1910
Without naming any names we feel we are on safe ground when we state that over the years, most of us Tenners have on some occasions "raised the devil." And, without doubt there are some Tenners who in these days of urban renewal have had, or are having, some part in "razing" some old buildings, but our wah-hoo-wahs at the moment are for Paul Albert who, as chairman of the Building Committee, had a large and praiseworthy hand in raising a church in Sun City, Ariz. Paul was busy on this assignment over a period of two years. The church is the United Church of Sun City. It represents an expenditure of $350,000. Seating capacity is approximately 1000. It's just another demonstration of the ability of our retired Tenners to use their talents in important community projects. We seem to recall that Art Lord had a big hand in rebuilding his church in Newton, Mass., after it had been burned, several years ago.
Speaking of China — we weren't, but Harold "Robbie" Robinson was when he spent a week at a Retirement Home in Claremont, Calif. There he visited with about 40 people he knew in China during the many years he spent there as a missionary. Says he flew to Los Angeles from Carmel and took a helicopter to Pomona. He doesn't waste time waiting for buses, etc.
"Mac" Stanton wrote on the Harvard game card, "Using the Senior Citizen's privilege of lazing the sunset years away." The spot where he "lazes" is Greenville, N. H. "Thanks for the memory" represents many of the comments which our greeting cards to the Class produced. Writes Herb Coar, "Your Christmas card reminded me of a lone trip (by freight) I took to see that H-D game, and the first time I heard myself called 'one of those Dartmouth muckers' while I was crossing the Lars Anderson bridge at the end of the game. With eyes bloodshot by cinders and face blackened with smoke, there was some justification for the remark by the elite Harvard '10 man with feminine friends." Herb is one of those temporary Floridians at this writing. Maurice Blake wrote, "Enjoyed your Christmas reminder of the 1907 victory, which was a good forerunner of 1965." Thayer Smith, "Your Christmas greeting reminder of the old days in Hanover was very apt, as usual. I do not remember seeing this cartoon in the Boston Journal - a newspaper which I rarely saw anyway, but it is a very amusing one and appropriate to the spirit of the occasion. The names of the players mentioned in the write-up - Marks, Ingersoll, Glaze, and, of course, our Clarke Tobin, are all very familiar and I can see each one of these fellows in my mind's eye. Many thanks for this happy nostalgic greeting." Incidentally, in the 50-Year Reunion Book, Thayer was credited with 15 grandchildren. In the forthcoming 55-Year book, the figure has been raised to 25.
Since writing previously about that unusual long-distance record made by Mamieand Charlie Thomas - celebrating their 55th wedding anniversary, which took place in the Waldorf Astoria in New York, we have discovered that the late Bob Woodcock and his wife, Edith, celebrated their 55th anniversary last June 22. Bob passed away January 2. His death and that of CharlieLibbey represent two more losses for our Class. "In Memoriams" for both appear in another section of this or a subsequent issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
Bert Kent calls attention to Eck Heistand's "Letter to the Editor" in The Rotarian magazine on the subject of "The United Nations." The original article caused quite a bit of adverse criticism among Rotarians. Wrote Eck:
Congratulations upon your printing the "letters to the Editor" critical of the United Nations article in the June issue. The letters thus printed are in keeping with Rotary's basic principle of presenting "both sides."
I too was shocked at the U. N. article. It was simply an extension of the propaganda issued at the U. N. headquarters promoting only one side, distorting and misstating the facts.
The hard fact of the matter is that the U. N. has done a thousand times more damage to the cause of freedom of the individual in this world than it has done good. A vast number of us are convinced it never can do any substantial good as long as its actions are based on the original deceptive Charter and is controlled and operated by the Communists as at present.
Most Rotarians were in complete sympathy with the founding and objectives of the U. N. 20 years ago, but most Rotarians are realists as well as idealists and have been obliged to face facts. The great Herbert Hoover, heartily in sympathy with the idea of an international body founded to protect peace and the rights of the individual, once said that the U. N. should be abandoned and a new association formed without the Communists and only of nations dedicated to peace and freedom.
Many thousands of Rotarians now feel it's time for an agonizing reappraisal of Rotary's policy toward the United Nations. Let's face facts now and take the much-needed action!
Eck a former District Governor of Rotary International, served many years in the House of Representatives so he was in a position and location (in Washington) to gain facts. He was one to hit hard at the "soft" attitudes of our government on many subjects. We too are inclined to wonder at the soft attitudes on U.N., labor, and Vietnam. And we believe Eck's sentiments will be echoed by many Tenners.
When this is being read by Tenners, there will be only two months before June 13. That is the time of our informal reunion of our 56th year. Plan now to be with the Tenner crowd. You will be glad you did.
1909 head agent Stanley Leighton (l) andnewsletter editor Wilbur Bull in Hanover.
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