Class of 1910
HANDSOME HANK of the Pineapple Haserots got himself pictured, boiled front and all, in Cleveland Press, same photography showing Walt Greenwood '11 on one side and Congressman Hal Mosier '13 on other Charlie Jackson at Eaglebrook pals around with Ted Riley, son of Trackman Ed '16 who is bro. of Chuck '13 of the Lawrence Rileys, both youngsters being headed Dartmouthward 190 lbs. of Tel. & Tel. Karl Maerker fell on ice, cut left arm, said anatomical subdivision receiving serious infection that kept Karl in the house for quite a spell Tom Steward has been doing some special literary work for Univ. of Minn Chan Baxter knew the Mattsons of the kidnaping case very well.
JIM DRUMMOND, back in Omaha after 4 mos. in Fla. and Cuba (Jim's mother went down with him and remained to spend the summer at Atlantic Beach), says, "I'll probably be East again this season .... saw Ken Phillips the day I returned . ... he is still a big barber supply man here."
HANOVER PRODUCES Dartmouth enthusiasts and Prof. Frank Austin's Ant Houses .... a few weeks ago on one of those typically cold Michigan mid-winter days, imagine our surprise in seeing at the Saginaw station a man alight from the N. Y. sleeper with two of Frank Austin's Ant Palaces proudly displayed to the curious populace.
THE JAPAN ADVERTISER (done in English) of Jan. 16: "To celebrate their silver wedding anniversary which fell on Nov. 25, 1936, Dr. and Mrs. Rollo Reynolds are making a trip around the world . . . now staying at Imperial Hotel. .... Dr. Reynolds received his Doctor of Philosophy at Columbia University, is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and is now professor of education in Teachers College, Columbia University, and principal of Horace Mann School, New York Mr. R. Takagi, president of Mitsui Bank, and Mrs. Takagi, whose two daughters attended Horace Mann gave a sukiyaki party (Oh, oh, Rollie!) yesterday evening for former students of that institution Dr. Reynolds yesterday visited a number of Japanese schools .... although his visit was only a cursory one, he noticed evidences of modern methods which can be compared favorably with the type of education provided in America" .... and to think that this glorified, scholastic Bozo came from a Vt. hamlet not half as big as our N. H. No. Stratford, smoked cigarettes, graduated from Shurtleff House with honors, wrote "King of U Khan" .... now hobnobbing with Japanese royalty, the Mitsuis, Takagis, Shudos .... studying Japanse theatres, the ancient Zabuki with only male actors, interesting from historical viewpoints; Takarazuka, with only females on the stage, interesting from anatomical viewpoints .... getting his feet cold from removing his shoes so frequently in Japanese homes and temples . . . . and through it all keeping his youthful-looking wife, who don't look as if she orter been married more'n a dozen yrs. at most .... anyway, John VanderPyl and Ye Sec'y were born on Nov. 25.
OTHER SILVER WEDDING candidates are Dr. and Mrs. Geo. Allen, who were surprised on Mar. 22 when some 30 friends gathered at their home in Montpelier to celebrate the anniversary, and present the 25-Yrs-Weds with a purse of money.
HAROLD WINSHIP has just written a 3-act play, "BE STRONG!", full of high school and college characters .... leading man is Jim Drummond, a college freshman .... Harold had our own Jim in mind when he wrote the play 6 ft. Sumner Winship, junior in Bulkeley High, Hartford, takes parts in school plays . ... he spent his Easter vacation in Washington, Philadelphia, and New York.
BILL GRAY always rated high with us, and the news of his death at this writing brings sadness to our heart . . . . during our undergraduate days and down through the years, he ever extended kindly words and a friendly hand .... we recall a bit of sound advice which Bill gave us one time .... always carrying a desire to get some more college education, we reached the point, just about nine years ago this month, when we considered very seriously the advisability of taking a summer course at Harvard Business School .... discussing with Bill whether the possible nutritive value would be worth while, he allowed that it would, but cautioned with a smile, "You will have to be mighty patient in your classes, for as an undergraduate you didn't know any better than to accept everything which your professorsserved up ... . but now at 40 and withnearly 20 years of experience, you willspot immediately what is bunk and what isluorth while .... what is sound andwhat is a lot of unworkable theories. It willtake plenty of patience to sit there andlisten to it all during hot weather." We went .... had a grand, and somewhat beneficial, experience .... feeling grateful more than once to Bill for something that helped to start us off right in the course.
Bill Gray will be missed in Hanove. . . . but some fine memories will be retained for a long time.
RAY SEYMOUR and JOHN VANDERPYL are getting set to do another grand job on the Alumni Fund .... the Harold Benjamins Florida-ed in St. Pete; the Whit Eastmans in Palm Beach . . . . out in Detroit the other day we had lunch at Ford Whelden's Dartmouth Club with Heinie Barrett, prosperous looking Ernst & Ernst resident partner, and a grand Dartmouth man at that (Heinie's largest Detroit account is Chrysler) .... across table from us sat Charlie Bennett 'OB, looking younger than a lot of the early '20 grads .... and Cliff Blake '09, somewhat more aldermanic at midship but the same downright good fellow of 30 yrs. ago .... our mail goes all over the lot, one letter, within a week, being sent to Troy, N. Y., another to Albany, N. H thanks to someone over in Hanover, we get quick forwarding service, the latest being "Class Sec'y, 1910, c/o Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Hanover, N. H." .... we don't care a hoot where you send the mail to for we'll get it eventually, but we'd kinder like to have you lay off the Gaspe and Spanish peninsulas until later in the season.
