1910
On the evening before the Harvard game the classes of 1910-1911 started what can easily become a series of significant joint gatherings for several hundred men who were associated closely during three years of their college courses Some 50 friends gathered at the beckon of Josh Clark and Bones Jones in the University Club for food and fun which, except for bulging waistlines and exposed domes, could well have been a gathering under Hanover's elms on a quiet Sunday evening some four decades ago .... names, personalities, friendships, greetings hadn't changed one iota .... old-fashioned goodwill and sobriety prevailed in every nook and corner.
You looked across the table at Jack Ingersoll and Bollivar Sherwin your mind flipped to another Harvard affair .... Nov. 16, 1907 .... D 22, H 0 Teammates Tobin, Marks,Pishon, Saxton, Stuart, Baldwin, Lang, the Bankarts and many others Next year let's get at the gathering the lads who are left from that great aggregation and there will be a "Next Year" if we abide by the polls which Nat Burleigh and your Secretary took during the evening.... well summed up in eminent Att'y Slip Powers' enthusiastic reply "It's thebest ever and should be continued by all means. When in College I knew every man in 1911 as well as in 1910. These two classes were closer than most classes. Let's revive and maintain our friendships through these meetings!"
In another section of the room another eminent att'y, Gay Gleason, voiced identical sentiments .... as did man after man .... so "HATS OFF!" to JOSH AND BONES this year.... and next!
Tenners present Art Allen, Sid Bull, Fletch Burton, Charlie Fay, Al Ferguson, Gay Gleason, Hank Haserot, H. Hinman, Dick Hursh, Irv Jewett, Ed Keith and brother, Mac Kendall, Bones Jones, Jim Lowell, Jim MacPherson, Walter Norton, Beezle Parker, Earle Pierce, Rog Pierce, Slip Powers, Shing Sherwin.
Else Jenness had a serious operation, is now well on the road to recovery and many happy years ahead Through the years 1910 has had no finer worker, no more loyal member and he's a grand guy to boot Address, 50 Congress St., Boston, Mass.
New address o£ 1910's R. R. Tycoon, MacKendall, is 819 No. Elmwood Ave., Oak Park, Ill Beezle Parker is with Aberthaw Construction Co. on the building of a new M.I.T. dormitory in Cambridge Lefty West is seeking an "easy" job when he retires from railroading in 2 years Ed Shattuck is feeling well again but has to keep the brakes on Babe Childs lives at 25 Highland St., Reading Amos Crooks '11 who was at Joint Dinner, spent an afternoon with TedSmith in Havana last summer "Dartmouth prestige always on the up in MidWest" penned Tom Heneage, B.C.T.D. (Before Chicago Tribune Deluge), and we just have an idea that it still is Chet Scott is planning on 1950 Reunion.
Children.... Ernest Stephens Jr. seems to be the only lgio son in Freshman Class Bill Woolner with a Sophomore son is a frequent Hanover visitor Rayner Johnson, graduate of Dartmouth and Yale Medical Schools, is an interne at Mary Hitchcock Hospital Laura Lord Dupee lives in Chicago, is continuing her music studies, gave a recent recital there.
Grandchildren .... There is a whole flock of grandchildren in the Class dating from WinNay's 15 yr. old granddaughter (daughter of our own Class Baby, Win Jr.) down through to the current editions being born at a rapid rate .... Guy Perry boasts, "I have two granddaughters whom I'll stack up against any of those 'Bragging Grandfathers' Happy Hinman quotes in the Class news." .... Don Bryant pens, "The only good news I have is another granddaughter .... 5 now Edward has two, Barbara has 3" Ed Higbee exults over his grandson "a Buster of an 8 months old boy, Dartmouth '66" Jack Bates whose sons are Dartmouth graduates looks to the future, "We have a flock of second crop who will be trying for Hanover before too many years" Jim Lowell confesses, "Our great interest is in our grandsons, one in Virginia, Betsey's boy—and the other in Duxbury, Mary's son. You see, we had no sons, just two daughters, and now like most grandparents Helen and I are quite maudlin over these two Treasures."
A grandchild possesses an extraordinary fascination for a grandparent who can indulge himself in them without assuming the ordinary parental responsibilities that concern behavior, etc Marion and I have a couple of our own Peter, a husky, slap-happy 16 months old guy, who hasn't a care in the world .... and gentle, little Sally who calls her grandfather "Happy" and has every kid in her section of Washington doing likewise .... it's "Happy, come, play with me" "Happy, take me to the Soo" "Happy, take me to 'Sonian (their short for Smithsonian Institution)". .... frankly, I get a great bang out of these kiddies but with equal frankness at the end of two recent days in Washington when 6 or 8 of these youngsters "Happied" me to a fareyou-well for all sorts of favors, I knew that I had had a work-out.
Maybe, we better -do what "Hop" (Ernest Martin to the world) suggested when we started Cardigan Mountain School which, by the way, is doing quite all right,.... checking over such names as Ned French, John Hinman,Ned Robinson, Ralph Flanders, Harvey Hood, Philip Allen, Charles Cotting, Arthur Williams, he opinioned that possibly we should call the school "Grandfathers' Club" .... from the age angle plus the significant fact that all of us are in the project solely because of our interest in youngsters .... you'd be surprised, too, to know how great a factor grandparents are in having' their grandchildren enjoy their youth and receive sound educations.... but that is another story in itself.
To top it off, Beezle Parker chests himself with 5 . ... Bob 10, Jimmie 8, Douglas 6, Linda Sue 3, Peter 2 months Who's next? So long for this month .... we're pushing off in the A.M. on a Navy cruise to Puerto Rico .... sorry that Ed Keith will not be back in Winter Quarters when we arrive there.
Secretary, Canaan, N. H. Treasurer, 1 Weybosset St., Providence 3, R. I.
