1910

“That Wonderful Year! Remember?” Fifty-six years ago in August (when this is written) nearly 350 teen-age boys in homes scattered over twenty-four states, District of Columbia and Canada, were looking forward to entering Dartmouth. Not many of these knew or had seen the others m this group, except in the cases of two teams of brothers, and where a few small groups were from the same preparatory schools or from schools which had met in athletic competition.

They came together in Hanover on an appointed day' in mid-September. In due course they learned how to wait on upper- classmen: moving furniture, cleaning rugs, and realizing what poor unfortunates they really were. They met President Tucker and were honored individually when he per- sonally added his signature to those sheets of paper “certificates of enrollment which constituted the final act in the crea- tion of the Class of 1910. From Dean Em- erson they learned that many responsibilities went along with Class membership that now, each one was a representative of Dart- mouth College.

They were introduced to the Football Rush and by fighting together they began to know each other. They developed grad- ually a pride in their group and the Class ot 1910 became a welded and living part ot the undergraduate body, able to contribute members to the varsity football team (no freshman rule in those days) and the class team pulled (and pushed) together so well that the sophomore opposition couldn t hold them. , ... . , • , i _ _ i. 1 r rhinlr

It is interesting to look back, and to think back, to those years of “togetherness” to realize that here was a body of boys learn- ing to grow up and become, roughly, better than a quarter of the undergraduate body of a front-rank college. When you stop to consider it, the development of an aggrega- tion of strangers into a vital portion of the student body is quite an interesting process.

That is all history of an earlier day. Now. fifty-odd years later, though over half of the group has been lost through death, that spirit of comradeship continues, possibly stronger than ever. There is something of that spirit left in every one of the group that is left. In some it doesn't come to the surface very often but with those who have had the good fortune to gather in any kind of reunion it becomes evident often to the surprise of the individual who had thought he was too far removed from events and affairs relating to his college to be likely to show it. The old pride of Class is fully alive and the fact of “belonging” has be- come a gratifying feeling. _

All of which foregoing is to say that it you do not take advantage of the opportuni- ties to get together in reunions, you really do not know what you are missing. Give the old spirit a chance to work for you. Join the group that will be on hand at the night- before-Harvard-game dinner. (Detailed no- tice will come along later in “Tenner Top- ics.”) , „

if you haven’t written to any class officer in a long time, do it now. Bring us up to date on your present situation and your present activities. Tenners like to read news about Tenners.

During the recent years mere must nave been several Tenners who were fortunate enough to have celebrated their Golden Wed- ding Anniversaries. But we have not been ojven the news. Hap Hinman spotted a story recently telling about Art Rollins and his wife and their celebration. They were mar- ried August 10, 1912. The story gave a full account of Art’s career in teaching and su- perintending. It is interesting to learn that his first position as superintendent was in Lancaster, Mass., and was combined with the job of high school principal. “In this unique situation,” reads the story, “Rollins found himself in the role of supervising his own duties as principal.” Our congratula- tions to the Rollinses. Sorry we are so late. A vote of thanks to Hap for directing the clipping to us. Otherwise we would not have been wise to what had happened in the life of our retired schoolman.

Noah Foss has visited the Chadbournes many times in their Montana home and Noah decided that Chad needed a chain saw. He told Chad to get one and send him the bill which Chad proceeded not to do. But Noah got action this year and now Chad says, “I think the chain saw may well have added ten years to my account. With it I can saw in half an hour enough wood for stove and fireplace to last a week.” Chad’s wife, Cecilia, on her return trip after attend- ing her 50th year reunion at Wellesley, saw Noah and reports that he is much improved. Noah had a bad time for a while so this is really good news.

We have never tried to figure out how many grandchildren the Tenner bunch can claim. We know it would make quite a fig- ure. We have recently learned from ope who has never written a great deal, JimKerley, that he has two sons, one daughter and 21 grandchildren. It’s like a twenty- game winner in big league pitching. This report puts Jim in the “big-time group of Tenners. , .

It is with sincere regret that we report the passing of four Tenners. Henry (‘ Chet )Coffin, Mart Hannon, Ben Lang and BuiWoolner. “In Memoriams” appear elsewhere in this issue of the Magazine. Chet Cot- fin’s death occurred in March. News of his passing did not reach us until much later. The College had lost all trace of Mart Han-non. We had not heard from or about him for a long time. In fact, he was on the “Lost” list in all recent 1910 Address Books. At last June’s reunion we were led to believe that the year ending in early June was one of the lightest in the matter of losses. But this latest list makes it one of our greatest loss years so far. ,- . i r . 1 _ '“T .~’ I on onH mo VP

Watch for the Tenner Topics and make good use of the post card enclosure.

Secretary, 501 Cannon PL, Troy, N. Y. Treasurer, *-• . 2144 McKinley St., Clearwater, Fla.