THE LOWELL HIGH plug in batch of notes that went haywire brings these historical words from 1910's home-building author-professor, psychology Big-Wig, Mike Elliott .... and they are too doggone good to shove into the class archives without a little publication "WithSid Whipple and me in juxtaposition(McClintock, an aspirin, please!), youmight have added that we roomed together for two years, or until Sid fell by thewayside. They used to call us the Lion andthe Lamb .... but that didn't prevent me from getting a sub-rosa warning fromthe Dean that I must quit playing poker.The warning came through Harry Wellman. Shades of the Past!!!"
HERB WOODS sent us a copy of the Capitol Daily, now edited by our famous Sid, who apprenticed with Ben Williams on the Boston American, now lives at the Roosevelt in Washington Herb, by the way, is a labor adviser of no mean ability .... not one of the radical kind you read about, but a man who has made it his life work in a progressive but conservative way .... affiliated with the A. F. L., he views with some worry present happenings in the labor world, but rather sensibly says, "I do not find any deep or very genuine cause for alarm. That could come only from a conviction that the quality of sound sense had fled from the great mass of those who work, or from a deeper conviction that our basic institutions were in peril of overthrow. That they are threatened, I admit, but I do not believe that they are to be defeated I do not attempt to deny that the American Federation of Labor and its constituent unions, and the labor movement in general, as measured in current terms, have been harmed by this newly arisen situation. It seems to me that the whole movement hareceived a set-back which may spread over a period of half a decade, but all that notwithstanding, I believe that I am enough of an analyst—although I may not be anything more than a vain kind of an optimist —to believe that out of these present trials and distresses the labor movement in this country will assume new and finer proportions, and will, as time goes on, possess a greater and by far a more beneficial strength not only for those who comprise its membership but, as well, for those who employ its members." These are purely Herb's personal opinions, and should not be construed as otherwise. Herb is a dang good fellow, as many of us in the class have learned in recent years, and there is a lot of horse-sense in what he says. Trouble with most of us is that things which loom so big in our lives today dwindle rapidly in importance as days and weeks pass . . . . we forget that it is a pretty good policy to tend to our own affairs in a period like this present upswing, and adjust ourselves to things as they exist, at the same time being willing to give to the world a little more than we take.
AT N. Y. DINNER were Alpheus Crosby, Walter Golde, Art Gow, Wes Hunt, Pineo Jackson, Admiral McClintock, Frank Meleney, Andy Scarlett, Alfred Moriarty, Dinny Pratt, Ray Seymour, Clarke Tobin, John VanderPyl, Caesar Young, and Cy Richmond Blackstone Jim Porter has a nice little sit-down strike on his hands at this writing . . . . last month we attended alumni dinner in Glens Falls, had a grand time, stayed with Jim and Velma Ingalls.
TIP OFFS .... Sheriff Lester Moses, Lancaster, N. H., got his man but broke an ankle bone in making the arrest Charlie Libbey bosses Tenn. Valley Authority at Knoxville Tilton's Star Old Grad of 'O6, Ralph Abercrombie, presidents Merrimack Valley-Tilton Club. . . . . J. Harve Dingle, Windy City insurancer, Wild Duck Hunter of note, is coming East this summer .... we erred: Shing Sherwin's Dartmouth son, Dick, is '3B, not '39 Thanks to Norwood's Art Allen, 'Acme Acorns" tells us about Jim MacPherson's purchasing Bangor's (35,000 pop.; trading area 200,000) only afternoon paper, Bangor Commercial, est. 1872 Art Gow is with Farm Credit Administration, Washington Pineo Jackson says "The Late George Apley" by John P. Marquand is a swell yarn of Boston and Harvard Russ Meredith, whom we see frequently at Troy Rotary, sung a strong bass, during Holy Week, in a special chorus composed of soloists from Troy churches and vicinity The Andy Scarletts and Dinny Pratts lived on same floor in King's Crown Hotel, N. Y. three weeks before discovering each other, but they've made up for it since Fletch Rogers has been transferred to N. Y. office of Hastings Pavement Cos., living temporarily at Hotel Taft John VanderPyl and wfe. have just completed a new house at New Canaan, Conn.
SECRETARIES' MEETING (and opening the camp at Canaan Street) early in May will offer our next valid excuse for visiting Hanover .... word has just come through that Earl Blaik & Cos. will entertain the visiting firemen with a real scrimmage on Sat. afternoon. May 8 . . . . hope to see some of the class brethren around town that day.
Secretary, Box 368, Albany, N. Y.
