1922
We've come to the end of a long trail and just around the corner, in a very few days, in fact, is our 25th! Gosh, I can remember June of 1922 when my father and his class of 1897 were in Hanover for their twenty-fifth. My Dad didn't seem so old to me but his classmates did! And now here we are with places reversed and sometimes I wonder what the class of '47 will think of us "oldsters" as they see us during reunion week-end. Some of us are a little thinner, some a little fatter, and some of us are getting gray, or have lost our thatch completely. We've added to our initial responsibilities—family—job, etc., and our faces bear a stamp of maturity. But the one thing that has never changed in any of us, I believe, is our great love and affection for the College and the class of 1922. And that's what I like to think the men of '47 will remember about the men of '22. Tho' 25 years may separate us, we are all bound by love for the College into the greatest group of college alumni in the country—toe are Dartmouth men!
For those of you who missed Herb West's special little feature, "25 Years Ago," in the May issue, look up Page 58 of that number. The editors had to dummy it next to the 1923 column, of all places.
This is the last column for the year save for the reports of all reunions that will appear in next month's issue. All of my news items have been used up execpt for the following bits:
Webster, Sheffield & Horan is the new name of Frank's law firm in New York. A change in partners brings our favorite redhead into the front rank. Offices continue at 15 Broad Street.
On a recent business trip to Boston I had the pleasure of seeing a large number of the boys, including Bob Hight, who tells me he has arranged for a band at reunion time that is expert in playing the old songs we loved so well.
And in mid April, at the New York Alumni dinner, I saw Frank Horan, Len Bernheim, Bill Shirley, Doc Robie, Joe Cohen, Charlie Earle, Bob Dewey, Harry Bruckner, Ben Wilson, Duke Vos Burgh, Killie Kilmarx, Johnnie Johnson, Chick Busher, Art Norton and Bert Hauser.
Well, my friends, though I shall have the great pleasure of seeing most of you in a fendays for our biggest and finest Reunion, I shall not be "seeing" you hereafter thru these monthly columns. I have served as your secretary-chairman since 1939 (and your treasurer for four years before that) and have advised Ced Porter, chairman of our Nominating Committee of my wish to be relieved-it's time for a change!
To you all I say "so long" with regret, yet tempered with some relief. You've been damn good to me and have overlooked with understanding and charity my many shortcomings as the author of these monthly columns for so many years. I've had the good fortune to see many of you in person during my business trips around the country and I shall continue to look in on you from time to time as these trips continue.
I'd like everyone of you to know how much I've gained from this association seeing some of you in your own homes—hearing from you and corresponding with you over the years and I shall never forget these years as your secretary. In spite of shortcomings of English and sentence construction and my rather stolid style, you've hurled few brickbats in my direction. I have gained close friendships and opened up others, and lost none, to my knowledge, during these eight years. Some of you I haven't seen since '22, yet I feel I know you through our periodic, correspondence. What you have been doing, your family news, your success in your fields of endeavor, I've tried to reflect in these columns, and many of your friends have been able to keep track of you in this way.
To your new secretary-chairman and author of this column for the next series of years, I send my greetings and a pledge of cooperation.
CLASS LEADER PROVES HIMSELF A CIVIC LEADER AS WELL: Eric C. Malmquist, 1922's Class Treasurer, was the chairman of a citizens' committee in Norwalk, Conn., which recently circulated a petition in that city for a stronger United Nations organization. The petition, which was sent to Congress, had nearly 100% of Norwalk signing it. Malmquist is shown above fixing a petition placard at an intersection.
Secretary, 1837 Arlington St., Bethelehem, Pa, Treasurer, 143 East Ave., Norwalk, Conn. Memorial Fund Chairman 38 Newbury St., Boston, Mass.
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