1922*
GREETINGS TWOTERS
Labor Day has come and gone and most of us are now buckling down to fall activities after a pleasant summer and fine vacation. It is a great pleasure for me to be in touch with so many of the class through personal contact here and there on my travels and also through the medium of this column, and I approach each fall season with renewed interest and the desire to make this column what we all want it to be. We have a good many things to look forward to during the coming months, reaching a climax next June when many of us (let's hope all) will be returning to Hanover for our 20th Reunion.
On June 20th and 21st, last, your Secretary was in Hanover for the annual Secretaries' Association meeting. The confer- ences were fine and the talks excellent. Of course, the one stand-out event of the week-end (it always is) was Prexy's speech at the annual dinner.
As perhaps you know, this meeting coincided with the reunions of the 5, 10, 15 and 20 year old classes operating under the initial experiment of holding the reunion week-end following the regular college commencement week-end. Our good friends in '21 were very gracious to the 'Twoters that were in town and we appreciated their hospitality immensely.
Carter Hoyt, Chairman of our 20th Reunion Committee, and Haskell Cohn were in Hanover with your scribe to look the situation over and to get ideas for our own return next year. In addition, Profs Olsen and West were on deck and Bob Booth, our newly elected alumni councillor from the New England district. Bob's election, by the way, gives to the class of '22 two representatives on the Alumni Councilthe other being Red Boyd of Chattanooga.
In attendance for the Hanover Holiday week June 16th to 21st were Harvey Moses, Bob Clark, Tony Hanlon and Harry Bruckner and wives and Harry's young son. They all appeared to be having a fine vacation. You know this Hanover Holiday is something we all might seriously consider as a prelude to our Twentieth.
Although you have probably read Al Dickerson's report of the Ernest Martin Hopkins 25th Anniversary Campaign of the Alumni Fund, I cannot help but mention here the pride that we all take in the excellent record of good old '22—contributors 94% and contributions 159% of our objective. These figures stand as our record and congratulations are most certainly deserved by all the assistant class agents and Bob Booth who has so well headed up the class campaigns.
Treasurer Rex Malmquist tells me that 166 men paid their four bucks covering dues and subscription to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE last year. This compares very well with 133 the year before and 113 the year before that. This is the second year that the magazine is reaching the entire class on the 100% basis and though our record of actual paid subscriptions was good, there is still room for great improvement. This improvement can only be in the hands of each of you that read these columns. In a short time Rex is sending out the class dues bills and to make payment easy for you, a return envelope will be enclosed.
On one of your scribe's periodic midwestern trips in early June, he was fortunate in seeing Chuck Vose in Oklahoma City and having lunch with Zeke Shoup in Wichita again. On April 17th of this year Vernon Reed Shoup Jr. was born and to both Pop and Adelaide go our best wishes.
Haskell and Harriet Cohn spent a week's holiday in Virginia, driving down over the Shenandoah Highway to Charlottesville and then on to Williamsburg.
Another traveler is Joe Ross of Albany who during the past winter visited Mexico and Guatemala. Fact is, Joe was away a little over three months and felt he had crowded into that period as much adventure as he would if he had stayed home 15 vears.
Gladys and Gardner (Red to you) Hall announced the arrival of Daniel Wallace on July 12 th. Congratulations!
Another new addition is a son born to Egon and Mrs. Kattwinkel in Newton, Mass.
Bill Bullen has recently brought your Secretary up to date on his family. The inventory—Wilbur Warren Jr., almost 11, Jed Wentworth and 7, Anne Smith 5 and Emily Neal 2.
Now to turn to Reunion Plans for a moment. In the November column there will be spread before your eager eyes a close approximation of the intended activities and functions and a list of the various committee and regional chairmen. Just to whet your appetite or to cause nostalgia as the case may be, we are printing photographs elsewhere in this column of events and people at our 15th. Other pictures of that party will appear in succeeding issues.
Reunion next June will be on June 19th, 20th, and 21st—the week-end after the regular college commencement—mark these dates now! Those of us who were on the ground this year are wholeheartedly in favor of the change. Because of crowded conditions over the regular commencement week-end, the college and the town have been hard put to handle the crowds to good advantage. The new program has so many obvious advantages it's a wonder that it hasn't been used before.
Carter Hoyt has been working on the general program which you will read about next month and in all respects the arrangements for housing, events and costumes will make a memorable party. In 1937, 72 men, 23 wives and 3 children were present; in '32 64 men and 21 gals. We are all hoping for a substantial increase next June.
NOTICE—To New England Twoters and to all others going to the Harvard game. NIGHT-BEFORE-THE HARVARD-GAME DINNER! The committee in charge of this dinner, in cooperation with Carter Hoyt's 20th Reunion Committee, is making plans for a bigger and better party. The game is a week earlier this year —October 18 th.
PLACE—University Club, Trinity Place, Boston.
DATE—Friday, October 17 th.
TIME—6:3O P.M.
PROGRAM—Dinner, music, bull session and what have you!
The evening promises to be an event that no Twoter planning to attend the game or living near Boston can afford to miss.
See you next month.
A group at the picnic. A few of the gals who were present in June '37, IGTH REUNION, 1937
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