1922
With two esteemed classmates - PhilGove and Sterry Waterman - receiving honorary degrees, Dartmouth's 194 th commencement last June added new highlights to the escutcheon of '22. Gleanings from the citations epitomize the honors:
"Philip Babcock Gove, Editor in Chief, Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Dartmouth graduate, Class of 1922, Harvard M.A. and Columbia Ph.D. We pay admiring tribute to you for the professional performance of a monumental service to all who have need to know the English language as it is used today. Your career as teacher, scholar, and editor does honor to your alma mater, in testimony whereof she awards you her honorary Doctorate of Letters."
"Sterry Robinson Waterman, Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; President, American Judicature Society, Dartmouth graduate, Class of 1922. A Federal judge who presides over New York and Connecticut lawyers, as well as Vermonters. A judge who is wise today because holding the past in his custody he is concerned for tomorrow. Leader in its golden anniversary year of the foremost group of the American bench and bar devoted to promoting the efficient administration of justice, you personify what is meant by a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa."
To Phil, to Sterry and their families the Class proudly offers its warmest congratulations as well as its gratitude for the honors their distinguished careers bring to our clan.
And as an additional '22 tinge at this commencement, proud parents Bill andBetty Mann and Chris and Harriet Suttmeier saw their respective sons, John Evers Mann and Richard Peter Suttmeier, receive B.A. degrees. Also there as innocent bystanders were Stan and Catherine Miner and Lenand Margaret Morrissey. Besides delivering the Address to the College on Class Day, Peter Suttmeier was one of the five class marshals in the commencement procession and he is the recipient of the Dartmouth Teaching Fellowship - Project Asia.
Wilbur W. Bullen is the newly elected president of the Newton Y.M.C.A. Concerning Bill's latest honor, Boston papers in part report: "Mr. Bullen, a native of Ticonderoga, N. Y., is married (as if we all did not know Bill and Odie Lee were married March 15, 1930) and has four sons and daughters, all married (well, to be more precise, two sons, two daughters, four grandsons and three granddaughters). Mr. Bullen is a graduate of Dartmouth College (and Class Chairman of '22) and has been active in Alumni affairs (to all who know what Bill has done and is still doing for Dartmouth, that's the understatement of many a year). He is vice president of the Newton Community Chest and a member of the National Council of Y.M.C.A.'s. (And Twoters would add congratulations not only to Bill but to the 'Y' as well.)" But that is not all Bill has been up to Boston papers also show Bill among the newly elected officers of The Douglas A. Thom Clinic for Children of which Bill now serves as treasurer. And last, but most important, is the good news that Odie Lee, after early summer hospitalization, has made a fine recovery and hopes to be playing golf again before autumn stages its spectacle.
Major General Walter I. Miller, USAF, Ret., has been elected to the Board of Federal Union, Inc. From its Washington headquarters this well known organization publishes Freedom & Union, "Magazine of the Democratic World," edited by Clarence Streit. A recent issue has this to say about distinguished classmate Ike: "General Miller was comptroller of the U.S. Air Force in Europe from 1957 until his retirement last year. Starting as a captain in 1942 he served in the Air Transport Command in Brazil during the war and advanced through grades to his present rank. From 1946-57 he was stationed at Air Force headquarters in Washington, holding, among other posts, that of director of accounting and finance. Born in 1899, he was engaged in business and banking in Peoria, Ill., before the war, and was an early member of the Federal Union chapter there. His wife, a former vice president of Federal Union, served for many years on its national board; her husband succeeds her there. They live in Arlington, Va." Good enough, Ike, but make them write it over again and say General Miller is a member of famous '22 at Dartmouth and '23 at Tuck. Twoters can thank '22's most eminent, honorary past secretary, Frank Horan, for forwarding this welcome news about Ike and Harriet.
The very best wishes of the Class go to Prof. Herluf Yagn Olsen of Tuck School and Mrs. Louise Pomeroy Baker of Hingham, Mass., who were married on May 31 in Hanover. Olie and Louise returned from Europe in August and are living at 4 Dana Road, Hanover. May they have many years of happiness together.
If some Twoters happen to be at the Bucknell or Brown games in Hanover, look for Jack and Sylvia Taylor - they'll be there and glad to see you.
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Jack Taylor '22 (wearing tie) shown withY.A. Tittle, Allie Sherman, and AndyRobustelli of the New York Giants during a practice session at Fairfield University, near Jack's Westport, Conn., home.
Secretary, 46 Myrtle St. West Newton 65, Mass.
Treasurer, 111 Laurel Rd., Chestnut Hill 67, Mass.
