1910
The weather very likely upset the plans of many Tenners to see the victory over Harvard in the Stadium. But the weather didn't keep the "old guard" from enjoying those "side events" which have become real fixtures in 1910 history. There were twelve Tenners at the University Club dinner where several of the classes of our time annually join in reunion. The twelve: Art Allen, Cush Cushman, Charlie Fay, Al Ferguson, Ted Hill, Bones Jones, Art Lord, Russ Meredith, Ralph Paine, Roge Pierce, Jack Richmond, Herb Woods. All but Jack Richmond, who arrived from New York just in time for the dinner, were on deck and on time at Charlie Fay's home for the third annual afternoon event. Marie and Charlie surely do make all Tenners feel like long-lost cousins when they arrive at this fountain of youth and hospitality. All Tenners who send back the post cards indicating intention to attend the reunion dinner at the University Club are contacted, if reasonably possible, by Charlie and invited to his home for this phase of the Class reunion. Good food, good drinks and good fellowship hold the center of the stage. On every one of these "occasions" we have heard recounted various episodes of those days of yore when we were young, innocent (?) and game for any kind of adventure. To say "Thank you" to Charlie and Marie is a very mild way of expressing our whole-hearted appreciation. Yet we could not mean any greater degree of thanks, no matter what words we use. It's a grand reunion of Tenners.
A reprint from the Illinois Medical Journal, August '59, brings us the complete text of "The Address in Surgery" given in May by our own Dr. Frank Meleney, at the annual meeting of the Illinois State Medical Society. The subject: "Changing Concepts in the Use of Antibiotics in the Treatment of Surgical Infections." This is something for a layman to wade through, meeting medical terms we never heard of, but since it treats a matter which nearly every one of us meets in the course of a lifetime, surgery, it should be of general interest to know some of Frank's thoughts. He traced the "changing concepts" through a period of years; he stressed the vital role of the laboratory and the tests for sensitivity of the organisms and the close cooperation required between the clinicians and the laboratory, so that the most potent antibiotics may be employed at the earliest possible time in the course of the infection, thus giving patient the full benefit of medical knowledge and reducing the time and expense of his hospital stay. "Such effective treatment of individual cases," said Frank, "will aid greatly in minimizing the spread of these organisms by carriers among hospital personnel through-out the hospital environment." Frank puts himself in the layman's corner when he asks:
How responsible is the hospital management and its board of directors for the infection that develops in a hospital? If a patient comes into the hospital expecting to spend four or five days for a goiter operation, or eight or ten days for a hernia operation, and infection occurs and he is in the hospital two or three times as long because of the infection, should the hospital remit his bill for those extra days? Has the patient any ground for suit against the hospital or any of the individuals who took care of him during his hospital stay? These are questions I cannot answer, but they will have to be faced unless this problem of hospital infections is solved.
A great many Tenners have had at least one hospital experience. Wonder if many have run into this problem of "hospital infection."
Jack Thomes from Maine writes to Jess Wilson in Florida, "Have just picked my fine northern peaches here — one bushel." Trying to make Jess feel sorry that he left the Pine Tree States for the Florida sunshine. And Leo Sherman, native Vermonter, who has been fifty years a resident of lowa, writes that he is back in Vermont for a while, "enjoying the hills and looking forward to seeing the beautiful coloring of the leaves for only the second time in fifty years." The Ed Lorings during recent months made a tour covering 14,000 miles through 32 states. Time; twelve weeks. Another Tenner with the travel urge, is Ralph VanZant. His territory: New Mexico, Mexico, Texas, Wyoming, Black Hills, South Dakota, Grand Canyon, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Bryce and Zion National Parks. Next year's route will include Hanover in June.
When a Tenner, in this 50th year, not only can continue to play golf, but makes the eighteen holes in a smooth 79, it should not be reported as 89. Yet that is the news was garbled when our "star" reporter wrote up the feat which was performed by Lew Williams. Bet he will bring his clubs to the 50th so he can tackle the Hanover Country Club. This ought to get a rise out of some Tenners: Bill Harlow wrote on his Harvard game postcard. "Not retired. Working to pay the taxes the Democrats have imposed."
Our hospital list is getting longer. Julius Warren reports that he spent eighteen days in the hospital and is on a "pretty restricted diet." Word from our Rev. Louis Nissen doesn't come very often but now we learn that in September he underwent major surgery. We hope to have better news soon. Bill Woolner, semi-retired but active as chairman of the board, New England Envelope Co., has lived through six operations and at this writing is about to experience another. This one concerns his eye. Several were due to knee injuries. But he plans to be in Hanover in June.
John Brooks retired this year but is one of those retired Tenners who is not tired. He serves as a member of the City Council in Claremont, N. H.; is a Director of the Claremont Co-op Bank acting on the loan committee; and is treasurer of the Episcopal Church. Dick Boerker spent a long period in southern California visiting Sequoia, Redwood, then Portland, where he contacted Louie Langdell, Olympic Park, Mt. Rainier, Grand Coulee, Glacier Park and Wyoming. About Louie Langdell, he writes, "He eats, sleeps, and dreams baseball." Ken Phillips continues his duck hunting out Omaha way. He says, "It is nice to know so many Tenners are left and I still cherish their friendship but have little chance to show it." If my trips to Wyoming did not always take me through Omaha in the middle of the night, I would have looked you up long ago, Ken. Some day I may make it.
Beezle Parker has been practicing housekeeping because his wife, "Bun," suffered a broken hip late in the summer. And Ed Keith's wife, Lila, broke the bones in her left wrist. Herb Woods and his wife, Virginia, have been patronizing the Mary Hitchcock Hospital with several visits, Herb for shoulder treatment and Virginia for eye operations.
Is your engagement calendar marked for June in Hanover?
Friends and proteges of Jim Haggerty were Tom Ready '05, baseball coach during '09's undergraduate days, and Walter Norton 'l0.
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