1922

The College and the Class are honored by Mrs. Lillian B. Strauss in her munificent gift establishing The Jacob H. Strauss1922 Professor of Music. The announcement made April 25 at luncheon in the Drake Room was the highlight of '22's Annual Little Reunion. Sixty-five members of the class family and guests were present to hear the thrilling news. President Johnand Jean Kemeny, Lillian, Samuel Wagman and his wife Bertha, who is Lillian's sister, Arthur Wagman, who is Lillian's nephew, with his wife Bobby, and Class President Biil Bullen graced the head table.

Bill introduced Lillian who delightfully and intimately expressed her pleasure in memorializing her husband - and our classmate - in the art of music which he loved so dearly. Classmate John Kemeny responded by stating Dartmouth's gratitude for an enrichment in culture that will continue through the life of the College for all the years to come. Bill closed the meeting by expressing the heartfelt thanks of the Class to Lillian. The only regret of '22 was that Jack was not there to share our delight in this most appropriate memorial to him. Dartmouth and '22 will always cherish Jack in memory and Lillian in gratitude not only for this present beneficence, but also for the Jacob H. Strauss 1922 Gallery in Hopkins Center which was dedicated at a '22 Little Reunion six years ago.

Special guests at the luncheon included Warner and Kit Bentley, Professor and Dorothy di Bonaventura, Professor and Dorothy Lathrop, and Ort and Lois Hicks '21 who sat with Lillian's dear friends, Haskell and Harriet Cohn.

Additional members of the luncheon group were Dr. Bill and Margaret Angell, Elmer and Frances Ardiff, Mrs. Lois Booth, Ellis Briggs '21, Harry and Peg Bruckner, Trudy Bullen, Chuck Canfield, Bob and Grace Clark, Francis and Mae Cullen, Warren and Mary Daniell, Carroll and Nan Dwight, Tony and Eleanor Hanlon, Andy and Helen Heath, Carter and Allie Hoyt, Stan and Doris Jackson, Fran and Lucy Leland, Dr. John and Pat McKoan, Ed and Kay McNamara and Ed's sister Mrs. Du-fault, Bill and Betty Mann, Ike and Harriott Miller, Stan and Catherine Miner, Len and Margaret Morrissey, Mrs. Louise Olsen, Dr. Markey Pullen, Peter Smith, Fred and Maude Vogel, Prof. Herb West.

The entire weekend was, as usual, a most congenial gathering of the clan. Ike andHarriott hosted all of us Saturday afternoon at their charming Thetford Center home. Peter Smith, General Administrator of the Hopkins Center, was our excellent speaker after a delectable Saturday evening dinner. Later some went to the Spring Sing in Spaulding Auditorium. And throughout the weekend '22's Hospitality Room at the Inn and the Drake Room resounded with conversation, comradeship and contentment - all the stuff memories are made of.

John S. Johnson is now mayor of North Pelham, N. Y. Assuming '22's records are accurate, Johnny thereby becomes the second mayor in the Class. Will F. Nicholson as mayor of Denver from 1955-59 was our first classmate so honored. The good news about Johnny comes in a clipping from the Mt. Vernon Argus forwarded by Jack Dana. The report says in part: "The North Pelham Village Board Trustees have appointed John S. Johnson mayor.... A former president of the Pelhamwood Association and formerly president of the Board of Education, Mayor Johnson has had a long career of service to Pelham. He is a retired executive of the U.S. Rubber Co. He was first elected to the North Pelham board in 1966. He has been active in the Men's Club and served on the board of the Community Church of the Pelhams. He and Mrs. Johnson live at 76 Young Ave., Pelham, and they have three grown children." Best of luck from all classmates to you, Mr. Mayor.

Lloyd Barnard, Harry Bruckner, Jack Dana, Jack Dodd, Johnny Johnson, Ike Miller and son Fred '53, Dr. Ted Robie, and Ben Wilson were the Twoters present to welcome President Kemeny at the March 30 dinner in New York.

Robert P. Booth is memorialized at Camp Belknap, Lake Winnipesaukee, where a newly enlarged and renovated dining room has been named in his honor. Bob for many years was a benefactor of the camp, a popular and well conducted Y.M.C.A. facility. Bob's wife Lois, their 12-year-old grandson Thomas, son of Prof. Alan R. Booth '56, and Bob's brother Prof. Edmund H. Booth '18, attended the dedication ceremony.

Arthur Coakley and Hardy Ferguson have left us in sorrow. In Memoriam, this issue or later, will report more fully.

Bruce and Helen Cunningham truly believe it never rains but it pours. First a late night fire terrified them and kept them out of their home for four months. Then Helen was in the hospital for two months and more recently, Bruce fell and broke his right hand. All classmates sincerely hope the Cunningham fortunes have now changed very much for the better.

John Morrissey '50 was recently guest lecturer on computer technologies at a Tuck School seminar on Technology and Management. His company is Morrissey Associates Inc., computer consultants, 18 East 41st St., New York.

"Foliage Viewers Find Beds Scarce" said the headline in the Valley News, Monday, October 14, 1968. In part it continued:

Balmy weather and peaking autumn foliage over the weekend (October 11-13) brought Vermont and New Hampshire a tourist blitz that filled about every available rooming house and caused many travelers to turn back home for want of a place to sleep.... The problem was compounded in the Hanover area by the Dartmouth-Princeton football game which brought 13,000 alumni and their families back to town. Inns and rooming houses for 40 miles around Hanover had been booked for weeks in advance.

About 21,000 people will probably attend this year's Princeton game on October 10. It could decide who is really "number one." The foliage will be at full flare. Monday, October 12, is a holiday making a long and attractive weekend possible for additional thousands. And, in addition to the varsity game on Saturday afternoon, October 10, there will be a Dartmouth-Princeton JV football game at 10:30 that Saturday morning. At the same time there will also be a Dartmouth-Princeton soccer game. Nor is that all, because at 2 o'clock on the preceding afternoon, Friday, October 9, you can see the Dartmouth-Holy Cross freshman football game at Chase Field, Hanover. Ike Miller still has some comfortable rooms available at Howard Johnson's White River Motel. Ike's telephone is 603-646-3273, or if you prefer to write: Gen'l. Walter I. Miller, Crosby Hall, Hanover, N. H. 03755. Don't wait too long.

Happy summering to all.

Howard W. Alcorn '23 was sworn in on April 18 as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut. He had been an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court since 1961. He received his law degree from Yale Law School and also attended Harvard Law School. He practiced law in Hartford from 1926 until 1943 when he was appointed to the state Superior Court. He became chief judge of that court in 1959 and served in that position until his appointment to the state Supreme Court.

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