1895
Our 50th Reunion is now about a year away. It comes on apace and will pass in a flash we may suppose. It is hardly time yet to "count noses" in an attempt to determine how many will be present on the side porch at my home in Hartford to continue the discussion with John Hayes, Judge Rumery, "P. I." Morrison and the rest of us.
I hear that John Gault has regained his usual robustness. He was ill for many weeks.
"Sliver" Rice writes enthusiastically about his California trip. "One weekend we visted my nephew at Newport Beach, about forty miles south of Los Angeles. While there we saw the launching of a boat his firm had built, visited the famous mission at Capistrano. Not on the program but quite thrilling, I assure you, was an air-plane crash. The engine on fire plummeted into the Pacific. To our great relief we saw the pilot come down by parachute."
On Page 21, of the May number of DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE, you will note that 14 of our class have contributed 27% of our objective. Very likely "Sliver" Rice, class agent, already has, or will soon, write every member of the class about contributing to the Tucker Fund. Alumni support of this fund was never so truly needed, I believe, as now. I'm sending my contribution simultaneously with this reminder of Dartmouth's pressing urgency and resulting call for Alumni support. Perhaps it is too much to expect any class, of hundreds of members, to achieve 100% of contributors. But, as the Class of 1898 has already demonstrated, a small class with dwindling numbers can achieve that distinction even though it does not mean 100% of objective. Is this not a reasonable goal for '95 to reach? Our Class and '9B are numerically balanced, with two more in '9B for good measure. Morale is important these days and 100% of contributors from '95, ranging from a dollar, (or even half that) upwards would condition us elder brothers for an all-out reunion next year; and it would up the morale thermostat of the college a bit, too, I surmise. So shall we deluge "Sliver" with checks, M. O.'s, dollar bills and stamps?
FRANK E. AUSTIN '95, photographed at Winter Park, Florida, where he now lives the year around.
Secretary, White River Junction, Vt. Treasurer, Hanover, N. H.
