Class Officers Meetings
FOLLOWING THE POLICY of avoiding nonessential travel some 200 officers of Dartmouth classes met in New York and Boston last month instead of in Hanover, as in past years. On April 3 the secretaries, treasurers, and agents of classes, and secretaries of alumni clubs and associations within reaching distance of New York met at the Dartmouth Club. A week later alumni officers living in New England met at the University Club in Boston.
At both meetings President Hopkins was the principal guest and speaker. He spoke on the College in war time and its post-war future at the annual dinners of the three class officers' associations—agents, secretaries and treasurers. Henry E. Atwood '13 of Minneapolis, chairman of the Alumni Fund Committee, was toastmaster at both the New York and Boston dinners. Other speakers on the program in New York were Ross McKenney, Doane Arnold '27, president of the Secretaries Association, James B. Reynolds '90, president of the Class Agents Association, and John E. Morrison Jr. '36 for the Treasurers Association. In Boston the dinner speakers, in addition to President Hopkins and Mr. Atwood, were Donald E. Burnham '44, secretary-chairman of the senior class, Mr. Arnold, Mr. Reynolds, and Roscoe O. Elliott '2O, president of the Treasurers Association.
Miss Charlotte E. Ford, Alumni Re corder of the College, spoke at joint luncheon meetings of the class officers in both New York and Boston. Dean Lloyd K. Neidlinger '23 addressed the New York meetings on "Undergraduates and the War" which was the subject of a talk by Dean Robert C. Strong '24 before the Boston group. Problems of organization in the younger war classes were discussed in New York by John D. Gilchrist Jr. '35 and in Boston by John H. Devlin Jr. '37.
Separate business meetings of the associations were held in the afternoon in both places. Speakers included: Edward E. Martin '19, Mansfield D. Sprague '33, Sherman Baldwin '23, Donald G. Mix '2l, Sidney C. Hayward '26, editor and business manager of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, Albert I. Dickerson '3O, executive secretary of the Alumni Fund Committee, and George F. Theriault '33, Alumni Fund associate.
The Secretaries Association heard a report from its special committee on planning a memorial to Eleazar Wheelock, as originally proposed by James W. Newton of the class of 1886. It was decided to ask the Alumni Council to establish a committee to make a start toward developing ideas for the ultimate establishment of an appropriate memorial to President Wheelock.
During the meeting of secretaries and treasurers it was reported that 60 classes are operating on the recommended Class Organization Program which includes a number of activities designed to strengthen the classes. It also includes class group subscriptions for the ALUMNI MAGAZINE of which the total circulation, including the class of 1944, is now 15,400.
Plans were discussed for providing services to alumni in the armed forces through alumni clubs and associations throughout the country. Information describing Dartmouth's "Services for Alumni in the Service" plan will be carried in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE next month and will be communicated direct to all Alumni in uniform.
The three Associations of class officers selected leaders for the next year as follows:
SECRETARIES ASSOCIATION: president, Henry R. Lane '07, Boston; vice president, Robert E. Cleary '26, Montclair; secretary and treasurer, Sidney C. Hayward '26, Hanover; editor-in-chief of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, Sidney C. Hayward '26. Executive committee: president, vice president, secretary-treasurer, and G. Warren French 30, New York City, and Richard W. Brown '29, Detroit. Member of the Advisory Board of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE to succeed Daniel B. Ruggles '2l at expiration of his term, to serve term of three years until May, 1946: Corey Ford 19—.Member of the Alumni Council for one year, to June 1944, to fill unexpired term of Sherman Baldwin '23 whose retirement from the Secretaries Association creates this vacancy: Henry R. Lane '07.
TREASURERS ASSOCIATION: president, Chandler H. Foster 'l5, Boston; vice president, Robert D. Salinger '26, Boston; secretary and treasurer, Sidney C. Hayward '26, Hanover. Executive committee: president, vice president, secretary-treasurer, and Harry B. Cummings 27, Pittsburgh and Lee W. Eckels '33, Pittsburgh.
AGENTS ASSOCIATION: president, James B. Reynold '90, Washington, D. C; vice president, Roscoe G. Geller '12, Owego, N. Y.; secretary, Albert I. Dickerson '30, Hanover; member .of Nominating Committee for two years, Richard A. Holton 18.
