1910
Harvard Game Weekend was another satisfying Chapter in the Book of Life—aside from a very enjoyable time with brother John '08, his wife Jennie and other members of the family, we had a thoroughly fine evening at the Joint-'09-'10-'11 Dinner in the University Club with lots of old friendships renewedfat and plebeian, happy and humanizing would seem to characterize the prevailing atmosphere in that large room—Art Allen, Jess Wilson, Clarke Tobin, Jim MacPherson, Roge Pierce, Ed Keith, A 1 Ferguson, Art Lord, Maurice Blake, Ray Gorton, Charlie Fay, Micky Holmes, Walter Norton, Memorial Fund Chairman Slip Powers, Reunion Chairman John VanderPyl, Dinner Chairman Bones Jones, New Class Treasurer Earle Pierce, Secretary Hap Hinman plus a fine group of '09-'11 friends of old (it did seem that '09 Songsters Hooker, Mason, Swenson at al were not as songing as usual, maybe due to senility, or to lack of social dementia in the room that was also due to some form of old age).
Postprandial entertainment was principally group visiting with such figures as Tobe, Bolivar Sherwin, Jack Ingersoll, Walter Norton reviewing the athletic highlights of their day —heightened, in fact, by those huge, fat, aromatic Puerto Rican cigars generously donated by Sugarboss Ed Keith, who is now enjoying retirement from the "sugar" 'he accumulated during a lifetime of labor in the tropics—it was a grand evening, and still looks so from this pastoral setting on Canaan Street, N. H.
Next day at Game glimpses were had of Gay Gleason, Jim Baldwin, Henry Collin,Tommie Leonard, Ed Loring, Keith Pevear and wife.
Interestingly enough, Jim Baldwin who still looks as though he could give an interesting account in the line, and his comely wife, both Dartmouth partisans, could look down with mixed emotions on the field to see their sonin-law, a truly fine football player when not injured, "Howie" Houston of the Harvard varsity.
The Ralph Paines visited Hanover in early fa 11.... Jim Nourse is all set for Reunion next June....£d Keith has returned to Puerto Rico for the winter.... Lefty West, according to our private reporter, Jack Childs '09, stands high in Ravenna where he is an active Elder in the Congregational church, Demurrage Agent for the Erie R.R., and making preparations for our Reunion.... another Ohio Tenner now planning for the Hanover trip in June '50 is George Davies, who is busily campaigning for a third term in the Ohio State Senate.... Noah Foss made his annual visit last summer with Horace andCecilia Chadbourne in Glacier Park, claims that although The Old Man with the Scythe is eyeing him with greater attention than he used to, the Reunion is a definite possibility .... and from Buenos Aires where Dart- mouth's former drummer, Scott Perry, now a South American Bigwig of the wool industry, presidents the Dartmouth Alumni Ass'n, comes information that the Perrys are heading for Hanover in June—it looks like one of our Best Reunions at this point.
FLASH INTERRUPTION.... And andBertha Scarlett are Grandparents as of Oct. 26 .... and what a load off the Professor's shoulders .... all through recent months you'd have thought that he was going to have the baby .... the whole Class rejoices with Andy and Bertha who rate the happiness that goes with a Grandchild .... the baby, Joan Evangeline, weighed 9 lbs.,13¼ ozs the parents Gale and Marjorie Miner came through the ordeal very well.
Congratulations to Pineo Jackson on being elected Vice President of The International Association of Casualty & Surety Underwriters—nice honor for our fellow classmate!
K. Dyer lives at 207 Rockland St., Portsmouth, N. H Irving Scott 8c Dixi Crosby, always having planned on our 50th, are not taking any chances in bypassing the 40th .... they'll be there . . . .Dick Hursh July-fished in Ontario .... Shing Sherwin, recovering from coronary, sold his garage, lives at 50 Linden St., Wellesley.... Herb Wolff has been appointed member of sub-committee to inquire into conduct of the 5 defense attorneys at the recently closed 9-month Communist trial that brought jail sentences of 30 days to 6 months.
BORN: Thornton Weeks Jenness II, son of Jack and Vinnie Jenness.... it was nice to name the first grandchild after Else In Havana a grandson to Ted Smith, son of Ted's daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Bernardo Solis, who are back in Havana after to years in N.Y.C another Smith, Kenneth Morris Smith, grandson of Thayer, but he did not indicate which 50n.... a little girl, Burma Ann, granddaughter of Art Bucknam, and daughter of Art Jr. D '43 .. . . James Herbert Young 111, grandson of "Caesar," son of young Jim D'40 a cocky group of Grandfathers!
MARRIED .... Carol Cushman, daughter of Ote and Mrs. Crafts to Thomas Rich Gross in First Congregational Church, Manchester, Sept. 24, 1949.
Geo. Underwood attended Dartmouth-Penn Game in Phila..... Bucky Allen went to Florida in October.... "Have retired from teaching, but am busier than ever," JohnnyFinn.... Chan Baxter saw Notre DameUniv. of Wash, game .... Minnesota's famed Professor of Psychology, Mike Elliott, is taking Spring Term, 1950, off so he can attend our Reunion .... Art Rollins, in addition to his school work, is busy establishing a system of conservation teaching for N. H DutchWest told me at Joint Dinner that TomFoster has been working terrifically hard with his regular patients and the extra load of polio cases.
BALCONY BOYS or the livewires of '09's fortieth reunion are (I to r) Ned Ford, John Adams, son of Jock, and Buster Brown.
Secretary, Canaan St., Canaan, N. H.
Treasurer, . 6 Stiles Terrace, Newton Center, Mass.
Memorial Fund Chairman,
30 Federal St., Boston 10, Mass.
