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Shrinking! Shrinking! Shrunk! Daniel Webster told Chief Justice Marshall, "It is a small college but there are those who love her." And we might say, "It's now a small remnant of a great class but they do like to get together in a reunion whenever opportunity beckons." So the last stage — "shrunk" has not been reached yet. Eight Tenner oldtimers met once again the night before the Harvard game, in one of Schrafft's restaurants - the one in Boston on Boylston Street near Arlington, where Hazen Jones was oft to be found before he retired as general manager of all the Boston Schrafft stores. As he has done for so many years, Bones took care of all arrangements for the dinner and even had a former store manager there to use his Polaroid for an official record.
The Tenner oldtimers: Art Allen, Maurice Blake, Nort Cushman, Hazen Jones, Russ Meredith, Hal Sprague, John Shambow, and Herb Woods. Most of these are officially retired but Nort, Russ and John continue to act like "busy-iness" men but always able to get away for a Dartmouth event, especially, if it has a Tenner flavor to it. Not all saw the game Saturday. Those who did noted the similarity of the score to the score of the game in freshman year when our touchdown was via a forward pass and the score was Harvard 22, Dartmouth 9. That was the year when the pass was introduced and the last year freshmen played on the varsity team.
Uncle Sam's handling of the mail from Hanover found ways to delay delivery of Tenner Topics so that some of the men who were at the dinner had not received the notice. Sample: Bones Jones received his copy of Tenner Topics the same day he received Andy Scarlett's return postcard from his Tenner Topics.
Our sympathy goes to Vic Willis and his family in the sudden death of his son, Frederick S. This tragic news comes by the way of Vic's letter to Mac Kendall when he responded with his class dues. Vic's son was stricken while driving home from a week's study course at Harvard with a group of investment bankers. He was a vice president of J. Henry Schroder, graduate of Amherst and had a Master's from Princeton, age 44, single.
Whit Eastman writes: "We thought we would like to go for further bird study in the Arctic area so this summer we took a trip to Iceland and Greenland — we observed quite a few species of birds and many old friends that nest in these northern Arctic lands." Whit and Karen are topnotchers at this business. His life list is 2,215 birds and Karen is close behind with 2,211. Both are members of the North American "600" Club with scores of 647 and 639 respectively.
Fred Brown, now nearing his 87th birthday, is living in one of the latest electrified two-room and bath apartments, state and locally operated for low incomers. For $52.50 per month he has the latest in electric heat, automatic fire protection, emergency care alarm, electric power for stove, TV, lawn mowers, garbage collection, and snow clearing.
Leo Sherman reports the arrival of a new great-grandson. He writes that he enjoys gardening and makes a point of planting flower seeds in the winter for the new year.
We have to report the passing of one of our loyal classmates. Ed Loring died suddenly on the day of the Harvard-Dartmouth game. He had responded to Tenner Topics stating that he would be unable to attend the class dinner but that he had his tickets for the game. Ed was one of those Tenners very helpful to the Class Secretary. When he read about Tenners in his daily paper he made a practice of sending clippings. We are going to miss Ed Loring's lively interest and support.
Secretary, 501 Cannon PI. Troy, N. Y. 12183
T reasurer, 2144 McKinley St., Clearwater, Fla. 33515
Bequest Chairman, HERBERT A. WOLFF
