1910
"Incidentally, I can report that the Yale editors here consider the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE one of the best, if not the best, in the country. My copies go directly to the Library," pens Henry Hutchins who has had a long and interesting career in the field of education at Lafayette, Mich, and Yale, now being curator, Defoe and Swift Collections at the Yale University Library—Henry writes, lectures, prepares to attend the "all-important 40th because I shall not wait for the 50th."
The Class Directory is working—Bill Grant found that Harold Marsh lived a short distance away, called on him, had a fine visit, adding, "Harold is a swell person." (It would be nice to see him at Reunion; Sec'y's note.)
The Gen'l adds, "If you hear any undue disturbance on the Campus sometime Saturday, June 17, that will be my better-half and myself rumbling toward 1910 Headquarters.
Even though Charlie Fay has raised a mighty fine family of sons, he has done an unusual amount of work helping other boys in his community. Having a natural sympathy and interest in kids, he has made this one of his chief interests in life aside from his insurance business.
Years ago he started with the Big Brother Movement in the Elks, working with probationary boys. Active in Boy Scouts, he organized and headed a Scout Troop in West Roxbury, using his own sons for training and assistance. Later he helped some of these Scouts to get jobs and to attend college. He has also given lots of time to the Guild for the Blind and to the arranging of regular shows for the Veterans' Hospitals.
The Class is proud of Charlie and the fine altruistic work which he has done all through life—it is men like him who work without acclaim or compensation to retain some of the ideals on which this nation was founded.
Chan Baxter has written several letters to Tenners as a result of having received the Directory Herb Woods has been elected president of the $1,500,000 cooperative apartment hotel in which they live at 1661 Crescent Place, N.W., Washington The BurtMillers are coming up from Baton Rouge to the Reunion, Burt having so sold Sally on Dartmouth that she, an accomplished pianist, is learning Dartmouth songs for the affair .... Barrister Gay Gleason and wife visited Hanover in Feb as did the CharlieBardwells Andy Scarlett's 4 months-mi- nus granddaughter weighs 161,4 lbs Fletch Rogers has moved to Route 2, Box 2555, Elk Grove, Calif., where he will be sta- tioned for some time .... Talley Holmes' two sons are studying 1aw.... Geo. Chamberlin of Ebasco (Electric Bond & Share) has charge of a construction job at Lumberton, N. C. .... and here is some real news: Ben and Florence Williams, now in the Southwest, are swinging through Glacier Park, Mont., in early June to pick up the Horace Chadbournes for a trip to the Reunion. Wonderful!
Les Wiggins' "trunk" produces again Paul Felt's "orchestra" played for a dance in Union Village, Vt. on a Zero-ee wintry night Paul, "Fat" Dillingham (cornetist of note), Les on piano youths and maidens gamboled on the floor marched and danced a Promenade .... "We had to repeat over and over the few marches we knew," writes Les, "and were given doughnuts and cocoa for refreshments. Sleighing homeward, being quite 'marched out,' we let the horse take its course. It got sort of mixed up with the heavy drifts and picked a bank instead of the real road. The sleigh tipped over, 'Fat,' naturally, being on the tipping side. Paul exclaimed with the suddenness of a Boston subway conductor, 'All out the side door!' We reached Hanover eventually. Chuck excused our chapel absences."
Since leaving college, Ossie Shenstone has lived in Vancouver, Toronto, Muskegon and a few other places. He practiced civil engineering in British Columbia for about six years—then went with Farm Implement Division of Massey-Harris, eventually becoming General Factory Manager of their 4 Canadian and 2 U. S. plants. In 1941 he resigned to get into more war work with Norge Division of Borg Warner, remaining until 1948 when he resigned to do consulting work, travelling and other things which had been previously impossible—we hope that he makes the Reunion.
Bill Brown's home address is Edgemoor Road, Gloucester Don Curtis lives on Wynnewood Drive, Chappaqua, N. Y Arthur Lee works for A. C. Lawrence Co., Earle Pierce's bid concern, maintains good health, attends football games in Hanover ....Ralph Paine is Florida-ing as are RaySheets, Herb Wolff, Rolin Woodworth, Whitney Eastman, Osborne Shenstone .... haven't heard from the Nortons and MacPhersons.
"Easty" is at Delray, plans to take several Audubon tours and trips in search of rare birds, particularly the supposedly extinct ivory-billed woodpecker .... Throughout rest of year he leads his usual busy life with his General Mills duties and many civic responsibilities, not the least of which are the Boy Scouts .... In January he was General Chairman at "The Freedom Dinner" in Minneapolis, an affair attended by 700 Upper Midwest farm, labor, civic and business leaders to form a brigade of "Fighters for Freedom," an organization to protect American liberties .... The gathering of leaders from Montana, North and South Dakota, and Minnesota, heard "Easty" keynote the affair, "The welfare state is nothing but the police state. There are sinister forces at work, here in our country and abroad. They appeal to citizens through sugar-coated slogans—planning, freedom from want, security, welfare and through fear, cold war We can and must turn the tide against socialism .... that Americans will forever be a free people in a free nation."
Jim Kerley, Thayer School graduate, and always a very likeable fellow, hopes to make Reunion, "My life since leaving College has been typical of the ordinary Construction Engineer—full of ups and downs—but never out. In spite of it all, the three children graduated from college, are happily married and doing O.K. Two grandchildren to date, promise of more this spring. Mrs. K. and I are feeling fine—happy and busy—a good sense of humor—no particular honors—play a little golf, etc.—just now helping Jim Jr. to build a house—lots of fun and good exercise."
By the time you receive this we'll be heading home—it has been another fine winter if you like this sort of living.... Reunion comes next—but prior to it we all should pitch in and help Andy Scarlett do an outstanding job with his Alumni Fund this spring—he will need all of the assistance we, individually and collectively, can give.
We are adding this as sort of an addendum —you'll be interested to know that with the help of the College Archives and a few Tenners we succeeded in obtaining over 100 oldtime pictures—from which we have had black and white slides made for use at the Reunion —they will never win prizes where artistic merit is a requisite—but believe me, they are full of human interest and belly laughs—yet ever tinged with some fine memories.
The purpose of this note is to appeal for more—please go through your old-time collections, select individual or group pictures and send them to me I'll return after having slides made or will hand them over to Archives in Baker Library to add to their growing collection .... main thing is to get some to me within near future .... just make certain that prints or negatives are 'reasonably sharp and not too dark you'll enjoy them on the screen, I'll wager.
BASEBALL COMING UP: Hap Hinman, 1910 class secretary, while in Florida, looked forward to a repeat of this happy occasion at Clearwater last year. Left to right. Bill Cunningham '19, Casey Stengel of the New York Yankees, Red Rolfe '31 of the Detroit Tigers, Hinman, and Walter Norton 'lO of Lakeland, Fla.
Secretary, Canaan St., Canaan, N. H. Treasurer, 6 Stiles Terrace, Newton Center, Mass. Class Agent, 14 N. Balch St., Hanover, N. H.
