1910
Boston area Tenners may hold up their heads now. A delegation which totaled ten attended the annual Boston Alumni dinner. Charlie Fay tells u.s that he and the following were seen and heard at this event: AlFerguson,Ray Gorton, Irv Jewett, Hazen Jones, ArtLord, Win Nay, Slip Powers, Dinnie Pratt and Ed Shattuck. Ten Tenners make a real crowd on any occasion but especially at the Boston dinner where two or three lonely guys have tried to hold the line in recent years.
Larry Bankart's successful reign as head football coach at Colgate, way back when, was recalled recently. In his column "College Viewpoint" in the New York Herald Tribune, Irving T. Marsh quoted from a Colgate communication which was prompted by references to Notre Dame's new coach, Terry Brennan as the youngest head coach appointed by a major College football power. To quote the quote, "Back in 1910 Colgate named Larry Bankart as head football coach before he turned 21. In fact very few of his players were younger than he was. Bankart is regarded as one of the best disciplinarians in the sport and compiled a six-year record of 33 victories, eight losses, and four ties in some very fine company.... Those were the days when the myth that only Harvard, Yale and Princeton were major football powers was being exploded, and Larry helped furnish the dynamite." All of which shows that you can't keep a good man's good record, down.
From several sources we have received a clipping of a two-column story which appeared early in February in the Chicago Tribune's financial section, labelled "The Road to Success." This particular one of a series attracted Tenner attention because it was the life story of that star performer in tennis during our first two years in Hanover. The man is Lawrence F. (Shorty) Stern, president of the American National Bank, and recently reelected president of the Chicago Clearing House Association. The story is a pleasing tribute to a man who has made a great success and who has remained modest and unassuming and considerate of others. Shorty has retained his pleasing personality well known to many Tenners. One unusual fact the writer of the story brings out records the reverse of the normal happenings in life. All have heard of many cases where the father-in-law has found or provided a job for the fellow who has married his daughter. In Shorty's life it worked the other way. His son-in-law urged and finally persuaded "Pop" to "come over to my house," only this was and is a banking house. It was in '39 that the son-in-law, Robert Straus, prevailed upon Shorty to come to the bank on a part-time basis. A year later he accepted the presidency permanently. Shorty has had an important part in financing some of Chicago's outstanding enterprises. During his presidency, deposits have grown from 50 million to 300 million. It is now the sixth largest Chicago bank.
Reunion is on the minds of a lot of Tenners. The informal event is growing in popularity. Expressions from Herb Woods, Heinie Barrett, Don Bryant, Dick Boerker, Shing Sherwin, Hap Hinman and Heinie Reed indicate that the subject is being given serious consideration and hopes are high for a return to Hanover in June. Our dates will be in the week between the official reunion weekends the week of June 14.
We learned some time ago that Herb andDaisy Wolff were planning to spend about a month of the winter in Jamaica, B.W.I., so we may assume that they are back again in Old New York. Herb said he was going to make up for a summer in which he had only a few days of vacation. John Finn in acknowledging receipt of the "small scrapbook" greeting card writes, "It brought back college memories. Would we could do the whole thing over again!" There is one Tenner who never misses a reunion. Kay Dyer stirred himself to the extent of a letter with an old print of some Tenners of the days of World War I. When we learn the details we may be able to use the photo for the edification of all.
A letter from Easty Eastman gives some light on that old Maine propagandist, LennyMcClintock. Easty says, "Lenny is the same old Lenny - still going strong. He spends all his spare time at gardening. He keeps up on all Dartmouth affairs and carries on a healthy correspondence. He is a very thoughtful fellow - always thinking how he can do something for others." Easty visited with Otto Taylor in New York in the fall. We had a card from Bill Taylor during the holiday season which was more than just a "greeting" and we appreciated it. It is encouraging to hear from Tenners and to know that they are often thinking of the Class and the College. There's a hint here. See if you can locate it! Rogpierce says he is taking life easy - "work a little and play when I get a chance." JuliusWarren gave notice last year, to his Board of Education in University City, Mo., that he would retire in '54, but since they were in the midst of some building and financial problems, they did not want him to quit. So we do not know whether it will be '54 or '56 for his retirement. He was undecided at last writing, that we know about. Walter Phelps writes that there "is not much to report from this peaceful spot on Penobscot Bay in the heart of Yankee Land, where to be a Democrat is a social error and to be a New-Dealer borders on disorderly conduct." He suggests that it would be good for all if some other spots recognized these same breaches of the peace.
Bert Kent retired February 1 from Hercules Powder Co. and has been made special assistant to the president of-the Hadley Falls Trust Co. Bert went to Holyoke in 1916 as a salesman for the Paper Makers Chemical Co. and eventually became sales manager covering New England and New York. When Hercules acquired Paper Makers Chemical, Bert was made plant manager in Willimansett. For the past two years he has been a special sales representative in the Eastern area. He was one of the founders of the Connecticut Valley division of the American Pulp and Paper Mill Superintendents' Association. He was its first secretary and was recently made a life member. He has served as president of fhe Holyoke Industrial Association, president of the Dartmouth Club and as a director of the Rotary Club. He is vice president, a director and member of the Board of Investment of the Mechanics Savings Bank of Holyoke. And be assured he is a live Dartmouth man.
Ned Loveland is really active in organization work for Vermont milk promotion. He is treasurer of the New England Dairy and Food Council in Boston. Vermont furnishes 70% of the milk going into the Boston market area. Ned is secretary of the Dairy Council of Vermont and of the American Dairy Association. The last-named is a national dairy products advertising agency. You can feel Ned advising you to drink more milk - Vermont milk if you can get it.
Keith Pevear says he is in fine health and happily busy. And Frank "King" Brady notes that the "high spot of the year was a chance meeting with that noble senator, Gaius Gleason, who rendered a most brilliant dissertation on things in general." And now speaking of things in general, any Tenners who have overlooked, intentionally or otherwise, the reminders from Jess Wilson, Treasurer, that he is waiting for you to come across, give him the help now so that when he reports with the other class treasurers in May, he will not show a Tenner recession - rolling, stumbling or halting.
And at the . same breath, let's make Andy Scarlett's job a little easier a little earlier this year. Let's keep the class in our Class.
New addresses: G. E. Chamberlin, R.F.D., Box 327-A, Red Bank, N. J.; H. P. Jackson, 10 Crestmont Rd., Montclair, N. J.; E. J. Kerns, 22 Baker St., Worcester, Mass.; Malcolm Stanton, 635 A Washington St., Wellesley 81, Mass.
THE JACK RUSSELL FAMILY, increasingly a Dartmouth family, includes two graduates and a senior. In the group behind Jack Russell 'll (r) are (I to r) John Jr. '38, daughter Margery and her husband, and Lawrence '54. John's wife Betty is in the front row with Hazel Russell and grandchildren.
Secretary, 501 Cannon PL., Troy, N. Y.
Class Agent, 8 N. Balch St., Hanover, N. H.
