1929

THE Class, I am sure, has never had a happier, prouder day in all its twenty years than Thursday, August 30th, when John Dickey's election as President of the College was announced. To no other group in the alumni body could the announcement mean so much as it does to us who know so well how fully he measures up to the highest qualifications of the office and who through the fellowship of the Class are particularly able to share in the satisfactions of his splendid accomplishment.

It is not with any sense of having contributed to the result that we of the Class openly express our pride in what has come about. Nor is it in any spirit of possessiveness. It is simply that we lived together when living was fun, that we have worked together for the Class since those happy autumn days of 1925 and that because of the values we have seen revealed in these experiences we know, with a confidence that these things inspire, that John will be to Dartmouth's future what Dr. Tucker was to its past and President Hopkins is to its present. We know of his boundless energy and equal capacity for work, his clear, enquiring mind and scholarly talents and the breadth of his sympathies. We know of his actual attainments as a lawyer and public servant and administrator. And we can appreciate the enthusiasm and determination with which he will undertake his work and the humble spirit in which he will dedicate his life to the service of the College. But most of all we know, and set store by, his rare gift of inspiring affection and respect, an attribute which, when coupled with his own demonstrated devotion to the College, will evoke in every Dartmouth man that spirit of personal interest and loyalty which is so much of the Dartmouth tradition and upon which John must depend in no small measure as he undertakes the heavy responsibilities of restoring the College to the normal functions of a civilian undergraduate institution in a postwar world.

So, it is with the greatest anticipation that arrangements are being made for a dinner in honor of John to be held in New York Friday evening, October 19, at which the Class will have the opportunity to pay him tribute, show him our pride and pleasure, express our confidence in his leadership, and pledge to him constant loyal support and counsel as he confronts the tasks that lie ahead; and furthermore, to accept, on our own behalf, the challenge inherent in his election, to become in all aspects of alumni life a Class worthy of having in its membership one whose great honor in becoming President of the College has brought a like measure of honor and responsibility to the Class, as well.

Class Secretary