1910
One who aspires to covering the news of his class, for every issue of the MAGAZINE, finds that there are times when the "news" seems to get frozen and refuses to flow downstream to the waiting correspondent. In such situations he has to fall back on his
"rainy day" storehouse. Looking through that local storehouse we find ourselves looking over some "four-leaf clovers that we overlooked before." For instance, we have at hand a choice series of descriptive paragraphs in a letter from Dick "Carp" Carpenter, telling about the party three Pacific Coast Tenners staged as their way ,of noting the passage of time and the celebration by 86 of us of the Fifty-Year Reunion last June. While their time was not our-time, the enthusiasm and enjoyment unquestionably matched up with ours.
As Carp tells it:
The West-Side Tenners held their 50th reunion facing the rolling Pacific at the home of Ted "Baldy" Baldwin, Carmel, July 1, the date permitting a double celebration inasmuch as it was Baldy's 72nd birthday. Also, Fletch Rogers and I were able to congratulate each other on being rugged enough to make the 250-mile round trip within some twelve hours of near-continuous yakyaking. The ride from San Francisco to Monterey is largely through orchards and truck gardens. His years of engineering a plant for the preservation of vegetables equip Fletch to discern and name the content of just about every field on the 125-mile route and he is also a hound for statistics. When you come this way, we will retain him as guide and lecturer. If you ever doubt that travel is broadening, we can correct that misapprehension.
This first seaside Pow-Wow of the Westsiders, staged on a sunny slope and looking out over the route followed by John Ledyard (Class of 1773) when he sought with Capt. James Cook, the Northwest Passage, was opened by the traditional ceremony with the first toast to one Russ Meredith, the next to Andy Scarlett, and so on, and so on. Thanks to the thoughtful host, we had spread before us all the printed leaflets that marked the course for those Tenners at Hanover, together with letters from some of those same first-hand observers. The list of survivors, as well as the long list of departed, served to bring forth recollections by Baldy dealing with life at New Hubbard, Wheeler, Richardson and the old-time north borders of the College, while I could add sidelights on life around Thornton, Wentworth and Reed. Fletch was able to recite long lists of those from '05 on, who had, as Thayer School acolytes, trudged Grafton County with surveyors' rods and chains. And like those hardy sons of old, this group at the Baldwins' Home Camp, scarcely missed a step as Baldy and Myrtle prepared and spread a welcome luncheon.
As for Baldy, he is getting downright handsome . . . you would swear he wasn't a day over sixty, the same frank and cheerful countenance, the same infectious laugh, the same faith in his fellowman, and the nation's outlook. . . . For all his days at Chicago U. and Wisconsin, he remains faithful to his first, and doubtless, his single, true love that is called Dartmouth.
Ernest "Stud" Studley, visiting his daughter in Cleveland, spotted an item in the Plain Dealer which "interested me and maybe it will you — ought to be 1910 news." The item tells about Hank Haserot being "decorated" again, this time with diamonds. At the Haserot Company's 76th annual party, Hank was acclaimed the company's first fifty-year man. The diamond decorations came in the form of cuff links instead of the usual service pin. If Hank would happen to be in Hanover in June for our informal reunion of Tenners, we could all give him the glad hand of congratulation.
Charlie Bardwell," home after a tough battle in the hospital with several physical ills, read about Herb Wolff's "good and bad luck" combination, and that set him to recalling a long string of events in his life during the past several months. He wrote a list, labelling some "good" and some "bad." His final computation showed him ahead by the score of eight to six. The list included stomach, heart, flu, pneumonia, plumbing breakdown, and electric power failure. Suggests a relationship to Job.
Whit and Karen Eastman en route to Honduras, Costa Rica, and Guatemala "for the birds" stopped in Florida long enough to visit many of the Tenners located there. The Jim Porters and the Mike Elliotts on Captiva Island, Bill Taylor at Delray Beach and the Ossie Shenstones at Lake Worth were some Tenners mentioned in Easty's letter. He tells about a hobby Bill Taylor gives a lot of time. "He gathers the fruit pods of coconut trees, trims and shapes them into beautiful ornamental receptacles for flowers, plants, fruits and for centerpieces. Name your color scheme, shape, size and what you want to use it for, and Bill will produce it." About Ossie, Whit writes that his hobby is working in his metal shop "where he has produced some beautiful wrought iron furniture." Later Bill, Easty and Karen dropped in on the Dave Colwells at Fort Lauderdale. They found Dave but were sorry to learn that Alice was hospitalized. So when one can travel over the country as Easty and Karen do, adding to their bird-watching triumphs,' one can set up a lot of pleasant Tenner reunions.
You too, can enjoy the Tenner spirit of reunion. Plan to be in Hanover June 12, 13 & 14 for the informal affair.
The good ship Gibby, owned by Les Gibson '11, has hosted many Dartmouth reunions this winter in Florida. One occasion brought together four alumni. Posing for the picture taken by Nat Burleigh '11 were (l to r) Al Smith '12, Gibson, Eleanor Smith, Lyme Armes '12, Bee Burleigh and Marion Gibson.
Secretary, 501 Cannon PL, Troy, N. Y.
Class Agent, 8 N. Balch St., Hanover, N. H.
