1910

Class Agent, ANDREW J. SCARLETT14 North Balch St., Hanover, N. H.

A recent issue of Saturday Review of Literature carried a feature article by Ben Williams, "author of more than thirty books, including such widely-read period pieces as'The Strange Woman' and 'House Divided'."Requested for a personal statement of hisaims and methods as an historical novelist,Ben prefaces his sizeable treatise with

"There is no such thing as a non-historical novel. Within the pages of every work of fiction rests circumstantial evidence that will reveal to the sufficiently well-informed reader the particular period during which the action occurs .... a novel whose entire action occurs in a single day in 1950 may prove to be a valuable source book for the historian writing in the year 2000 In my twenties I rebelled at the textbooks of history because they dealt with wars and rumors of wars; with kings, and presidents, and such exalted personages. I thought true history should record the changing way of life of the everyday individual. So this first novel of mine was written to tell the life story of an ordinary man. In order to do that adequately, I felt it necessary to follow, day by day, the events which had occurred during those years of his life which I meant to cover. This led me to read with some care the complete files of one of the Boston newspapers from 1885 to 1910, and to incorporate in the novel many references to current events likely to have interested my leading character. This reading-research, if you like, had an indirect result: it revealed to me how little I knew about the history of my own lifetime. Since then, further study has shown me how little I knew about the history, of my country .... yet I had had the normal' number of school and college courses in history (Sec'y's note: in case you fellows have forgotten Ben graduated cum laude). But to pick up one of my own, or one of my children's, textbooks today is to discover that they are not only incomplete, but inaccurate, unintelligent, and worst of all, uninteresting."

Harry Dore lives at 105 South St., Ports- mouth, N. H Vic Willis, working for H. K. Ferguson Cos., has charge of construct- ing the Atomic Pile being built at Brook- haven National Laboratory, Upton, N. Y., with shield completed, graphite being laid for early 1949 occupancy We had a re- cent phone visit with Howard Smith in To- ronto, Canada who seems to be doing quite all right, working hard, doing some traveling, taking care of shekels for Vt. Marble Co. .... Irving Scott's home is at to Dana St., Cambridge.

"Last spring," writes Charlie Levermore, "I started falling apart. A hernia developed, and colitis bothered me. A change of diet and medicines stopped the colitis but the hernia gradually became so extensive and uncomfortable that I went the hospital for repairs. By the middle of August I was kack 'n What a feeling of relief' No hernia! I can eat anything and I have cained weight, enough to make my vests and trousers a bit too tight. I stopped playing tennis when I was 50 and had to wear bifocals. I am definitely in that large group of men in their six ties whose muscles have become flabby. My son is junior at Adelphi where he made the baseball team. In his sophomore year he made the football teami This year his schedule is too heavy for athletics. However, he is very active in glee club and fraternity activities. He is engaged to an Adelphi senior, and expects to be married in June. Nowadays,' the young folks just refuse to wait until they become established. Mary has had bursitis in her left arm since last March. For several months she could not get her arm behind her back but now she is improving. This fall she drove to Denver to visit our daughter, taking three weeks for the round trip. Her companion was Mike, our black cocker spaniel. 1 am keeping our 1950 Reunion in mind.

It is always nice to receive these fine homey letters like Charlie's—they are next to a person-to-person visit, make you feel good, and are interesting to read.

"Having three boys at Dartmouth, one each in Senior, Junior and Sophomore classes, takes me to Hanover every now and then," Thayer Smith "In common with all of the other old birds who don't know how to act their age, I am doing my utmost to appear as a youngster," Jim Everett "Gee, how that victory over Yale makes your blood tingle and limber your bones! I feel like a young fellow again. Ten Up! Ten!," Alpheus Dixi Crosby "New jobs this year.... Prior of Indiana Priory No. 8, Knights of York Cross of Honour, and am chairman of Committee of Harrison Hill Troop No. 34, Boy Scouts of America," Brown Cooper .... "I'd like to sit in at a meeting of the Great Issues class. It's too bad that clarifying process can't be extended beyond college doors .... it's sorely needed. All powers for the 1950 Reunion! I hope that it will be possible for me to attend," Heinie Reed .... "Frankly, I don't think that I could stand that goat-climbing, hill course at Hanover although I play once a week on our extremely flat courses out here," DickHursh .... "Few organizations or individuals can afford to get into an argument with a newspaper, whatever the merits of the auestion," says GayGleason in referring to Chicago Tribune affair.

Fletch Burton is anxious to close his Class dues collections with as good a showing as last year, which means that several more will have to kick in.

We have just received a shock ElseJenness,. that fine dependable of 1910, passed away Dec. 16 He had a very serious operation in October, seemed to be coming along all right, had Earle Pierce write me a letter recently in response to some which I have written him .... as he could not do so for himself Earle said that he was going outdoors to walk around a little in a day or 50.... as soon as we get the details, we will pass them along to you Else, one of the most personable men in the Class, always a soft-spoken New Hampshire Yank, was extremely well liked .... and never have we or anyone else connected with the College or Class asked him to take on a job without his carrying it through to perfection 1910 is going to miss Else Jenness.... make no mistake about that but he left us some pleasant memories that will stay with us for our remaining days on this sphere.

Fund, Contributors for 1948 168 Gifts (Participation Index 75). Total gifts: $6,982.76 (75% of objective). ANDREW J. SCARLETT, Class Agent.

1910

Albert, Paul Allen, Arthur P. Allen, Clarence E. Allen, George E.

Armstrong, Ferdinand D.1 Bankart, Laurence H. Bardwell, Charles A. Barrett, Arnold L.

