1922

Our '22 marathon of good news versus bad 'continues, and, though sorely pressed, the blithe tidings come first.

Hal and Mable Fraser live in Waterbury, Vt., and she writes, "We are both very well, very busy, and very happy tucked away under our mountain in a lovely little valley in the beautiful Green Mountains. As Maurice Chevalier was wont to say, 'Old age is not at all bad when one considers the alternatives.' "

Elmer Ardiff is by now fully recovered, we hope, from surgery at Newton-Wellesley Hospital. We all look forward to seeing him and Frances at our 60th in 1982.

Ray and Doris Atwood have returned to their Hilltop home in New London, N.H., after flying to Los Angeles, where they visited their daughter Judy, her husband, Roger McClure, and the grandsons, Stephen and David.

Last call for '22's pre-game football luncheon at 11 a.m. Saturday, September 19, Room 112 at the Hanover Inn. Join many classmates for a most congenial gathering, then see Dartmouth win against Princeton.

And, incidentally, if you come to Hanover for any of the other four home games, there is always a lot of pre-game enthusiasm in Leverone Field House. Food, beer, and wine will be available provided by the Dartmouth Club of the Upper Valley, and the convenient location is a stone's throw away from the stadium. It's impossible to be lonesome there.

But now, sadly, our continuing losses: JohnMcKoan and Beardsley Wilkinson have left us.

John McKoan had a World War II record far more distinguished than the few words in his obituary. It began in 1927 when he became a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the Massachusetts National Guard. His war service began in January 1941, when as a major and regimental surgeon he was at Camp Edwards. Later, as lieutenant colonel, he was executive officer of the 16th Medical Regiment at Camp Devens. From August to November 1942 he was with the regiment in England. Then, following promotion to colonel, he was on the North African campaign stationed at Oran, Algeria. He next served as commanding officer of the 750-bed evacuation hospital at Casablanca, Morocco. In the 1943 autumn he was on the invasion at Salerno, Italy. Then for six months he was in the combat zone at Cassino, Italy. His last overseas post was as commander of the evacuation hospital at Carinola, Italy. Upon his return to the United States he was commanding medical officer at Camp Gordon Johnston and later was chief surgeon of a section at Walter Reed Hospital. After honorable discharge in April 1945, he returned to his civilian practice in Worcester.

The class also joins in bereavement with Warren Daniell and his family on the loss of his wife Mary, who passed away April 16 in Hanover. She was a remarkable woman, a Vassar '22 graduate, Warren's wife for 57 years, and the mother of their six children. Three of the four sons are Dartmouth graduates and one is a Cornell graduate. One of the two daughters has a degree from Mt. Holyoke and the other from Middlebury. The survivors also include 21 grandchildren.

Naturally, you have sent your thoughtful contribution to the 1981 Alumni Fund. But if you have not, time is running out, and the College and your class are depending upon you to keep Dartmouth number one.

Have a fine, healthy summer.

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