From the Mailbag
"Two years ago I had the pleasure of donating $25.00 to the Dartmouth Alumni Fund, and followed the same contribution the following year. I am under the impression that this is the time of the year that you look forward to your contributors and I am writing you to make sure that you will advise me in due course."—A parent.
"I have been reading about the alumni fund campaign for this year, and don't faint, but I think I am going to give you a surprise. You state some time someone will give you $500. 'No one has yet, but perhaps this year is the year.' Well, Gus, you put it right because this is the year someone's going to do it, and I enclose to you my pledge on this matter. I hope there are others that will help to make this fund hit the mark of $5,000 which you said we should be giving. I am sorry I have not been able to do it before, and I don't know that I will ever be able to do it again, but here's good luck on the fund. You have certainly done a grand job on this fund and I think everybody in the class as well as outside of the class appreciates the tremendous job it is, and the wonderful work you have done."—'27, to Class Agent.
"Lots of luck and may Dartmouth continue, a glorious name to all of us wherever we go."—'34.
"Saw a Boston Herald out here in the South Pacific a few days ago and the skiing reports looked swell—what I wouldn't give just to get cold once. Also received an ALUMNI MAGAZINE for February, and it's a real treasure I am flying for the Marines in a torpedo squadron Sincerely hope the Fund has a good year."—'40 Lieutenant, USMC.
"I guess this is my first official act as an alumnus of Dartmouth College, it is one I have looked forward to for a long time. What Dartmouth gave me for three wonderful years will be impossible to really pay back, but contributing to her Alumni Fund seems to be a fitting substitute for this intangible.
"The Dartmouth Family is large and far flung and wherever my career as an Aviation Cadet has taken me, I have found members of this grand family. These meetings serve to keep very much alive the spirit that Dartmouth men alone know. Thanks for the opportunity of doing my part, although a small one I realize, to help out the cause."—'43 A/C.
"Please find my contribution to the Alumni Fund enclosed. My contribution is a fairly large one, for me, but I have several excellent reasons for making it such. To enumerate:
"1. My two short years in Hanover could not have been better spent. Although my college record is nothing to brag about I know I learned things during that time which will show on no college records. My cheque is in part payment for them.
"2. I sincerely believe that the bringing of order from chaos after the war will be a burden which must be carried largely by fine liberal arts colleges, such as Dartmouth, and by the men which they train. Thus my contribution may aid the finest of these institutions to fulfill a far more important destiny in the future than anything which she has accomplished in the past.
"3. I plan to finish my education at Dartmouth, fortunes of war permitting, and this contribution will, perhaps, reserve me a place among the student body after the wax."—'42 2nd Lieutenant, AC Commanding (location unknown).
"I send you the enclosed check, hoping so to help dear old Dartmouth in my own small way. I cannot expect to live many years now, as I shall be 85 in a few days, but I do want to live to see the dawn of better days."—One of Dartmouth's few alumnae. "Something about the sunset tonight, the smell of spring in the air, the rustle of the trees, the shouts of the men playing baseball and volley ball, the crackle of the fire, brought Hanover and Dartmouth vividly to mind, with the terrible thought that I'd forgotten the Alumni Fund—or haven't I? With the calendar turned topsy-turvy I'm not sure what end's up, whether this is graduation time, the start of a new school year—or just as it always was the end of duck boards and the mud, the beginning or the promise at least of springtime Writing by firelight isn't very satisfactory. .... Hope the drive .... is the best one yet. If there is anything that I want to make damn sure is there as I left it, when this war is over and won, it is Dartmouth College!" Lieutenant, AUS.
"I met an old friend last night and it reminded me that I hadn't kept Dartmouth too well posted. It was the ALUMNI MAGAZINE in the Post Library here at Quantico. I don't know who put it there but thanks anyhow."—'30.
"Please find enclosed my small contribution to Dartmouth and the fellows who may be able to profit by her teachings in the future M. '22, H. '33 and I compose a small but loyal Dartmouth contingent here We are fighting the battle of the Brazilian Jungle without the imaginary discomforts connected with foreign service. We send greetings to all other Dartmouth groups the world 'round. As so masterfully expressed by Professor Brown's map, 'tis 'round the girdled earth."—'40Lieutenant, AUS.
"At the request of my son, , now an ensign in the Navy, I am enclosing a check for the Alumni Fund Kindly credit this to him and the Class of 1941.
"Bob has been in the South Pacific with the Pacific fleet, but recently has been transferred to the Atlantic fleet. While at NeCaledonia he met up with several Dartmouth boys I read the DARTMOUTH MAGAZINE from cover to cover before I sent it on to Bob. We parents appreciate the interesting news of the campus and of Dartmouth's sons!"—'41 Mother.
"I also want to take this opportunity to express my appreciation of the splendid and active part being played by President Hopkins in fighting our 'battles' for us while we are away. The danger of losing the peace for which we are fighting seems only too real here, and it is of considerable relief to learn that men like 'Hoppy' have determined not to let us down."—'42 A.A.F., location unknown.
"Enter this to refute those who say the liberal arts college is dead!"—' 36 Naval Inspector.
"Enclosed find check for $25.00, a meagre -contribution for the stores of memories which some of us alumni are having of Dartmouth at present."—'40 Lieutenant,AUS.
"From a tending post I send a small down payment on five of the best years of my life. I hope that next year my contribution will come from a more active front. In any event, Dartmouth will always be foremost in my mind as it is with all nine of us who are assigned to this school. Best of luck and thanks for the opportunity for doing even a little."—'41 Ensign.
"Present conditions—which are about to shadow on the chaotic—warrant a lusty, earnest rallying to our original 'moulding force'—our college.
"With sincere wishes that our alumni drive will achieve great success."—'39.
"I'm sending my bit right away in order that it may help keep alive, for students to come, the Dartmouth that grows to mean more each year."—'36.
"I would no more think of dropping out of the contributors' class this year than I would dropping my War Bond purchases. May this year's total eclipse them all."—'31.
DARTMOUTH MEN HOLD IMPORTANT POSTS IN NAVAL PROCUREMENT Officers of the Flight Selection Board, Third Naval District, include, left to right, Lt.(jg) E. Bradford Carnell '3O, Lt. T. Grant Caldwell '24, Comdr. A. F. Rice 'lB, Lt.Osborne B. Cowles (Dartmouth basketball coach), and Ens. Bertram B. MacMannis '39.Absent when the photo was taken was Lt. (jg) S. R. Arneson '4l.
IN SENDING GIFTS to the Alumni Fund manynotes and letters accompany contributions. Following are abstracts from some of the Fund's mailbag which we are privileged to publish this month. —ED.
