1910*
RUSS PALMER, according to Whit Eastman who saw him in Minneapolis recently, is "the same old Russ", being associated with his brother John under name of "Palmer Associates" representing Continental Lithograph Corp. with office at 215 Fourth Ave., N. Y. C.
HERB WOLFF when not practicing law or running down to Washington to advise Mr. Morgenthau, is active on N. Y. State Selective Service Board of Appeal, Doc O'Connor's Conference of Christians and Jews, Mrs. Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Committee .... is Chairman of Board of Governors of the Ethical Culture Schools .... serves on Discipline Committee of the Bar Association .... acts as V.P. of the Hudson Guild, a settlement house . . . . "Loupie" as Heinie Hyde was wont to call him, deserves much credit for doing a grand all-round job in family, civic and professional life.
CONGRATULATIONS to Herb Woods on his election as President of Washington's Cosmopolitan Club, an outfit of the Capital's Big-Wigs. .... ...to Ernest Stephens, Lynn's Deputy Superintendent of Schools, on his appointment as Chairman of the Committee to promote the Testing of Teaching Candidates by National Teacher Examinations in Cambridge, Jan. 2-3 .... to Horace Chadbourne, newly appointed Training Director of Montana's Unemployment Compensation Commission with offices at Helena.
OLD MEMORIES were revived this week while we were eating luncheon at Hanover Rotary with "Bush" Kingsford, Halsey Edgerton and others .... Halsey explained the final disposition of old buildings that were around the Campus go years ago, one of them New Hubbard, that "Mushroom of Mushrooms" .... in
which, "Bush" claimed, Pres. Tucker installed under special commission Gig Gallagher and Ralph Glaze to restore and maintain order after some 35 embryonic occupants had raised Merry Hades with the new building, 7 sophomores, 1 junior, 3 seniors .... and brought bills from frantic Supt. of Buildings, Ed Hunter, plus 24 Hour Notices out of Chuck Emerson's office .... a greater cross-breeding, a more pronounced exemplification of heterogeneous undergraduate living never existed on Hanover Plain .... upperclassmen wore strangely pathetic looks, freshmen strutted their stuff.... indefinable terrors were loosened when Al Barker stuck his head over the top-floor banister to yell "Sic Semper Tyrannus!" .... which he always emphasized with a squirt of tobacco juice that could ring a bell at 10 paces.
HOW THE HEK Chuck or Skeet or anyone else ever put these following rooming combinations together is one of the unsolved mysteries in Dartmouth history: Ike Allen and Chet Scott; Jimmie Frame and Joe Downey; Bill Dudley and Doc Foster; Mart Hannon and Norton Cushman; Dolph Bresler and Shorty Stern; Ted Baldwin and Ed Martin; Bill Brown and May Teall; and here's one for the books, Billy Williams and Heinie Hyde; Jack Farwell and Dick Goode; Dave Johnson and Ken Knapp; Doug Mower and Louis Nissen; Ted and Babe Steward; Mike Straus and Bill Deering; Fred Johnson and your Sec'y; Henry Kelley and John VanderPyl; Earl Nelson and Abiel Wood; Otto and Bill Taylor; other Tenners were Al Barker, Ed Higbee, Roy Norris.... besides previously mentioned seniors, Glaze, Gallagher and Goode, there were Arthur Bourne, Dave Burns.... Charles Wood was the sole junior. . . .Del Bradley, T. Griffin, Ed Martin, Karl Mason, Elbert Moffatt, Dean Otis, George Tyler endeavored to hold forth for the sophomores .... but throughout the year upperclassmen were strangely conspicuous by their absence, and this went double for those Special Custodians of Peace, Gig and Ralph, than whom there were no bigger personages in the Campus life of those days .... after New Hubbard hoses were used to wreck nearby Chandler, Messrs. Gallagher and Glaze seemed to acquire a secret sympathy and admiration for The Young Hornets.
