1910

It has been several months since a Tenner report has appeared in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, and I don't have to tell you why. Such news as I get comes more from members of the Tenner family than from any of the eight Tenners still living.

Letters from two daughters bring the happy news of the arrival of two grandsons and one granddaughter. This makes possible the continuance of Tenner membership in the Dartmouth family in the early classes of the 21st century. Can you realize it that we, who came to the College in the first decade of the 20th century, may have great-grandchildren at the College 100 years later. Hope Wilson Haug wrote of the arrival to her daughter of a granddaughter a year or so ago and said that her daughter-in-law had given them a grandson last spring. Then at Christmas, Marie-Louise Langdell Melvin wrote of the recent arrival of a second grandson to their daughter, sending a charming picture of the baby being held in the arms of its three-year-old brother. So Tenners may feel glad that their influence on the College may long continue.

I was very much interested to receive from Elizabeth Robinson Ratcliffe, daughter of Harold Robinson, a small paperback book, Grandpa's Story, written by her father and edited after his death by her and her son. It had been written by Harold many years earlier to tell his children about their family background, about his boyhood life growing up in Vermont, and about his life as a missionary in China. I found it most interesting, giving a picture of the life of our forefathers in early New England as well as something of his own experiences at Dartmouth and of his service in China. A copy has been given to Baker Library and it may be had elsewhere. I am sure any of you who could get it would find it well worth reading.

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