Class of 1923

This month's text will consist solely of a statement concerning our Tough Times Tenth, from Pudge Neidlinger, who has things well in hand. Plans have been worked out by a group consisting of such great minds as Allen, Goss, Foster, Aschenbach, Couch, Neidlinger, Lowe, Miner, Moore, Ungar, Landauer, and Brooks Palmer, to make this event memorable in more ways than one. There will be fun. It will cost very little. You will get a lot of good out of it.

Now let us turn the meeting over to Pudge, who exclaims:

Citizens, Comrades, Classmates:—

What are your plans for our Tenth Reunion? Our plans are progressing rapidly, and it is about time that we got together on them. The quicker we learn how many men are going to make the Grand Trek the more plans we can make.

How much effort will you make to come? For some of us it is easy, we live close enough to roller skate up there.

For some of you neither the expense or the time as a factor, you can come if you want to, and if you don't want to, I say you are spinach and the hell with you.

For most of you, though, it means a real problem to get there—a real raid on the old sock—a sacrifice of vacation time—unbalancing the old budget for an apparently selfish pleasure. These are tough times to hold a reunion.

Give a thought to your obligation to be there!

For better or for worse you are a member of the illustrious Dartmouth class of 1923—a good class—a class with a grade A undergraduate history. But classes aren't judged by their undergraduate record. Reunion attendance and spirit is one of the more obvious marks of class solidarity. It is every man's responsibility to see that '23 marks itself as being an active, appreciative, enthusiastic Dartmouth class.

That isn't your only obligation, either. You have one not only to your class but to the men of your class. The big kick in reunion is to see friends you have forgotten you had, that you haven't seen since before you made (and then lost) your way in the world. There are men in the class whose pleasure depends on your being there—men who are going to sit up all night in day coaches and busses, ride freights, hitch-hike, charter planes, charter trains, do all kinds of things they never did before to be in Hanover to see you.

Maybe you should come to celebrate the accomplishments of the ten years since you went out to lick the world. You will find appreciative listeners.

Maybe you feel as some of us do that you have not progressed very far toward the goal of those ten years. Then you will be glad to step back for a moment into the atmosphere which once inspired you with confidence and into a group who will judge you by other standards than the dough you have amassed. You cannot afford to miss this Tough

Times Tenth. You can afford the kind of a party we are planning.

The atmosphere of our reunion is to be the same as that which dominated one of our most distinctive undergraduate inventions, that Hard Times week of our senior year. Remember those costumes? that priceless mongrel dog show? that summer ski race between Allen and Flanigan?

Costumes will be simple, comfortable, and cheap. There will be a beefsteak barbecue instead of a class dinner; a block dance to the tune of a steam calliope instead of an indoor dance with an expensive orchestra; horse-shoe pitching; checkers; spittin' through the knot-hole; bottoms up, and other old time games.

We estimate the class tax covering costumes and all parties will be about $6.00. We guarantee that it will not be over $10.00. Beyond that it will be split up so that no man needs to pay for anything he does not care to do. The tax will cover the bare essentials. Beyond that we are asking men who can afford to do so to chip into an entertainment pot which will provide for every man who comes free beer, a souvenir stein, music, games, noise, and diversions.

Definite details will reach you later, but for the present it is essential that we be able to estimate the number to be provided for. Also we want to know how much interest there is in having a dinner and a dance. Send your answers to the questions below to D. R. Moore, Secy. 1933 Reunion Committee, 5 Short Hills Ave., Short Hills, N. J. Your comments represent your intentions only, and are not binding. It is just as important for us to know how many men definitely cannot come, as how many can. Let us hear from you!

Name Address Count me in with wife with children Count me out If I come, I am interested in: Costume Class dinner Class picnic Class dance Showing of class movies Tournaments: Golf ...Tennis ...Squash ...Bridge ... I am driving in my car and willing to carry passengers. I would like to arrange for a ride and share expenses

Secretary, 293 E. Central Ave. Highland Park, 111.