1922
"How do you like Dartmouth?" That was a dinner table question to a freshman who happens to be a promising hockey player. "Oh, I love it. I am very happy to be here," he replied. "What do you like best about it?" "The people - they are the most friendly. They are just the greatest." That, Twoters, is what Dartmouth is all about, whether to a freshman in the Class of 1980 or to an alumnus of 1922 returning to our 55th reunion, June 10-12.
We can roam the world and go to plush Shangrilas where money is the only prerequisite, but the new acquaintances we meet cannot match the Twoters who will be in Hanover for our 55th. We won't hear the absurdity, "So nice to meet you,, hope we can get together again sometime. By the way, what's your name again?" Impossible at reunion. Remember, these are the people who knew us long before we were ever airborne, or sat at the captain's table on the Queen Affluencia. These Dartmouth classmates knew and appreciated us even when we brushed our teeth with their toothpaste, or borrowed their shirts because our own, if any, were shabby. There is only one 1922 fellowship, and it is all yours again in Hanover at reunion.
So, do come back. It is the last 55th you will ever have. Many classmates, some with their fine wives, and some warmly welcomed wives of departed classmates will be here. You know the program. Unspecified, however, is the best part of the weekend: the renewal of cherished friendships. You will never find so many lifelong friends in any other place but Hanover, June 10-12.
Some classmates may wish to stay in Hanover longer than our reunion days. The attractive annual post-50th reunion on June 13-15 offers that opportunity. Open to all classes out 50 years or more, it has a pleasing program and pleasant accommodations at Tuck Mall or the former Hanover Inn Motor Lodge. The estimated tax is $48 and rooms are $8 per person per night. Reservations can be made with The Chairman, Post-50th Reunion, 205 Crosby all. Hanover, N.H. 03755. Last year about 60 alumni, many from our contemporaneous classes, attended with their wives.
It surely will be asked at reunion: how many are there now in the Class of 1922? The class roster, as of March 23, 1977, has 221 names, grads and 96 non-grads. The latter include many who were in Hanover for relatively few semesters and some who finished their schooling elsewhere. The all-time 1922 roster covering the four years 1918-22 has 494 names, 257 grads and 237 non-grads. With gratitude from the Class, there are also 85 widows on the present list. Non-interested widows are not included.
Twenty-two has recently suffered very sorrowful bereavements. Roy Ball, Max Budnitz, Fran Leland, and Jim Maze have left the entire Class in profound sadness. Obituaries will be in this issue or a later.
The Class is likewise intensely grieved by the decease of Mrs. Peter Kiewit. Evelyn was a truly gracious lady and the wife of our most beneficent classmate. After a long illness with no prospects for recovery, she passed away on January 2 at her home, Rancho Mirage, Cal. Highly esteemed and a warm, generous person, she was especially interested in providing opportunities for young people to learn a way to recognize and to respond to the needs of others. She and Peter are widely acknowledged for their many humanitarian benefactions to citizens of all ages from all walks of life. It was the privilege of our class to have Evelyn at Dartmouth in 1966 when the Kiewit Computation Center was dedicated to Peter and Evelyn Kiewit, class of 1922. It was most regrettable that she was unable to be in Hanover again last December when their 1966 beneficence to Dartmouth was repeated. The College and the Class join Peter in deepest bereavement.
Nineteen twenty-two is similarly saddened by the loss of Lillian B. Strauss, widow of our classmate Jack. Following a long illness with no likelihood of convalescence, she passed away on February 19 in Boston. She was a charming lady who loved people and who added grace to every occasion she attended. She was a gifted sculptor and a devotee of music and all the arts. She bestowed this artistic enthusiasm on Dartmouth. In 1964 she was the benefactor of the Jacob H. Strauss 1922 Gallery in Hopkins Center. In 1970 she established the chair designated as the Jacob H. Strauss 1922 Professorship of Music. This was a memorial to her husband who worked as a businessman but gave his heart to music, wherein he was an accomplished conductor. Mrs. Strauss was aptly epitomized by a young woman friend who once remarked, "Lillian gets much more pleasure out of giving than receiving." Her closest surviving relation is her brother-in-law, Samuel Wagman of Jamaica Plain, Mass., who with Lillian and his late wife, Bertha, was in Hanover for the dedication of the Strauss Gallery and the announcement of the Strauss chair of music. The Class shares with him in heartfelt sadness.
A most appropriate way to honor these cherished classmates and beloved friends is to show Dartmouth our affection while we can. Every one of them did.
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