Class of 1925
The letter explaining the group subscription plan which was mailed from Hanover September first brought both cheering and disappointing results. As this is being written (October 5) 72 subscriptions have come in. This is disappointing —for many of last year's subscribers procrastinated. But the cheering news is that 30 of the 72 were new subscribers. If subscriptions in October continue in that ratio our objective will be reached without personal solicitation.
The two leather-bound, loose-leaf books comprising the individual records of all men in the class of 1925 are now in the hands of the Secretary. Many are not complete as far as past records are concerned, and these will be brought up to date as fast as possible. Within the next ten months a questionnaire will be sent to the entire class. Meanwhile remember that you are all—collectively and individually—the ones who must contribute the news which will keep those records complete and up-to- date.
Forthwith comes a plea! To complete the record a picture of each man must be attached to the individual sheet. Two copies of the Aegis and one copy of the 1925 Greenbook are needed. So far we have only been able to obtain one Aegis. Has anyone an extra Greenbook or Aegisor is anyone willing to sell the class his copy?
The Secretary felt (in taking the secretaryship) that a new system for gathering class news, for attaining class objectives of various kinds, and for the general solidification of class spirit and class unity might well be inaugurated. Briefly it involves a division of the country into fifteen districts with a district secretary in charge of each. In the "old days," with smaller classes and with most of the men centered in a few states, it was possible for one man to do the job competently. But now with classes of from 500 to 675 men it isl not logical to expect one man to do a really good job. And it does seem logical to believe that the System of assistant class agents—which has worked so beautifully for the larger classes in the Alumni Fund campaigns—could well be tried in the matter of the job of secretary. Whether it works or not will depend on whether it is properly organized, whether the district secretaries carry on, and whether each member of the class cooperates sincerely and whole-heartedly. Some of the advantages which appear to recommend such a system are:
1. There will soon be a dozen men who could step in at any time as secretary. 2. Responsibilities will be spread out over a greater number of the active men in the class. 3. Assistance in gathering class news. 4. Assistance in keeping up the class records. 5. Personal contacts with men in the districts and greater tendency toward class gatherings. 6. Development of greater unity in the class.
Nine pf the fifteen districts already have men who have accepted district secretaryships, and next month the entire list will be published in the class news. Doesn't the promise of a really wide-awake class warrant a try at a new system? The Secretary would appreciate your comment. After all has been said, the class doesn't belong to an executive committee or a secretary or a class records office, but it does belong to 583 men who collectively make up the class of 1925.
CONNIE CONRAD IN Life
DICK GRATZ has been promoted to city superintendent of the Postal Telegraph and transferred from Denver to Kansas City. BARNEY BARNFATHER after a "pleasant vacation in the East" has returned for his ninth year at Lake Forest Academy. A goodly delegation from Lake Forest enters Dartmouth each year, and BARNEY is in constant touch with 808 STRONG and HANOVER. The Secretary hopes that few of you missed the pictures of CONNIE CONRAD in the September 20 issue of Life. CONNIE appears three or four times in various undignified but happy poses in the Life Goes to a Party section. DUTCH SCHROEDEL has been superintendent in charge of construction of the new Keebler Weyl Baking Plant for Turner Construction Cos. in Philadelphia. DR. NORT CANFIELD is still connected with Yale Medical but has been given a four months' leave of absence beginning November 1 in order to go to Stockholm, Sweden, to study a special phase of deafness. NORT is looking forward to some grand skiing on the side. The best wishes of all of us go with you, Nort. 808 HARDY who is a partner in Miller, Owen, Otis, and Bailly in New York, sent us ah article telling of the marriage on September 11 of JIM TODD to RUTH PRATT, daughter of the president of Babcock and Wilcox. JIM is with the Union Carbide and Carbon and will be stationed in India for the next two years. KEN HILL sends word of the engagement of NATE BUGBEE and DOROTHY YOUNG of Worcester. The day before the Dartmouth-Harvard game was picked for the wedding. NATE has recently moved his investment counsel business to larger quarters at 24 Federal St., Boston.
