Class of 1922
Your new class secretary and correspondent for the ALUMNI MAGAZINE set himself at this task of preparing his first notes for the MAGAZINE at a particularly hectic time. Members of the class living in New England and the East in general will remember the turmoil existing in Rhode Island newspaper and sporting circles over the Labor Day week-end. It was that week-end which your Secretary intended to devote to this task.
The 15th reunion, celebrated by 72 men, 23 wives, and a few sons and daughters, is now only a memory, but a very pleasant one in the minds of all who were there, judging from the enthusiasm evidenced by all. The class has already received a report on the reunion, and recently a very interesting four-page leaflet of reunion pictures was prepared by Rex Malmquist. These should be in the hands of the class by the time this MAGAZINE reaches you.
Rex titles the pictures "Fifteenth Reunion—1937" and added the very appropriate message, "See you at our 20th," which is a thought worth carrying in our minds for the next five years!
The reunion must have had a mighty effect on Gubby MacDermott! From the Dartmouth College Alumni Office comes a memorandum of a new address, and with it the notation: "Mr. MacDermottwishes to be listed with 1922." He was certainly with 1923 during the reunion, as was Bill Streng.
Frank Horan, the man whose secretarial shoes are much too large for me to fill, sends the following message to the class:
"I want to thank the class for its gift oftwo fine Hanover etchings at the time Iresigned as secretary. The presentationspeech of Bob Booth did not omit a singleone of my virtues, and I would be glad tofeel I deserved it.
"The pictures were selected by OleyOlsen, Jack Dodd, and Stan Miner, andtheir subjects, the wooden bridge to Norwich and the Baker Library tower, are twoof which I am particularly fond. They willalways be reminders of 15 years of a specialkind of association with the members ofour class, during which I was always treatedwith the greatest kindness."
A late August letter from Frank tells of a vacation he and his wife spent in Maine not long after Commencement. Near Alstead, N. H., he met Ralph Totman at an auction. Ralph had just returned from a six months' trip through Europe and North Africa. He still is teaching the children of Brookline, Mass., in the high school there.
The Horans visited the Booths in Manchester, N. H., while returning from their vacation. They also visited the new quarters of Johnny Carleton's law firm, which Frank describes as "the swellest we everdid see."
Maybe the Carleton influence will now be seen in the Horan law office, recently opened at 15 Broad St., New York. The telephone number is Hanover 2-0488 (adv).
And speaking of the Booths, your Secretary saw them early one morning in front of the Hotel Carpenter in Manchester. Our cars passed going in opposite directions. We both stopped, backed up about a block each and conferred in the middle of the street. The Booths spent July motoring through Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and France.
Jerry Bates reports a new daughter, Lois May Bates, born April 24. In a note to Bob Booth, he said he could not quite make the Alumni Fund, the reunion, and the baby. So he passed up the reunion!
Bill Shirley is slated to be appointed librarian and director of the School of Library Science at Pratt Institute upon the retirement next year of Edward Francis Stevens. Announcing the impending appointment to the graduates of the School of Library Science, Frederic B. Pratt, president of the board of trustees, said:
"Mr. Shirley's life and record are interesting* and illuminating. A native of NewHampshire, his mother for many years being librarian of the Franklin, N. H., Public Library, he graduated frorn Dartmouthin 1922, and, subsequent to his training atthe Pratt Institute Library School in 1928,he returned to the state of his birth aslibrarian of the University of New Hampshire. From 1932-1934, Mr. Shirley heldthe position of first assistant, EconomicsDivision, New York Public Library. He isnow completing his third year as head ofthe Science and Technology Reference Departme?it of the Institute Library. Thetrustees believe that Mr. Shirley possessesthe qualities of mind and spirit to interpret and carry on the traditions of thelibrary and library school."
Andy Marshall has recovered from the efforts of organizing and running the reunion, for he enjoyed a week's vacation in Maine later in the summer.
Late Bulletin from Frank Horan—Although in private practice as of June 15, he retains one connection with the government. The Attorney General appointed him, along with Ex-Gov. J. C. B. Ehringhaus of North Carolina, to prosecute certain people accused of exporting arms to Bolivia in 1934 and 1935 in violation of a presidential embargo during the Bolivian-Paraguayan (Chaco) war.
Al Lyon reports he is district manager for Montgomery Ward & Cos. in Lynchburg, Va., where he lives at 2212 Rivermont Ave.
Oscar Rice and Bea entertained your Secretary and his wife over a week-end in July. During the course of the visit, Arvin Gunnison dropped in. Both the Gunnisons and the Rices live in Needham, not far apart.
Gaylord Anderson, deputy state commissioner of public health of Massachusetts, has resigned to become professor of preventive medicine and public health at the University of Minnesota. He left the Health Department September 1. He was graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1928, and was appointed epidemiologist in the Department of Public Health in 1929- His chief, Dr. Henry D. Chadwick, in a newspaper statement said: "The statewill suffer a real loss by the resignation ofDr. Anderson. His enviable record withthis department is one of which a mucholder man might be proud."
Secretary, 26 Walnut St., W. Barrington, R. I.
