1910
Though it is fifty years since Tenner history began to be recorded, there are many indications that Tenners are still at it. For instance, here's Eck Hiestand, a retired businessman but a very active Congressional Representative from a California district. He is running for reelection and about the time Tenners get to reading this chapter, they will be counting the ballots, for Eck. Some time in the summer, soon after our informal reunion, someone passed along a couple of syndicated stories about Eck. One was headed, "Inhumanity of Man to Beast Shocking." The story tells about Eck's reading some years back about a fight in a circus cage between a gorilla and a puma which was allowed to continue until an attendant finally settled the issue by shooting both animals. "He was revolted and shocked," says the tale about our Eck, "by the inhumanity of man to beast in letting the fight run on so long."
Later, following out his idea of encouraging his constituents to "write your Congressman," Eck received a suggestion that something should be done "about the inhumane butchering of animals in our commercial slaughterhouses." Recalling the cruelty of the gorilla- puma fight, he decided to do something in the field of mercy towards animals. Eck introduced a bill to require humane methods of livestock slaughter. "Why?" the article asks. "Mr. Hiestand is no crackpot on the subject. He has hunted and killed animals in sport. Moreover, he is leary about overfederalizing the law-books, and he has enough to do in the area of business-type legislation where he is competent. But his reasons for offering this humane slaughter bill and in supporting others of the same nature, went something like this: 'It seems to me that a damage is done to society when public sensitivities are shocked and offended. We lose something of our finer instincts when we permit cruelty to go unchecked. My bill has something to do with the value of the individual, with the fight to preserve the individual in his dignity and to save him from being replaced by the group.'" The article concludes: "Well, you don't often hear such philosophizing from retired businessmen and right-wing congressmen. The word has got round that men like this are too busy serving the soulless corporations and busting the unions to have any interest in the realm of idealism." Thus we learn that Eck is not satisfied just to "decorate" a chair in Congress. We have real reason to feel proud of the record of our retired Tenner.
Whit Eastman, another of our retired Tenners, has been elected a director o£ Honey-mead Products Co. which we believe is concerned with Soybean products, a field wellknown to Whit. On one of his bird-hunting trips into Colorado, he and his wife Karen set up a Tenner dinner party at the Mile High restaurant which was attended by Ralph Van Zant, Fred Brooks and wife, and Bob Woodcock. Les McKay had accepted Easty's invitation, but he has not been well of late and had to cancel his acceptance. Easty says that he and Fred Brooks recognized each other at once, even though 45 years had passed since their last mutual glimpses.
Another of our retired members who keeps very active, is Bert Kent. He has been elected vice-president of the Holyoke (Mass.) Rotary Club and that means a 52-week job of providing the speakers for the weekly meetings. He is president of the Chamber of Commerce and holds a job as assistant to the president of the Hadley Falls Trust Co. in Holyoke. He has always been a prime mover in the Dartmouth group in Holyoke which accounts for his arranging a grand farewell dinner for Ted Main '14 as he retires and takes up residence in Florida.
Pineo Jackson is another very busy retired gentleman. Besides running up to Hanover to represent Herb Wolff's Class Bequest committee for the conference of class representatives in mid-September, he recently completed a job as chairman of a Citizen's Committee surveying the insurance program of the Montclair (N. J.) Board of Education. Some time ago Pineo presented the Map Department of Baker Library with a collection of World War I Battle Maps, some of which he took from a German Officer at the Battle of St. Mihiel. These were of particular interest because they showed how much detailed information the enemy had of the positions and installations in back of our lines. HaroldWashburn, who was an Intelligence Officer with the 26th Division in the same sector, has seen these maps and found them very interesting.
Ken Phelps has retired and moved from Minneapolis to Menlo Park, Calif. Having been a member of the Minneapolis Rotary Club since '49, his separation from that group was cause for his picture to be used in the club's weekly publication, Journalette, along with the regrets of the members at his leaving. Whit Eastman tells us that Ken's last patient before he closed up shop, was a child with a button in her throat. Ken removed it and then learned that 30 years before he had performed the same operation upon the child's mother. Minneapolis' loss is California's gain and Guy Carpenter will welcome a new Tenner to the Coast group.
