1922

This National Bicentennial Year is reviving historical interest everywhere. Hanover, for example, first permanently settled in 1765, looks proudly to its past. Dartmouth, the only U.S. college that has graduated a class every year since 1771, looks forward to its 205th Commencement in June when some 800 undergraduates will receive their diplomas. And Dartmouth's highly prestigious Tuck School, the country's oldest graduate school of business administration, is celebrating its 75th anniversary.

Tuck School began teaching in 1901 and graduated its first class of three students in 1902. Tuck now has 265 students, including 36 women, and it will grant about 130 Master of Business Administration degrees this June.

More than a score of our classmates received masters' degrees from Tuck in 1923 or '24. The honorable list includes Howie Almon, Barney Barnard, Bob Booth, Bill Bullen, Fred Buswell, Jim Carroll, Tom Carpenter, Charlie Earle, Roger Eastman, Hal Eraser, Jim Hamilton, Charlie Hart, Larry Healy, Killy Kilmarx, Dick Litchfield, Rex Malmquist, Andy Marshall, Ike Miller, Russ Putney, Ben Rassieur, Earle Smith, Bill Sprague and Kirk Steen. Some of them have sadly left us, but the others, thankfully, can still analyze income statements and balance sheets.

Hoping to recapture some of the spirit of Tuck School in those years, your scribe asked Barney Barnard for some of his recollections. Like most bankers, Barney, after a distinguished career in New York and New Jersey banks, retains a good memory. He kindly writes:

"Tuck School in the early 20's provided an atmosphere of cordial association between faculty and students. Almost all the professors had con siderable successful business experiences. They gave the students a clear understanding of business administration and what was expected from Tuck graduates. The faculty also had great warmth in personalities together with mature masculine attitudes.

"Can any of us forget Bill Gray and his verbal gymnastics, while lecturing, to avoid splitting an infinitive? How many of us can remember Bill's coming to New York in the early 30's when most of us were discouraged and barely holding on hoping for the depression to subside? Bill chose as his subject at a dinner gathering, 'Keep your Peckers Up!', and gave us a much needed pep talk.

"Harry Wellman also comes to mind with his youthful enthusiasm, great humor and constant prodding to make us understand the animation necessary to do a good sales job. He certainly colored the Tuck picture with an always bright and vigorous point of view.

"Nat Burleigh, Bill Murray, Archie Peisch, A) Frey and Gil Tapley — what a pleasant libation of nostalgia their memories provide!"

Thank you, Barney, and maybe some 1976 Tuck graduate will write similarly in year 2029.

Even now, '22 is not without representation among Tuck students. Nancy Martin, Mt. Holyoke '75, and granddaughter of our Stanand Catherine Miner is in the first-year class.

Everyone associated with the Class sadly shares heartfelt bereavement with our Newsletter Editor Steve Kenyon whose wife Vi died suddenly on March 27. We will sorrowfully miss her at our Class gatherings which she and all of us enjoyed so much. Max and Grace Kenyon represented the Class at the service in Rideewood, N.J.

First call for 1922's football weekend when Harvard plays Dartmouth in Hanover on October 16. These notes will have more details next month, but Ike is making the usual, pleasing arrangements. His reservation desk is now open: Gen. Walter I. Miller, R.F.D., Box 236, Thetford Center, Vt. 05075, or telephone 802-785- 2012.

Last call for the Post-50th Reunion, June 14-15-16, in "the most attractive college town in the U.S." Come back and join the congenial members of the class family who will be here. The program is enticing, but not fatiguing. The accommodations are comfortable; even our wives will like them. Then, too, you will have not only the opportunity of renewing friendships with classmates, but also with some of our contemporaries in classes ranging from 1919 to 1925. And you'll see and learn more about our Dartmouth of Today - more prestigious than ever. Let David Orr, 205 Crosby Hall, Hanover, N.H. 03755, know that you'll be there.

And lastly - but most importantly - before making any future plans, mail.your thoughtful contribution to the Alumni Fund. The Class goal is up slightly, $26,000 as compared with last year's objective of $25,000. Let your contribution reflect the difference and the time* is right now. It's your College and if you don't support it, who will?

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

Class Agent, 106 Magnolia Terrace Springfield, Mass. 01108