1910
Here it is late January and we're writing March items only thing that rationalizes it is that we have been having some March weather down here in Florida where we arrived December 28 haven't seen 1910's be loved and able doctor Harold Winchester yet, or his Dartmouth doctor son Walter, but expect to soon.
Ray Sheets, the Rockford Silverware Baron, blew in a couple of days ago to say "Hello!" "We came down a week ago, brought light colds with us, and as our doctor at home cautioned, 'lf you need medical care while down there, look up dear 01' Doc Bumbleshoot, my dear Ol' Umpety-Aught Classmate at Dear 01' Siwash. He's, a good man and will use you right.'
"Well, we looked him up all right enough made appointment went to his office never saw so much ailing humanity in my life—waited and waited for the doc to come finally, I told my wife that if we stayed there long enough we would get rid of our colds just through sympathy for those poor souls who were so much worse than we were.
"After awhile the doc came, greeted me like a long lost pal, visited, I invited him to dinner, he treated wife and me I offered to pay he said, 'You can see the receptionist as you go out' which I did to the tune of 15 Bucks.
"But there was more to come I went to recommended drug store, got prescriptions, was nicked $18.50 on way to apartment, I told my wife that it was the most expensive cold X ever had $33.50 to restore myself to normalcy, I stopped in a package goods store, selected my favorite brand went home, doctored up myself took a long one to Dear 01 Doc B, felt immediate mental and physical improvement so what the heck, this is Florida in 1951."
George Davies, Wauseon banker and County Red Cross Chairman, is out of politics temporarily, his last assignment having been on a commission which prepared a 100-page pamphlet on care of alcoholics.... Dick Boerker's address is Willow, Ulster County, N. Y.... Howard Bushway is a member of the Corpora- tion of Massachusetts General Hospital, also on Steering Committee of Tufts Medical College.... The huge Xmas issue of TennerTopics seems to have had a fine reception from the Class, judging from commendations received.... The Dinny Pratts moved last April to the old family home, known as "The Freeman Farm" in Sandwich, Mass., it having been in Evelyn's family for 11 generations.... "It's a delightful place," says Dinny, "the original ancestors were buried in one of the fields... lots of tradition and that sort of thing."
Nat Emerson of Etna, one of the most highly respected members of our Class, has been elected treasurer of the Executive Committee of Northern Farms Co-operative, Inc.
The December 16 issue of Collier's contained a very good and interesting picture of Clarke Tobin and his electric train hobby...
even though the amount invested was grossly wrong, it was nice to see Tobe color-pictured, and it caused more than one of us to long for an evening with him and his humanly interesting hobby.
This hobby business is something which we at our ages should develop... we know some pathetic figures who just cannot adjust themselves to lessening physical, business and professional activities... actually, the days are too short and far too few to do what we want to do...Ben Williams, Pineo Jackson, AlMeehan, Ken Phillips, Tommy Leonard and others, for example, love to hunt and fish...
Jack Thomas raises flowers... Easty is a famous ornithologist... our activities include amateurish flower and vegetable gardening, colored slides, civic projects, 1910, Cardigan Mountain School (12 months per annum) .. . and a heck of a lot of fun doing them.
Sympathy of the Class goes to Ted Hill and Ernest Studley who have lost their wives.... Julia Hill died December 21, 1949, after a five-months' illness... all set to retire in Maine in June '51, Ted now plans to continue at Harvard for the indefinite future.... Elsie Studley died in Deaconess Hospital, Boston, December 6.
Easty's Chemical Division of General Mills plans to build a 12,000-bushels-daily-consump-tion-soybean-mill at Rossford, Ohio... BillTaylor is associated with Easty in that Division.
Congratulations to The 01' King of U-Kan, the Hon. Dr. Rollo G. Reynolds who on December 20 was married to his boyhood sweetheart, Mrs. Ruth Stevens Lukesh, in San Gabriel, Calif. They will live at 320 No. Carolina St., S.G. 1910 wishes the Best of Everything to The 01' King and his Queen!
"I am in my first year of semi-retirement," pens Noah Foss, "and am finding it very much to my liking. I go to school late, return early and do about half as much teaching as I have been doing for the last 38 years at Blake School. From my experience I believe that I can settle into complete retirement when it comes, and still have a wonderful time.
"Chad and Cecilia stopped on their way back home. Even though I visit them in Glacier Park each summer, it was very good to see them off the home-grounds. He reports a wonderful trip east with New England hospitality exceeding anything he could imagine."
That "Believe it or not" business about Robert A. Taft and Herbert A. Wolff being in same class at Harvard Law, brings another Popping Surprise from 1910's attorney who has served many years on N. Y. State Board of Social Welfare.... "Another of our classmates," writes the father of 4 Dartmouth sons, "was Oscar Ewing, Federal Security Commissioner, for many years Vice-Chairman of National Democratic Committee. Incidentally, I might state that both Taft and Ewing are among the brightest and smartest people whom I have ever known, and I have enjoyed my contacts with them."
Earle Pierce has done a wonderful job collecting dues this year as you will learn later ...Slip Powers has made a noticeable start in revitalizing the Class Memorial Fund...and 1910's Old Reliable, Andy Scarlett, who plugs away, year in and year out, with the Alumni Fund is busier than ever this season raising our very sizeable allotment... he needs all of the help which you can give him.
Your Sec'y needs news items of all kinds... by the time you receive this, baseball training season will be in full force, and we like to prepare our monthly notes well in advance of closing date which might conceivably come on the day of a pre-season ball game down here and we wouldn't like that.
Secretary, Box 1268, Clearwater, Fla.
Treasurer, 6 Stiles Terrace, Newton Center, Mass.
Class Agent, 14. North Balch St., Hanover, N. H.
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