1909*

Have we one or two big butter and egg men who will come through with $250-$500 for the Alumni Fund Campaign? Hal Prescott is just beginning to get organized for the spring campaign. As you know, we have never made a very good showing in this campaign. At times we have not done so badly with the number of people, but we have never had any large total, simply because we have not had any large donations. Hal would like to get a few this year. He says that nobody needs to hold back through modesty and if anybody will heed this call for help, he will be anointed with the best 1909 Mink Brook oil. We now have 178 living graduates, 39 of whom have contributed every year for the past 10 years; 27 for 15 years; 17 for 20 years; and one (Arthur Sporborg) for 25 years, which is the life of "the Fund. In 1939, 22 contributed who did not do so in 1938. Our long distance contributor was Bill Patterson who forwarded his (ever helpful and sizable) check from Manila. Hal wants me to say that some fellows think that small gifts are not welcome. In 1930, 20 of the class who had set-backs contributed amounts of from $1.00 to $4.00, which helped. It also aided in pushing our percent up from 53% to 60%. Nobody knows how much is contributed by any individual so nobody needs to be conscious-stricken as to whether they gave $500 or $1.00. The main thing is to send in something so that we can increase our percentage of class members contributing above the 60% which we had last year.

A letter recently received from Fred Brock informs us that he is just rounding out 26 years with the U. S. Treasury Department as Internal Revenue Agent at Salem Depot, New Hampshire. As he says, during that time he probably has made life miserable for a good many people, but the game must go on.

I was very much mortified when I received a letter from the mother of Harley Caverly calling my attention to the fact that in a recent issue when I listed those who had passed away I listed Harley as non-graduate. He should have been listed as a graduate. The error was entirely my fault and although I have personally apologized to Mrs. Caverly, I also want to do so to the class.

Allen McCurdy, who is superintendent of the Plymouth, N. H. school district has recently been securing a considerable amount of publicity because of his pro- gressive step in trying to centralize the six rural schools in his district, in spite of a considerable amount of opposition from the conservatives in the district. He has put up a very strong argument to consolidate the schools both from the points of view of economy and efficiency. We bet on Allen to win out.

Elbert M. Moffat Jr., the brilliant son of our foreign mission specialist, recently received publicity in the Boston papers as one of the outstanding intellectual members of the junior class at Harvard where he was elected to the "Junior Eight" of the Phi Beta Kappa.

I recently had a visit from John D. Lawson (whom I can frankly say I did not recognize) who attended our class for two years. He is now connected with the Napthol Company, 80 Federal Street, Boston. He is living at 25 Congress Street, Salem, Mass.

I recently had a letter from Carl Killam, who is connected with the Santa Barbara Y.M.C.A. and also teaches citizenship and English in the adult evening school. He is married and has three nice children: Dorothy age 16, Roger age 13, Mildred age 7. He states there are two other classmates in Santa Barbara from whom we have not heard for a long time—Will Ashworth who is the Dean of the State Teacher's College and Walter Dreyfus.

I recently received the following interesting report on Jim O'Mara who is the son of Arthur O'Mara. He is a sophomore at Dartmouth and is on the Varsity Swimming Squad. On March 9th in the Spaulding Pool at Hanover he made a new college record in the 150 yard back stroke. On March 15th at the University of Pennsylvania Eastern Intercollegiates he came in second in the 150 yard back stroke. He also swam that day in the 300 yard medley relay team which came in 3rd after Princeton and Yale. He is also to swim in the National Intercollegiates at Yale on March 29th and 30th. He is already listed among the leading five or six in the Ivy League for this year. Not only is he a good athlete, but he also stands close to the top in his studies.

We hear that Ingie Fearing is a busy man these days selling war supplies to Sweden and the Allies.

The Twentieth Century Association of 3 Joy Street, Boston is trying to interest the Dartmouth Alumni in having class luncheons at their meetings at one o'clock on Saturday. Several prominent Dartmouth men are officials of the Association. If any of our members are interested in this idea as a possibility for the class, I will be glad to look into the matter further, if they will contact me.

Secretary, Filene's, Boston, Mass. Class Agent, 195 Broadway, New York, N. Y.

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