CLASS OF 1910

Harry Mitchell, boss research director for the Speer Carbon Company at Saint Marys, Pa., reports being isolated as far as contacts with other Tenners is concerned—yet he maintains a very active class spirit, and is going to act as one of Andy Scarlett's assistants in raising 1910's portion of the Alumni Fund.

The class of 1910 had a very respectable (both in size and conduct) delegation present at the New York Alumni Association annual dinner. It shows that these Tenners are interested in both college and class affairs—Pres. "Pineo" Jackson, John Yander Pyl, Ed Raabe, Walter Golde, Frank Meleney, Ray Seymour, Bill Tucker, Clarke Tobin, Sid Whipple, "Lennie" McClintock, Dixi Crosby and Joe Kinney.

Billy Williams saw "Shorty" Stern in Chicago recently, and reports him as "the same old Stern." Bill is ever alert to the Mammoth 25th, which he must direct. It would not be surprising to see a carload of Tenners coming out of Chicago for the affair.

Harold Benjamin's Pipestone Produce Co. of Pipestone, Minn., is connected closely with the First National Stores of Boston. Ben says conditions out there are "fair—not bad —rather low farm prices—but they get along all right." Right at present he is handling about four carloads of butter weekly.

Dr. Frank Meleney underwent an operation for hernia in December, and has returned from Florida, where he has been recuperating.

Mr. and Mrs. William E. Tucker announce the birth of Carol Wilson Tucker on November 4, 1930. Congratulations, Bill—sorry it was not a future debater for Dartmouth.

Paul Albert claims that he has "been thinking hard for nearly a week," trying to get some news that will help maintain the 1910 pace in these columns. We appreciate the effort, Paul, but for the Love of Mike, cease the heavy mental strain. A much nicer way is to be like your Secretary, whose brain functions once a week—and then is "dumb" for the following six days. Can't help it. though.

Art Allen has been very helpful with some recent correspondence pertaining to various class matters.

We understand that Mrs. Clarke Tobin has failed to recover her health following a serious operation last year and is again confined to the hospital. The class of 1910 is sorry, Clarke, and hopes for a rapid and complete recovery.

Art Lord continues to travel about New England considerably for Ginn and Company, and we are indebted to him for interesting class news from time to time.

Everett Robinson still teaches at Mansfield and after school goes over to the store which his father had and which he is now managing. Art says that he seems to thrive on plenty of work.

Art saw Ed Loveland in Burlington and Herb Coar in Hanover. Herb is doing some interesting research work.

Another Tenner making a place for himself in the teaching world is "Heinie" Reed, who has left the Chelsea High School and gone to Stoneham High School, where he is head of the English department. He likes the work and school.

It is reported that "Bunny" Armstrong travels a lot by aeroplane nowadays so as to sell more shoes. Your Secretary has flown from Detroit to Chicago—and last week he and H. P. H., Jr., flew from New York to Boston. Possibly we are a bit old-fashioned—but the physical comfort of an air trip does not begin to compare with that of the Pullman—and besides your neighbors' stomachs generally behave better.

"Surplus" Judd is having a struggle with class finances, but is somewhat overjoyed right now at being able to send Art Allen the final check to cover the $811.55 cost of the Class Report, which Art financed from his own pocket.

"Juddy" must now gather in enough money to pay Pres. "Pineo" for funds advanced by him to cover $59.50 reunion deficit and $6O for the reunion report. And then the ALUMNI MAGAZINE must be paid $540.75 for the class group subscription. This is a current bill that must be paid quickly. The old deficit is being reduced gradually, and the present fiscal year should see the class out of red ink. There is no real reason for class officers being compelled to advance funds to the class as has been the custom in the past, and if Tenners would only realize that a few dollars from each member would eliminate a gross imposition, the finances would soon be in excellent condition.

Accordng to advices received from various members there seems to be no better method of disseminating class and College news than through the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. By subscribing as a unit we get the very reasonable rate per member of $1.75. Each Tenner gets his magazine once a month without bother. A small check from those in arrears would help "Juddy" in what is certainly no soft job.

