1910

Nort Cushman writes, "Could be there are not too many oldtimers left. What would you say?" Urged by that everlasting old feeling for the Class and the College, Nort journeyed up to Boston, from the Worcester area, to attend the annual mid-winter dinner of the Dartmouth Alumni Association. Time was when he could count on meeting up with a sizable group of the oldtimers and that would, of course, have included a number of Tenners. But this year, he looked around in vain, for he was the only Tenner there. And he found only two of that class which entered College a year ahead of us. So, we'll have to agree with Cush, "Could be there are not too many oldtimers left." But Thayer Smith encourages us with this comment, "... it strikes me that for a group, most of whom must be in their late 70's or early 80's, our survival rate is pretty darn good."

The football season ended quite a few weeks ago for most of us, but not for BertKent. He is continuing to review it mentally because he has a grandson who starred for South Hadley High School. If you should run into Bert and get him started talking football, he could reach into his pocket of papers and come up with a clipping that reads, "Touchdown runs of 67 and 31 yards by Don Graham and Don Langevin on the first two scrimmage plays of the game set South Hadley off to a flying start.. . Gra- ham (Bert's grandson) took a pitchout from the quarterback and streaked 67 yards to the end zone. He also booted the extra point. . . ." Grandpa Bert treats his grandsons with trips to Dartmouth football games such as the Princeton and Yale games last season, and he still had time to campaign among Dartmouth men in the "Pioneer Valley" (Mass.) for Ray Fontana '45, candidate for Governor's Council. He won.

Everyone who hears the radio or TV weather report daily, knows that the Chicago area wins the Brown Derby this winter. From a first-hand observer Bill Williams we have this comment: "We are snowbound as of Jan. 29 - Four days without trash collection, milk delivery, newspapers, mail. Happily that sturdy old leg-man can go where trucks cannot and the menus are undisturbed."

Going through a pile of Tenner accumulations recently, we turned up our copy of FAX. In case that means nothing to you, we'll refresh your memories: it is a printed report of the third-year reunion of 1910 held in 1913. It was used as a promotion piece for the sth-year reunion in 1915. It was the work of Spud Pishon. At that time we were looking forward. Now, in '67, 52 years later, we are looking backward and recalling a lot of Tenner reunions. Here's a quote from Spud's writing: "The Triennial was the best yet - but just the same we are going to give you a quiet tip. It's up to you to say whether or not you will benefit by the information. Here's the dope - the 1910 fifth-year reunion will make us forget there ever was a Triennial!" Now that we are looking forward to our 60th-year get-together we can also look back over the years and the several such big events in our history. We probably will have as many different evaluations of reunions as there are Tenners who have attended. We can make this prediction that the number of reunions ahead of us is quite limited. Also, the kinds of satisfaction each Tenner will find differ. But one thing is certain, there is a very different quality in our present-day reunions. All of which leads to this: Whether or not you have been a regular at reunion of your Class, this coming June informal gathering in Hanover is certain to give all of us a kind of pleasure, with the renewing of friendships, probably unequalled by any other event in our lives. So we urge every Tenner who can move about easily enough to get to Hanover to start planning. The dates - Monday June 12 through Wednesday June 14. Be on the lookout for the Tenner Topics later which will ask for the definite word that you will meet us in Hanover.

Secretary, 501 Cannon PI., Troy, N. Y. 12183

Class Agent, Horizon House, Apt. 208, Clearwater, Fla. 33515