Class of 1929

This is the sixth year that this September sitting down and writing out of '29's October news letter for the MAGAZINE has occurred. And when the great majority of the members of the reading group are all under thirty years of age, six years represent a fair span of time. But it hasn't been a hard job, nor a tedious one. Sometimes it has required more imagination than fact. Other times it has demanded discretion. Right now we have little news to let you have. We are reserving the story of reunion for the Fifth Year Report which is slowly rounding into shape; and more recent news has been extremely scarce. So the real point of this first letter of the sixth year is to appeal to you for your support. Throughout last year you were continually urged to support our first attempt at organized reunion. No amount of preparation on the part of the reunion committee would have been availing had the class failed to contribute its share in attendance, co-operation, and enthusiasm. Have you who were unable to be there heard what happened? If you have not, ask anyone of the one hundred and twenty-five who wore the red shirt of '29's Fifth. For it has been said countless times to your Secretary both by those operating under ardent reunion spirits and by those in sober frame thereafter, and we don't think it was said for any purpose other than to enthusiastically express the truth, that never before had such a good time been had, such a grand lark of a reunion been held, such fellowship been known to exist in class, let alone so unreservedly articulate. So we are not boasting if we claim that '29's reunion was eminently successful, completely supported by the class as a whole, whether conditions allowed individual attendance or not in given cases. That is what support can do.

STRONGER CLASS ORGANIZATION

And what is the intangible result? A class moulded into a stronger unit, better equipped to voice and to express in concrete form the loyalty to the College that the Dartmouth fellowship so miraculously nurtures.

To further the same purpose you are asked to support the MAGAZINE. It is the one continuous connecting link between you and the College and the class as an organization. It contains your own column of news, as interesting as you care to make it. It is not an expense, it is not a luxury. It should become a vital necessity.

In next month's letter there will be news and plenty of it, and perhaps a story or two if we can locate a couple of authors.

Secretary, 89 Pleasant St., Newton Center, Mass.