1910

Christmas has just passed and once again, we have opportunity to express our appreciation for the many cards received from many, many TENNERS. It makes one realize the good fortune to have been in that gang of young fellows who entered Dartmouth sixty years ago. To all of us looking forward to going home for Christmas was one of the joys that took form after we recovered from the thrills of the football season. Billy Williams did not know it when he "penned" the following lines, that his expression on "Friendship" would fit in very appropriately with this Tenner chapter written during the holiday season:

Again we hail (his joyous time that never will grow old.

What can we say - that's shining new? Not what we've always told?

Here is our gift: it's old as Time - But better old than new;

A Friendship that has thrived on use, As friendship strives to do.

It's quite impervious to wear, No Tempest can upset it.

Real Friendship is a two-way road - You give it and you get it.

So "Happy Christmas," best of friends! We're yours through good or ill.

We toast you now in Friendship's wine. The Williams - Bea and Bill.

Making use of the Hanover Inn as the subject of our Season's Greetings card seems to have brought back fond memories among some of our crowd. From Bill Harlow came this reciprocal greeting: "This is to thank you for the Christmas card which was entitled, 'The Old Scene Changes.' This I shall always keep. The Inn began in 1887. So did I. I have seen it and roomed in it in all its changes and shall miss the old Coffee Shop where I have eaten probably a dozen times each summer when on my way to Lyme where I have a summer place. Incidentally, I was in Hanover shopping when the first blow was struck and was also in Hanover when the last of the excavating was done, and am looking forward hopefully to seeing the new building. Wishing you a very Happy New Year."

Maurice Blake liked "the fine series of photographs of the Hanover Inn from 1887-1967." He has changed his address to Longwood Towers, 20 Chapel Street, Brookline, Mass. 02146. To Herb Wolff, the Greetings "brought back many nostalgic memories." Herb and Daisy left after New Year's Day for about eight weeks in Hawaii. "It is a deferred fiftieth wedding anniversary which of necessity had to be postponed because of my hospitalization."

And on the subject of travel: Bucky Allen wrote Mac Kendall when sending his dues, that "if present plans go through we will be abroad for a year chiefly in Switzerland and Austria with some rambling over most of the Continent. My eightieth is coming up in February and I figure I had better go while I feel like Alpine adventure and art museums and cathedrals and, of course, I will keep an eye out for the birds. Last May, in Venezuela, I had a birdwatcher's holiday that Easty would have enjoyed. All is well along the Gulf of Maine. Doctor friends keep me posted on Doc Foster - as spritely and popular as ever and greatly respected in the profession. And mentioning Easty and birdwatchers' holidays, those are what keep Easty busy most of the year. His annual Christmas letter does bring in his other hobby, the Boy Scouts meetings one of which called him to Dallas and New Brunswick, N. J. In Dallas he had the pleasure of escorting Basil O'Connor '12 to the podium for the presentation of the Silver Buffalo. The birds drew Easty and Karen to Old Frontenac, Duluth, lapan, and Hawaii. They chalked up a number of sea birds from' the ship's deck. Ten of these were new entries for them."

Just before we read Easty's "annual" we had read of the possibility of the condor being eliminated, so Easty's experience in this connection is interesting. On their return from the Far East, Karen and he visited with Eben McMillan who has made an intensive study of the condor. His knowledge of this bird, its habits and haunts, made it possible for them to glimpse 13 condors which is believed to be about onequarter of the total population. The "aerial display" covered a period of nearly two hours.

We have to report three losses: Joe Kinney, Ted Smith, and Ed Kerns. We all realize that as time marches on, in these late years in our lives, we shall have to face such losses but realizing does not make the blows any easier to take. Tributes to these Tenners will appear in the "In Memoriam" section of this or a subsequent MAGAZINE. Our number is slipping steadily downwards.

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

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