1910
How long is memory is one of the great unsolved questions concerning the human system It varies, we believe, with the individual.....
from the Hanover professor, for example, who could never remember which parked car on Main Street was his .... frequently climbing into the wrong auto .... to 1910's own Harold Robinson, a Christian gentleman in his own right. ..., preacher, missionary, who carried a classmate's poem in his memory for 39 years, to verify it at Baker Library during our recent Reunion.
The class of 1910 had a full-blooded Indian, Victor Johnson, who came from the State of Washington .... thoroughly individualistic but possessed with interesting mental potentialities, he was quite a character. In later years taught school in Hawaii and the West Coast; while in College he journeyed into the field of poetry on occasion. Following is a poem which appeared in the June, 1907, issue of TheDartmouth Magazine .... Robbie had remembered it correctly with the exception of two words:
The Brook
I watched a brooklet rushing down To meet the frothing sea; It sparkled as it danced along, Its life was melody.
I took a stone from out its path, That it might flow released; But lo! it danced no more in glee, Its melody had ceased.
Almighty God, my soul cried out, I see thy perfect plan; For as the brooklet in its path, Thou hast made life for man.
The trials from thy guiding hand, Whose aim we may not see, Are but the music of our lives, Thine is the melody.
We would appreciate receiving copies of any other poems which he may have written if anyone knows of their existence.
This memory business bounced back into our lap through some trick of the mind we neglected to include Norton Cushman and Ed Shattuck among those attending the Harvard Game in Hanover.
Ben Ames Williams has finished his new book on which he has worked since September 1942.... but it will not be published for "months.... 9 to 12 of them" according to 1910's famous author.
"Lefty" West, Erie railroader, penned on Xmas card, "Hope this finds you as well as anyone about sixty ought to be. Will be on hand in 1950."
We'll check with the 01' Southpaw on both of those issues .... we're O.K still manage to have occasional lucid moments in a damned busy and interesting life. Never think of age in terms of years excepting when we realize that at the most there are not too many left in which to do many of the things which we want to do before we pass out of the picture. So we're starting by unloading some of our business affairs to get more time to do what we want to do. Earl Nelson had the courage to give up school teaching this year, retire to his old home town of Palermo, Maine, buy a tractor, do odd jobbing for his neighbors, live out of doors, and have a heck of a swell time doing it. Marion and I have 5 acres to fool around with should we ever wish to do so, and very nearby there is Cardigan Mountain School which is doing quite all right, sponsored by such men as Hop, Ned French, John Hinman, Harvey Hood, Ned Robinson and others, in and out of the Dartmouth family. Our latest addition being Charles Cotting (Harvard), well known Lee Higginson executive and active in all sorts of civic and boy interests.
Time Magazine in its December 30 issue gave us some valuable space.
Lefty's "sixty" business led us off the path but what we've written can be applied to many another man in the Class.
OFFSPRING 'Jack Tobin, now with Gimbel Bros., is engaged to Barbara Ann Crane of Orange, N. J. Insofar as we know, Harry Mitchell is first Twin Grandfather in the Class, his daughter, Mrs. Rob't B. Patterson, presenting him with a boy and girl in November. Jim Robinson was married to Hope Buist of Mount Vernon, N. Y., December 28 Jim Kerley Jr. '43 is doing field engineering in construction work .... his brother Tom '46 is studying architecture at Catholic University, Washington. John Washburn '45 graduated from Dartmouth summa cum laude, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, is now a student at School of Advanced International Study in Washington, specializing in Russian which he interpreted in Korea during the summer.
Eddie Sickman's address is P. O. Box 145, Long Hill, C0nn..... young Jack lives in South Mass. Hall at Hanover Obbie Coleman is playing a lot of whist this winter with the N. Y. Dartmouth Club in the Intercollegiate League Wilk is secretary of that virile young D.O.C. of Northern California .... Charlie Bardwell works for Fay, Spofford & Thorndike, Chamber of Commerce Building, Boston .... Ted Baldwin's address is Box 651, Carmel, Calif. Jim Nourse lives at 140 Foster St., Worcester.
TENNERS all the way from New Jersey to the Pacific Coast have written us glowing reports on John Dickey's visits .... John, who was chosen so carefully by Hop and his acsociates to be Dartmouth's President, is doing a good job and to quote one of those at Hanover who know* "Give him five years
and he'll justify everything which his selectors have said about him."
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