1922
Class secretaries have received the plea not to exceed 300 words on an obituary. Because there is so much more that should be reported, the limitation sometimes becomes difficult. That was so in regard to Frank Horan, and now it pertains to our Gaylord W. Anderson. This supplement, therefore, is under class notes.
Andy was more than a distinguished doctor and an honored medical teacher. From the very beginning he was one of the truly remarkable men in 1922. He was not only Phi Beta Kappa but also a Rufus Choate Scholar - 3.6 out of a possible 4.0 for each of his four undergraduate years. He won highest honors in chemistry, his major, and departmental honors in German. And, while he was reaping these distinctions, he was active on the boards of The Dartmouth and the 1922 Aegis and was undergraduate reporter for the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
After graduation, Andy went to The Sorbonne and to the University of Zurich before entering Harvard Graduate School, where he decided to make medicine his life work. He received his Harvard M.D. in 1928 and a doctorate in public health later.
Some years later at the University of Minnesota Andy and Jim Hamilton worked in congenial association, Andy establishing the university's school of public health and Jim the school of hospital administration. They both worked on the Minneapolis Community Chest and, for the fun of it, Andy was president of the St. Paul Figure Skating Club.
All of us also remember fondly Andy's older brother in the Class, the late Trover Anderson. He too was Phi Beta Kappa, and a Rhodes Scholar as well. He had a master's degree from Harvard and a doctorate from Oxford. Before his untimely death in 1948 he had taught history at Brown, Swarthmore, and University of Iowa.
Nor can we forget the father of Gaylord and Troyer, Professor Frank Maloy Anderson, noted World War I historian and kindly gentleman, under whom many of us sat in class as we tried to make the world "safe for democracy." We don't have that yet, but it certainly is not the fault of our Andersons.
Furthermore, with the passing of Gaylord Anderson and Frank Horan, the Class of 1922 loses two of its distinguished classmates from Who's Who in America.
"Awestruck" and "babyfaced" were the epithets in the urban press before the underdog Dartmouth hockey team skated onto the Boston Garden ice in the playoffs of the Eastern College Athletic Conference. Boston University, the 1979 national champion, was the Big (?) Green's first opponent. After winning 5-3, the Dartmouth lads were still "babyfaced," but certainly not "awestruck." True, the next night Dartmouth lost to the winner of the tournament, New Hampshire, 3- 2. Both teams then went to the National College Athletic Association tournament in Detroit. It was the first such invitation to a Dartmouth hockey team in 30 years. There the press called them "a team of midgets majoring in such unhockey things like religion and economics." (Excuse the fellow who wrote it; he himself may have majored in Ice Muggery and Thuggery.) In Detroit our lads brought further credit to the College. Yes, they lost to North Dakota 4-2, but they beat New Hampshire 7-3. And Dartmouth also won the Ivy League hockey championship for the first time in 15 years. Twenty-two, therefore, delightedly congratulates our lads and their coaches, George Crowe and Mike McShane.
Dartmouth is indeed No. 1 in many, many respects: its fine students, its teaching faculty (even the President teaches math to undergraduates) - to say nothing of Ivy Cham- pionships in both football and hockey. But its most cherished distinction is being No. 1 in Alumni Fund participation, and the 1979 campaign is on the field right now. Last year 1922 had a disappointing participation index of only 99 per cent. This year it's like getting the extra point after a touchdown. And if you can increase the score not only by giving, but by giving more, that could really win the game for Dartmouth.
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