Bates, John W. Baxter, Chauncey B. Benjamin, Harold C. Blake, Maurice C. Boerker, Richard H. D. Brady, Francis A. Brooks, Philip P. Brown, William G. Jr. Bryant, Donald R. Bucknam, Arthur B. Bull, Leslie A. Burton, Fletcher P. Bushway, J. Howard Carpenter, Guy R. Chadbourne, Horace B. Cole, Munroe Comstock, Marshall E. Copp, Reuben R. Craft, D. Dustin2 Crosby, Alpheus D. Cushman, H. Norton Davies, George C. Deering, William H. Dingle, John H. Dorr, Allen E. Downey, Joseph E. Driver, Harry H.3 Drummond, James Dusham, Edward H. Eastman, Whitney H. Elliott, Richard M. Emerson, Nathaniel A. Everett, James R. Fay, Charles J. Ferguson, Albert G. Ferguson, John A.4 Ferguson, John A.5 Finn, John H. Fogg, Howard L. Foss, Noah S. Foster, Thomas A. Gleason, Gay Golde, Walter Gooding, Henry E.6 Gorton, Robert R. Graves, George A. Greenwood, Donald.W. Hammond, Dana K.' Harrison, Henry R. Haserot, Henry McK. Heneage, Thomas H. Hiestand, Edgar W. Higbee, Edward W. Jr. Hill, Albert F. Hinman, Harold P. Holmes, Max L. Hunt, Westley M. Huntington, TJhurlow T. Hursh, Richard S. Hutchins, Henry C.

Hyde, Royal W.1 Jackson, Harold P. Jenness, Thorton W. Jewett, Irving P. Johnson, David L. Jones, Hazen W. Judd, Harold L. Keith, Edson W. Kelley, Henry P. Kendall, Leon B. Kent, Charles H. Langdell, Louis C. Levermore, Charles L. Lord, Arthur H. Loring, Edward O. Loveland, Edward H. Lowell, James R. MacPherson, James E. March, Harold J. Mathewson, Samuel A. McClintock, George L. Meehan, Albert G. Meleney, Frank L. Meredith, Russell D. Mitchell, Harry G. Moe, William C. H. Mower, Emory D. Mudgett, Harry H. Murphy, William H. Nay, Winthrop S. Nelson, Earl C. Nissen, Louis P. Noone, Charles A. Norris, Roy C.s Norton, Walter H. Nourse, James P. Paine, Ralph H. Palmer, Donald F. Palmer, E. Russell Parker, Robert E. Paul, Edward A. Perry, Guy M. Perry, W. Scott Pevear, C. Keith Phelps, Kenneth A. Phelps, Walter A. Pierce, Earle H. Pierce, Roger G. Porter, James'M. Powers, Leland Prescott, Edgar B. Raabe, Edwin O. Robinson, Harold W. Rogers, Fletcher Rollins, Arthur S. Sandberg, Harry O. Scarlett, Andrew J. Scott, Chester F. Scott, Irving O. Seymour, Raymond B.

Shambow, John C. Shattuck, Edmund J. Sheets, Raymond W. Shenstone, Osborne H. Sherman, Leo P. Sherwin, Ralph A. Sickman, J. Edwin Smith, Dallas F. Smith, Howard V. Smith, Sheldon B. Smith, Thayer A. Smith, Theodore R. Sprague, Harold W. Stanton, Malcolm Stephens, Ernest Stern, Lawrence F. Steward, Thomas E. Stix, Edgar R. Straus, Melvin L. Taylor, Marvin C. Taylor, Otto F. Taylor, Ralph M. Taylor, Wilbur L. Tobin, Clarke W. Tucker, William E. Unangst, Ernest W. Underwood, George A. VanderPyl, John C. Warren, Julius E.

Washburn, Harold E. West, Harris M. Wilkinson, Winsor D. Williams, Ben Ames Williams, Lewis M. Wilson, Jesse S. Winship, Harold S. Wolff, Herbert A. Wood, A. Wayland Woodcock, Robert L. Woods, Herbert S. Woodworth, Rolin L. Woolner, William H. Worcester, Francis Young, Herbert MEMORIAL GIFTS FROM: 1 John H. Dingle '10.2 Donald R. Bryant '10.3 Noah S. Foss '10.4 Brother, Albert G. Ferguson.5 Income, Ferguson-PishonFund.6 Brother, Willard AI.Gooding '11.7 Brother, Elton B. Norris '11.

THE HINMAN CLAN OF DARTMOUTH, making up a goodly portion of the alumni body, shown in Hanover last June at a family reunion preceding the marriage of Dick Hinman '45 to Barbara Dent, daughter of Coach Tommy Dent. In the back row (I. to r.) are four Hinman brothers. Col. Burritt H. '04, USA reiired; John H. 'OB, president, International Paper Co.; Harold P. '10, president, Cardigan Mountain School; Hazen B. 'l4, president, Rome Cold Strip Steel Co.; and their cousin, Herbert D. '07, president, Virginia Engineering Co. In the front row, the second-generation Hinmans of Dartmouth include: Hazen B. Jr. '42; then four sons of John Hinman: Dr. Crawford H. '37, Edward B. '35, Richard H. '45 (the groom), and Howard D. '35; Burritt H. Jr. '41; and Abraham Buol '46, son of Hazen. The first Hinman generation covered 14 consecutive years at Dartmouth and the second will have covered 18 when Buol finishes at Tuck School in June, making 32 years out of the last 49 when Hinmans have been enrolled. Other Dartmouth families are invited to beat that record if they can.

CLASS AGENT ANDREW J. SCARLETT '10

Secretary, Canaan, N. H.

T r easur er, 1 Weybosset St., Providence 3, R. I