1910
"Just a wonderful experience which we think was the most stimulating and enriching event we have ever participated in pertaining to Dartmouth." That is a quote from comment by John VanderPyl who with his wife, Mary, was in Hanover for the great Convocation. A fine representation of Tenners was on hand including Larry Bankart, WalterGolde, Hap Hinman, Pineo Jackson, HerrickKidder and Bill Moe. Note that Walter Golde came all the way from his "garden spot" in North Carolina. His comment: "Have just returned from Hanover after three of the most edifying and stimulating days of my life." Referring to Massachusetts Hall, where he and;. his, wife lived those three days, Walter says, "In 1907 I hired out as a day laborer to help build this memorable edifice." Pineo, returning from a month of fishing in Maine, made his way to Jersey by way of Hanover. Larry writes, "I'm sure all were thrilled with everything and I hope all will read every word if it's recorded in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE." So let's all take Larry's advice and make up for not being present, by reading every word of the Big Story, in the October number, if we have not done so.
As this chapter is being written, our thoughts are wandering to days ahead - to the Harvard game and the 'night before' gathering of Tenners with men of other classes of our time. We are wondering whether Tenners will rally for another of these opportunities for reunion which, like it or not, are not to be so numerous for men of our age. Right now, we are hoping that this year will see a larger group on hand. Of course, by the time this appears in type to be read, the game and dinner will be history but we can think and wonder in advance, can't we? Incidentally, you received a post card with your Tenner Topics telling plans for the dinner. If you did not send your card back, with an item of news about yourself or some other Tenner, find the card and use it.
A post card from Andy and Bertha Scarlett from London, says, "Celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary tonight with dinner and wine at Braun's Hotel where we stayed twenty years ago." Andy was waiting and hoping to hear from Mike Elliot and EckHiestand.
Ray Seymour is wearing a new wrist watch the engraving on which states, "Downtown Athletic Club to Raymond B. Seymour, Secretary, for many years of faithful service." He was elected to his 11th term, at the annual meeting last spring. The timepiece is a solid gold, self-winding Girard-Peregaux, a well-deserved recognition of Ray's long and devoted years in the job. Ray, incidentally, is well qualified to talk "Colonial History" with Maurice Blake whose connection with New England history by way of the Dorchester Society, we related last month. Ray is secretary of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New York. He attended as a delegate the triennial meeting in Chicago of representatives of all the State societies. This fall he was in Plymouth, Mass., as a delegate from the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of New York. After all this plus his weekends at his farm near Pittsfield, Mass., Ray has found time for a little law practice. In a roundabout way, we hear that Paul Albert and wife are counting on a Caribbean cruise sometime soon, and we have recently learned that Heinie Reed and wife made the Caribbean trip last winter.
A letter from Dick Carpenter brings word that Tenners out California way have joined the swing to small cars. Rev. Robbie Robinson and Mai Bissell are classified in this group. Carp says that these shorter wheelbase cars are just the thing for some of their curving, narrow roads. They are quite something for the pocketbook, also, when it comes to buying fuel. On the reverse side of the dues statement which Carp sent to Treasurer Jess Wilson we find this:
"So far as I know my health is keeping pace with the upward turn in the nation's economy .. . and that combination, if it keeps up, may start me walking to the next reunion. Anyway, I still have some brass in my makeup. Went to luncheon the other day with Robbie Robinson who had taken delivery a half-hour before, of one of these hotrod imported cars and I was his first passenger. He says the toughest subject he ever studied was the Chinese language, and now he is trying to learn to communicate with this lively new family addition in German. I think it has something like four forward speeds and a reverse which means something like a half-a-dozen sesquipedalian gutturals at your tongue's end, if you want to go places. Anyway, I emerged right side up and without the aid of a parachute!"
Carp reports that Mai Bissell admits to a crick in the back but has painted the guest house on his ranch and is in the midst of harvesting his orchard. "If distribution were practical," says Carp, "Mal could put the whole Class on an apple-a-day diet. Long may he flourish!"
Before the football season opened up, word from Ed Loring indicated that he planned to go to Hanover for the Brown game and would take in the Harvard game. Ed probably sees as many Dartmouth games as any other Tenner and a lot more than most of us. He is still with the Turner Construction Co., working on the Stanley Works project in New Britain, Conn. Marshall Comstock tells us that his 7th grandchild, a boy, arrived in the summer. "Beezle" Parker writes, "Just got my final set of glasses. Both eyes now mates and working perfectly." That sure is good news after the operations he endured on both eyes. Bert Kent is another Tenner who likes to peerade to Dartmouth games, and being a retired businessman who is probably busier than before, holding down a job in the bank and heading the Holyoke Chamber of Commerce, he told us he planned to see four and probably, five Dartmouth games this year. Some Tenners have all the luck! Whit Eastman hopes to be with us at next June reunion if he does not go to Alaska to glimpse some more birds to add to his record list.
At last report, Ed Keith was planning a hunting trip to Quebec. Ed said the Keiths were enjoying the fresh vegetables from their garden but they had to share it with a fat woodchuck until their Vermont son went down and shot it. Bill Taylor says he is sorry that so many Tenners who get to Florida each winter, take up residence on the Gulf side. He misses out on the many get-togethers. Art Lord was able to catch Walt Wilson on the phone when he was hurrying home through California. Good news came from Earle Pierce telling that he hoped to see the Brown and Harvard games. Many Tenners are passing along their own objections as well as those of other alumni they run into, to the plans for the "disfigurement" of the campus with the planned "new" architecture.
Address changes: D. H. Curtis, 838 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica, Calif.; C. H. Kent, 37 East St., South Hadley, Mass.; Dr. K. A. Phelps, 140 Bear Gulch Drive, Alpine Hills, Menlo Park, Calif.; Fletcher Rogers, 1075 Sutter St., San Francisco, Calif.; J. C. Vander-Pyl, Fancher Road, Pound Ridge, N. Y.; H. E. Washburn, 1234 Main St., Ottawa, Kan.
Secretary, 501 Cannon PL, Troy, N. Y.
Treasurer, 1332 Woodbine St., Clearwater, Fla.
Bequest Chairman,
