experience may make me rather impatient with the loafers when I get back to Hanover. These boys can study in unheated rooms without proper lighting.... and keep at it even after all their battle experiences. It is a joy to find a boy who came here afraid that he could not concentrate only to find that he quickly got back into the studying groove.
"If our returned veterans at Dartmouth are like these boys, we will have a swell College for a couple of years. They may even have a good influence on the high school product which seemed to be deteriorating lately."
Andy should be back home before you receive this having taught continuously since September 1941, he rates some time off before picking up his duties again at Hanover, and starting his Alumni Fund work.
Easty, by the way, has done a fine piece of work with the Class Memorial Fund—and by the time we reune, 1910 will have an impressive sum to give to the College.
A 1911 FOURSOME at the Alumni Council reception at the Hanover Inn Ski Hut on January 10 includes (I. to r.) John Pearson, Hanover; Art Dunning, St. Paul; Ed Keeler, Chicago; and Jim Mathes, New York.
Secretary, Canaan St., Canaan, N. H. Treasurer, 1 Weybosset St., Providence, R. I.