News items are needed by the Secretary.

Ed Shattuck has resigned from the brokerage firm of William H. Coburn and Company, with which he has been connected for some time. We heard that Ed, Ben Williams, and "Slip" Powers spent a hard mid-winter weekend on an island in Lake Winnepesaukee. Indoor and outdoor winter sports were engaged in by all. Ed cut the wood, Ben acted as cook, and "Slip" washed the dishes. At the time this is being written Ben and "Slip" are vacationing at Sea Island Beach, Georgia. "Slip" left behind his work of defending doctors of good reputation who are charged by patients with malpractice, but Ben maintains his writing each morning.

The Boston Herald of January 31 says: "Ben Ames Williams, Boston's most prolific writer, lias written five short stories since January 1, 1931, and if that doesn't impress you, you've never writteen anything but a check and a letter to mother."

Charles A. Bardwell is secretary-treasurer of the Minneapolis Rotary Club—quite an honor and quite a responsibility with a club of that size. "Bard" claims that the weather in the Twin Cities is milder than what we have in New Hampshire and Vermont. Your Secretary doubts it very much, for some years ago he remembers retiring rather early one evening in a Pullman at St. Paul and waking up down in Des Moines the next morning to find the porter bringing in greasy hot water from the locomotive with the explanation, "This car done freeze up befoh we lef St. Paul las night, and dem places up there git colder than Medicine Hat. Yes, boss, dem Twin Cities are powerful cold all de winter long." "Bard" concludes his letter by hoping that "you don't have more than six weeks more of 30 Below weather or greater than 60 inches of snowfall."

Noah Foss, assistant headmaster of the Blake School in Minneapolis, has just returned from an extended trip in Europe. Noah had a year's absence from his school duties.

A press notice from Methuen, Mass., gives us very sad news concerning "Fat" and Mrs. Douglas.

METHUEN YOUTH DIES IN MEXICO

"John T. Douglas, Jr., son of Methuen Town Clerk, Was on Tour of Southern Country.

"John Tyler Douglas, Jr., 16-year-old son of Town Clerk and Mrs. Douglas of 224 Hampshire St., Methuen, died in Mexico this week, presumably last Thursday night, it was announced Saturday morning, after the parents of the boy had received a telegram from Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico. Details incidental to the death are lacking.

"This morning the father of the boy telegraphed to Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers at Washington, and Mrs. Rogers will endeavor to get in communication with an American consul in Mexico. It is known that there is no consul in the town where the lad died, but there is a consul in a nearby town. Details of the death may be secured in this way, and arrangements will be made to have the body brought to Methuen.

"Three months ago, the son of the Methuen town clerk expressed a desire to tour the southern part of the country. He left Methuen and journeyed to Florida, Arizona, and California, all the time keeping in communication with his parents, and receiving numerous letters from them. A week ago a letter was received from him stating that he was in Mexico City and that he was in the best of health.

"The boy was the only child of Town Clerk and Mrs. Nettie (Morton) Douglas. He attended the Methuen High School and was one of the most popular boys in the town. His death comes as a sad blow to his parents as well as to the hundreds of his friends in Methuen."

The class tenders its deep sympathy to "Fat" and Mrs. Douglas in their very sad bereavement.

Bill Taylor came East to attend the funeral of a relative. He reports mid-winter weather in Chicago considerably milder than that of the East.

"Andy" Scarlett is getting all set to do a good job with the Alumni Fund. He announces the following men as regional assistants : Boston, "Larry" Bankart and Ed Shattuck. Maine, Tom Foster. Vermont, "Happy" Hinman. Central and Western Mass., Jim Nourse. Conn, and R. 1., Fletch Burton. New York City, John VanderPyl. Upper New York State, Russ Meredith. Penn. and the South, Harry Mitchell. Ohio, Dave Johnson. Chicago, Detroit, etc., Lew Williams. Minnesota and Points South, "Nick" Carter. The West—far and wide, Guy Spokesfield.

