1910
One month of 1950 gone already—40 years ago (your senior year) it seemed like one heck of a distance to what appeared as a pin point on the calendar, and certainly anyone who had been out of college 40 years was old enough to be shot.... but here it is, Smacko! Span of a lifetime.... and there's nothing wrong with most of us but what a little bit of Snake Oil or Bear Grease will fix quite O.K and believe it or not, according to all actuarial data that we can command, some of you lads are good for another 40 years, only uncertainty being identity of 1910's Centenarians, one of whom could well be that guy Norton still waiting around for the Red Sox to win a World's Series, or maybe, the A.L. pennant.
The 1910 decade saw Commencement, Jobhunting, War, Unsettlement.... 1920 brought Fun and Aches .... 1930, Losses and Uncertain Distress.... 1940 Worst War of all history, Mountainous Debt and Continuing Perplexities.... 1950 is an Impenetrable Enigma .... maybe, all life was intended this way.
With the good and the bad, and the bad and the good, and there have been both, we have learned one fact.... you cannot store up happiness to be enjoyed at some future date on the calendar.... you can store up plenty of trouble, however.... that's the way the thing works.... you have to pick up your happiness as you go a10ng.... for example, there is a lot of pleasure in a Class Reunion .... and any fellow who thinks that he can just keep deferring that enjoyment with all of its accompanying implications is playing a losing game.... for the regular attendants, for those who have not been in Hanover in several years, and for those who have never attended a Reunion, it could be rather smart to set down on your private calendar those important dates, June 16-17-18.
Bill Moe from Connecticut is coming, DonBryant from Illinois, Jim Nourse from Mass. From California Malcolm Bissell pens, "Am hoping to get back to my first 1910 Reunion next spring." From Baton Rouge, La., we get "My new wife and X plan to be with you next June," Burt Miller. Noah Foss writes from Minn., "Can't tell about Reunion so far ahead but I have hopes" .... and the Stuttgart barrister, Al Meehan (we wouldn't want to leave Arkansas from this geographical assortment) says, "You and others of the Class talked Vera into promising that she would see that I returned for the Reunion. Evidently, she is going to make good on her promise." And that is the way it goes.... Chet Scott from Walla Walla, Wash., could be added to the list and many others .... never have we seen greater advance determination to attend a Reunion.
Enclosing a check for class dues, DolphBresler wrote from Venice, "Mrs. Bresler and I are taking a tour through Europe in a little ishp Citroen. England seems to be the worst off neither food nor a future a change of Government might help. Most of the people I met were completely discouraged .... a few hours away in France, a land of plenty and gaiety, at least, on the surface. The people on the street have no idea what the Marshall Plan is all about and are suspicious that we have a sinister motive. Germany is the best off, plenty of everything, shops full of merchandise and what they haven't got, Uncle Sam gives to them.... the people don't change they tolerate the Americans only because they fear the Russians. The production of pleasure cars in Germany is increasing at a tremendous rate. In Italy the rich and the farmers have plenty. The rest have many children and terrific poverty."
"Am now planning to be in Hanover next June," writes Jack Bates from Tulsa, "and see how some of the old cripply are making it. Hope it is not too depressing" (the 01' Hockeyteer with a slightly aldermanic front is in for a terrific surprise). "Our family is somewhat settled, two in New Mexico and one in West Texas .... however, we spend our summers mostly on the ranch in New Mexico, so bother the two out there about as much as they can stand. I think that Dartmouth should start a course Care and Training of Parents with special stress on grandparents."
Personally we think that this Bates fellow has something there maybe, now that he has a 934 lbs. granddaughter, lgio's eminent professor, Andy Scarlett, will compose such an afEair.
Harold Robinson's address is American Board, Hopei, Tientsin, China Easty pheasant-hunted in So. Dakota GeorgeDavies, Ohio State Senator, is working on a Committee for Alcoholics .... Mac Kendall, Gen. Mgr. of Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha R.R., gave a vivid picture of what airplanes, busses, autos, etc. have done to r.r. passenger traffic in some spots by testifying before Nebraska R.R. Commission that passenger traffic on two Omaha-Sioux City trains had dwindled from 248,000 in 1929 to 19,000 in '48.
Secretary, Canaan St., Canaan, N. H. Treasurer, 6 Stiles Terrace, Newton Center, Mass. Class Agent, 14 N. Balch St., Hanover, N. H.
