1910

After a short struggle with the Bangor surgeons, from which he came out on top, Ted Hill returned to his home in Surry and wrote a letter to your secretary explaining how he happened to be one of the triumvirate inhabiting the backwoods of Maine. His near neighbors Down East, as many of you know, are Bucky Allen and Pineo Jackson. As Pineo was born in Bar Harbor, he must have been the first in the neighborhood, but Ted wasn't far behind, for he said he first arrived in these parts 68 years ago, and with the exception of the summer before he went to college, he hasn't missed a year since. After participating in a sort of a community project with four other families, he finally bought a house of his own and since retirement lives there the year around. His letterhead reads "The Carrying Place, Surrey, Maine" and Ted explains that the name comes from a narrow strip of land in front of his house across which the Indians used to carry their canoes from one bay to the next. He keeps busy with Grange activities, Garden Club, several historical societies, Boy Scout work, and the Community Improvement Association.

Bucky Allen has led a life of usefulness that we can all admire. Starting on graduation from Dartmouth as a teacher in the Newton Country Day School, a position he held for almost 20 years, then becoming in 1930 headmaster of Rivers Country Day School in Weston, Mass. While still at Newton he started in 1915 Camp Chewonki in Wiscasset, Me., a summer camp for boys which he continued to lead with great success until he retired five years ago. The roll of Camp Chewonki membership contains many prominent names in addition to that of Roger T. Peterson, author of "Field Guide to the Birds." Among them are Kingman Brewster, president of Yale, who is quoted as saying, "My two years at Chewonki were the most influential in my life," also boys of the Charles Lindbergh clan, Dean Francis B. Sayre of the Washington Cathedral, the adopted son of Rachel Carson, two grandsons of Woodrow Wilson and one of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the headmasters of Phillips Exeter and Noble and Greenough.

Bucky is still good for a chilly winter for, although he will warm up early in November at Hilton Head Island, S.C., "for four or five weeks of super bird watching and to be with my eldest son for Thanksgiving," he returns to Camden, Me., for a white Christmas and the deep freeze of a New England winter.

Inky Taylor is now settled in Chevy Chase Md., where his daughter and her family have lived for years (five grandchildren) His letter to Pineo is headed M.C.T. Attorney at Law, so Pineo assumes that he still keeps up a limited practice.

Our very efficient treasurer, Mac Kendell, who succeeds in keeping 1910 out of the red, came up from Florida recently to attend the wedding of his granddaughter in West Hartford, Conn. This gave your secretary an opportunity for a very pleasant little visit with Mac, who seemed to be in good health and spirits. The newlyweds were to spend their honeymoon on the coast of Maine, a rather cool spot at this time of year, but I guess honeymooners can keep warm anywhere.

The Open Wire, a publication of the Dartmouth Class Newsletter Editors Association, contained an account of the cordial welcome the reuning Class of 1926 gave to the first group of coeds who arrived this fall. The girls found in their rooms corsages and printed scrolls of welcome. Congratulations to 1926ers for their gallantry! Enclosed with this issue of The Open Wire is the autumn seasonal picture page of the Dartmouth scene and this will be enclosed with the next "Tenner Topics." Any one of you grumblers about coeducation who sees the picture of the girl at the chemistry desk and doesn't admit that she adds greatly to the aesthetic atmosphere of Hanover, had better see his eye doctor and get fitted for a new pair of spectacles.

Secretary, Box 444, Woodbury, Conn. 06798

Treasurer, 2144 McKinley St., Clearwater, Fla. 33515