1922

What will you do at your Fiftieth Reunion, June 9, 10, 11? Preposterous question for adolescents like you because obviously in the Age of Aquarius you'll do whatever befits your life-style. But if you are willing to conform just a little—without necessarily joining any structured establishment—you'll find a considerable number of classmates and their wives digging the following agenda.

Our Class will arrive on Friday, June 9, and any time after 12 noon the clan will register at Massachusetts Hall. Class Day exercises for the graduating class will be at 3 o'clock in the Bema—warning, no seats; the seniors sit on the grass and so will you if you attend. It's completely optional, but there it is, if your brother-in-law's cousin has a grandson in the Class of '72.

'22 will have its first unanimous convocation for Cocktails at Five in the Class Tent, front of Massachusetts Hall. An hour later we'll have our dinner in Thayer Hall. The President's Reception at the home of classmates John and Jean Kemeny will be shortly after 8:00 by the Baker Library clock and hopefully all will attend. After that all will gather in the Class Tent where some may dance, others will try to sing, all will talk, and—who knows—someone may even listen. But we'll all be so glad to be together again in Hanover that nothing else will matter.

Breakfast on Saturday will begin at 7:30 in the Class Tent. Our Memorial Service will be at 9:30 in Rollins Chapel where you rushed so many times to get in before the doors closed. Smile, even if it hurts, for the Class Picture at 10:15 and then go to the Class Meeting at 10:45. The luncheon of the General Association of Dartmouth Alumni will be at 12:15 in Alumni Hall. At 5:15 the Class Tent will echo to the clink of Waterford glasses—or more likely there will be the silence of plastic cups. But that will be the only silence in the happy camaraderie of '22. The Class Dinner will follow at 6:30 in Alumni Hall. For lovers of good music there will be a Glee Club Concert at 9:15. But for those confident of their own musical creativity there will be, of course, the Tent.

Breakfast on Sunday starts at 8:00 in the Tent. Convocation for Commencement is at 10:15 and the exercises begin at 11:00—good news, no long speeches this year. And our finale is the promise of an excellent 1 o'clock luncheon at the Dartmouth Outing Club House on Occom Pond. Ike Miller has arranged everything except the sunshine and he's working on that now.

Before June 9, 10, 11, this program may receive a minor change here and there, but Ike would rather fight than switch on any major issue. Note that there is no need of driving to any rendezvous outside Hanover during our Reunion. Most of us now like to stay put. For some who may wish to stay over in the North Country for an extra day or two arrangements will be available. You will hear more about that later. Right now, if you have not already done so, just let Gen. Walter I. Miller, 203 Crosby Hall, Hanover, N. H. 03755, know that you are coming back to your Fiftieth. You are needed, implored and summoned by all your classmates.

'22 is the last of Dartmouth's small classes; subsequent classes are much more quantitative. The 1966 Dartmouth Alumni Directory, for instance, in listing all living Dartmouth men chronologically by classes, began our '22 names on page 48 of the entire 469 pages. For '22 that, of course, was only well-merited prominence, yet it did imply a kind of kinship with the last of the Mohicans and, incidentally, offer another reason why all of us should attend '22's Fiftieth Reunion. The 1971 Alumni Directory published a few months ago has a new format with a complete listing of the 33,000 Dartmouth men alphabetically rather than by classes. And all Twoers undoubtedly welcome this deletion of discrimination against age.

Gene Hotchkiss, however, does not enthuse over the new directory, because it erroneously moved him to the West Coast. The fact is Gene Hotchkiss still lives at 901 Baldwin, Rd., Highland Park, Ill. 60035. And may he and Nettie have no more dastardly directory gremlins to plague them.

Then there was the Alumni Club Officer meeting in Hanover with the attendants' names listed by class seniority. And what were the first two names on the list?—Russ Putney '22 and Len Morrissey '22. It sort of makes a guy think—and eagerly look forward to our Fiftieth.

Yes, the customary '22 Little Reunion will be held in April at the Hanover Inn. The dates are April 21, 22. Some classmates thought we should bypass the informal gathering this year. Others thought let's have it for any who wish to come to it. So. there will be a little reunion as usual this year, but merely as a prelude to '22's Fiftieth Anniversary.

Chuck Hopkins, Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico, writes, "I am eagerly looking forward to seeing all our classmates on June 9, 10, 11." Let's make the vote unanimous.

Secretary, 11 Brockway Rd. Hanover, N. H. 03755

Treasurer, 48 Fairgreen Place Chestnut Hill, Mass. 02167