1910

Let's go like sixty in '60 To make Hanover and the BIG "50"

"Somehow or other I shall make it back to Hanover come June. It's just too important to be missed." That is a quote from a note to Treasurer Jess Wilson enclosed with a check for Class dues. It is quoted anonymously here, because it could be from any one or all 179 living Tenners. Some who may be lukewarm on this subject will cheer up the Reunion Committee if they will ponder this quote seriously.

Our "Season's Greetings" picturing Main Street, Hanover, with an imaginary banner strung across the street, has stirred some comments from previously "unheard-from," indicating that some Tenners have accepted the suggestion and hope to join the Tenner crowd June 10-11-12. Writes Tom Leonard, "Your card of.greetings was very appropriate and well chosen. I think I can remember 1908, according to the Main Street at that time. There was a bulletin board on one of the buildings announcing the results inning by inning of the Chicago-Detroit World Series baseball game. How is that for memory? I would like to have you send me the daily program for the 50th reunion which starts June 10, and we will try to make it. Hope you are well and living as you ought to be." The Christmas season brought greeting cards to our house from a great many Tenners and we appreciate being included in so many Tenner lists. It's like receiving greetings from members of the family who are far away. And, of course, we are all members of the Tenner Family — and scattered.

One unusual greeting was an announcement of the marriage of our own Ray Seymour to Mrs. Sara McCaulley Mihalke. The wedding took place Dec. 22 in the Old First Reformed Church, Brooklyn. The newly-married will be "at home" after March 15, at 15 Sheridan Square, New York. The bride is Executive Director of Colony House, a large settlement house in Brooklyn. She is a graduate of Indiana State Teachers College and the University of Pittsburgh. She attended Columbia University, also. She is Treasurer of the Battle Pass Chapter, D.A.R., a Board Member of United Neighborhood Houses, and a member of the Committee on Recruitinent and Training of the National Recreation Association. Our sincere congratulations and best wishes to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond B. We'll have an opportunity to meet and congratulate them in person in Hanover in June, because Ray says, "that is one of the first 'future dates' we made."

Some Tenners are making use of the "family letter" style of greeting at the Christmas season. Thayer Smith with a large family to write about put out one of several pages full of snappy snapshots for illustration. Leo Sherman, now living for a while back east in Vermont caring for a 90-year-old aunt, tells of learning from her the history of the family and the country. The farm on which they are living has been in the Sherman family since 1809. Leo should sit down for a chat with Roge Pierce and Maurice Blake both of whom are enjoying the distinction of holding their old homesteads which originally came into the possession of ancestors many generations back. Harold Robinson devotes his "letter" to narration of his activities in his church field. Whit Eastman's "letter" naturally is printed on a letterhead showing a large picture of a bird in full color. And, or course, Whit's story is "of the birds." When the Eastmans built their new home, they very naturally planned a place where all birds (including any among Tenners) would be welcome. He tells how the birds were at first skeptical and suspicious but eventually got to like the place. Now the place is alive with birds'and if Whit and Karen wanted to give up their many bird-trips all over the country, they could be entertained indefinitely right in their own "back yard." And speaking of birds, Dick Carpenter wrote Easty, "Recently in an effort to help an Eastern Folk Art Gallery identify a wooden carved eagle they had acquired, I went out to our Science Society's layout in Golden Gate Park and fondled a few of the 2,000 stuffed birds they have in their huge zinc filing cabinets, SO-O-O, if you ever do get really stuck for an identification you may call on me to consult the Doctor (no less) who is curator of the collection."

A line from Dave Colwell on his Harvardgame post card, "Health pretty good. Keep busy fishing and working in the yard. Specializing in orchids." Dave lives in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the year 'round. Brown Cooper broke a long silence by using his post card. "Am still the Secretary-Treasurer of the Associated Masonic Trustees," he writes, "which means the manager of the Fort Wayne Masonic Temple." Soon after the card came, Brown was to be presented his fifty-year membership button. Says Brown, "Wish it were only the 25-year button."

Again, a sad note comes in the news of Tenners: Both Herb. Coar and Art Allen have our deep sympathy in the loss by death of their wives. Mrs. Coar was a former resident of Hanover, having served for many years as secretary to the Dean of the Thayer School.

Andy Scarlett being the only Tenner living in Hanover is called upon to serve many another Tenner when something comes up which calls for action in relation to the College. And Andy is the one who gets on the ball at once. Bill Woolner in Dedham, Mass., has a friend who has a boy who wants to take a look at Dartmouth. So Bill asks Andy

to take the friend and boy in hand whenthey arrive in Hanover. Which, of course,Andy does to a fare-you-well. After thefriend's report to Bill about his Hanovervisit, Bill wrote:

I understand that both you and Mrs. Scarlett entertained most graciously at your home and you spared no time or effort to make his short stay a memorable one and one which he will never forget.

Tomorrow I go to the hospital again for an operation on my other eye and I hope everything will go well enough so I will be fit and in the saddle again for our 50th reunion next spring.

Andy will probably want to scalp me forusing this glimpse of him but it is just one incident which in effect has happened many times down through all those years he has been in Hanover. If all such incidents in his life could be laid end-to-end, well he would undoubtedly wish that some of them had been laid end-to-end.

In case any Tenner who reads this 1910 column, completes his reading without getting the idea that there is to be a 50-year reunion of the Class of 1910 in June on the 10-1 1-12th - well — he probably is only a synthetic Tenner. Make your plans — NOW!

Secretary, 501 Cannon PI., Troy, N. Y.

Treasurer, 1332 Woodbine St., Clearwater, Fla.