1910
"1910's 45th in '55"
"BOARD!" And the food prices in the College Hall Commons in October of 1906, which were the subject of our Christmas Greeting card, seem to have had a Magic Carpet effect on a lot of Tenners, transporting them back mentally to those early days of freshman year. Some comments we've heard:
Guy Carpenter - "Mailing piece just arrived. It means I shall be soon tying on a bib and trying some fried mush and maple syrup." Chad Chadbourne - "Good Lord, what a greeting card! I am practically drooling with hunger; or am I only remembering what hunger was? And that right-hand column! That reminder is really an assault on the emotions." Harry Sandberg - "I got a real thrill from the 1910 Greetings and have shown the menus to many friends. They too, marvelled and enjoyed hearing me tell of the good old days when we ate 'Force' and bananas three times a day to save money for the football trips." Rollie Reynolds - "And did that Christmas Greeting card bring the Old Days back!! Lamb Chops - 15¢, Loin of Pork - 14$, etc. The second generation of Tenners who have families to feed, just can't believe it. As I looked it over, the vision of the Commons dining room came to life: the long bare tables - the gallery and the 'wooding up' which saluted each female visitor therein - and the 'mileage' which was the regular medium of exchange and at times served as 'chips' at a friendly poker game. I was a four-year customer of Commons and ate there every semester save one, when I patronized one of those eating clubs where my roommate Charlie Libbey worked as waiter." Pineo Jackson - "Your greeting to Tenners this year is terrific. One can hardly realize the purchasing power of the old-time dollars as a fact. I know of one poker game where the dining room coupons often figured as chips in the betting - sort of a supplemental monetary system." Jack Richmond - "Your kind thought of us was tremendously appreciated and we are reveling in the menus of our freshman year. That truly is something to look back on." Harold Winship - "Your Christmas Greeting was very interesting, recalling memories of the Commons and the 'combos' we used to order so often. I came up a week early in 1906 and asked Johnny Aulis if there were a job I could fill at the Commons. He said, 'Well, we try to take care of the boys on the football squad.' I asked, 'Are they all back yet?' And Johnny replied, 'No, so you can fill in for a few days.' I started work in the kitchen, - after each meal, packing the dishes into those wire baskets, ready for the washing machine. Johnny never told me to get through and I 'filled in' all through freshman and sophomore years, earning about 51¢ a day - enough to pay board."
Walter Phelps - "Your . recent Christmas Greeting in the form of a reproduction of several menus of the College Commons in the fall of 1906 was sure a knock-out. Roast beef, pan gravy - 15¢. Just imagine it! In my freshman year in Hanover, I paid $3 a week for 21 meals at the Gibson Club. Then they raised the ante to $3.50 and we all said 'My gawd, how are we going to live if things go up like that?' We didn't realize what was coming to us later when the Democratic Party got control of the country and started issuing some of Bill Bryan's wooden money." Jess Wilson — "I have shown it to a number of people who were amazed that food was ever that cheap. That was in the days when there were no price supports at 90% of parity and politicians hadn't dreamed of government's creating shortages by buying all surplus crops." Ed Dusham - "Wouldn't it be wonderful to get meals at such, prices today?" Guy Perry - "Thanks for the Greetings to 1910. It sure brings back memories. Forty-eight years can certainly change a world and its ways. Sometimes it seems to me that all the worthwhile things we enjoy today, and quite a few that we could do without, have come about within my memory or a period of some 65 years. I doubt if there will ever be a period of equivalent length that will be more interesting to live through than the one you and I have been privileged to experience, and there is still time for us both, I trust, to enjoy a few more miracles."
Everett Robinson - "Thanks very much for the very interesting 1910 Greeting card reminiscent of other years." Andy Scarlett - "I keep my card in the living room and show it to everyone who visits us. It makes for conversation, and doubtless others use it in the same way." Mrs Hoitt Charlton - "Your card this year was most interesting and was cause for much laughter among the young fry who can't remember and who don't realize such prices ever existed." Mrs. Helen Fogg Page - "I did appreciate your Dartmouth College menus. Those were good old days. The young people of the present day cannot appreciate them. They do not have steak for breakfast at any
getting Tenners to think a lot about Hanover and to recall those good days of 48 years ago is just what the doctor ordered for a reunion year. The more we think about Hanover the more certain we are to get Tenners all over the land, to decide that this is the year to get back - while so many of us are able to make it. Nuff sed?
