CLASS OF 1902

The fifth reunion of the class of 1902 brought back to Hanover in June forty-one graduates and five former members of the class. Headquarters were established in the former 0. P. Chase, house on Main street, and the members of the class were designated by a conspiouous badge bearing the class numerals.

The annual banquet was held Monday evening in the Commons, after which an annual meeting was held at the class headquarters. Percy O. Dorr of Boston was reelected president of the class, H. M. Harris, of Boston, vice president, and Wm, Carroll Hill of Boston, Secretary.

The class adopted a constitution presented by the secretary to secure a more permanent class organization. It provided that the official title of the class should be : "The Dartmouth College Class of Nineteen Hundred Two" ; that officers should be elected every five years, "beginning with 1907; and that any student who had been enrolled with the class during its college course might become a member of the organization by paying the class taxes.

A resolution, also presented by the secretary, and which was passed, provided for the establishment of a class fund, the income to be used for class purposes and the ultimate use of the fund to be determined by the class'at its twenty-fifth reunion, the general understanding being however that the fund should eventually in some way revert to the College. The resolution provided that the members of the class should contribute to the fund in increasing ratio as the years went by until in 1927 the amount of the payments would total some $8 000. The first payment becomes due the present year. J. Frank Drake was elected trustee of the fund and the officers of the class act as auditing committee for the account, it being stipulated that an accounting of the fund shall be published in each report of the. class. It is desired by this proposition to raise a sufficient fund to enable the class to issue its reports through the income and to bring into the College a considerable sum as the contribution from the class of 1902.

The class voted to have the secretary send a letter to President William J. Tucker at Nantucket, expressing the regrets of the class at the illness of the President and the hope that he would soon be able to resume his duties and-place at the head of the institution

Those present were: Dorr, Drake, W. C. Hill, H. O. Hill, Holmes, P. P. Thompson, Monroe, W. B. Thompson, H. F. Parker, L R. Hill, Dow, Elliott, Wright, Estabrook, Edson, Keniston, Murray, Pattrell, Morse, Pattee, Duncklee, Oarleton, G. W.Newman, Kimball, Gay, Farwell, Chivers, Watson, Moore, Graham, Harris, Easson, Mackinnon, Corse, Taylor, Perkins, Wattie. Barnes, Parry, Gilman; and Briggs ('01), C. D. Hazen, Jr., C. H. Dudley, Frank Kivel, and W. P. Craig, formerly of 1902.