1909

A Trip Down Memory Lane

A few weeks ago a mail packet from Bradford, Vt., arrived in Aurora, Ohio. The only conclusion was that it came from the eminent doctor of immunology, Sanford Burton Hooker, retired. He's the only guy in Bradford I know. In the package were reminders of our college days - treasured material such as we accumulated for our Memorabilias. Sanford must have been cleaning house. It recalled the time Guy Richard Carpenter '10 moved from New York to San Francisco and sent me a bunch of his Dartmouth keepsakes.

Here was a copy of '09's original constitution, adopted prior to graduation. Unless several amendments have been made since issue, certain directives are at variance with present practices.

A baseball program and score book for the season of 1909 carried a picture of Captain Dutch Schildmiller on Page 1, and one of Manager Jake Mason on the back page. Sanford, evidently," had been keeping tabs on a game we played with Amherst, the Green coming out on top, 4 to 2. A note admonished students to notice advertisers in the program and "patronize them as much as they can, provided they wish something in that line." Sound advice.

Among the ads were those of Al Newton's fish house in Boston: Ed Orrill's barber shop - "Post your classmates and not let them go to inferior shops to be butchered"; Carl V. Peterson, the college tailor; Storrs' Dartmouth bookstore; Roy Camp's Dartmouth Cafe; Doc Poole, the dentist; "Guyer's for Fresh Groceries"; "Save Your Old Clothing for Robert Kaplan." (Remember Robbie?); The Arcade - "Amusement and Phonograph Parlors."

A program of the Junior Week concert by the Musical Clubs was included. LyndeTucker was listed as manager, Lou Wallace '10, his assistant. Mort Hull, '08er who graduated with our class, was leader of the Glee Club; Danny Watson of the Mandolin Club. '09 singers were Herm Walker and WileyPeck, first tenors; Art Swenson, Ed Martin,Fat Dillingham, and Ralph Clement, second tenors. "Lillian" Al void, first bass; DukeNaylor and Anson McLoud, second basses.

On stringed instruments, '09 was represented by Danny Watson and Bull Hadden, first mandolins; Heinie Stucklen, Anson McLoud (the boy was versatile), and Jim Hitchcock, second mandolins (Jim has since be- come a mainstay in the '09 quartet); JackChilds, Reggie Colley, and Herb Tirrell, guitars; and John Hancock Dowdell, violin.

The Glee Club went to town on the Hanover Winter Song by Richard Hovey '85, Mighty Lak' a Rose, The Village Choir, the Finale to The Founders by Harry Wellman '07, and the Dartmouth Song. The Mandlin Club beat out: the Blue Jackets, Marsovia, the Red Fez, and the Glow Worm. I'll confess, the only tune that sticks in my mind is the Glow Worm.

The ushers, naturally, were all '10 men. They looked dashing in their dress suits and took their jobs quite seriously. Johnny Farwell was head usher. He was assisted by Larry Bankart, H. R. Chadbourne, H. N. Cushman, Jim Everett, Charley Fay, Jack Field, Tom Foster, Karl Maerker, Johnny Shambow, J. E. Sickman.

Other mementos includes a post card with a picture of the Dartmouth 1906-1907 basketball team —Dutch Schildmiller, Ben Lang, Captain George Grebenstein '07, who, was All-American choice two years running, Dick Lane '07, and King Brady '10. The principal scores were 30 to 11 over Harvard; 31 to 15 over Penn; 36 to 18 over Yale; 30 to 7 over Brown. Some team!...A College Bulletin, dated September 25, 1907, gave information about Dartmouth Night; new buildings (North and South Fayerweather, Massachusetts, the Swett House, and the new medical building); faculty changes and appointments . ... Another item - a handbill advertising the big vaudeville show at GAR Hall, engineered by my friend, Charley Truman, and me, recounted in an earlier ALUMNI MAGAZINE. ... Sanford even enclosed some court-plaster that must have been at least 50 years old.

A fragment of an old newspaper, yellowed with age, carried the heading: "Princeton Beaten by Dartmouth in a Thrilling Struggle - Tigers Prove No Match for Husky Aggregation from Hanover." This was the fall of our senior year, with Spuddy Pishon '10 playing quarterback. The first Dartmouth score was set up when Dartmouth got the ball on Princeton interference.

"That was the beginning of Dartmouth's aggressive tactics," said the account. "Whiteheaded Hawley, left halfback of the Hanoverians, started the crowd into a frenzy of excitement by running through a broken field for 40 yards. He was downed, fighting and struggling like a madman, on Princeton's 35-yard line. Chunky little Pishon urged on his men, but the Tiger line held like adamant. The diversity of Dartmouth's attack was here shown, to the dismay of Tigerdom.

