Reunion With Leisure

THE PROPOSAL has been made that a year from this June some of the younger classes, perhaps the 5th, 10th, 15th, and 20th year reunions, might hold their reunions during the summer, rather than at the time of the brief and overcrowded Commencement week-end. The Alumni Council discussed the idea at its fall meeting and Richard E. Pritchard '14, chairman of the committee on alumni projects, will report further on the question to the Council in June. Meanwhile officers of classes concerned (1921, 1926, 1931, 1936) are gathering opinions of members and the Secretaries Association will discuss the proposal at its meetings in Hanover May 10, 11. Most of the opinion to date seems to favor giving the plan a trial next year. Either the week following Commencement (during the Hanover Holiday program), or a week later in the summer, would be selected for the regular reunions of those classes. Disadvantages: Tradition; missing certain excitement and events of the Commencement program. Advantages: Spend more than 24 or 48 hours in Hanover really to see and enjoy the College, town, and countryside again; opportunity to get reacquainted with classmates in leisurely vacation fashion; relieve congestion in Hanover by giving all of the town's limited accommodations for rooms and meals to guests of seniors and older alumni and families; allow men from a distance to include reunion in a vacation trip to New England.