1922
"These days terrific" says the Old Farmers Almanac for April 19 and 20, the dates of our Little Reunion at the "new" Hanover Inn. And for those of the class family who come to Hanover, April 19 and 20 will indeed be "terrific" days. The O.F.A. also says, "Maple sap run is about over," but that won't stop the run of words at this gettogether. April 19 and 20; Hanover zip code is 03755; the Inn telephone number is 603643-4300. Welcome to the first gathering of a class in the attractive "new" Inn.
"I cannot make all the Little Reunion, but my wife and I would like to eat with the Class Saturday evening, April 20. Can we do so?" You certainly can and we'll all be glad to see you. Jim McFate will have a delicious dinner for us in the Drake Room at Hopkins Center. Dinner will be at 6:45 but join us in '22's 'common room' at the Inn anytime you arrive in Hanover." And please let us have advance notice so we can tell the Inn how many plates to take out of the cupboard. So, if you are coming only to the dinner, send the scribe a postcard saying so. The dinner tax of $6.00 or slightly more per person will be extracted from you after arrival.
A coterie of classmates appear prominently in "The Ledyard Canoe Club of Dartmouth - a History" by Thomas Falcon '65. Leonard Berheim, Jack Dalton, Warren Daniell, Charlie Hart, Andy Heath, Joe Perkins, Ernie Spaulding, Charlie Throop, and Evan Woodward are in the large picture of "Original Members" who also include many well remembered friends of '20 and '21 as well as some of the best liked professors of our time.
It all started, of course, in 1772 when John Ledyard hewed himself a canoe and began a world-roving career by descending the Connecticut to Hartford. Undoubtedly some Dartmouth Indians, red or white, had canoes on The River during the next 148 years, yet it was not until April 30, 1920 that The Ledyard Canoe Club had its first meeting. Jack Norton represented '22 and Profs. Leland Griggs '02 and Charles A. Proctor '00 were the first faculty members. In the autumn of 1920 our Evan Woodward and Richard H. Goddard '20 made the first river trip in modern history when they paddled and portaged from Hanover to Holyoke.
Evan Woodward was president; WarrenDaniell, vice president; Robert B. Bartlett, secretary, and Ernest Spaulding, treasurer in 1921-22, the second year of the club's existence. The history also lists the men who each spring made the complete Down River Trip, Hanover to Saybrook Point, Conn. Bob Bartlett, Jack Dalton, Ernie Spaulding, and Evan Woodward paddled day and night on the first complete trip in 1921. JerryBates, Warren Daniel, Gardner Hall, and Charlie Throop made the second complete trip during our last spring in Hanover. Thus began the safaris which in more recent years have taken members of The Ledyard Canoe Club around New England, down the Danube, along the coast of Japan, and onto the covers of the National Geographic Magazine. Selected as one of the best 25 books published in New England in 1967 and printed by The Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vt., "The Ledyard Canoe Club of Dartmouth" is a choice memento of Dartmouth's outdoor life so abundantly available to all and so greatly enjoyed by our college generation.
"Have you had dealings with classmates who are brokers (physicians), psychiatrists, clergymen or parole officers?" is one of many questions being asked of several thousand Harvard men. Two of our classmates, Dr. Wilmer W. Angell and Stanley P. Miner would get a triple A rating for their answers for it was only last autumn that Bill operated on Stan. And the way Stan has recovered and is energetically working in the Vermont Legislature is a testimonial to Dr. Bill's professional skill and experience. He has now been practicing for 42 years since 1926 when he got his M.D. from Harvard. Through this time, except for four years of World War II when Commander Angell served as a surgeon in the U. S. Navy, Bill has been practicing in his birthplace, Randolph, Vt. Fifteen years ago he was a founder of the White River Valley Clinic in Randolph which he serves as a director and physician. He is former president of the Council of New England State Medical Societies. Bill and Margaret's oldest son David '51 got his M.D. from McGill in 1955 and is now a physician in Wisconsin. Daughter Nancy, Skidmore '53, is the wife of Richard DuBois, M.I.T. '52, who started and directs a firm of consulting engineers in Randolph. Son Thomas, St. Lawrence '65, did graduate work at McGill and is now serving in the U. S. Army. Bill and Margaret have seven grandchildren. The best wishes of '22 to all the family.
And now before some old Alum (current undergraduate lingo for anyone older than the class of '65) writes in to complain that these '22 notes increasingly sound as if the scribe were seeking a job with the A.M.A., save your typewriter ribbon. The fact is that M.D.'s to the number of 3078 are the largest occupational classification among Dartmouth alumni. At least one of every ten Dartmouth graduates is an M.D. Lawyers number slightly less totaling about 2850.
From Hanover papers - no kidding, there are three if the Daily Dartmouth is included - comes good news of Frank and Dorothy Hutchins' daughters. Dottie has won a place on the dean's list in her first semester at Pembroke and high school senior Betty has received early acceptance at Mt. Holyoke.
Only one address change this month: Phya Donavanick Montri is now living at his suburban home Tyanthog House 66/29 Sukhumvit Road, Bangkok, Thailand. Health and happiness from all classmates, Don.
"The hill winds know their name" -
From Lois, wife of Bob Booth, "I know how much Dartmouth was a part of Bob and how he loved every memory of it. The boys (Tom '54 and Alan '56) and I have a wealth of happy memories from our life with Bob. We are grateful for these memories and we thank the Class for its memorial book in Baker Library."
Martha, wife of Dr. Wendell Boyer, "I and my family (sons Edward '53 and Donald) highly appreciate the Class memorial book for Wen in the Dartmouth Library."
May, wife of Bill Dodds, "It was so kind of the Class to place a book in memory of Bill in the Dartmouth Library."
And, finally, Hanover has had more sub- days this January and February than ever previously recorded. No one is saying, "We never have old fashioned winters any more. You see the Gulf Stream is moving closer to the coast, etc., etc., etc." Spring will be ardently welcomed this year and so will you at the Hanover Inn, April 19 and 20.
Secretary, 11 Brockway Rd. Hanover, N. H. 03755
Class Agent, Norway Hill Rd., Hancock, N. H. 03449
