1923

I face this my last issue of these notes with even more trepidation than I did my first back in September of 1938. My fear then needs no explanation, but this time it is of an altogether different type and comes from a desire to try to tell you fellows without slopping over what a wonderful five years it has been for those of us you elected to manage class affairs on the occasion of that Famous Fifteenth until what should and would have been a Tempestuous Twentieth this month.

I speak for the entire Executive Committee, Johnny Allen, Ted Caswell, Frank Doten, Ralph Duffy, Pete Jones, Bob McMillan, Horace Taylor, Charlie Zimmerman and myself when I say that. They have been five wonderful years, because you fellows made them exactly that. I have attended Secretaries meetings for longer than these five years, have discussed class affairs with a great many Secretaries of other classes, and while serving on the Alumni Council have been chairman of the Committee on Class Organization which has brought me in direct touch with the problems of other classes. I have seen class groups respond to new projects and new ideas with everything from stubborn resistance to active cooperation but never have I heard of the eager support which you have given your officers. It is just this spirit which has carried 1923 from the heights it attained as an undergraduate class to new heights in the Dartmouth Alumni body. And it is this spirit which will keep us up there at the top.

Beyond a brief comment on the five-year financial statement, which is published herewith, I won't go into any prolonged review of our term. When we adopted the Group Plan your officers felt we should set up our budget on the basis of the very lowest possible annual dues that we could squeak by on—the thought being that the lower the dues the more men would share in the program. The record bears this out, and we show a percentage of participation among the very best in Hanover. But we have just gotten by, and the $3.00 dues has allowed no opportunity to build up any surplus. As a result we have had to pass up several things we would like to have done because we had no funds to use. Truman Metzel, for instance, suggested a pocket directory which is a grand idea and something you would all enjoy having. A five-year class report is another. A little memento of our postponed 30th reunion would have been fun all around. I wanted to mention this so you'd know that we weren't asleep but had the thoughts and were willing to put our time into working them out but were hamstrung through a shortage of funds.

Now, as for the future: First, sincere congratulations to our new Executive Committee—Chairman Clarence Goss, Secretary Dick Kershaw, Treasurer Bill Whipple, Members-at-Large Heinie Bourne, Ted Caswell, Irish Flanigan, George Plant, and Joe Schiffenhaus. Ex-officio members include Johnny Moore, Alumni Fund Agent, Pete Hurd, 25th Reunion Gift Chairman, and your scribe as past Chairman. One more man to bring the committee up to its full membership of nine will be elected and announced shortly. Individually and collectively that's a grand slate and I know you'll agree the class reins could be in no more able hands. And, of course, all thanks to Art Little, Glen Elliott and Lou Grover, the nominating committee who selected them.

In addition to recognizing each of them as an active class worker the fact that seven of the nine are from right around New York is going to allow them to meet together frequently and make management of class affairs the joint enterprise it must be. Conducting a program of Alumni activities isn't the simple, one-man job it was when we got out of college and there's no compass by which one man can set a straight course. Each class has a definite personality, and methods that work in one are poison to another. With the multitude of projects a Dartmouth class now participates in it is a job for the leadership and thought of the Executive Committee as a whole to select the proper procedure and supervise its functioning, in a group such as ours numbering 625, settled geographically all over the country.

And so, fellows, it is with confidence and pleasure that we turn 1923 affairs over to these new officers. With confidence, because they have accepted the responsiblities of being our leaders and we know will discharge their duties to the class with credit. With pleasure, because we know they will get their full share of just that working with and for the finest gang that ever came out of Dartmouth.

DARTMOUTH 1923 1958-19391939-19401940-19411941-19421942-1943 Payment of Class Dues Payment of Past Dues Payment of Dues in Advance Contributions Operating Income $708.00 $907.00 21.00 8.55 30.50 $861.00 9.00 3.00 33.00 $931.00 12.00 12.00 9.50 $982.50 6.00 7.00 TOTAL INCOME $716.55 $958.50 $906.00 $964.50 $995.00 Operating Expense Alumni Magazine Subscriptions . . Printing and Supplies Mailing and Postage Secretaries and Treasurers Ass'n Meetings Stenographic Services Telephone and Telegraph Bank Service Charges . . $526.80 41.75 36.68 18.50 32.81 1.89 .65 $778.00 79.35 5 3-66 33.00 14.80 2.75 .55 $776.00 90.00 35.43 29.00 13.60 1.38 .55 $794.00 64.54 40.25 31.99 16.40 3.20 .75 $784.00 19-28 65.60 49.10 30.40 3.45 7.09 TOTAL EXPENSE . . $659.08 $962.11 $945.96 $951.13 $958.92 Profit from Operations 57.47 —3.61 —39.96 13.37 36.58 Dues Collected 221 @ 3.00 18 @ 2.50. 302 @ 3.00 1 @ 1.00 286 @ 3.00 3 @ 1.00 310 @ 3.00 327 @ 3.00 1 @ 1.00 1 @ 1.50

CASH STATEMENTReceipts From Preceding Treasurer .... $285.05 From 15th Reunion Committee 143.35 From Profit from Operation . . 63.85 $492.25 Disbursements Producing Reunion Booklet— Sept. 1938 $ 75.04 Memorial Gifts to Alumni Fund —June '41 41.00 Reserve for Class Movies— July 1938 60.00 Reserve for 25th Reunion Gift —August 1940 250.00 Reserve for Dues Paid in Ad- vance—May 1943 16.00 442.04 CASH ON HAND—MAY 1, 1943 $ 50.21

Secretary, : 8 Fenimore Rd., Worcester, Mass Class Agent,. Monroe Calculating Machine Co. 11 Park Place, New York City