1910

"Thanks for the memory." It has been interesting, amusing, and otherwise beneficial, to observe the reactions of Tenners, to our postcards picturing reminders of our undergraduate days. They have prompted many comments, sometimes figuratively, sometimes literally, saying, "Thanks for the memory." Down through the years (in our 14th now) we have dug up old pictures of men, buildings, and scenes. These have been sent out twice each year - one as a holiday greeting at Christmas time, the other in the spring, mailed from Hanover while there attending the Class Officers' meetings. On two occasions pictures were used of old buildings which were important facilities in our time, but which have disappeared from the Hanover scene. These were tests of our memories. One showed Culver Hall where Andy Scarlett began his preparation for his life-work - teaching chemistry, and where probably most of our class spent hours in semester exams. This card prompted John VanderPyl to write, "How would anyone who ever sat in the seats of the anxious in 'O' Culver ever forget its air of foreboding and sepulchral odor? Undergoing examinations in that vast, gloomy auditorium were tests of spirit as much as of knowledge of subject. The very room designation - 'O' - was suggestive of disaster and brought to mind the line in Dante's Inferno - 'Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.' There was a similar place at Harvard, in 'D' Siever, where I underwent a number of preliminary and final examinations for entrance to that institution. Praise be, I was successful. Having been born within its shadow, Harvard was not my choice as an alma mater, to the great disappointment of my parents. When I ascertained that Dartmouth was willing to accept the results of my Harvard exams, as evidence of adequate preparation for study of college grade, I was happy to leave behind the spectre of 'D' Siever, only to encounter the menace of 'O' Culver. I fancy I might have survived defeat in A' Dartmouth or some other more cheerful site; but to be beaten in 'O' Culver would have been my complete undoing. Fortunately, I never had the taste of any such bitter cups. ... Anyway, I liked your reminder card and the picture of the 'old-timer.' Gone but not forgotten. Bless your heart."

The second "lost" building pictured on a card was old Butterfield. (The new Butterfield is a dormitory located on the edge of Tuck Drive.) Herb Woods was definitely impressed. He wrote, "Thank you for your card from Hanover. Sure, I remember old Butterfield - a horrible thing of yellow brick." Another card showed our class football squad in sophomore year. This provided a fair-sized field for guessing who the several guys were.

Some of the other "old-timers": The old Ledyard Bridge, the old Administration building with President Tucker and Dean "Chuck" Emerson on the veranda; Reed Hall with high snowbanks along the path leading to the south entrance; Old Dartmouth and the campus with its winter paths through the snow. A Christmas greeting card, showing the menus for breakfast, lunch, and dinner on the first day of Delta Alpha in freshman year, created a reaction reaching into the next generation. One Tenner home reported that the younger folks just would not believe that we could get breakfast for 154, consisting of a dish of prunes, oatmeal, sausage and baked potato, coffee or milk, and rolls. And for dinner a steak for 250. (We can hardly believe it ourselves.)

Word keeps filtering in telling of another Tenner having arrived or headed for the warmth of Florida. But Inky Taylor is not one of this group. He wrote Mac Kendall, when sending in his class dues, "Florida - even without hurricanes - seems too slow and easy-going to be attractive. Besides, I still like snow." Inky continues on the active side - representing as Washington associate a law firm which has headquarters in California. Inky jumps from Washington to the Pacific Coast to try cases in State and Federal courts.

Bill Brown reports about $1000 damage from hurricane at Fort Lauderdale. ErnieUnangst states that Dora did not inflict as much damage as Cleo. Says his family was packed ready to take off for the World's Fair but had to put off the start until the big wind passed over. It's down the west coast of Mexico on a birding trip for Whit andKaren Eastman late in October. In July Mickey Holmes let us in on the news that their 18th grandchild was on the way. In this connection we can state that Bill Brown claims 16 units in this same category.

Haven't had any recent report from the Thayer Smiths. Maurice Blake "had an interesting month in England as honorary member of the Advisory Panel for the Archaeological Committee excavating on the Tor at Glastonbury." Beezle Parker has a daughter - his oldest - who lives in Ithaca, N. Y., where she is raising five children and 24 horses (Welch ponies). CharlieFay and Art Allen took a day off - from their retirement - and ran down into Connecticut for a visit with Herb Woods. They had missed him since Herb was unable to make the informal reunion last June. EdDusham wrote to Andy Scarlett that he remarried about a year ago. His wife is a native of West Virginia who attended Ohio University. They will "follow the crowd" to Florida during the winter.

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