1910
Plans for the informal reunion, June 11 to 14, are shaping up. Was in Hanover over the weekend of February 17-19 and fastened down some parts of the program: we'll be housed in South Massachusetts; will have our class dinner at the Outing Club, Wednesday evening, possibly an outdoor event if the weatherman plays ball with us. Speaking of weather, the Saturday I was in Hanover, it was just like "our time," with an all-day snowstorm on top of a good layer from previous storms. I had a grand visit with both the Scarletts, slept in their guest room and inspired Andy to go to the Friday and Saturday basketball games. We won both games, one from Cornell and one from Columbia. We saw the track team wallop Brown (freshman and varsity) and the Dartmouth freshmen swimmers trim Harvard '59. It was a big weekend of sports, and much conversation about Tenners.
While at the College, I asked the Alumni Records Office to give me a check of the Tenners who had returned the filled-in questionnaires for the new College Directory ofLiving Alumni. Just 135 men have responded. We should have more men who are interested in having the Directory carry correct information about their present whereabouts. Will you men who have failed in this, please get busy and get the correct information to Hanover? Come on, "Ten-up, Ten-up!" Let's have a revival of Class interest on the part of you few men who haven't responded to any appeal in recent years.
As mentioned in an earlier chapter of Tenner news in this column, Mai Bissell and wife have been touring South America since early in December. While in Buenos Aires Mai looked up Scott Perry. Mai writes that Scott's family were away but he was lucky to find Scott in his office on a Saturday morning. The Bissells will visit Cuba on the way home and Mai plans to see Ted Smith. This is one more instance proving that the Tenner reunion spirit is in full bloom since the "45th in '55." Art Lord phoned one morning about ten days ago, saying he was in Troy for a call upon the prospects for his line of textbooks, - Rensselaer Poly and Russell Sage College. So we had lunch together and a quiet chat later in which my wife Gladys joined us. We learned that Art's younger daughter Laura, who has been since last June attached to the Ford Foundation in Djakarta, Indonesia, will return when her year is completed. This pleases Art and Bertha because Indonesia is a long way from home. It has been a wonderful and thoroughly enjoyable year for Laura but a lonesome one for the House of Lords in Newton. Art reported that he had visited with HerbCoar and dwelt at length upon the pleasures and profits for all Tenners who make it a point to spend a few days in Hanover for the informal reunion. He hopes Herb will take the hint and Art's next objective is to contact Oliver Johnson.
Mac Kendall writes from Florida that he is glad to hear that the informal reunion dates have been fixed for June 11-15. "We plan to be there," he says, "for much of that period and hope that we can have all the regulars and many new ones present." Pineo Jackson has joined the Florida contingent of Tenners. Vero Beach is his location and he planned to be gone four or five weeks. By the time this chapter appears in print, some of these wintersoutherners will be on their ways north to become rehabilitated to their more usual environment.
Charlie Libbey tells us, "I am looking forward to June 11-14 and you can count on me. Or to put it as a more considered opinion, try to keep me away, if health and circumstances permit. It will be in my vacation schedule."
Dick Carpenter and wife Nancy had lucheon with Don Bryant and Ethel early in February, when the latter Tenner couple was in San Francisco on the way to Hawaii. Writes Carp, "Four hours of review and preview covered almost as much territory as the visitors will see on this wintertime vacation outing from Chicago to Hawaii, a return to San Francisco, and thence to give Los Angeles a size-up." Carp says that Don and Ethel are real boosters for Tenner reunions. "It is difficult to imagine anyone as articulate, or, as they say out here on the range, more multiloquent, than Ethel Bryant when reciting the virtues of Tenners and their better halves, or in reality their three-quarters, or even, perhaps, their seven-eighths."