"A signal was given and from his position at left tackle, Sherwin ('11) dropped back. Princeton was puzzled as to whether it was to be a fake kick or an end run. Disillusionment came when the stalwart New Englander, after calmly surveying the Tiger line, extended his hands, seized the pigskin and, as the Princeton forwards came tearing down on him, with one mighty lunge of his right foot sent the ball spinning a dozen feet over the crossbar and between the posts for a perfect field goal. Score, Dartmouth 4, Princeton 0. The Dartmouth adherents burst all restraints of their versatile cheer leaders and rent the air with their shouts of triumph."

The triumph didn't last long, however. Princeton came back to score a touchdown to put the score at 6 to 4. It looked for awhile as if it might be a Princeton victory. "But Dartmouth," continued the account, "was fashioned out of different material. No sooner had the Tiger scored than the New Hampshire fighters started in again to play football in CAPITAL letters."

On a Princeton runback, Jack Ryan ('n), who had replaced Jack Ingersoll ('11), tackled the runner so hard he fumbled the ball and Pishon fell on it. Dartmouth couldn't gain, and after a kick by Jack Marks (10), the ball was again lost by Princeton on another fumble, Pishon recovering. Spuddy tried to gain around left end on a fake kick, "but the giant Seigling burst through, and with one hand dragged him ten yards back. When Seigling performed this act, one vision in blue who was cheering wildly for Dartmouth, expressed her opinion that Seigling was a brute for so attacking a little fellow."

From then on, Dartmouth power prevailed. "Hawley, now bruised and bleeding from a wound over his left ear, again electrified the crowd by a great 35-yard dash around the end. The tow-headed Dartmouth left half recalled the days of Desaulles of Yale, and Princeton's Bannard by his remarkable end running."

At this point, the balance of the account was torn off, but, if I recall correctly, this was the game in which Dutch Schildmiller caught a forward pass to score a touchdown and Dartmouth won, 10 to 6. It was in this game that Dutch was watched by Walter Camp who named him on his Ail-American team of 1908.

Reporters, in those days, had an intimate, graphic style o£ writing that might sound corny in these time of atom bombs, jet planes, and Sputniks, but me, I'll take the corny, human stuff.

Merry Christmas to one and all.

