Class Memorial Funds

THE FALL MONTHS are the period for operation of campaigns in behalf of Class Memorial Funds. Class committees will be in touch with their classes in the annual drive to increase the principal amounts being collected as 25th Reunion Gifts to the College. The class of 1921, with its 25th reunion coming up next June, is campaigning this fall under the direction of J. Lee Bausher '21, Class Memorial Fund chairman. Other groups operating class-wide drives from now until December, and the chairman of each, are: 1922, Wilbur W. Bullen; 1923, Jules Rippel; 1924, Fred C. Shaneman; and 1925, Robert Borwell.

In addition to the above five classes that are approaching the 25th reunion, an additional number are conducting limited campaigns in their classes. These, with the class officer in charge in each case, are: 1926, Richard H. Mandel; 1927, Harry B. Cummings; 1928, Osmun Skinner; 1929, F. William Andres; 1930, G. Warren French; 1931, Charles S. McAllister; 1932, Carlos H. Baker; 1933, George F. Theriault; 1934, William C. Embry; 1935, John D. Gilchrist.

Within its short history the Alumni Council's project for furthering Class Memorial Funds has brought total gifts to the College of $129,528.19. For the past three years 25th Reunion Gifts nlade by the classes of 1918, 1919, and 1920 have exceeded $20,000. The class of 1923, which will celebrate its 25th in 1948, has announced an objective of $50,000. At the 25th reunion the Class Fund is added to endowment funds of the College with annual income credited to the class achievement on the Alumni Fund. This improves the annual record of classes in the Alumni Fund campaigns, adds substantially to current income of the College; and strengthens endowment funds.

Widson C. Batchelder '19 of New York is chairman of the Alumni Council Committee on Class Gifts in charge of the plan, and George H. Colton '35 is executive secretary of the committee in Hanover.