Of that famous group several are nowenjoying their reward in the Great Beyond, others can be found in all walks of life, including the ministry, teaching, law, medicine, architecture, banking, industry .... any claim that such a year of College living left a derogating influence on one's life could be reduced to an absurdity in spite of all modern educational gadgets and claims .... it is true that life was raw, awkward, surprising, but it is equally true that it was immense, exhilarating and never solemn.... probably just about what could be expected in a group of vigorous spirits that had overflowed College rooming facilities, experienced exasperating promises and delays in the rushed, last-minute construction of that Wooden Mushroom, finally to get rooms weeks after the rest of the College had settled down comfortably for the year .... to every man now alive on 1910's roster there is a tender memory in some name of those unpredictables who were herded together for their first semester in a madly constructed building, the life of which probably was the shortest of any new dormitory in Dartmouth history.
OFFSPRING .... 1910's interesting youngsters continue their journeys in life .... Ensign Vining Sherman was at Pearl Harbor .... Dick Leonard left second year Univ. of Va. Law School to enlist as aviation cadet.... James Robinson '42, first year Dartmouth Medic, won a coveted $500 Gooch scholarship .... Harold's two sons have done a grand job at Hanover .... Charlie Kent played nice football at Vermont Academy, his third year on team, and was elected next year's captain, his destination being Hanover one year hence .... Charlie Jackson is a V. A. senior, being another member of the Dartmouth contingent which Larry Leavitt always has at hand Our own Katherine gave up the merchandising field to enter research department of American Mutual in Boston .... Clarke Lyon is a member of Dartmouth's fencing team .... Francis Worcester Jr., is at Virginia Mine School at Yorktown, his younger brother Bill is with Cutler-Hammer in Milwaukee while Shorty and wife are enjoying the rare privilege of being grandparents to Martha's twin girls.... George Salmon played on Newton High's strong football team until injured .... Robert Salmon attends same 5ch001.... Betty Eastman whose husband Morrow Peyton, Dartmouth '38, is at Camp Barkeley, Texas, recently underwent emergency, operation for ruptured appendix .... Jack Tobin won a second place at Sun Valley's Holiday meet.... Kev Fay is doing a fine job at McGill Medical 5ch001.... Bud MacPherson already recipient of a Harvard Master's Degree, is after his Ph.D, doing specialized work with Federal Farm Association at Aberdeen, Maryland .... Josephine Albert attends school at Denton, Texas.... Virginia Brady who graduated from Wellesley in 1940, took a year at Katherine Gibbs, is running the United China Relief in Boston. KIDS SKI .... One of the most interesting happenings of each year to your Sec'y is seeing the youngsters from half-pint 6 yr. size to more than double those years meet in riotous conclave for Ford and Peggy Sayre's Holiday Ski School at Hanover Inn, in which 1910's Debby Bankart plays an important role .... some of those kids can ski like professionals.... fearless and smart, t00.... Earl Blaik might be interested in knowing that son, Bobbie (a Ski School student) intends to matriculate at Dartmouth and be on the ski team .... 1910 ought to be sending some young sons and daughters to Hanover for this annual affair.
LIFE, DEATH .... Today we live, tomorrow we die, and there is not much we can do about it, either .... one of a Class Secretary's unpleasant duties is recording deaths of classmates, and this month the Grim Reaper hit hard, much too hard .... Ray Cutler, Francis Morrissey, Bob Stone .... all swell fellows who had done an amazingly good job in life, quietly and we 11.... Ray was a valuable man in N. Y. Federal Reserve, Francis in Boston scholastic circles, Bob as a Vermont Yankee in border customs service .... columns could be written about the deeds and interesting spots in each life but coming as the news does, just as we are mailing in our notes, space and time do not permit.
These fellows have gone to their Reward it is well for the rest of us to live as they lived .... so that when the End of the Trail comes, we will know that we have lived.
Secretary, Canaan Street Canaan, N. H.