Twelve divisions—and New Hampshire will be covered by "Andy" in person.

The campaign starts early in April. Nuff sed!

Your Secretary happened to be in Albany at the time of "Piper" Donovan's passing away, and with Burt Miller attended the funeral services. Buss Meredith was a bearer. The class sent a floral piece. Such a mission is very sad, and it reminds us that 1910 has been very fortunate in the loss of members. On the Necrology pages of this issue will be found a more complete obituary notice written by a Troy Tenner.

Juddy's correct address is H. L. Judd, 1100 Forest Boad, Lakewood, Ohio—not Lakewood, N. J., as indicated on one of the letterheads. Checks will be received by him if mailed there.

The result of Walter Golde's youthful pranks in an apple tree last summer compels him to still wear a brace to support those injured vertebrae. It was a tough climb for Walter.

Joe Downey spent two weeks in Washington recently getting a good physical check-up at the Walter Reed Hospital.

News items are running short. The class of 1910 cannot maintain a respectable place in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE columns unless Tenners contribute a bit more freely.

As the years creep up on us, we hear so much about the present college generation being a bunch of well-dressed, social lions who use "Weeping Towels" and have "Green Toenails"—and who know more as freshmen than we did as seniors. It has been my privilege to be in Hanover quite a bit this winter and witness several athletic contests. Superficially, at least, these students are not much different from those of twenty-five years ago. They either go bare-headed or wear head apparel of nondescript variety and vintage. Sweaters, sheepskins, or coats of the Mackinaw type predominate. Their shirts are open at the neck. Some have knickers—but the remainder wear everything from scarcely recognizable white pants to corduroys and the like. For footwear some have heavy skior hiking-shoes—others have odds and ends that reflect pedal comfort. After the Princeton basketball game a group of a hundred or more meandered slowly up from the gym—taking advantage of the soft snow to throw plenty of good-natured snowballs at each other and at newly discovered objects along the way. Several open windows in Topliff and New Hampshire dormitories invited repeated barrages of snow that suggested the possible use of shovels to remove. The shattering of glass was heard occasionally. The day of good eating tobacco and homelike spittoons may be gone—but the day of immaculate dress is surely not arrived. Cost of clothing students in Hanover appears to be no greater proportionately than it was twenty-five years ago. Superficially, the undergraduate body has changed very little.

Ralph Paine and wife spent a mid-winter vacation at Atlantic City while their son, Morris, went on a camping trip near Saranac to get acquainted with the type of winter Hanover enjoys.

Art Bucknam and family live near the Paines in Waterbury, and it is a source of constant regret that his teaching schedule prevents them from attending reunions. However, Mrs. Bucknam and son are great Dartmouth boosters.

Larry Bankart's football prowess is brought back rather impressively to us by George Trevor's recent article in the New York Sun. Headed "Colgate's Greatest Elevens," Trevor cites Larry's three outstanding teams—1913, 1916, and 1919—truly great football teams, as most of us will remember. He writes in part:

"Though its physical resources are limited, Colgate has been fortunate in the quality of its players and the caliber of its coaches. How many colleges can boast such inspired football teachers and gifted strategists as Buck O'Neill, Larry Bankart, Dick Harlow, and Andy Kerr?

"At devising plays and welding a cohesive attack Bankart has had no superior in all the history of football. This genius ranks with Camp, Rockne, Haughton, Cavanaugh, Zuppke, Stagg, and Yost as a teacher of gridiron tactics. A weak heart forced Bankart from the profession he loved at the zenith of his strategic skill. He is now president of a wholesale grocery firm in Boston—a prosaic if profitable transfer.

"Under Bankart's intensive cultivation, the seed which O'Neill had sown at Colgate flowered in the form of nationally famous football elevens. Yale was beaten in 1913 and 1915 and would have been defeated in 1916, too, but for a fluky break. Cornell, Army, Illinois, and Princeton, football powers of the first rank,bowed to Bankart's Colgate teams."

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