1922
As '22 approaches its 50th birthday, a Happy New Year to all Twoters including wives, children, in-laws, and grandchildren. The Class, in case your memory slip is showing, was born September 18, 1918, when President Hopkins greeted each of us individually.
An esteemed dues-paying member of the '22 union asks, "When are we going to stop talking about our 45th Reunion?" Not until after our 50th Reunion only four years away. So, from Hanover's winter wonderland here are a few additional snowflakes on our 45th:
Chick Hopkins writes from Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico, "I enjoyed Reunion tremendously. We didn't look or act too old." Unanimously voted, Chick.
Jerry Bates adds, "Wasn't our 45th a dandy Reunion." No dissent, Jerry.
Dr. Theodore R. Robie, 6 N. Brookwood Dr., Montclair, N. J., came back to the 45th well and happy after complete recovery from serious illness. Ted would like to hear from any classmate apprehending open heart surgery or similar problems because reassurance can and will be gladly given.
Contrary to Wall Street expectations, our Bell System '22 lads did not increase AT's dividend at Reunion. Obviously, with eight of them back in Hanover, they had a quorum all right, but, truly beyond all comprehension, the Bell System seems to be getting along even without the invaluable advice and assistance of Elmer Ardiff, Harry Bruckner, Dave Camp, Jack Dodd, Roger Eastman, Larry Healy, Stan Miner, and Len Morrissey.
Ted and Bab Davidson came to Reunion practically directly from a trip to Scandinavia and the Continent. In Switzerland it happened that Ted manhunted the class scribe all over the hills and valleys of Lausanne. Ted claimed he was merely trying to extend a dinner invitation to the Morrisseys, but grand-pere Len was skeptical. Knowing full well that Ted was chairman of the class nominating committee the scribe feared Ted was going to tell him that as class secretary he had had it, was superannuated and long past retirement age, and that '22 wanted no more of his senile garrulity in class notes. So, tyrannically fearing extermination, plus the loss of two free meals per annum, the scribe escaped Ted by hieing off to feed the bears at Berne. And that, despite Ted's denial, is why '22 is still stuck with its scribe - and vice-versa. But now that the arduous campaign is over, thanks for the invitation, Ted and Bab, and next time we'll have a fondue and a flagon of Neuchatel together.
In rain or shine many classmates showed at Memorial Field and other Ivy gridirons during the latter half of the 1967 season. Reliable (?) spotters at least thought they saw Mike and Laura Adams - with a special welcome back to Mike still suntanned from Saigon, Elmer and Frances Ardiff, Ray and Doris Atwood with daughter Gail and her husband Dick Foley, Chick Busher, Bob and Grace Clark, Pop and Garry Clewell, Haskell and Harriet Cohn, Francis Cullen, Warren and Mary Daniell, Jack and Fran Dodd, Carroll and Nan Dwight, John and Bertha Fancher, Jim and Edie Hamilton, Chick Hopkins, Carter and Allie Hoyt, John and Jean Kemeny, Max Kenyon, Steve Kenyon, Killy Kilmarx, Ed and Marian Lane, Fran and Lucy Leland, Dick and Mary Litchfield, Bill and Betty Mann, Ike and Harriott Miller, Stan and Catherine Miner, Len and Margaret Morrissey, Joe and Betty Perkins, Markey Pullen, Ced and Emma Porter, Ray and Mary Rambach, Bill and Jean Rex, Oscar and Bea Rice, Ted and Beth Robie, Spenny and Marge Smith, Kirk Steen, Dick and Dot Stetson, Jack and Sylvia Taylor, Don Tobin, Ben Wilson, Bud and Barbara Winkler. There were more, of course, but some of the spotters were chicken about prying under blankets.
Class progenies: Wesley L. Nutten III '51, son of Wes and Ann Nutten, is serving the College as president of the Dartmouth Club of Southern California. Alumni in California now outnumber all states except New York and Massachusetts.
Herluf V. Jr. '50, son of our beloved Dean Olie Olsen, has returned to the North Country as director of the Medical Center of Vermont Hospital at Burlington, Vt. Previously, he was administrator of the University of Florida Hospital and Clinics at Gainesville.
Jerry and Doris Bates saw daughter Ann Elizabeth married to Robert F. Wohlleber on October 14, 1967 in South Congrega- tional Church, Pittsfield, Mass. Robert, a C.C.N.Y. '64 graduate, is a computer applications engineer with General Electric Company. Ann is a cytotechnologist at Pittsfield General Hospital. Good fortune to the young couple.
Mark Budnitz '66, son of Max and RoseBudnitz, is a second-year student at Harvard Law and Kate, oldest Budnitz granddaughter, is a freshman at Barnard.
Horace and Margaret Shepard of Newtown, Conn., have an ardent skiing family. Deborah, Middlebury '56 - Margaret is Middlebury '22 - is secretary at the American Church, Geneva, Switzerland, and spends her spare time skiing Alpine slopes. Prudence, Mary Washington '61, divides her time between Bank of America in San Francisco and skiing at Lake Tahoe. Horace L.11l graduated from University of Colorado where he was a four-year member of the renowned ski team. He now heads a company which wholesales ski togs and equipment. Rex Malmquist adds, "The boy must move much faster than his old man ever did." A year ago all five Shepards spent Christmas and New Year's in Geneva and Zermatt, skiing, of course - und wunderbar naturlich.
With the passing of Bill Neary as reported this month or later in In Memoriam, the '22 delegation from Naugatuck (Conn.) High School has sadly lost another member. This eight-man group was one of '22's larger delegations. Influenced largely by the Dartmouth enthusiasm of Charles T. McCarthy '88, the group consisted of Roy Bunting, Steve Collins, Francis Cullen, Sam Chevalier, Doc Delaney, George McCarthy, Bill Neary, and Joe Talbot. The first three remain with us.
The Class offers its sympathy to Donald A. Powell whose wife Agnes passed away October 1, 1967 in West Orange, N. J.
Even in these always factual notes, prognoses of Dartmouth athletic teams may occasionally be slanted, but these winter months do seem reasonably promising for Twoters to take grandchildren to some Dartmouth basketball and hockey games. Hope to see you there.
Secretary, : 11 Brockway Rd. Hanover, N. H. 03755
Treasurer, 111 Laurel Rd., Chestnut Hill, Mass. 02167
Bequest Co-Chairmen,