"Yankee Storekeeper Runs Old-Time Butter and Egg Business" is the four-column head of a Pittsfield, Mass., newspaper story about a Tenner:
"Allen Dorr maintains both his daily routes and small food shop. In this age of hurrying shoppers and vast supermarkets, it's a refreshing change to walk into the small store owned and run by Allen Dorr, a slight, bright-eyed man who readily fits the description of a Yankee storekeeper, right down to his high shoes. Mr. Dorr, who specializes in butter and eggs, selling to a substantial wholesale trade, runs a comfortable neighborhood grocery at 12 Dalton Ave. The B & E business dates back to 1871 when Mr. Allen's father started selling small homegrown fruits as well as butter and eggs. There were 1200 route customers, and butter sales alone totaled a couple of tons a week. Business is conducted in an orderly but leisurely manner in the shop. Customers stop and chat; youngsters with a nickel for an apple get the same friendly treatment accorded a customer who might buy a large order of the choice Jones Dairy Farm bacon, ham or sausage, specialty products of which Mr. Dorr is very proud. 'I've had some of the same customers for 45 years,' to quote the storekeeper."
So-o-o-oh, with Allen Dorr promoting the sale of butter and eggs and Ned Lovelancl pushing the sale of milk through the many associations he is tied in with, the Class can take pride in the fact that at least a couple of Tenners are doing all possible to prevent surpluses. If you get anywhere near Pittsfield be sure to look up the Yankee Storekeeper and have a chat while you are looking over the stock.
According to the dope from Jesse Wilson, our Treasurer, there are just a few Tenners who have overlooked the statements of dues he is charged with collecting. Since this is reunion year and since soon after you receive this copy of the MAGAZINE, the Alumni Fund and Andy Scarlett will take the center of the stage, you should come through promptly. Help the Class to make a new record in dues collected in this reunion year.
Shorty Stem was elected early in January to the newly-created position of chairman of the board of the American National Bank & Trust Co., Chicago. He had served as president since 1940. During that period total deposits increased from over 67 million to more than 326 million dollars. Instead of the five floors occupied in 1940, the bank now requires nine.
Bert Kent's son Charles has been chosen to receive the Distinguished Salesman's Award from the New York Sales Executive Club. He is New England representative for the Reardon Company of Bayonne, N. J. Bert's comment: "The old man spent his business career in sales but never won an Oscar."
Wilk Wilkinson's daughter Jean came East last fall to attend Cushing Academy. "So now we live from day to day," writes Wilk, "in anticipation of a plan to go East to attend the reunion and bring her back." Mac Kendall's younger son Bob '49 was married the week before Christmas and that was cause for a grand family reunion and celebration of an early Christmas with all of the children and grandchildren. With nothing to keep them in the North longer, Mac and Florence left for Florida before the end of December. Win Nay's granddaughter was graduated cum laude from Radcliffe last June.
Speaking of sons and daughters, my younger son Dick, Colgate '43, for the past three years one of Arrow Shirt's New York City salesmen, has been sent to Hong Kong as Far Eastern manager, the first such representative the company has had. So now we read interesting letters telling about raids and court sessions for the prosecution of local manufacturers of shirts, which they label and sell as American Arrows.
Art Bucknam says, "Still on my feet," but without gall bladder, spleen and a kidney, to accomplish which he was laid up for seven weeks, - eighteen days of the period in the hospital. Bill Tucker is again attending Columbia. He has a granddaughter, born in the summer at Fort Hood, Killeen, Texas, where his daughter Carol Troka's husband was in an armored division. Mai Bissell spent six months abroad last year, mostly in Northern Europe. One month was spent on the return trip via a freighter through the Panama Canal. They drove nearly 5000 miles in Scandinavia and about 3000 in Holland, Belgium, France and England. "Never had a flat tire!" The Ted Smiths spent four months in Europe, returning in the fall. They are "banking on Hanover for the 45th." Jack Bates is in Florida, having arrived about the middle of December. He wants Tenners to look him up at the St. Petersburg Yacht Club.
Word has reached us that Cliff Rice died January 14 in Los Angeles. He had been in poor health for a long period. See In Memoriam in this issue. Our deep sympathy goes to Rev. Bill Moe in the loss of his wife in January.
Address changes: H. C. Comey, 3020 Valencia Way Ft Myers, Fla.; R. R. Gorton, 244 S. Stone St, c/o A. T. Weldon, Deland, Fla.; H. P. Hinman, PO Box 1268, Clearwater, Fla.; L. B. Kendall, 15612 First St., Redington Beach, St. Petersburg, Fla.; H. F. Kidder, 1012 Poplar Hill Rd., Baltimore 10 Md.; C. K. Pevear, 66 Pleasant St., Marblehead, Mass.; Ernest Stephens, 60 Baltimore St., Lynn, Mass.; W. L. Taylor, Briny Breezes Park, Delray Beach, Fla.; J. S. "Wilson, 1200 N. Fort Harrison Ave., Clearwater, Fla.; J. C. Warnock, Rt. 1, Box 159, Eureka Springs, Ark.
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