1922

With no portents whatever concerning the future of The College on the Hill, '22's notes this month are unabashedly coeducational. They are dedicated to all '22 grandmothers including, especially, two of our Wellesley hoop-rolling girls.

In honoring one of our beloved grandmothers, the Class delights in congratulating Haskell and Harriet Cohn upon her confirmation as a Trustee of Wellesley College. A graduate in the Wellesley class of '28 and presently chairman of its 40th reunion this June, Harriet was nominated by the Wellesley Alumnae Association. She was secretary of the Wellesley Students Aid Society 1952-58, president 1958-64, and served as president of the Boston Wellesley Club 1948-50. She was also Wellesley representative to the Seven College Association Committee of which she is a former chairman.

"Mrs. Cohn," says the press, "has been extremely active in civic affairs." She is a member of the Fund for the Boston Symphony Orchestra Committee and the Temple Israel Education Committee (which she has served for 28 years), and is a former Board Member of the College Club of Boston. She has likewise served on the Greater Boston Community Council and as chairman of various committees of the Greater Boston Girl Scouts, and as a board member of the Boston Y.W.C.A. She was a trustee of the Associated Jewish Philanthropies, Boston, and a member of the budget committee. She is an honorary director of the Greater Boston Jewish Family and Children's Service. She was a Red Cross Dietician's Aid at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, a director of the Newton Forum, and chairman of the Waban's Women's Club Scholarship Committee.

Harriet is also past president of the Choate School Alumnae Association, former vice president and board member of the Women's Scholarship Association and a member of the corporation of the Beaver Country Day School. She was a director of Hecht Neighborhood House and was board member and program chairman of the National Women's Committee of Brandeis University.

Three years out of Harvard Law School and long before he became a senior partner in Mintz, Levin, Cohn and Glovsky, and a member of the Harvard Law School Council, Haskell married Harriet in 1928. She is a sister of Philip A. Segal '23 and the aunt of Philip A. Segal Jr. '47. Haskell's and Harriet's daughter Marjorie Cohn Wall attended Beaver Country Day School and received her B.S. in education from Wheelock College, and their daughter Susan Cohn Hartman received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from Wayne University. For better or worse, the two girls married men educated at Harvard both as undergraduates and at the Law and Business Schools. The Cohns of '22 and '28 respectively have six grandchildren. So, congratulations from '22, Grandma Harriet, not only on your new honor, but also toyou and Haskell on your 40th wedding anniversary this happy year.

It is sad to report the death of SamuelBabigan on March 7 in a Boston hospital.

The Class joins in heartfelt sympathy with Dave Camp whose wife Mary passed away January 28 at Indian Rock Beach, Fla. Everyone was delighted to have Dave and Mary at reunion last June. They were married 40 years ago, have since lived mostly in Montreal, and have two children, Marilyn and Thomas.

Jack and Fran Dodd were also in Florida at the time and in sorrow they joined Dave who was Jack's college roommate.

Dartmouth's Alumni College had many grandparents as students last August. Carroll and Nan Dwight and Max and GraceKenyon are slated to return this summer and to be joined by Larry and Jeanne Robinson. Naturally, one can't help worrying about '22's grandmothers in college so we asked Nan Dwight about it, confidentially. Wellesley '26 and grandma to seven grandchildren, it seemed she ought to know. She had already written an unmailed letter to Gen'l Miller, but we insisted on it for these notes first and now here is the letter Ike never received.

"Dear Ike: I feel that I owe you a 'bread-and-butter' letter for Alumni College. Thanks to your excellent planning, it went off like clockwork and we had such a good time. I'll have to admit we found some of the preparatory reading quite thought-provoking. If you haven't read anything more brain-taxing than Erie Stanley Gardner and children's report cards for years and years, you're apt to be somewhat appalled by "The Copernican Theory" and "The Lonely Crowd." We did receive the books in plenty of time, but, procrastinators that we are, we waited until July to begin our homework and of course didn't finish — at least I didn't. So it was with a somewhat guilty feeling that I arrived in Hanover, a feeling I hadn't, experienced since going to college classes unprepared. However, I kept telling myself that there were no exams and that I could sit silent during the discussions and thus conceal my ignorance.

"But it didn't work out that way. In the very first discussion group, I became involved in a heated disagreement about Benjamin Franklin! And so it went. The discussions were not confined to the books on our list, but ranged over a wide variety of subjects including religion, draft-card burning, the Vietnam war, and race riots, and it was fascinating to hear the opinions of people from different backgrounds - retired businessmen, grandmothers, doctors, lawyers, ministers, and teachers. At the end of our stay, we felt that we knew them intimately — how they thought, how they reacted.— not just socially as if we'd met them merely for a brief visit. Incidentally, Ike, I think it's a good idea to have husbands and wives in different groups, although my first thought was, 'I won't know anyone!' But that very anonymity gives us the courage to speak our minds. And then, too, we could hardly wait to get together at lunch to find out what went on in each other's discussion groups.

"The Professors' lectures were most stimulating and I thought how fortunate the present-day Dartmouth students are to be able to study under such men.

"I think it's a good idea to have the lectures start at 8:30 a.m. and then we had afternoons free to explore the campus, to go swimming at Storr's Pond, and to play golf. Our rooms were clean and comfortable, the food was delicious both at Thayer and at our cook-outs, and the weather was perfect. All of which added up to a most rewarding twelve days and Carroll and I were so glad we went. Sincerely, Nan."

Thank you indeed, Nan. We boys will no longer worry about our grandmothers at college. But apologies to Ike, of course, for reading his mail before he received it. And to think some Twoters 50 years ago put a freshman under a cold shower in mid-winter merely because the naive lad had read his roommate's personal mail and blabbed about it.

But most of all thank heavens for the little girls who grew up so delightfully to become grandmothers in this golden anniversary Class of '22.

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