1910
REUNION LOOMS CLOSER—AND BIGGER—EIse Jenness and Charlie Fay have it under control. ... .Those Fourth of July weekend dates are a "natural" .... perfect timing for our educator members who have always been tied down with graduations, Regents, exams and a multitude of reasons. Mike Elliott and Tom Steward from the University of Minnesota, Leo Sherman from lowa, Warren Shaw from Illinois, Bucky Allen, Julius Warren, Ted Hill, Henry Kelley, Heinie Reed, Irving Scott, Dallas Smith, Ernest Stephens" from nearby Massachusetts—and many others.
While in the field of education, I am reminded of a correction which 1910's longtime friend, Gordon Ferrie Hull, called to my attention in Hanover recently. You have to know your facts when in the presence of this eminent scientist, and I had wandered. My reference to place of death of Ernest Fox Nichols was based on information from two longtime Hanoverians, that it occurred in Europe. They were in error, and I was in error for not checking it. Dr. Nichols died of a heart attack while addressing scientists at dedication of the new National Academy of Science Buildingin Washington on April 29, 1924 .... and I doublechecked this with Charlotte Ford who maintains voluminous and accurate Alumni records. "Mr. Nichols was speaking on 'Joining the Infra Red and Electric Wave Spectra' when he stopped and leaned on the desk," related Profesor Hull. "Those on the platform rushed to his assistance. He died in a few minutes and his dead body was carried out through the hall with the audience standing, silent and stunned."
CONGRATULATIONS to Pineo Jackson on his election to directorate of the American of Newark .... this Tenner adds another name to the long list of insurance companies with which he has been affiliated during his outstanding success in that field.
At the Boston Dinner on February 27 were such notable and loyal Tenners as Hal Sprague, Joe Graves, Harry Sandberg, Art Lord, Earle Pierce, Keith Pevear, Doc Foster, Ray Gorton, Maurice Blake, Else Jenness, Beezle Parker, Atkins Nickerson, Irv Jewett, Harold' Robinson, Bill Murphy, Bones Jones, Slip Powers, Horace Chadbourne, Charlie Fay, Shing Sherwin . . .. and of course, Ed Shattuck who presided over the large and enthusiastic gathering. Our reporters write that Ed did a "swell job" at the head table. Robbie was greeted after his strenuous term of duty in China .... and it was an equal delight to have Horace Chadbourne stop off on his way back to Montana.
Offspring—Deborah Bankart was married to Capt. Roger Whittlesey, U.S.A., February 16, 1946 Nancy Norton is doing postgraduate work in Burbank's division at Harvard. Her sister Pat is entering college this coming fall. .... Jimmie Ingalls is home on furlough from the Pacific where he was a member of a 6-man commission to study schistosomiasis, a tropical disease. He was well prepared for the work through his graduate work and University of Maine instructorship in parasitology. Thayer Smith has three youngsters who attend the Rudolf Steiner School in New York Betsy, Susan and Sammy leave home on the 7:02 A.M., returning on the 5:30 P.M...... quite a daily assignment which a lot of kids would object to .... but the young Smiths are enthusiastic over their school.
Harold Robinson, back from China, has a wealth of experiences to relate. When he left here in 1942 he sailed to Rio de Janeiro, thence to Durban, South Africa, up to Suez, back to Ceylon, thence to Calcutta, and over the hump to China to resume his Congregational missionary duties that have kept him in China since 1916 with occasional visits to the States. The greatly restricted wartime diet even though supplemented by a new milkshake made of soy bean milk and ground bone meal, reduced his weight from 160 to 130 pounds. We hope that Robbie can be at the Reunion so that we all can share in the relating of his stories.
Doug Mower lives at 110 College St., Burlington, Vt Ed Raabe is Supervisory Training Engineer with the Bell System, resides at Madison, N. J..,. . Harold Benjamin struts as a Grandfather John VanderPyl has moved back to New York after spending the war years operating the Moline,plant of American Machine & Metals Ben Williams' film "Leave Her to Heaven" was well worth seeing.
Our own life continues full and interesting .... we have been asked more than once how in the world we ever got mixed up with the founding of Cardigan Mountain School, a new school for boys.... at our age in life when the lure of easy living was pulling.
For many years we have had something of the sort in mind .... either through revitalization of an old school that had gone to seed or through an entirely new venture that had no alumni body, deadwood trustees and outmoded traditions.
When you get associated with the enthusiasm of Bill Brewster who heads up K.U.A. so successfully and the wisdom of Ernest Martin Hopkins with whom each contact is a personal inspiration, you just don't stand, still even though you are mindful of your own limitations.
You spend months getting an organization together .... men like John Foster, Jim Campbell (whose son is headed for Dartmouth), Sid Hayward, Bob Hopkins, John Kenerson, Fred Larson and Jimmy Woods to handle the operating details.
Then with the very active assistance o£ Hop and Ned French you get another bracket.... men who in their own successful careers know that after all life is nothing but new experiences .... and in that knowledge are willing to accept them and obtain a sincere personal satisfaction through the helping of youth .... Phil Allen, Ralph Flanders (with a Dartmouth son), John Hinman, Ned Robinson, Harold Stoke, Arthur Williams .... and of course, Hop and Ned.
By your charter you make yourselves nonprofit and undenominational.... you acquire a site .... which actually has few equals in this country in its potentialities.
There are 10 million problems to be solved and a lot of money to be raised, but most of us have had to do those things all our lives, so there are no changes in those respects.
By now you have discovered that down deep in the heart of most men there is a dormant or a repressed desire to work with youth .... to know, encourage and help them.
We need money and we need sponsors who are genuinely interested in boys .... we will obtain our compensation in satisfaction as the project develops. I hope that you fellows can now understand why your secretary is in a new venture at the ripe old age of 58.
Secretary, Canaan St., Canaan, N. H.
Treasurer, 1 Weybosset St., Providence, R. I.
