1910
It's the last week in September when this chapter of 1910 history is being put together. A lot of us are watching the stretch run of the baseball teams leading to the World Series. But out on the Pacific Coast, an old Dartmouth Varsity baseball player is basking in the sunshine of a league championship already tucked away. That player of fifty years ago, and then some, is none other than Tenner Louie Langdell who at 74 coached his Babe Ruth team to the championship of the city of Portland. As if that were not enough, he was made manager of the Jefferson District All-Stars. This team came close to being selected for the trip to Trenton, N. J., to play in the national championships. Having to play the deciding game right after the game which took them into the finals proved a little too much for the youngsters. Louie's Babe Ruth League team was the "Terrys" and the boys' families made a hero of our Tenner, presenting him with a big cake decorated with the inscription "Thanks Louie from the Terrys." This presentation was made at a basket picnic following a game with an All-Star team at Ocean Lake. The Terrys won that game 19 to 1. A Wah Hoo Wah for Louie - a Tenner who though "retired" devotes a great deal of time and energy teaching the young prospects not just by words but by actually playing the game with them, sliding to base and all. What a great deal of satisfaction for a fellow who is willing to give of himself to help young boys. We are proud of Louie Langdell.
Hap Hinman is another Tenner who, though retired, is devoting his energy to the interest of youngsters in his grand project - the Cardigan Mountain School at Canaan, N. H. Hap took time off this past summer for a trip with his grandchildren to the Seattle Fair and Alaska by air. Then he topped this with a fishing expedition in Canada. There is a busy guy for you.
Your "Sec" went as far from home as Wyoming on an annual business trip. But the Chicago stop-over is not what it used to be. As Billy Williams writes, "Your Chicago Day is no more - only day the local Tenners ever saw each other. All disappeared - even I am an out-of-towner - been to the Loop only three times in '62." For a number of years, Mac Kendall, who knew when I was due to reach Chicago because he often helped me get reservations from the Windy City to points further west, would round up the gang. On one or more of the occasions the gang included, Paul Albert (now living in Arizona), Mac Kendall (now living in Florida), Billy Williams, and Shorty Worcester (another Floridian) and Don Bryant and Dick Hursh who have passed away. Billy Williams has had a tough year. I talked on the phone with him. He said it was the farthest he had been from the bed in many weeks. But the old spirit is still showing in everything Billy writes and says and it was a treat to have the brief visit with him.
It would be logical to believe that when a fellow works so diligently writing volumes in letters to urge Tenners to get their Alumni Fund contributions in before the deadline arrives - a fellow like, say, Andy Scarlett, would relax .for a couple of months after July 1. But Andy's reputation as a fund-raiser and a go-getter gets him into trouble. He spent most of the summer doing a job for his fraternity, Sigma Alpha Ep" silon. If you know anything about college undergraduates of the present generation (unlike those of our day, of course) you know that as housekeepers they just are not. So there comes a day when the alumni have to step in and decide upon some rehabilitation. And of course, when the alumni know there is a fellow like Andy living right there in town, why, he is elected. Well, Andy not only supervised every detail but he raised the hundreds of simoleums needed. So now, we hope he is going to take a much needed rest and a time of relaxation.
What a lucky fraternity chapter! After 19 years of service as a lawyer in the Department of Justice, in Washington, Inky Taylor has gone into private practice. Although officially retired a couple of years ago, Inky continued to serve the Department on special assignment by the Attorney General. That work took him all around the country. Now he is in charge of the Washington office of one of the largest San Francisco law firms, Kelso, Cotton & Ernst. His new address is 815 15th St. N. W., Washington.
Frank and Helen Meleney, following their custom, came north for the summer. Following a side trip into Canada, Frank stopped in Chicago for a surgical meeting; by October 1 he planned to be back in Miami at work in a new bacteriological laboratory. Here, again, we have two cases of retired Tenners, Inky and Frank, who just find another avenue of endeavor rather than sitting and thinking. Recall that one "Clothespins" Richardson used to get off. "Sometimes we sit and think and sometimes we just sit?"
Although Leo Sherman has spent many years living in the wide open spaces of the midwest, in lowa, he likes to get back into New England at every opportunity. He was east this past summer and spent three weeks touring Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, and New Hampshire. I had a chat with Sheldon Smith in a hospital late in the summer. Smitty frequently comes back to his native Troy from his home in Southern Pines, N. C. On one of these trips he was caught for an operation. He was doing all right when I talked with him and has since returned to the South.
Address changes: Rev. Fred K. Brown, 28 Bigelow Gardens, Lancaster, Mass.; Prof. Harold E. Washburn, Nelson Hotel, 121 West 2nd St., Ottawa, Kan.
Secretary, 501 Cannon PI., Troy, N. Y.
Treasurer, 2144 McKinley St., Clearwater, Fla.
