1910
When Tenners read this, another college year will be nearing its end. That points up the fact that June '55 is just a year away and that jolts us into realizing that our big 45th is coming into view. For a number of us this year's informal reunion will be a kind of preview. The experience of the thirty-odd Tenners who have joined in this informal event in the past two years has shown that getting back to Hanover for these occasions has been a highly enjoyable and worthwhile peerade. Every Tenner and wife has gotten better acquainted with every other Tenner.
There is one couple which will probably be unable to get back this year. That couple is the Chadbournes. They spent the winter in Belfast, Me., so when they started back to Montana, they were able to swing through Hanover and get the inspiration which a return to the place always provides. They visited with Andy and Bertha Scarlett and Chad and Andy stopped at the hospital for a visit with Larry Bankart. Larry has been a hospital patient again, this time with a ruptured disc. He is coming along O. K., but slowly. This disc has been bothering Larry for some months, or rather years, and he had planned before leaving for Florida early in the year to have the operation when he returned.
Mentioning Florida again reminds me that a letter from Bill Taylor a while back told ofWhit Eastman's plan to combine business with some Audubon Wild-Life tours, so we hope to hear that Easty has chalked up the discovery of some more rare birds as he has done in past wanderings around Florida. Otto Taylor has been working for a number of years, studying the relation between costs and prices, and this work has resulted in an appointment as a member, with six other specialists, of the Federal Trade Commission Advisory Committee on Cost Justification.
Three other Tenners, Ralph Paine, JimEverett and Hap Hinman have been busy serving their communities in important ways. Ralph has been elected president of Federated Funds in his home town, Waterbury, Conn. As head of the Howland Hughes department store for many years, Ralph has been active in community affairs and the honor of heading up this Fund organization is a well-deserved tribute to his interest and activity. That rip-roaring guy Jim Everett of Nashua, treasurer and general manager of the Wonalancet Co., has been named to head the annual appeal of the New Hampshire Catholic Charities, Inc. The clipping from the Claremont Eagle carrying Jim's picture notes that he is president of the Cotton Importers Association and a director of the Second National Bank of Nashua. Hap Hinman's activity has been in connection with his Cardigan Mountain school for which he plans the erection of a dormitory accommodating forty boys. One has only to be with Hap a short time to learn how devoted he is to his Cardigan Mountain boys.
Andy Scarlett's first letter about the current Alumni Fund drive brought several replies and contributions from widows of Tenners. Mrs. Wayne Steward wrote, "I am sure Wayne would want me to keep in touch with the College even in this small way. Somehow, I feel very close to you all because you meant so much to Wayne. He loved Dartmouth and all it stood for. Our son, Major Chadbourne (named for Horace Chadbourne), is at present stationed just outside of Tokoyo. . . . We have two daughters and eight grandchildren - one 19 years old, a student at U of Houston, and another in the same family, one year old. Too bad Wayne could not have lived to enjoy them all. With good wishes and much appreciation for remembering me. It means a lot."
From Mrs. Jim Lowell: "Here is my modest answer to your call. You do a wonderful job with your appeal because somehow you make your letter sound as if it were to each person alone - even I feel as if I belonged to your 1910 family. Good luck with your collecting."
From Mrs. Johny Hobbs: "I enjoyed your 1910 Class Letter of April 1. It sounded like a lot of work ahead of you so I am enclosing check now to lighten your burden of follow-up letters. Best wishes for a very successful Alumni Fund campaign."
In sending her Fund contribution, Mrs. Lefty West writes:
"How I wish it could be larger, but I do want to do a little in memory of Lefty, who loved Dartmouth and the Glass of 1910 more than any words can express. I do hope everyone in the Class will do all he can to make this year's goal, for to my mind, none can fully repay all they gain from attending, if only for one year, - to say nothing of graduating from such a fine college."
