1922
On a most memorable October Saturday, Yale was exulting in New Haven but deflating in Hanover. While Angelo Bartlett Giamatti was becoming Yale's new president in a scholarly event in Woolsey Hall, the Big Green football team was stunning the Elis 10-3 in a coaching masterpiece on Memorial Field.
Big Green heroes aplenty emerged from the game. Our stubborn Dartmouth defense held the vaunted Yale rushing attack to 60 yards only three in the second half. Dartmouth rushed for 125 yards, Jeff Dufresne, 19-year-old sophomore fullback from White Bear Lake, Minn., gaining 116 of them and carrying the ball 31 times to set a game record for a Dartmouth ack. He scored the winning touchdown as well. Rain-drenched Dartmouth fans, including many Twoters, loved it as the Big Green beat the Elis for the 23rd time.
An old-fashioned, enthusiastic Dartmouth Night set up the game plan on Friday evening. Forty-three classes, the College band, and five high school bands were in the parade. Some of the veteran classes rode, and Ray Atwood,Warren Daniell, Jack Dodd, and Len Morrissey were in the '22 car. And merely to prove our tolerance, we even picked up a damp straggler who said his name was Ort Hicks '21. Some Twoters might remember him from Company I days. Speakers, cheers, the Glee Club, and songs in front of Dartmouth Hall preceded the lighting of the 82-tier bonfire erected on the green by the Class of 1982. That unmatched demonstration of Dartmouth spirit carried over to the game itself.
Some 50 classmates, wives, and friends attended the '22 pre-game luncheon in the Drake Room at Hopkins Center. As always, it was another merry class gathering, thanks to Ike Miller. Steve Kenyon will list all present in another of his fine newsletters. Fourteen Twoters attended the class dinner at the Hanover Inn Saturday evening.
Yes, it did rain over the weekend, copiously at times, but weather can never dampen the traditional Dartmouth spirit, especially when it enjoys victory over Yale. Admittedly, one victory does not make a season, but it behooves us septuagenarians to enjoy to the utmost each and every happy occasion.
But the young are not the only athletes. Warren Daniel! recently ran in a 10,000 meter race (that's 6.2 miles) and finished in 1 hour, 7 minutes, and 22 seconds, breathing easier than most of the younger competitors. Not bad for a kid of 77.
Haskell and Harriet Cohn safely returned from an autumnal trip to China. Bet he was looking for the Blackstone of Chinese law while she was recruiting for the Wellesely ping-pong squad.
Dot Ball and her daughter Barbara Bacon, Chick and Margaret Hopkins, Spenny and MarjSmith, and Jack and Margaret Taylor again enjoyed a pleasant foliage-season stay at Bonnie Oaks, Lake Morey, Vt.
Paul Peters, whose wife Elizabeth unfortunately passed away within the past year, has moved from Melrose, Mass., to Hanover. The '22 North Country squires warmly welcome him into our coterie.
Congratulations to:
Herm and Kay Carlisle, Coral Gables, Fla., who on October 6 celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary. Herm says he plays golf three times a week, and he and his bride are frequent bridge partners. By now they undoubtedly have fully compatible signals.
Dick and Dot Stetson, who on October 7 celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at their home, Chestnut Hill, Mass. Carroll andNan Dwight and Spenny and Marj Smith attended the family gathering - especially nostalgic for Spenny because he was also a member of the wedding party in 1928.
With unanimous gratitude from all Twoters, Dick Stetson has consented to fill the class executive committee's vacancy, left by the sad passing of Ted Davidson. The other members of that august committee are Bill Bullen, Warren Daniell, Jack Dodd, Carroll Dwight, Gene Hotchkiss, Steve Kenyon, Ike Miller, Len Morrissey, Spenny Smith, and Charlie Throop.
But now sadly:
Granville W. Grambs Bimark, N.D., and Raymond J. Milemann, Murphy, Ore., have left us. Obituaries will follow. (Thanks to BobTunbull for the notification about Butch.)
Twenty-two's deepest sympathy goes to our Richard F. Beyer, Concord, N.H. Dick's wife, Hazel, his noble helpmate and companion, passed away September 29.
And, finally, as tepus fuit, it will almost be Christmas when you read these scribbles. A real merry one to all. Enjoy and enjoy.
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