CROW POINT—'2SERS' RESORT
Crow Point, on the ocean at Hingham, was a popular spot with quarters this past summer. The KEN HILLS, the BILL JENKINS (with the four boys, including the twins) the AL CARTERS, the BILL CARTERS, the MILLARD PEABODYS, and WHITEY WHITE all spent some part of the summer there. MILL PEABODY'S eight-year-old daughter, CHARLOTTE, was recently stricken with infantile, and the sympathy of the class goes out to Mill and his wife, along with our hopes for a speedy recovery for Charlotte. PETE BLODGETT is at it again. A recent business trip took him to the big game preserve (of all places) near Newport, N. H., and he returned home loaded with venison and elk steaks. JACK DAVIS took an early fall trip to Bermuda. PERK FITCH of Plainfield is district sales manager (Hudson County) for the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company and is planning an ambitious football campaign, expecting to attend the Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia games. JACK WATSON is practicing law in Oxford, Pa. JACK is married and has a daughter. KARL FRIEDMANN, a member of the faculty of Girard College in Philadelphia, recently moved to Drexel Hill. BRAD SMITH, rapidly forging ahead with the Insurance Company of North America, is another who will soon be moving. BRAD is building a new home in Bryn Mawr. We received a nice letter from BILL BUNTING with a swell compliment for the MAGAZINE. BILL is vice president of the Black Donald Graphite Cos. in Calabogie, Ontario. He writes—"As the magazine is a considerablesource of enjoyment for me up in thesewoods, I would not be without it and therefore cannot make any claims to loyalty-it's a bargain!"
LARRY'S ACADEMY GROWING
Headmaster LARRY LEAVITT, now in his fourth year at Vermont Academy, has ninety boarders and twenty day students. Four years ago there were only fiftyfive boarders. LANE GOSS, vice president of the Worcester County Trust Company, BILL GLEASON, foreman of the American Steel and Wire Cos. of Worcester, and PHIL O'CONNELL, who lives in Worcester but commutes to Boston each day for his work with the Federal Housing Administration, were the Quarters in attendance at the summer outing of the Worcester County Dartmouth Club. FRED WESTON of Pittsfield writes of an oldfashioned summer clam-bake given by the Dartmouth Club of his end of Massachusetts— "beer, swim and beer, clams and beer,lobsters and beer, and then more beer."
TURNING BACK THE PAGES
From THE DARTMOUTHS of November, 1921 November 5—"Professor John Lord spoke to the members of the class of 1925 on 'The History of Dartmouth College' last night in 103 Dartmouth." .... "Records show class of
1925 represented by 31 states, with 32 sons of Dartmouth men, and 119 sons of men of other colleges."
November 7—"Freshmen defeat Colby Academy 68-7, making fifth straight victory of season Fourteen members of the class of 1925 turned in A plus scores in the intelligence test given by the department of psychology—D. W. Moore, A. W. Edson, M. R. Hodge, J. D. Spring, L. D. Brace, C. F. Haywood, B. F. Jones, H. S. Talbot, F. K. Heyman, E. W. Roessler, J. W. Sanborn, F. S. Wilder, P. B. Tanner, P. E. Williamson."
November 10—"Green Invades Gotham for Penn Game. Eight hundred and eightythree go on Special Train."
November 14—"Harvard Crimson Doubtful of New Dartmouth Selective System—Thinks Plan Worth Trial but Not Likely To Prove Practical When Put in Use."!!
November 19—"Freshmen Down Dean 21-0 in Final Battle. Close Season Undefeated after Seven Straight Victories."
November go—"Freshmen Make Average Grades at Mid-Semester. Clear records with no E's have been made by 373 men or 63 per cent of the class, while 149 or 25 per cent have failed in one subject and 76 or 13 per cent in two or more."
Hearty thanks to those of you who have sent news or dropped the Secretary a line.
Secretary, 344 Buhl Bldg., Detroit, Mich.
