1910

Among those Tenners we have mentioned as very active after retirement is DickBoerker. The information we had up to previous writing was that Dick was following up his work in forestry, planning on revising his book on the subject. Now we learn that for the past three years he has been at work on something quite different. He was asked by Lt. Col. Leonard B. Plummer, head of the Dept. of Germanic Languages at the University of Texas, to cooperate in the work of compiling a history of the early Texas Germans who migrated to that state between 1840 and 1860. Dick's particular activity was to collect books, writings, and editorials of his grandfather, Dr. Adolf Douai, who was a Texas pioneer, revolutionary of '4B, teacher, author, editor and introducer of the kindergarten in Boston in 1859.

One of Dick's larger assignments was translation of his grandfather's autobiography of fifty thousand words, for the University archives. All the material has been distributed to Texas and other state libraries and to the San Antonio Public Library, the Sophienburg Memorial Library of New Braunfels, and University of Maryland Library. Dartmouth's Baker Library was given Dr. Douai's educational works and a copy of the translated biography. He was the editor of a San Antonio paper and translator of the Texas laws for the benefit of the new German immigrants. For these translations, he was awarded a prize by the Governor of Texas. In Lincoln's time he played a prominent role in post-war history, along with Carl Schurz.

Ted Smith, whose business activities became so hampered that he left Cuba after long residence there, is now located in New Orleans at 72 Egret St. He had been living in Key Biscayne, Fla., for a couple of years.

Andy Scarlett reports from Clearwater, Fla., that the Tenner crowd there has convinced Mimroe Cole that "once a Tenner means always a Tenner." Munroe, it appears, has been making Clearwater his winter home for several years, but because he did not remain in college with us for the four years, hesitated to contact the other Tenners there. Mac Kendall received the tip about Munroe in a letter from Paul Albert, the Tenner who rates Arizona way ahead of Florida. So Mac and Andy looked him up. Andy recalled that he had taught Munroe's son in Chemistry.

At a dinner party of twenty, in one of Clearwater's restaurants, Andy tells us that Tenners counted twelve representatives. They were the dominant class group. Present: the George Aliens, the Larry Bankarts, Mrs. Ed Keith, the Mac Kendalls, the Art Lords, the Andy Scarletts and Mrs. Jess Wilson. Indications are that more Tenners than ever before have spent the winter in the Sunshine State. Andy will tell us later about a trip around the state calling on all the Tenners he knew were there.

The informal reunion in Hanover: Monday, June 11—Wednesday, June 13. Let's see you there.

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

Class Agent, 8 N. Balch St., Hanover, N. H.