"A Long, Long Time"

Thousands of Dartmouths Will Return for Postponed Reunions this Summer

PLANS FOR THE HOMECOMING this summer of thousands of Dartmouth men are taking final form. Class reunion committees are announcing programs to their classes and the College is completing arrangements for the series of alumni week ends running from late June to early August. With six to seven thousand alumni and members of their families to be accommodated at the first class reunions to be held in four years it is necessary to divide the throng into several groupings, and even then Hanover will be bulging at the seams with an estimated attendance of about 1200 reuners on each week end.

Four out of every five classes have either missed their reunions or have one coming up this year, and nearly all of them, as shown in the accompanying schedule, are planning a homecoming celebration this summer. Classes which held reunions in 1942 have not missed one during the war and have a reunion schedule for next year —that is, classes whose numerals end in 2 or 7 will not meet in Hanover this year.

Festivities will begin June 28, 29, 30 with reunions of the fifty-year and older classes and with gatherings of the twenty-five-year classes of 1918, 1919, 1920 1921. Wartime postponement of the traditional reunion schedule, which has brought classes back to the College at five-year intervals, results in.a unique feature of bringing several classes of the same college generation together in Hanover at the same time. Thus the pattern to be followed June 28-30 by the classes of '18, '19, '20, and '21 will be repeated on succeeding week ends. The late June dates will also be the occasion of Dartmouth's first postwar Commencement when some 200 civilian and Navy seniors will graduate.

Because no Navy students will remain under instruction in the summer term, and student enrollment will be limited to veterans following the accelerated schedule to achieve earlier graduation, many of the dormitories and the eating facilities in Thayer Hall will be available for alumni use. Reuners and their families are warned, however, that there will be no time to refurbish the dorms to provide the comforts of home after their constant and heavy use during the war. It is possible that one dormitory will be available with augmented equipment and staff for those who wish to spend a week's vacation in Hanover.

Classes in the group that have been out of college ten years and thirty-five years will hold reunions July 5, 6, 7; those out five and thirty years will meet in Hanover July 12, 13, 14; the groups celebrating fifteenth and fortieth reunions will return July 19, 20, 21; those in the twentieth and forty-fifth year groups will reune July 26, 27, 28; and on August 2, 3, 4 there will be a Homecoming of the youngest war classes from 1942 through 1948.

HANOVER HOLIDAY PROGRAM

During each week, beginning Monday, July 1, the prewar popular vacation-in- Hanover plan of scheduling several talks and informal discussions by members of the faculty will be renewed. On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday of each week there will be two Hanover Holiday lectures, morning and evening, which will permit alumni and their families to come early for their reunion, or to remain after their reunion week end, and take in the Hanover Holiday program on the first three days of every week.

Alumni arriving on Friday of each week, getting settled in their dormitories, engaging in picnics, golf, tennis, swimming, and seeing friends will get the week-end program under way, leading up to the reception to be given by President and Mrs. Dickey at the President's House every Friday evening in honor of returning alumni and their guests. A dance at the gym will round out the Friday evening program, and in case of bad weather President and Mrs. Dickey will meet the reunion groups at the gym preceding the alumni dance.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION WILL MEET

On Saturday morning—not too earlythere will be a meeting of the General Association of Alumni in Webster Hall, where every reuning group during the summer will hear an address by President Dickey and talks by representatives of reunion groups, and will participate in the annual business program of the Alumni Association representing the entire alumni body.

Donald W. Cameron '35, chairman of the College Committee in charge of reunion arrangements, discovered at meetings of class officers in Boston and New York held to discuss summer week-end plans that a minimum of formal program and a maximum of time for picnics, outings, and leisurely visiting with classmates and men in adjoining classes offers the right week-end schedule. After the brief alumni meeting Saturday morning the rest of the day will be open for wholly informal class events to be arranged by the reunion committee.

All of the facilities of Thayer Hall and part of those at the Hanover Inn, together with some nearby resort centers, will be given over to class banquets Saturday evening. Throughout each week end the Dartmouth Outing Club House, which will be reopened this spring, will not be tied up for class dinners but will be available as a general eating center, as will the Hanover Inn dining room and terrace, Thayer Hall cafeteria, and local restaurants. Under the direction of Warner Bentley of the Dartmouth Players, entertainment will be presented in Webster Hall every Saturday evening following class banquets. Throughout the week ends class tents will be the social headquarters of each group.

Fraternities wishing to schedule reunions of their delegations are asked to set the time from 5-6 Saturday afternoon of each week end since this hour is not scheduled for any other event.

MEMORIAL SERVICES SCHEDULED

Sunday morning will be available for class memorial services in Rollins Chapel or in the Hanover churches. Some classes may wish to schedule their banquets Sunday noon or hold outings at Lake Morey, Woodstock, or other neighboring resorts. Although most of the reuners will start homeward Sunday afternoon, those who wish to stay over for the Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday Hanover Holiday program can move to the Inn or its dormitory annex, rest up from the festivities, and partake of the intellectual and social fare being planned by Prof. Herbert W. Hill, director of Hanover Holiday.

Every member of classes scheduled to hold reunions—those whose numerals end in 3, 4, 5, 6 or 8, 9, 0, 1—will later receive from the College an application for use of dormitory rooms and a complete description of week-end programs. You will also hear from your class reunion committee. Watch the ALUMNI MAGAZINE for other announcements and consult the adjoining schedule of reunion dates to start planning now on a trip to Hanover. "It's Been a Long, Long Time." Your homecoming to the College is coming up soon.