1910
Here we go for another College year our 46th since entering, which is another way of noting how time has passed. The informal reunion is behind us and it was a grand shot in the arm for all who attended. There will undoubtedly be another such event next June. The "peepul" are calling for it. The story of the '52 affair has been covered in a recent issue of TENNER TOPICS. It was not mentioned in the reunion number of the MAGAZINE because it was not an official event.
This is a big election year, not only because it is a presidential election, but because 1910 is very much concerned. Eck Hiestand is the Republican candidate for the House from the new 21 st district of California. Eck says it is a Democratic district but he hopes to carry off the honors. We'll all be pulling for you, Eck, and most of us hope you will win and be in the majority. Frank Meleney could not take in the reunion because he was leaving that week on a trip to South America with the Society of Clinical Surgery. The plan was to visit surgical clinics in Rio, Sao Paulo, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Lima and Panama. Frank said he and Scott Perry would have a 1910 reunion in Buenos Aires. While we were completing plans for the informal one in Hanover, Wilk Wilkinson was working up a Pacific Coast reunion. He was so disappointed with the failure of his plans for the Hanover trip that he called his event a "rump" reunion, but all things considered we would classify it nearer the "head" than that. It was a smart idea and a real success. He summoned Mal Bissell and wife to meet him at HaroldRobinson's in Guerneville, Saturday, June 7. Wilk wrote Eck Hiestand also, but used an old address and the letter arrived too late for Eck. to plan, what with campaign trips and speeches. The three Tenners and their families had a grand time picnicking in Armstrong Redwood Park.
Pineo Jackson and wife returned during the summer from a 7000-mile motor tour through France, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland and Western Germany. He was particularly interested to observe traffic control and regulation, as he is chairman of the Traffic and Transportation Conference of the National Safety Council. He found ample proof of his contention that the impartial enforcement of traffic regulation by national authority produces better safety results than our varieties of control by each state.
Your chairman-secretary had occasion to pass through Chicago in mid-August and was pleasantly greeted with a reunion luncheon which Mac Kendall engineered, bringing out Billy Williams and Don Bryant. The four of us got a lot of satisfaction out of discussing many Tenner topics. Paul Albert was planning to be in the group but some teacherplacement problem which developed at the last minute prevented his making the luncheon. Don is recovering from a couple of trips to the hospital where they did some interior rearrangement. Incidentally, all four of us were qualified to discuss hospital experience.
The letter sent to the Class on the subject of a gift for Hap Hinman stirred up at least a line or two from many men who have not taken occasion to write for many moons. They wanted to express regret at inability to make the reunion and to be remembered to all who did get to Hanover. It sure was good to have so many contacts reestablished. "A little letter lifts a lot." It is a great help, fellows, to be kept in touch so we can pass along news about each other. Keep it up!
Talley Holmes celebrated in June "the 2nd anniversary of retirement from school teaching," and sent this observation with his Fund check to Andy Scarlett—"I think you have done a great job." It is one all of us will approve heartily. Few of us realize the hard work genuine hard work Andy performs, contacting and re-contacting so many of us, and the nervous strain of watching every mail, especially as the June 30 deadline draws near. It is a tremendous job Andy and Bertha Scarlett do for us in getting us to do what we should for the College. It was truly satisfying to go over the top in the total gifts column, but what a shame to lack only eight men who could have come through with one dollar each and have given Andy the satisfaction of making the "participation" quota. One dollar puts your name on the list but the gift must come from each individual or one of his family, in order to count as participating. Andy 01 some others could have put in eight dollars but it would not have added a single participant. Hope some of the men who forgot or procrastinated will bear this in mind next year and thereby ease the job a bit for Andy. He deserves it!
Getting back to Talley Holmes: having retired from teaching, he now has a hotel on his hands and is very active in the real estate business with his son Talley Jr. as his assistant. His younger son holds a government position.
"Dutch" Wagner responded to Andy's reminder by urging him to make a visit to Hyattsville, Md., which is not too far from where Andy's married daughter lives. "Dutch" wants Andy to meet his wife, son and daughter. (Bring 'em to reunion, Dutch.) Son Bob is in banking in Hyattsville and daughter Joanne is an executive secretary in a business organization in Washington. "Dutch" commutes bi-weekly between his job with New York Quartermaster Procurement Agency and his home in Hyattsville. Vic Willis, who has been in Louisiana all year, writes that RogePierce offered to drive him up for reunion but Vic says he neglected to say that he would drive him up from Louisiana. Roge thought he was in Jersey. Harry Sandberg had planned for the reunion but "unexpectedly was put to the necessity of moving" his plastics plant to other quarters and so he was tied down to the job. Dick Boerker is in Willow, N. V., fighting a couple of trespass actions, selling a woodlot, remodelling his home and getting ready to rewrite a book on the national forests. This will require a lot of travel through the western forests.
Herb Wolff is a former president of the New York Society for Ethical Culture and he has served on the board of governors of the Ethical Culture Schools for 40 years. As a fitting tribute to Herb's long period of service, the schools made him guest of honor at a dinner recently. He received an honorary diploma of the schools, having been a student from 1898 to 1904.
That collaborator of "The King of Ukan" Charlie Libbey has stepped up for another award for accomplishments in office management. This time it is the National Office Management Association's Leffingwell Medal. The award was made at the International Conference banquet in San Francisco. It is given annually to that office executive who has made outstanding technical contributions in the field of office management. Charlie received the award for the outstanding staff programs he has directed for the Tennessee Valley Authority where he is head of the office methods staff. Subjects considered in making the award were records management, methods study, forms coordination, office work conditions, standards for supplies, equipment and stenographic standards and for special manuals for formulating and maintaining office standards in T.V.A. Our congratulations to Herb and Lib.
We'll plan for a Harvard game "night-before" dinner as is customary. Watch for the usual reply postal and please think up some bit of news or gossip to put on it and send itin. Incidentally, 1910 has not made an enviable record in attendance at Boston alumni functions lately. What do you say to getting back to normal this fall and taking in the game and dinner?
This chapter must close with the sad news of two more Tenner losses. "General" Grant passed away July 4 and Irving "Scotty" Scott on August 13. Both made fine records in their fields and both were Tenners who missed no opportunities to gather with the Class at reunions. "General" had hoped for warm weather to make it possible for him last June and Scotty wrote that he would have been there if we had scheduled a weekend. "General" will be remembered for his pitching on the Class teams and Scotty was among those who strove for honors on the track. We are going to miss both men.
New addresses: A. D. Bresler. Box 575, University Branch, Miami 46, Fla.; //. B. Chadburne, 1308 Louisiana St., Vallejo, Calif.; D. H. Curtis, 1487 E. Hampton St., Tucson, Ariz.; R. S. Hursh, 100 E. Ohio St., Chicago 11, Ill.; ]. E. MacPherson, 235 Edgell Rd., Framingham, Mass.; R. D.Meredith, 501 Cannon Place, Troy, N. Y.; W. A.Phelps, Sherman's Point Rd., Camden, Me.; W. E.Tucker, 16 Ridge Rd., Bronxville, N. Y.; S. C.Willis, 439 North sth St., Baton Rouge, La.
Secretary, 416 Cannon Bldg., Troy, N. Y. Treasurer, 6 Stiles Terrace, Newton Center 59, Mass.
