1922
Congratulations from everyone in '22's family to Class President Bill Bullen and a most cordial welcome into our clan to Mrs. Wilbur W. Bullen. She and Bill were married February 21 in Methuen, Mass. Trudy, the former Mrs. Gertrude F. Wilson, is a graduate of Wheelock College '52, earned her master's degree at Harvard in 1960 and received her doctorate from Harvard in 1969. She is a research director responsible for the Books Exposure Program sponsored jointly by the Committee on Public Schools and the National Book Committee which is a pilot project in its third year in the Fall River public schools. She is also the reigning ladies' golf champion of Brae Burn Country Club, West Newton. We'll all make it easy, and we hope delightful, for you, Trudy, in getting to know us and our very best wishes to you and Bill always.
A resounding Wah Hoo Wah for Geneand Nettie Hotchkiss and for their son, Dr. Eugene Hotchkiss 3rd '50, Executive Dean of Chatham College, upon his appointment as the eleventh President of Lake Forest College. The appointment, announced January 30, becomes effective September 1, 1970. Founded in 1857, Lake Forest (Ill.) is a coeducational, liberal arts college with a faculty of 100 and 1250 undergraduates from 46 states and 22 foreign countries.
Gene '50 entered Dartmouth from Highland Park (Ill.) High School. He was a Rufus Choate Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi, president of the Dartmouth Outing Club, and a member of Chi Phi. He received his Ph.D. (History of Education) from Cornell in 1960.
After Dartmouth he served three years in the Navy with the rank of lieutenant (j.g.). In 1953 he became assistant to the Dean of the College at Dartmouth and was assistant dean the following year. From 1955 to 1958 he was an assistant dean at Cornell before he returned to Dartmouth as Associate Dean (1958-1960). He then joined the faculty at Harvey Mudd College (Claremont, Calif.) as Lecturer in History and Dean of Students. He served in this capacity for three years and became Dean of the College in 1962. He returned East in 1968 as Dean of Chatham College, Pittsburgh.
Gene 3rd is 42 years old and is married to the former Suzanne Troxell, a Smith graduate. They are the parents of a daughter Ellen, four and a half years old. Gene is a twin brother of James K. '5O and of another brother, Frank E., also '50. With three sons in the same Dartmouth class, Gene '22 and Nettie must have been deservedly elated at that June 1950 Commencement.
Now, likewise, it must be unique for a class to have two members of its clan designated college presidents almost within the same week: John Kemeny on January 23; Eugene Hotchkiss 3rd on January 30. And '22 offers each of them its felicitations.
Tommy Byrne, as reported in In Memoriam, has sadly left us. April 24 and 25 - Friday and Saturday, the last weekend in April - are the dates for '22's Little Reunion at the Hanover Inn. The Class has had many happy assemblies at these informal spring gatherings and this year promises to be particularly distinctive for '22.
John Kemeny, President of Dartmouth and classmate of '22, will be with us for lunch, Saturday, April 25, at 12:30 in the Drake Room. We had hoped to have John with us for our usual dinner that evening, but his attendance at an important late afternoon and evening meeting on college affairs precludes that pleasure for us. He is glad, however, to join us for Saturday lunch which will be the highlight of our weekend.
Most Twoters will arrive in Hanover on Friday, April 24. All will get together at 5 o'clock, or earlier if they wish, in Room 101, our Hospitality Headquarters at the Inn. After that convocation, we'll eat where and when we please. Most will probably choose the Inn dining room and none will forget that after 8 p.m. or so, sustenance in Hanover is not easy to come by.
Saturday morning at 10:30 the men will have a class meeting in Room 101. Our distinguished luncheon for all classmates, wives and guests will follow at 12:30.
Early Saturday afternoon offers a variety of athletic events. Ike and Harriott Miller will host all the clan at 4:30 at their lovely home in Thetford Center, 30 minutes from the Hanover Inn. Gen'l Ike promises to evict us in time for all to be back in Hanover well before our Saturday evening dinner.
That always delectable dinner will be at 6:45, April 25, in the Drake Room of Hopkins Center. After dessert we'll have an appropriate talk by a faculty professor. Then we'll convene again in our Hospitality Room and no curfew will ring for dispersion.
If you have not made your room reservation at the Hanover Inn, they are waiting to hear from you. The question now is: how many will be at the Saturday luncheon and at the Saturday dinner? It is assumed that all who reserve rooms at the Inn will attend both the luncheon and the dinner. If there are exceptions to that assumption, will you please notify the class secretary before April 23? Likewise, will classmates who will not stay at the Inn, but who will attend the Saturday luncheon, or Saturday dinner, or both, please notify the class secretary as to which or both, and how many at each, before April 23? The welcome mat is out for you.
Secretary, 11 Brockway Rd. Hanover, N.H. 03755
Class Agent, Hancock, N.H. 03449
