1924

HANOVER WEEKEND

As this is written on November 7, we can only give you the program for the Cornell game weekend. The following, with wives and a few children, expect to be on hand .... Heegaard, Henretta, Henry, Hersey, Higley, Luitwieler, Maloney, Spaulding, Wheatley and White. Sure enough, Vim Heegaard is in town on a business trip and his wife is with him. The big event of the weekend, besides the game, and a number of class parties, will be our meeting with President Dickey on Sunday morning. At this time the class will present to him our first check, about $1000, for the Class of 1924 Memorial Fund. This will officially begin our drive for the endowment which will be our 25th Reunion Gift to Dartmouth. Fred Shaneman is chairman of this committee and is now appointing a large group to assist him. Will give you the names in the January issue.

THE CLASS OF 1924 MEMORIAL FUND

Begun in 1938 by the class of 1913, and continued by every class since then, this plan to add to Dartmouth's endowment can be summarized as follows:

The class of 1924 Memorial Fund will be a fund raised by the members of the class and presented to the College to be held as a separate item in the Associated Endowments. The College will credit the Fund with income at the same rate as applies to other Associated Endowments. Up to our 25th Reunion, income from the Fund will be credited to the principal; after the 25th Reunion, the income will be credited to the Alumni Fund and will be added to 1924's total contributions. The principal will become part of Dartmouth's permanent endowment.... 1924's link in a long chain forged by the Alumni. This must not be confused with the Alumni Fund which provides money for current use, and to which we WIU continue our annual contributions each Spring.

PURPOSE OF THE 1924 CLASS MEMORIAL FUND

The purpose of Class Memorial Funds, from the point of view of the class is to pre- sent the College with a substantial 25th Reunion Gift and to establish a Memorial Fund which may be added to in the future through gifts or bequests. The project is exceedingly important to both the class and the College and offers a great deal in the way of added endowment strength for Dartmouth at a time when large individual benefactions are decreasing.

Here is what President Emeritus Hopkins said about the Memorial Class Funds: "The cumulative success of the Alumni Fund in providing currently available funds has been a great source of reassurance to the Trustees. And now the concurrent progress of Class Memorial Funds, adding substantially to the College's capital resources, justifies a much more confident view of our financial future than would otherwise be possible. The willingness of the classes to make these gifts in unrestricted form, in respect to use of income, renders them doubly valuable in meeting changing needs and unforeseeable exigencies."

How MUCH TO GIVE

This is up to each individual. Only you know how much you can and want to give. Fred Shaneman's Committee will ask you to give or pledge this fall and pledges may be paid in installments each fall until our 25th Reunion. This is your opportunity to do something extraordinary for Dartmouth, so KEEP YOUR AIM HIGH!

FOOTBALL

As far as we know, Sam Ellis and PeteWheatley were the only ones from the class who attended the Holy Cross game, except the Hanover residents Charlie Amelung and Gil Thornton, with their wives, spent the Columbus Day weekend in New Hampshire and visited Hanover one afternoon Nobody has reported on the Pennsylvania game, but I presume Red Hall, Les Hawes and a few of the others from the Philadelphia area were on hand Merce Bowers attended the smoker on Friday night Jim Taylor, who had a lot to do with the alumni gatherings at South Bend before and after the Notre Dame game (see story by him under Alumni Clubs), writes: "I had a nice talk with Mike Watkins during luncheon at the Country Club and I know that George Anderson attended the game with the Elkhart group, although I didn't see him at any of the festivities. TedNilsen was down from Clinton, Michigan for the weekend. Ted is General Manager of the Clinton Woolen Manufacturing Company." Had luncheon at the Club with Harry Holmlund who was in New York on business, so got a first-hand story on the Syracuse game. Harry didn't see any '24 classmates at the game, but did mention Leon Salter. It seems Salts has been making quite a name for himself as a modernistic artist with hangings in the various art shows. He paints in his spare time, when he isn't running the family canning business at North Rose, New York The Amelungs and the Whites drove to New Haven for the Yale game and managed to park in the lot designated as a meeting place for the class. Doug Graham and his wife and two boys were at the game, as well as Doug Craig with a car full of boys. We saw Stan Curtis for a few minutes and he reported that the Bridgeport delegation was on hand and having a good time. Although we had seats in the class section we saw only Paul Synnott and his wife in the stadium.

Schoomaker, as far as we know, is the only member of our class attached to the Seabees. He enlisted in June 1942 in the Navy and later switched to the Seabees. He saw service in Alaska and the Aleutians, and is now stationed on Guam Bert Hallin, now out of the service, is with Montgomery Ward in Lockport, New York Ham Fish was in town not long ago with his wife on a short leave. They joined the Holbrooks in doing the town. Ham is now a lieutenant colonel in the permanent army and is studying at the Military Government school in Charlottesville. He has only recently returned from the Philippines after three and one-half years in the service in the Far East. After Charlottesville he expects to go on and study Japanese in preparation for assignment as a Civilian Affairs officer in Japan.

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