The reproduction of the Paul Sample painting of Ledyard Bridge which the Fund Office sent to all alumni stirred Harold Robinson's thoughts and memories to produce a timely commentary on today's events:
"The journey across the Ledyard Bridge in 1906 has taken me to Hawaii and back, across the Pacific nine times, which with the Atlantic trip took me around the globe via South America, Africa, Ceylon, India and China. It has been a long and most interesting journey. . . . Like the wooden structure which Sample has shown in his picture, the one on which I have worked for 35 years is having to be replaced by one of modern design and more lasting materials but the old bridgehead has not been destroyed. When I left Tientsin in 1950 after having spent half of my life in China, the Communist policeman who gave me my exit visa said, 'The present international situation has nothing to do with you personally and when you get back to America tell the American people that the Chinese still think of them as their friends.' I am confident that such is the case and the bridgehead of understanding and friendship is still intact in the .hearts of the Chinese people."
Mrs. Ben Ames Williams visited Hanover to see the exhibit which Baker Library arranged of Ben's books and manuscripts. She visited with Bertha Scarlett but Andy was busy in class, so missed the meeting.
A letter from Mrs. Frank Fleming acknowledged eceipt of "Memorabilia from College Days" at Christmas time.
"It brought back many happy memories. Frank would have enjoyed it had he been here. Frank passed on in July '51. In going through Frank's papers I found the enclosed old snaps which he intended to send to the Club Secretary. . . . Someone might get a kick out of them, especially the Dartmouth Diner (Tony the Pop Corn Man and his dog standing in the doorway of his diner)."
It has been such a pleasing experience to have these contacts with the several Tenner widows that we have tried to feature this side of the Tenner family. Not incidentally, either, do we hope that the examples of the ready response to Andy's first letter will impress many and hasten their movements towards their checkbooks to "lighten the load" as Ermine Hobbs worded it. We particularly hope for action from many of the previously silent ones in the class who are still breathing the air of freedom but have not acquired the habit of helping to improve the Tenner record in the files of the Alumni Fund. Come on fellows, let's do the job we will be proud of!
When Slip Powers was a slip of a lad his dad was a member of Congress and Slip, fifty-odd years ago, was a youngster "running around the 'House,' " down in Washington. We don't know how much running around our congressman, Eck Hiestand, was doing fifty years ago, but he did some running around California a short while back, and got a free ride to that same "House," so familiar to Slip. These two met in Washington recently and had a Tenner visit. Slip looked around the "House" and decided everything is so changed he did not know the place. He is coming back to another old haunt in June - our informal reunion. He knows a lot of the old scenery is just the same in Hanover, in spite of the fifty-odd years.
In a collection of souvenirs which came from Pineo Jackson before he retired was the report of our late Spuddy Pishon in 1915 showing a group picture of the 1913 reunion and whooping it up for the 1915 gathering. That sure was a long time ago. But how easy it is to recall and relive those early days when we were just beginning to hit the pace for the run down through the years. And now we are looking forward to the 45 th anniversary year! There is one fact that stands out - now that so many years have passed, and the ranks are thinner - a lot of men who did not admit of sentiment are showing a very deep interest in their fellow Tenners and appear to want to know "what and who" about the others. All of which adds up to this: Don't be modest to the point where you keep news about yourself and your families covered up so we cannot uncover it. Write a line once in a while - especially you men whose names do not get into our news. We want to write about every Tenner, but some one has to pass news along to the writer.
We may not be capable of writing a famous last line, but we know we can write a very important last line. Here it is: "Don't miss the plane 'Board! Get Aboard the Fund Special!"
Address changes: E. H. Dusham, 607 N. Burrowes St., State College, Pa.; H. P. Hinman, Canaan St., Canaan, N. H.; R. L. Woodworth, P.O. Box 73, Brattleboro, Vt.; L. M. Williams, c/o Marsteller, Gebhardt & Reed, Inc., 185 N. Wabash Ave., Chicago 1, Ill.
Secretary, 501 Cannon PI., Troy, N. Y.
Class Agent, 8 N. Balch St., Hanover, N. H.