Carp has been on the job every minute for months, lining up matters for the WinsorWilkinson Memorial which the Dartmouth Outing Club of Northern California is planning at the cabin which owes its existence to the indefatigable efforts of Wilk. A dyed-in-the-wool newspaperman, Carp has seen to it that every angle of publicity appeal has been worked. To him goes the greatest measure of credit and appreciation for the accomplishment of gaining enduring recognition of Wilk's work by Dartmouth men of the Northern California area, by our Class and by personal contributors, supplemented by a treasury donation through Executive Committee action.
Carp tells us: "Wilk was THE driving force, especially in the past ten years, in the completion of the cabin of the Dartmouth Outing Club of California. ... He planned, he employed his engineering skills, he gave of time and money to set up what you might call an altar to Dartmouth traditions in our Coast Mountains much like a missionary in the old days set up a replica of a New England meeting house in our mining camps. ... So, summing up this adventure, I believe that we here have an unusual opportunity to give a Ten-Up, to display to the younger alumni something of the cohesion of class that we, of the old days, took as a matter of course ... we can with the expenditure of a few dollars give suitable recognition to one who so loved his college that, as the saying goes, he never left college."
Some who have just retired or are close to that point: Heinie Barrett on September 30 from Ernst & Ernst ending a forty-year connection; and Ralph Noyes on July 28 after twenty years with the New Hampshire Dept. of Public Works & Highways as landscape engineer, chief of survey party and finally, assistant division engineer. In reference to another Tenner recently retired, here is a quote from the column titled, "Town Toppers," in the Minneapolis paper: " 'After 41 years of teaching, I can lie abed when the school bells ring next Monday.' The prospect of a late snooze appeals to Dr. Richard M. Elliott, University of Minnesota professor emeritus of psychology." Mike ended his active service on the faculty, July 1. He plans to "keep my hand in my professional editorial work for a time. Rube Copp is another on the Tenner retired list. He moved back to the New Hampshire hills.
Herb Wolff returned in mid-September from a five-week holiday abroad. He and Daisy went over by boat, spent a week in Paris, a few days in Switzerland and two weeks in Italy visiting Milan, Florence and Rome. He was privileged to be in London and hear the debate in Parliament, on the Suez situation which he says was "exciting and thrilling." For the return trip to the good old U.S.A. they took a plane. Herb says this glorious vacation has put him back on his feet.
Referring to the photo of a Tenner on one of these pages - you probably noted that anotherTenner 'made' the "Wah Hoo Wah" column in the October issue. Jim Everett appears to have been acting the part of good neighbor in the South American country of Peru. You could just figure that Jim would 'cotton' to an idea which would be lending a hand. The "idea" was to promote in the United States, the use of several types of Peruvian cotton. Along with this accomplishment on Jim's part, went achievements in fostering good will and friendly industrial relations between Peru and our country. For this Jim received the Order of Merit of Peru with rank of Comendador bestowed by his Excellency, Don Dernando Berckemeyer, Ambassador. The presentation took place July 26 in the Peruvian Embassy, Washington. About one hundred attended the reception in our Jim's honor. This is the highest decoration the Peruvian government can bestow upon a foreigner like Jim. Wah Hoo Wah!
Some Tenners get to Hanover between reunions. Registered at the Inn during recent months: Bill Brown and wife, Art Lord and John and Mary Vander Pyl.
Address changes: Charlie Fay, 114 Fenway, Boston; G. A. Graves, Pelham Hall, Coolidge Corners, Brookline, Mass.; Ken Phelps, 20 Waverly Court, Menlo Park, Calif.; FletchRogers, Rt. 2, Box 2715, Elk Grove, Calif.; Thayer Smith, Box 235, Woodbury, Conn.; and Jess Wilson, 1332 Woodbine St., Clearwater, Fla.
Reminder: Look up that notice you received from Jess Wilson, if you did not follow his subtle suggestion promptly. He has started from cold (and Democratic) Maine for Florida, but he is carrying on as Treasurer just the same.
In memory of the late Winsor Wilkinson '10 his classmates have placed this plaque in the Commons Room of the cabin of the D.O.C. of Northern California near Donner Pass. Wilkinson planned and personally directed the erection of the cabin in the Sierra Nevada mountains, 190 miles from San Francisco.
James R. Everett '10, treasurer and generalmanager of the Wonalancet Co., Nashua(N. H.) textile firm, has received Peru's Orderof Merit for promoting use of Peruvian cotton and fostering friendly industrial relations.
Secretary, 501 Cannon PI., Troy, N. Y.
Treasurer, 1332 Woodbine St., Clearwater, Fla.
Bequest Chairman,
