1907*
Your Class Secretary-Treasurer attended a gathering of Dartmouth class treasurers recently and learned that class affairs can probably be conducted most efficiently when there is a diplomatic secretary to write and receive friendly letters and a hard-boiled treasurer to extract class dues from procrastinating classmates. In other words, your secretary-treasurer finds himself in a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde situation —as treasurer he pretends to be thoroughly disgusted with the unsatisfactory state of class finances and the failure of 40% of the class to respond to his heart-rending appeals. On the other hand, as secretary he commends 60% of the class for responding so promptly and so loyally to the treasurer's appeals and finds excuses for the 4°% who are delinquent. Actually the secretarytreasurer understands that all members of the class want to pay their very modest dues and want to receive the ALUMNI MAGAZINE regularly,—that some find it very difficult to spare the $3.00, and others intend to send in a check but never get around to it. Your secretary-treasurer has the utmost sympathy for those who must keep their funds for more important obligations and appeals only to those who can afford the amount of the dues and have really tended to send them in. The record of payment to date is almost exactly what it has been in recent years. Between go and 100 classmates have paid dues out of a total graduate list of 168.
Appeals for money are usually a nuisance to the appealer as well as the appealee, but they have the pleasant result of bringing brief but interesting messages from classmates from coast to coast. Here are a few typical ones: "If I don't do it now, I'll probably forget. Have not seen Garby or any other '07 boys since last letter."—George (Bit) Hoyt.
Incidentally George is '07 representative for the Pow-Wow to be held in San Francisco on the occasion of the DartmouthStanford football game on November 26.
"Such a plea would move a heart of stone. In my own case, however, it prompted me to hunt up that fellow who is always misplacing papers around my desk. I caught him redhanded and forced him to get the enclosed money order, and here you are!"—H. H. Hill.
Alvin G. Whitney writes a friendly note from the State Museum, Albany, N. Y.
"Enclosing check for $3.00 as requested. Sorry my procrastination made the second request necessary. I think the plan is a good one, but I marvel at your faith in human nature."—Harry C. Romayne, Board of Education, Elmira, N. Y. ['07 classmates have come through consistently during the six years of my secretary-treasurership, and the class is solvent (barely), so I am still an optimist!]
Herb Hinman writes,
"I am glad to be able to send $3 for the best magazine I receive and hope to be able to do so for a long time."
"Hello, Dick. Ever come through Old Town? Am on the main line."—Harry Porter.
Most of us know, I think, that Charlie McKendree has been a member of the faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, for a long time. He is also a lieutenant-commander in the Naval Reserve Medical Corps. His son Charles, who graduated from Princeton last June, is following in his father's footsteps and is studying medicine at P. & S. His sonin-law is an Amherst man. In spite of Amherst and Princeton influences, Charlie keeps cheering for Dartmouth and all that it stands for,—"l shall never cease to be grateful for all that it did for me."—That's how most of us feel, Charlie!
Regards and a check from Bob Lyon from Washington, D. C. Wish we knew more about Bob's activities in recent years.
Best wishes and regards from Bill Jennings and a check for class dues. Bill Jennings is one of many reasons why we wish we were going to the Pow-Wow!
Tom Reilly and a few others could, if they were not magnanimous, tell a story about the hard-boiled, grasping class-treasurer. Tom, and a few others, paid his class dues last year for the next five years, but did he escape a dun this year? Not at all! —Apologies are offered if there are others in the same boat.
Joe Coburn thinks that dues and magazine subscription are both important and the MAGAZINE group idea an excellent one.
"Please pardon the negligence of a damn busy man."—Herb Mitchell. (Herb, the treasurer will pardon anything short of first-degree murder for a $3 check.)
There are three sons of 1907 men in the freshman class of 1942. They are Roger F. Haley from Yarmouth, Me., son of Harry Haley; Edward H. Leonard from Arling- ton, Mass., son of "Deke" Leonard; and Frederic P. Worthen from Hartford, Conn., son of "Tute" Worthen.
Secretary, 140 Federal St., Boston, Mass
* 100% subscribers to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, on class group plan.