1909 Fund Contributors

152 Gifts (Participation Index 109) Total Gifts: $6,500.03 (84% of Objective) A. GORDON WEINZ, Class Agent

Abbott, Royal K. Adams, George R. Andrews, Harold L. Ashworth, William Atwood, William T. Austin, Frank S. Ayer, Benjamin1 Bachelder, Everett E.2 Bankart, Henry R.3 Bartlett, Hollis M. Bates, Albert W. Bedell, Arthur S.4 Beebe, John C.5 Bird, Francis H. Blake, Clifford A. Brannum, James H. Brett, Chester S. Brock, Fred S. Brown, Ogden Brown, Walter E. Bruce, Robert M. Buchanan, Harry E. Bull, Wilbur I. Burns, George T.6 Burns, Robert A.7 Burpee, Benjamin P. Burroughs, Harry E.8 Butman, Carl H. Carroll, Frederick A.9 Catharin, Norman R. Chappelear, Edgar S. Chase, Laurence C. Chase, Philip M.10 Childs, John R. Clark, Harold S. Clement, Ralph B. Cole, Philip S. Colley, Reginald H. Cory, Frank L.11 Cowles, Russell Cummings, Clarence E. Dean, Lindley R. Dillingham, Herman L. Dole, C. Elbert D'owdell, John H. Dudley, Benjamin H. Dunbar, Clarence E. Dwenger, George H. Eaton, Walter I. Erhard, Emile H.32 Fardy, Thomas A. Farley, Leon B. Fearing, William I. Fleisher, Horace T. Floyd, Harry R.13 Follansbee, Merrill M. Foss, Harold R.14 Ford, Edward C. Foreman, Harold E. French, Bertrand C. Gates, Stanley Glynn, John F., Jr. Goodhart, Joseph A. Goodrich, Ernest H. Graff, Joseph R. Graves, H. Wilbur Greenebaum, James F. Greenwood, Oliver P. Hadden, Arthur A.15 Hall, Harold S.16 Hansbury, John E. Hatch, Joseph R.17 Hawley, Jess B.18 Hazel ton, Sidney C. Herrick, A. Lowell19 Hibbard, Hazen K. Hilliard, Curtis M. Hinckley, George H. Hitchcock, James Hodgkins, William H. Holmes, Robert J. Holzer, William F. Hooker, Sanford B. Howard, Eliot R. Howland, Nathaniel J.20 Irwin, Burr P. Jackson, William M.21 Jewett, Maurice G. Johnson, Frederick C. Kennedy, George F.6 Kilburn, Ira N.22 Killam, Carl Kincaid, Percy B. Laton, Fred D.23 Leighton, Stanley W. Locke, Richard B.24 Loughlin, William A. McCurdy, Allan M.25 McLoud, Anson MacNaughton, P. John Marshall, Leon C. Martin, Edwin D. Mason, J. Karl Meleney, Henry E. Meyers, John T. Moffatt, Elbert M. Morawski, Frederick H.° Morse, Leon J. Mower, Robinson H. Newton, Allen E. Newton, Jonah J.26, 21 Nolan, Leo10 O'Brien, Frank J. Oliphant, George W. Olmstead, Frank T,21, 27 O'Mara, Arthur J. Parker, Thomas O. Parkinson, Taintor28 Patch, William T. Patterson, William H. Peck, Warren L. Perry, Chester N. Pettengill, Russell A. Plummer, Frederick B.29 Pool, Sterling H. Pratt, Harold H.30, 31 Prescott, Harold M.32, 18 Readey, Maurice Reagan, Frank J.6' 33, 34 Reed, Fred L. Richardson, Leroy M. Richardson, Ralph J.35, 4 Rogers, Earle J.36, 37 Root, Kenneth E. Rose, Philip M. Ross, Wal'ace M. Saville, Clark Schildmiller, George H. Scully, Bernard M.4, 21 Sheldon, Curtiss L. Shoppelry, Arthur H.6, 21 Sidley, Walter A. Smith, Mark A.11 Snow, Clifton A. Solomon, Frank34 Sporborg, Arthur J. Stanley, Arthur B. Stark, Eugene M. Storer, Perley N. Stucklen, Henry W.38 Swenson, J. Arthur Theller, Ralph 39 Thomas, Walter E. Thompson, Sidney H. Thorn, Craig Trickey, Charles L. Tucker, Lynde W. Tuttle, James N. Varney, John C. Walker, Herbert M. Walker, Herman L.40 Ward, Harry A. Watson, Daniel E.6 Weinz, A. Gordon Wellsted, Thomas C. West, Vernon F. Whitcomb, Henry B. White, Arthur C. Whitmore, Harold C. Wight, Ralph M. Wing, Richard L. Worthen, Joseph W. Wright, Louis F. York, George M.16, 36

MEMORIAL GIFTS FROM:

1 Leon C. Marshall '09.

2 Mrs. Bach elder.

3 Mrs. Bankart.

4 Wilbur I. Bull'09

5 Mrs. Beebe.

6 John R. Childs '09.

7 Joseph W. Worthen '09.

8 Mrs. Burroughs.

9 Mrs. Carroll.

"Mrs. Chase .

11 C. Elbert Dole '09.

12 Mrs. Erhard.

13 Income from Harry R.Floyd Fund.

14 Oliver P. Greenwood'09.

15 Mrs. Hadden.

16 Curtiss S. Sheldon '09.

17 Mrs. Hatch.

18 H. Wilbur Graves '09.

19 Mrs. Herrick.

20 Sister, Mrs. R. L.Wing.

21 Ralph Clement '09.

22 Mrs. Kilburn.

23 Brother, George P.Laton '06.

24 Mrs. Locke.

25 Mrs. McCurdy.

26 Philip F. Smith '23.

27 Mrs. Olmstead.

28 Brother, RoyalParkinson '05.

29 Leon C. Marshall '09.

30 Mrs. Pratt.

31 J. Arthur Swenson '09.

32 Mrs. Prescott. 33 75 , w „ w..

33 Mrs. Reagan.

34 James F. Greenebaum'09.,

85 Mrs. Richardson.

36 Edgar S. Chappelear'09.

37 Mrs. Rogers.

38 Brother. Carl L.Stucklen '11.

39 Thomas C. Wells ted'09.

40 Maurice Readey '09.

A 1909 Junior Prom group in front of the Psi U House. L to r, front row: Dutch Schild-miller '09; Leila Jenkins, the girl he married; Ted Smith '10; Emmett Hay Naylor '09; unidentified girl; Minnie Reese Richardson; Tex Morris '12. Rear row: Jack Childs '09, Eddie Poole '11, Bill Williams '10, Warren Agry '11 and Swede Needham '11.

Class Notes Editor, 141 Pioneer Trail, Aurora, Ohio

Secretary and Treasurer, Sandwich, Mass.

Bequest Chairman,