1910
Jess Wilson, retired fire insurance executive now living at Kittery Point, Me., has been elected by our executive committee as treasurer to succeed our treasurer-of-the-year award-winner, Earle Pierce. As noted in TENNER TOPICS recently, Earle has suffered a setback. He has accepted it as a warning and has decided to relinquish the job he so much enjoyed. We sincerely hope he will make his usual comeback. He certainly has had to make more than his share of rallies from physical wallops and he always comes up with that same old "Pierce-o" spirit.
Jess Wilson naturally was hesitant (and who wouldn't be?) about taking on the work which Earle has handled so successfully. (During the past year he collected from 185 men of the Class.) But Jess has the time and the very definite desire to serve the Class, and with the cooperation of every one of us, he will make the kind of a showing that Earle hopes for. Jess has been an adjuster of losses during his business career. It is up to us to make him a recorder of gains.
The executive committee has filled two vacancies on its board, caused by Jess Wilson's and my moving into spots given up by HapHinman and Earle Pierce. The new members of the committee are Rev. Bill Moe and Leon(Mac) Kendall. These are two men who have demonstrated their high regard for the Class and who have always made it a practice to be on hand for reunion if at all possible two fine additions to the group.
The old scrapbook reminds us of that sudden jolt, athletically, which was handed us 45 years ago this fall soon after we returned to the College for our sophomore year. Do you recall the shocking announcement that practically the whole baseball team of the previous college season had been declared ineligible because of playing "summer baseball"? That meant playing for a few dollars and board, maybe, and it was definitely frowned upon. Wasn't there something of the prophetic in the Boston Herald's comment, when we consider the basketball and political scandals of recent months? Said the editorial:
"Dartmouth's summary action in declaring students ineligible who have ceased to be amateurs in sport comes as a logical pendant to Dr. Tucker's speech. It shows that Dartmouth intends to clean up a situation which needs equally rigorous handling in other colleges. . .. The trail of professionalism, using that word in its worst sense, is over too much of our sport and our academic life and friends of a higher civic conscience as well as of education cannot but rejoice at Dartmouth's action. Standards of conduct gained in devious college sport are too often found'workable when one gets into the game of life."
Incidentally, do you recall that startingagain from scratch we fielded a baseball teamfor the 1908 season which actually made abetter record than the previous year's team? That was the year when Walter Norton, ChadChadbourne, Louie Langdell, Frank (Kina)Brady, Tom Leonard and Johnny (Mitch)Mitchell got into the picture and made the varsity. Forty-five years ago!
Among those who visited the Hanover scene before or after, but not during our informal reunion: Noah Foss, Bill Brown and wife, Hal Sprague and wife and GayGleason and wife. The old place holds its appeal! Ernest "Steve" Stephens was there also. His son Ernest Jr. was a member of this year's graduating class and Steve was there to see that the College gave him a good diploma. Larry Bankart caught a glimpse of Steve and had a brief word or two with him. Odd coincidence: Larry met Steve in the fall of Steve Jr.'s first year. Steve's son has gone to Circle, Mont., with the Geotechnical Corp. of Dallas. Steve's older son was lost in the war. Steve is superintendent and secretary of school committee in Lynn, Mass. ThayerSmith reports that he discovered on one of his calls at the Summit, N. J., hospital where he is attending physician, that one of the brightest young men in the service of the hospital is Harold Robinson's son.
Bert Kent has been elected to the board of investment o£ the Mechanics Savings Bank of Holyoke, Mass. He has been a member of the board of trustees for some time. BillTucker retired last January, went to the Pacific Coast to visit his daughter Doris, stayed four months and then came back in time for the Smith College Commencement, when his daughter Carol was graduated. A letter from Ken Phelps says he got quite a kick out of the reference to freshman year musical clubs trip. Said he had forgotten that your Sec. was his roommate in Boston but that he did remember that that roommate had shown him how to fold a full dress coat and that he had followed the practice ever since.
Andy Scarlett found the Gay Gleasons at Squam Lake, N. H. Andy has been collaborating all summer on the revision of a text- book. Hap Hinman and Marion have had a quiet summer entertaining their two grandchildren, aged eight and five. Hap made a plane trip to Washington via Detroit and brought the children back with him. Rev.Harold Winship has begun his fourth year as pastor of the German Congregational Church in Clinton, Mass. He reports that during his pastorate the congregation has increased its gifts to world-wide Congregational projects —in '51 over- 300% more than in '50. JuliusWarren is engaged in a big building program and expansion of personnel,for the University City, Mo., school system which he "superintends." Ted Smith says news about the big snowstorms in Hanover are interesting but he doesn't like snow any more. He prefers the winter temperatures of Havana 70- to 80 degrees.
Leo Sherman according to last report was looking forward to a busy summer, moving into a new million-dollar science building at Grinnell College, lowa. He feels that he is especially fortunate to have one year, his last before retirement, in this fine new building where his chemistry department will have the whole second floor. Kay Dyer could not make the reunion because he had on the fire the job of tunnelling under the B & A tracks from Soldiers Field and he had to be on hand in case they struck gold or at least some old golds." Art Rollins had to forego reunion because "closing up the school year in seven New Hampshire towns makes me spread my- self so thin that, at times, I do not cast a respectable shadow." That we've gotta see!
When this MAGAZINE reaches you the Harvard game reunion will be down in history. We'll tell you about it later.
Address changes: Guy A. Coburn, 2708 N. Grandview, Albuquerque, N. Mex.; Harry H.Mudgett, Gilmantown, N. H.; Lewis M. Williams, 185 N. Wabash Ave., Chicago.
Secretary, 416 Cannon Bldg., Troy, N. Y. Treasurer, Bond Rd., Kittery Point, Me.
