1922

Sterry R. Waterman of St. Johnsbury, Vt., once again embellished our class laurels when, on October 23, he received an honorary doctor of laws from New York University School of Law. Sterry holds similar degrees from Dartmouth, the University of Vermont, and George Washington University. These honors attest to the national recognition of his reputation as a former chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Second District. This district includes the states of New York, Connecticut, and Vermont, and its court ranks second in prestige only to the U.S. Supreme Court. Sterry is also former president of the American Judicature Society, comprised of 50,000 judges and lawyers. He is president of the boards of trustees of Vermont Law School and of St. Johnsbury Academy and is a trustee of the Vermont Historical Society. His gracious wife Frances passed away a few years ago. Their two sons are Robert, an accountant in New Yok City, and Thomas, an attorney in Los Angeles, and there are five grandchildren. Heartwarming, indeed, to think that when '22 first knew Sterry as a freshman, he was a rear rank private in Company I and an affable guy who lived in 28 New Hampshire Hall. Warm congratulations - and gratitude - from all classmates, Sterry.

Charlie Throop, at long last in a most welcomed letter, says he and his wife Lou are living happily at 1204 Hillcrest Avenue, Monessen, Pa., their home for many years. Charlie has retired from steel manufacturing and he keeps busy with Rotary and civic activities. Now in the 44th year of their marriage, Charlie and Lou have a daughter and two sons, all married, and six grandchildren. Since their families are presently living or have lived in Chicago; Concord, N.H.; Washington, D.C.; and Australia, the grandparents have become inveterate jet-setters. They visited Australia three times, sometimes including Tasmania, New Zealand, Indonesia, Japan, and Hawaii along the way. Nearer home, they have taken the inland passage route from Vancouver to Alaska, visited the Canadian Rockies, and, oc- casionally, even Hanover, N.H. Charlie also says, "When I was working, my job was to make coke for a steel mill. The raw material - the only one - is coal. I am now spending some time working on both coal and coke. My expenses eat up what 1 make, but I am having a good time doing it." Obviously, Charlie, a member of the class of 1922 executive committee, an Alumni Fund agent, former Dartmouth Outing Club president, director of Cabin and Trail, and member of the Canoe Club and Palaeopitus, is not - and never was - one content merely to sit and munch.

Roy Hill and Kathleen Young were married on June 14 in the Congregational Church in Acton, Maine. Kathleen is a Radcliffe graduate with a Harvard M.Ed. She is a former teacher of French. Roy also has a master's in education from Harvard, and his career was as a high school teacher and administrator. May they teach each other to live long and happily.

Oscar and Bea Rice are now blissfully settled at the Park Lane, 200 Glenwood Circle, Monterey, Calif. 93940. The best of wishes always accompany them.

Regrettably, it seems each month always has a sad note: Bill Haas and Peter Kiewit have left us. Obituaries will follow.

With current fuel oil prices, please pray that this winter won't have many minus-30-degree temperatures; at Dartmouth in Hanover, yes - in Puerto Rico, no.