1922

First call for '22's 60th reunion, June 11-13, 1982, just a little more than a year away. At our 55th reunion Ike Miller was unanimously designated chairman for the 60th, and he will fulfill that mandate. He will be assisted by a reunion committee of Ray Atwood, WarrenDaniell, Carroll Dwight, Harley Greenwood,Stan Miner, and Len Morrissey.

Though fully understandable, the ALUMNI MAGAZINE limitation of 300 words on an obituary sometimes excludes much that might well be included. Our recent loss of Gene Hotchkiss is an example. Therefore, the following:

One reason Gene came to Dartmouth was that his maternal Emerson ancestors had lived for generations on Elm Street in Norwich, Vt. And a much later affiliation with the College was the marriage of Gene's sister Elizabeth with the late Thomas B. Robbins '18 of Medina, N.Y.

It was obvious that Sunday, June 11, 1950, should become known as the Hotchkiss Commencement. In Dartmouth annals it was unprecedented for a family to have three sons graduating simultaneously. Frank Emerson Hotchkiss was older than his twin brothers Eugene III and James Kennan because Frank was three years in the Army Air Force before entering Dartmouth. Remarkably, the three sons graduated with high academic honors, one magna cum laude and two Phi Beta Kappa. Furthermore, on that very day, their uncle, George F. Kennan, noted diplomat and author, brother of Gene's wife Jeanette, was the commencement speaker and received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Dartmouth.

The three Hotchkiss boys, however, did have many '22 sons as classmates who also received their Dartmouth degrees on that June 11, 1950. They were Llewellyn Boyd, John Fauver, Richard Healy, John Stearns Johnson Jr., Robert Kilmarx, Thomas McMahon, John Morrissey, John Oliver, Herluf Olsen Jr., and William Sreng. Twenty-two surely did its share for the class of 1950.

Now, what are the Hotchkiss boys doing today? Well, they are all married and have seven Hotchkiss grandchildren among them. Dr. Eugene with his Ph.D. is president of Lake Forest College. James is founder and president of the Chicago investment firm of Hotchkiss & Peckenpaugh. Frank is an architect in Los Angeles, where he is in charge of city planning for Southern California.

Moreover, their mother, Jeanette, is a scholarly bibliophile. After three years at University of Wisconsin, where she and Harriott Miller were sisters in Delta Gamma, for her senior year Jeanette went to University of Chicago. She graduated there Phi Beta Kappa in 1923 and married Gene in August that year. As an enthusiastic bibliographer she has authored European Historical Fiction andBiography, American Historical Fiction andBiography, and African-Asian Reading Guide, all published by Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, N.J. Though primarily directed to children and young adults, these stimulating reading guides have keenly impressed many parents and grandparents.

Besides, as a small world note, when Jeanette married Gene in 1923 and Harriott Ike in 1926, none of them could foresee that Gene would be the 1922 bequest chairman for 27 years and that Ike would be his co-chairman for 10 years.

And even now the Dartmouth-Hotchkiss affiliation continues. Grandson John Hotchkiss, son of James, graduated last June.

Our sorrowful losses continue. ClarenceAdams, Dick Bowler, and Harvey Moses have left us. Obituaries are being prepared.

Once more it's "22 Up!" for the 1981 Alumni Fund. Spenny Smith and our team of class agents earnestly look for 100 per cent participation by all Twoters.

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