1915

I think you will agree with me that the most important detail for all '15ers to remember this month is that this is the last call to send your Alumni Fund contribution to Kel Rose—and do it today as the time will be short when you are reading this. Whether this is V.-E Day or not as I write these notes (it's 9 A.M. and the radio says it will come any minute), the fact remains that we've still got a long way to go, and the College needs our complete support. Volumes could be and will someday be written on the remarkable record that Dartmouth has made throughout this war. Curtailed as it is in its normal scope of activity, the fact remains that we still have a College intact because wise and far-sighted management and Alumni support have combined to a carrying-on never before equalled in Dartmouth history.

As one of the wise counsellors who will help to guide us in the coming months, 1915 takes pride in congratulating Freddy Pearce on his election to the Alumni Council from Washington, D. C., for a two-year term. This is a deserved promotion for Freddy, who, after seven years as vice president of the Dartmouth Club of Washington, then became president of the club, a position he has held for the past three years. Freddy's son Ira H. Pearce entered college in the class of 1948 last July, leaving after the first semester to enter the Navy as a radio technician, and is now attending a radio school of the Navy.

Now comes John Healy, absent from my mail for some time, but back again to give me the details of the New York Alumni dinner on April 26. John tells me that a pep committee consisting of Carl Gish and Red Folan got busy and drummed up a swell 'l5. representation, including: the foregoing, and Bags Wanamaker, Don Law, Zip Coon, Pete Pray, Bill Huntress, Charlie Griffith, Kel Rose, Wy Fuller, Dud Rogers, Pop Byers, Fred Child, Dick Clarke, Roy Lafferty, Ralph Brown, Jack Mason and Marvin Fredericks. Likewise, John and Bill Huntress recently had dinner with Ray King who was spending a couple o£ days in New York.

A letter from Bill Huntress advised me that Kel, in his newsletter, would include a paragraph about the Regional Reunions—but guess that through press of other detail it was omitted. However, the plans are just as previously outlined: namely, that your class officers hope that each regional vice president will get his particular gang together in June for a round-up—and appropriate dates would be June 21, which was our Class Day in 1915; or June 23, which is the date which graces our diplomas. Then again—the date of June 15 as a general date has been suggested. But in any event, it is up to the local organization to make an effort for such a gathering in lieu of a regular reunion. Letters to this effect have gone to the regional vice president for their guidance.

The Dartmouth Club News, published by the Dartmouth Club of New York, of which Kel Rose is vice president, speaks in its personal column of Bill Huntress, Thornt Pray and Carl Gish as "standbys"—and mentions visits from Jim Mowry, Harry Ellms, Jack Mason, John Healy and Pete Cannon. That's a real live-wire spot for the boys living in the general vicinity of Gotham.

Changes of address this month: Marvin L. Frederick, c/o Peat, Marwick Mitchell & Co., 70 Pine Street, New York 5, N. Y.; Matthew R. Gray, 800 Bashford Lane, Alexandria, Va. (This latter, attention of Paul Gibson who now has another 'iser in the Commonwealth of Virginia).

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