1922

John Kemeny is a loyal adopted '22 classmate. He not only signs his college letters "Ad '22," but even his telephone extension number is 2222. His charming wife Jean, being a few years younger than John, is an adopted member of the class of 1953. But there definitely was no 31-year difference between them when they were the honored guests at a February dinner in Alumni Hall followed by a "love feast" from town and gown in Spaulding Auditorium. The testimonial, sponsored by the Dartmouth Club of the Upper Valley and attended by 600 alumni, faculty, students, and other friends, marked John's tenth year as Dartmouth president and more than 25 years of teaching at the College. More about this happy occasion will surely appear elsewhere, but all Twoters will delight in knowing that Hanover certainly loves the Kemenys and that they love Hanover a perfect marriage of town and gown.

Seaver Peters '54, director of athletics at Dartmouth, captain of the Dartmouth hockey team in 1953-54, and son of our recently departed classmate Paul Peters, has been elected president of the Eastern College Athletic Conference. Two hundred and thirty colleges are members of the conference, and this is the first time the honor of the presidency has come to Dartmouth. Congratulations, Seaver, from all your Dad's classmates.

Ronald Hallett has received a 50-year citation from the Massachusetts Medical Society for his dedicated service as a general practitioner in Gloucester. Doc is past president of the Essex County Medical Society and a longtime member of the Gloucester School Committee. Years ago on the Dartmouth track team, Doc ran the 440 in excellent time. His time now on any distance is stamped "Classified Information."

Eaton Leith recently visited Mai Clarke at Sunset Farm in Harpswell, Maine, and says Mai once again is sure to win the national tennis championship for men over 75 this summer. Mai's training regimen involves morning exercises of sawing and splitting four cords of oak logs in his backyard and afternoon tennis tuneups on the indoor courts at Brunswick. And Eaton himself is in plus ca chan*ge, plus c'est lameme chose concurrence. His grandson Jay Borden, a National Merit Scholar now a senior at Wesleyan with a Fulbright Award, has been chosen one of 20 U.S. male students to spend the coming academic year in France teaching English to native students. His mother said she thought it was her father, "a professor of French at Bowdoin for decades," who may have prompted Jay's interest in French. And Jay's younger brother, Leith, a sophomore at Brown, is also a Romance language aficionado. He will spend the next year in Madrid. Felicitations to the young men and to their grand-pere.

Will Nicholson, fondly-remembered departed classmate and former mayor of Denver, served four years on the executive committee of the United States Golf Association, but was never president of that august body. That honor remained for his son Will Jr., who ascended to that eminence last January. "I don't know if I'd say I've gone Dad one better," he says, "but I sure wish he were here to see it." Will Jr., president of Colorado National Bankshares, lives in Denver with his wife Shirley and their two children, Anne and Will III. And special thanks to Trudy Bullen, herself four-time women's golf champion at Brae Burn Country Club in West Newton, Mass., for sending in the Nicholson news.

It's that season again when Maytime and the Alumni Fund become synonymous. When our hearts warm under sunny skies, the cheerful blossoms enchant us, and we are so glad to be alive, it is time to appreciate all that Dartmouth has meant to us throughout the years. So, dare a deed for the Old Mother and share significantly.

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