1910
"1910's 45th in '55"
"1910 must have been a wonderful class," or words to that effect, formed the comment of the chairman of the annual dinner of West Coast Florida alumni when our men attended this event early in March. The delegation was made up of Ed Dusham, Mac Kendall, JessWilson and their wives, Walter Norton and Hap Hinman. Tenners last year made a similar impression at this alumni gathering. Four were present last year so they increased the "crowd" to five plus three wives this year. In his letter containing the "dinner" news, JessWilson indicates how these northerners get Florida into their blood. He writes,
"Someone has been overemphasizing the cold that has prevailed in Florida this winter. It is true that we had one cold night when the thermometer dropped to 30° in Clearwater and stayed there for about four hours. By noon that day the temperature had risen to 50 and since then has been pushing 80 most every day. I never saw such a spell of beautiful weather as we have had during the past four weeks. No frost damage was done to the oranges and flowers, and if anything, the trees and plants were improved by the cool nights."
So-o-o-oh, we hidebound (and in spots, snowbound) northerners who thought we were as well off staying in the North this year can understand that there was nothing really bad in the Florida sunshine belt this year, after all. Jess said he was to start north about the middle of April and then get busy mending his fences, etc., which he did not finish in the fall, which the "big winds" destroyed on the Maine coast. He says he will be too busy to attend the Class Officers' conferences in Hanover early in May. But we are hoping he will be unable to resist the call of Hanover.
Incidentally, any Tenners who have not obeyed that impulse to respond to those messages about "dues due" which Jess has been sending out during the past several months can help him make the Tenner report on collections show the Class to best advantage. Do it now if you are one who hasn't done it yet. It's our big reunion year. Let's make our best report possible.
Herb Woods may be a retired director of research of the AFL Operating Union, but that does not mean that he is just idling his time away down there in Deep River, Conn. Herb has been busy as a speaker at luncheons of Rotary clubs and similar groups, discussing labor and management problems. Recently he addressed the dinner meeting of the Middlesex Valley Industrial Management Club on the subject, "A Labor Man Looks at Management." The Union with which Herb was connected in Washington is not one which is periodically taking a strike vote. Herb had an active part in keeping matters on a frank "conference basis with the result that the record shows that settlement without strike was the rule." So when Herb talks to either labor or management groups, his custom is to be frank and realistic, rather than grasping and hot-headed. Just get him into a discussion of labor-management problems and you will understand what we are trying to get across at this point. This does not come to us in a letter from Herb. When he wrote recently, he was not mentioning the subject of "talking." He was making an offer to take on any chores which your Chm.-Sec. might be able to pass along in connection with reunion.
Speaking of reunion, Herb Wolff, our chairman, returned from a month on, over and around the "Islands" (Virgin, Haiti, Cuba and Puerto Rico) and is back at the reunion job. By the time you read this, the Dartmouth Club in New York will have been the scene of a meeting of the committee to which your Chm.-Sec. was invited, when most of the final details were cared for. Your own mail has brought evidence of that or it will very soon. This trip "down the River" was in connection with the New York "kick-off" dinner for the '55 Alumni Fund. This reunion year for Tenners is one when we will want to help AndyScarlett perhaps more than ever. The way to be of great help is, first of all, to "give," because in this particular year, we should not fail to make our participation 100% plus. That means that we must have at least 187 of the 230 possible givers. This does not concern the amount of the gift. It has to do with the mere act of giving. You know this but it is mentioned again, so that some who have refrained from giving because they felt that the gift would be too small will realize that the Class and the College depend upon the evidence of responsibility which is demonstrated by the number of alumni who give. The total amount which is raised by the Fund will reach the desired figure if every man gives something. Last year $16,000 was contributed by gifts of $5 or less.
Echoes from the "Greetings to 1910" folder! One of these got into the hands of Park Stickney '08 who passed it on to their News Editor, George Squier. George prepared a timely mailer for the class, making use of two of our menus to remind 'OB that the College did not charge us much for our board back in 1906. Another class seeing the "Greetings" tried to find menus of their time, which was near our period, so they could pass along this reminder of the good old days. It's been amazing the kick gotten out of seeing these prices of food in our time.
When Irv Jewett sent the list of Tenners who attended the Boston Alumni dinner, which list we used last month, the thought occurred, "Art Lord usually has been the source of this information. Wonder what's happened to Art?" But the wonderment did not last long. Within a day or two, the phone rang and it was Art Lord talking. He was making one of his visits to the campuses of Russell Sage College, Rensselaer Poly, Union and other nearby institutions. So we had lunch together and learned that Art had seen Irv writing down the names, so figured it was being well cared for - and it was.
Word from Hanover indicates that two Tenners who recently visited there are EdShattuck and Thayer Smith and their wives. Dinnie Pratt among other community services ran for the combined offices of assessor, selectman and welfare board member in the town of Sandwich, Mass. Unfortunately, there were not quite enough voters who know what a real guy Dinnie is, and he had to bow to his opponent who had held the office for the past year. Better luck next time, Dinnie. Your Sec once ran for alderman and won the primary by a few votes which, by the morning after, had been changed, so that the politician's favorite was given the nomination. But a court order gave us a recount and as a result the meddling politician was indicted for election fraud. There were over a hundred ballots credited to persons who did not vote in the primary. You have to watch 'em when you buck the well-oiled machine!
One of the cards that came in with the season's greetings in December was from Charlie Thomas down in Bridgeport - a very pleasant remembrance. We have tried to get him to tell us about himself but we cannot report success as yet. Pineo Jackson was especially interested in the article, "Preface to Dartmouth," in the December ALUMNI MAGAZINE, which tells of the early life of Eleazar Wheelock. Pineo's great-great-grandfather was a member of the congregation in Lebanon Crank (now Columbia), Conn., where Eleazar was called to be the pastor in 1735. The author of the article, E. C. Lathem '51, told Pineo that he "had no realization that there were alive today any descendants with Dartmouth associations."
Chan Baxter showed those Commons bills-of-fare to his salesmen and "told them I would know from now on, the basis on which to check their expense accounts for meals, etc., when on the road, and that I know now the cost for a breakfast, etc., and would be guided accordingly in approving certain expense accounts." Wayland Wood says he is still in the lumber business in spite of an operation in Boston during the year. He has three fine grandsons in Cincinnati where his daughter makes her home. Son Loring '45 is an M.D., now doing his two-year stretch in the Service as flight surgeon of a patrol squadron stationed in Japan.
We have just learned of the sudden death of Gay Gleason's wife Winifred in Florida. The deep sympathy of the Class has been extended to Gay in this sorrowful hour.
"1910's 45th in '55"
The score April I:
Tenners expecting to attend 89 Wives, children, etc. 53 Total (larger than at same time in '50) 142
THREE GENERATIONS of the Cooper family:Burt 'II (center), Dick '37 and Randall.
Secretary, 501 Cannon PL, Troy, N. Y.
Class Agent, 8 N. Balch St., Hanover, N. H.
