1910

This sure is reunion year. And not all of the reunions in which Tenners have been the prime factors have taken place in Hanover. The latest one on my list, however, did take place in the Old College Town. Herb Wolff and I met in Hanover September 16 when we attended sessions of the Bequest Conference which the College holds early each fall. This was the baptism of Herb in his responsibilities as chairman of our class committee set up for this activity. The other members of the committee are Whit Eastman, Pineo Jackson, EdKeith and Billy Williams. Herb got into the program with both feet. He was selected in advance to sit on a panel of three, to give their opinions and reactions to the several ideas presented for discussion at Saturday morning's session. After the business sessions were concluded with a luncheon at the Outing Club House, Herb and I went down to the practice field to watch a football game between teams selected from the varsity squad. We had not been seated long before HaroldWashburn joined us, and a little later, AndyScarlett, with his red-hot dope on the football prospects made the fourth member of this impromptu reunion. We met Hap Hinman on the street near the Inn. Larry Bankart was undoubtedly in the crowd but, unfortunately, we did not see him. We learned that Larry expected to make the trip the following week to see the Colgate-Dartmouth game on Colgate's home field. This, we hope, indicates that Larry has made good progress since we saw him at the June reunion. Incidentally, the Colgate Alumni Magazine played up this game as the homecoming event of the fall, and as some of the material to arouse interest ran a reprint of the story of the Colgate game in Hanover in 1919 when "Swede" Youngstrom blocked a punt which with Jim Robertson's kick, produced a tie in the last sixty seconds of the game. That game was similar to the game this year in that the home team seemed helpless and hopeless in its attempts to stop the. visitors, until the very last minutes of the contest. The difference was that this year we missed the tie by the one missed kick after touchdown. That 1919 Colgate team was coached by our own LarryBankart.

Some other post-reunions: Paul Albert, DonBryant, Mac Kendall and Billy Williams greeted me at luncheon in Chicago when I was passing through August 15. We went over the June reunion and made Paul wish he had some kind of business which did not require so much personal attention in June. A week later I had dinner in Denver with Van VanZant and Les McKay. These two gatherings of Tenners have become annual events on your See's calendar. They are not only very pleasant occasions but are decidedly helpful in keeping tabs on many Tenners — not just those who are present. Wish there could be more, especially since this year there will be no "before Harvard game" get-together in Boston.

Another brief reunion took place over the phone when Chan Baxter called up WhitEastman. Chan developed some trouble which his doctor felt should be observed at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Writing from there, Chan said,

"I brought along that 1910 Who and Where booklet. Hoped I might be able to look up some of our bunch in Twin Cities or Pipestone but will be unable to, this time. Will be heading back to Tacoma soon now and believe everything under control."

Dick Carpenter, that easterner-turned-westerner, was roped into the publicity team for the Coast Enrollment Conference which will be history when these news items reach Tenners in November. Carp says he had to take a refresher course in ancient Dartmouth history and its roaming heroes, in order to put together the preface of the conference program, setting forth something of the early doings of Dartmouth men on the Pacific Coast. Carp mentions Ed Shattuck, one-time president of the Northern California Alumni Association. Says Ed has kept his host of Coast friends "wised up" on eastern football with newspaper clips, "a greatly appreciated service, as Ed always has retained a wide horizon working from a basis of the Boston papers."

A letter from Scott Perry from Buenos Aires tells about the trip he took after the reunion in Hanover and some visiting with Scott's brothers. They flew to London July 15 and spent ten days in Bradford, the English wool center. Then followed a visit to Paris and Zurich. They left for home via plane, August 18, visiting en route Paris, Madrid, Dakar, Rio and Montevideo. Scott's letter was written September 13, before the big events began developing down in Argentina.

When the Wilkinsons started for Walla Walla, Wash., with daughter Jean who is a member of the freshman class at Whitman College, it was Wilk's intention to visit with the Chet Scotts. But when he phoned Chet's home was shocked to learn that Chet had passed away about two weeks previously. Chet had suffered with heart trouble for some time. He had all along hoped to be well enough to be with us for the 45th but his improvement was not enough to' justify the trip. Wilk learned that the very day he died he had been to the doctor and from all the indications there was no reason to be alarmed. But his fatal attack came after he had reached home. The sudden passing of another Tenner has to be reported, that of Art Bucknam. Art had a cerebral hemorrhage on Monday and did not regain consciousness, passing away Thursday, August 25. These two were Tenners who maintained genuine interest in the Class and the College. They were the type of men we cannot afford to lose. Letters expressing our deep sympathy have been sent to the families.

We learn through Whit Eastman that BillTaylor and his trailer have been back in Minneapolis for much of the summer but Bill was scheduled to be back at Delray Beach, Fla., for the winter. Whit and Karen spent some time early in September at the same place where Mike and Mathilda Elliott had been earlier - at Palmer Gulch Lodge in the Black Hills. Whit says, "Troy Parker '11 runs a nice place in this Palmer Gulch Lodge."

A card from Dick and Irene Boerker who are covering wide territory as he hunts up material for the revisions of his book on the Nation's forests locates them in Utah where they were called because their daughter was hospitalized. Daughter Huldah had left the hospital and all was well, when the card was written.

Rollie Reynolds writing his regrets because he was unable to make the 45th in June, says,

"I shall be thinking of you all on these reunion days and shall hope that the sun shines brightly on the Hanover Plain and that you will have the best reunion ever. I shall look forward to your report in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and shall hope that the annual (informal) reunions will be continued so that Ruth and I, next year, can sit under the Dartmouth elms again."

By a roundabout route we have learned that Lennie McClintock has made a remarable recovery (from a pesky ulcer) and gives full credit to the great reserve strength built up in his Hanover days throwing water-bags. The news traveled to the Pacific Coast to Carp and so to our mailbag, sort of an "Eversto-Tinker-to-Chance," just to mention an old Troy big leaguer.

Make these changes in your address book if you are keeping it up to date: C. H. Kent, Hadley Falls Trust Co., 58 Suffolk St., Holyoke, Mass.; J. R. Kinney, 37 E. 39th St., New York 16, N. Y.; J. M. Porter, Box 303, Cambridge, Md.; Rev. H. W. Robinson, 430 Ellsworth Court East, San Mateo, Calif.; H. C.Schulte, 206 Blanche St., Houghton, Mich.

Secretary, 501 Cannon PL, Troy, N. Y.

Treasurer, Bond Rd., Kittery Point, Maine

Bequest Chairman,