A card from Charlie Fay lists these Tenners as attending the annual Boston Dartmouth dinner: Hazen Jones, Art Lord, Win Nay,Roger Pierce and Charlie. That is quite a drop from the figures Tenners have been posting for this affair, in recent years. Wonder why. Shorty Worcester, sending Andy Scarlett a check for the Alumni Fund, said he was about to start for Elinor Village, Ormond Beach, Fla., and he was afraid he wouldn't have it left after "bumming around" as he expects to do through other parts of the Peninsula before settling down at the Beach. Bill Taylor, who trailers around the country but spends the greater part of the year at Briny Breezes Park, Delray Beach, writes that Hap Hinman wrote from Clearwater, telling Bill that there was a prospect that the Dartmouth gathering talked over at Hanover last June may materialize at Naples, Fla. Bill says there are enough of '09, '10 and '11 in the general neighborhood to make a worthwhile meeting possible. We'll be waiting to hear from Bill if this Dartmouth gathering for dinner comes to pass.
A note from Art Allen tells of his having visited Bill Woolner in the New England Baptist Hospital. Bill had a fall which resulted in a broken leg, and this, on top of a broken knee which kept him from reunion last June, seems too much for any Tenner. Art says Bill is doing all right but is terribly bored with the extended hospitalization he will have to endure. Sympathy doesn't help much when a good man is held on his back against his will, but nevertheless, we do feel it for Bill and we hope he surprises the medics and recovers faster than they expect. Art missed the 45th but says he is definitely counting on this year's get-together.
Thayer Smith writes in answer to HerbWolff's "challenge":
"Why defer this debate between Herb and myself until next reunion? I am ready to join combat now. He attempts in the February number of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE to challenge my record of five sons at Dartmouth, by a legal subterfuge called a 'participation index', arriving at a score of 100% for himself and only 83 1/3% for me. May I point out to distinguished barrister that, although great credit is due him for sending all his four sons to Dartmouth, if he must use this 'participation index', there are count- less other alumni with only one or two sons who share this 100% record. I still claim supremacy with a score of 125% of his numerical representation, and shall calmly await any further challenge."
So, Herb, as George Gobel says, "There you are." While Thayer awaits the further challenging of his enviable record, we on the sidelines await with interest the next move on the part of our distinguished Tenner lawyer and Chairman of our 1910 Bequest Committee. He must come up with something.
Tenners are active in forming new Dartmouth clubs. Herb Woods has been a factor in gathering together the alumni in and around that part of Connecticut where he lives. He tells about a mid-winter affair to which the wives were invited and there was a really enthusiastic group present. Then along comes word that Dinnie Pratt was among present at the second meeting of the newlv-organized Dartmouth College Club of Cape Cod. Bert Kent, long an active promoter of Dartmouth affairs as an-officer and member of the Club of Dartmouth men in Holyoke, attended the Alumni Council semi-annual meeting in Minneapolis in January. Bert was present for the three-day meeting, as the Southern New England member of the Council. We figure that this is one of the pleasantest chores Bert has undertaken since college days and we know of no Tenner who would take this activity more seriously. Before this column is read by any Tenners, your Sec. will have attended the New York kick-off dinner for the Alumni Fund and that means an opportunity to have a luncheon session with those three Tenners who so successfully planned and managed our "45th in '55" — Herb Wolff, Ray Seymour and John Vander Pyl. This is something to look forward to with anticipation of a real gabfest.
Some address changes for your "1910—Who and Where": George Allen, 6014 College St., Montpelier, Vt.; John Brooks, 19 Bailey Ave., Claremont, N. H.; Guy Coburn, 2437 Parsifal, N. E., Albuquerque, N. M.; Jim Drummond, Station S75499, Los Angeles, Calif.; Art Rollins, RFD 4, Laconia, N. H.
Sitting together in the same pew in chapelduring freshman year were these 1911 classmates: (l to r), Pearson, Pendleton, Perry,Patton and Partridge.
Secretary, 501 Cannon PL, Troy, N. Y.
Class Agent, 8 N. Balch St., Hanover, N. H.
