1922

"Silver threads among the gold": Mater Dartmouth now has approximately 9,000 alumni over age 60 and about 12,000 "alums" under age 30. That leaves some 21,000 others between ages 30 and 60. And the famous class of 1922 now numbers 132 from a total of 500 classmates.

Yet, cheerfully, the young at heart never grow old. Among our Dartmouth 1922 "girls" the class right now has two grandmas fully qualified as national Grandmother Tour Directors. For example, from a most confidential source comes a report on Dorothy Ball, widow of our Roy Ball. She has virtually been commuting by air from Flint, Mich., to Denver to guarantee that her great-grandchildren there fully receive her great-grandmotherly love. Alternately, she flew to Northampton to receive inspiration as head alumnae fund agent for her class at Smith. But her major airborne project was to lead her three daughters and their husbands on a sojourn to Sea Island, Ga., for her birthday celebration. And though these notes never break a confidence, it can be revealed that this was not her 18th birthday. Congratulations, Dot.

Similarly, from another most reliable source comes a report on Annie Fauver, widow of our King Fauver. From Elyria, Ohio, to Bermuda she was the tour director for her 14 grandchildren for a week last autumn. Under nosy questioning our confidential informer admitted that the group consisted of Grandma Annie, eight grandsons, and six granddaughters. And, as if that were not enough, six of these grandchildren are Dartmouth graduates. "We had a ball and we all loved it" was the verdict. To be completely truthful, as always in these notes, it must be stated that neither Dot nor Annie piloted the planes on these trips. Neither of them has her air flight wings, at least not yet.

Comments on our loss of Dick Stetson recently appeared in these notes, but none were as significant as the following from Killy Kilmarx: "Stan Miner had very thoughtfully called to tell me the sad news about Dick Stetson, who was my roommate our senior year. I was deeply saddened but not surprised because I had checked with CarrollDwight at the luncheon before the Princeton game. Except at reunions and Dartmouth Harvard games we had seldom seen each other (Killy in New York, Dick in Boston) but we remained close friends. Dick was a wonderfully able, warm, and gentle gentleman." Springtime may bring memories of tennis and golf to many classmates and most surely to our Clarence W. "Sandy" Sanders of Houston. He is the only man ever to win eight Dartmouth letters in tennis. He won four minor TDT awards and four major Ds, two for intercollegiate singles championships and two for doubles titles in 1921 with Johnny Carleton and in 1922 with Pete Howe. Years later Sandy became a golfer and over a period of 15 years had the luck to shoot four holes in one. Sandy's mobility has been severely restricted in the past years, but may he always have these glorious memories.

Sad to say, but true, it is genuinely good news nowadays to hear of Twoters staying out of hospitals. Ted Laycock writes from Wellfleet, Cape Cod: "Nothing much happens to two persons who have successfully had several months away from hospitals. My wife Saima has been in several hospitals the past three years and I have been in two hospitals for minor surgery. I retired from The Boston Globe in 1964 after 43 years of journalism. (He was news editor and book review editor of The Globe.) We have 14 great-grandchildren; two have a Japanese mother and their father teaches English in a private school in Nagoya. My eldest grandson we have nine grandchildren is a librarian at Clarkson Tech, Potsdam, N.Y. Our eldest granddaughter is the wife of a Peterborough, N.H., high school teacher." Wonder what Twoter has the record for staying out of hospitals.

The class lost a highly distinguished member when Judge Sterry R. Waterman died February 6. An obituary will follow.

And now once again, "Blossom by Blossom the spring begins."

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