July Issue

FOR THE FIRST TIME in the 35 years of this Dartmouth alumni publication there will be a tenth issue this year. A July number will be published as soon as possible after Commencement carrying full accounts of class reunions June 14-15-16 and reports of College events on the week-end program.

Since the final number of the year in which non-reunion class columns will appear is this present one you may be impressed, we are, by the total number of words about alumni carried in each issue. Not counting any of the feature articles, Sports, College News, Browsing, Undergraduate Chair, and other material ordinarily appearing in the first 25-30 pages of the MAGAZINE, there have been on the average about 75,000 words per issue of alumni news (News of the Clubs, News ofthe Classes, Necrology). This is the length of a good-sized novel, every month.

You must wonder, we do, how the class secretaries can find time to do this job nine times a year, not only writing their columns carefully but handling the more difficult task of gathering the news, and managing other class business. In many of the classes every man in the class is mentioned in news notes during the year. Your secretary needs and will welcome the cooperation of all men in the class. It is gratifying that the secretary is in regular monthly touch with a majority of men in his class through the group subscription plan for this MAGAZINE operated so effectively by class treasurers this year.

At this season of the year when the class secretary, except for reunion classes, sees the end of his year's labor in sight, the class agent sees many things to be done before the June 30 deadline of the Alumni Fund. Reports from the campaign are favorable. Success or failure for each class, and thereby for the Fund as a whole, is in the hands of the class agents whose tireless efforts are indispensable to the College. They, in turn, are counting upon the support of all Dartmouth men.