1937
During the month, official business sent your secretary to Greenfield, Mass., for an afternoon and evening visit with Art Ruggles, and we now have a necessary understanding of our Treasurer's problems and ambitions.
First of all a report of the class financial solvency for the records: Balance on hand, April 21, 1942. $ 534.73 Income, April 21, 1942—April 21, 1947. 4,763.75 Interest 97.73 $5,396.21 Expenses 1942 Reunion $ 414.95 Class Officers' expenses to May meetings in Hanover 102.62 Stamps 218.77 Mimeographing and Secretarial Service 210.17 Stationery and Printing 177.40 Flowers 21.80 Alumni Magazine 2,895.00 Miscellaneous 13.80 Banking Charges 4.53 Bad Check 3.00 Executive and Reunion Committee Lunches 151.35 Dartmouth Alumni Fund 20.00 Cash On Hand Dartmouth Savings $ 100.00 Greenfield Savings 1,062.82 $5,396.21
Because we have little ammunition this month and even less time to be fancy, this is an excellent time to pass along the impressions derived from our conversations with Rug on the whirlwind visit.
As you all know Rug has worked for us ever since we were graduated, and perhaps we have taken his efforts too much for granted. But Rug says it wouldn't be so darn tough if it weren't necessary to keep up a constant flow of repetition merely to snag those of us who really mean to pitch in when the first notice arrives, and don't actually take action until the last minute. Rug demonstrated his statement with the ledger on the Class Memorial Fund showing the names of those who answered the initial appeal immediately and checking their names against those who do likewise on class dues and the Alumni Fund. Then there are others of us (and I do mean me) who dilly dally something fierce and give Rug ninety percent of his headaches. We not only promised Rug to say a word or two on this subject, we have said it. Let's hope it helps the old boy give more time to making a living and less time to class dollars and cents.
You will also be excited to discover that Gail Compton has been a national hero according to an editorial written in the ChicagoTribune.
We quote in full: Famine Averted "Grain prices declined sharply last week. One reason was a turn in the weather favorable to the maturing of the corn crop. Another influence toward lower prices was the growing disposition in Washington to trim the estimates of the qualities of grain to be exported.
"Even so, there will be less corn this year than the country requires. The government was very slow to recognize the fact. We take great pride in the knowledge that the successive surveys made by The Tribune served to focus attention on the realities. After examining conditions in eight states last May, Mr. Gail Compton, our farm editor, reported that a serious reduction in food supplies was to be expected, a prediction that found little or no approval at the time among the agents of the department of agriculture he consulted. Again Mr. Compton was ahead of the department in assessing the condition of the crop toward the end of July and in appraising the damage from heat and drouth.
"We venture to say that no newspaper specialist in farming has ever contributed a greater service to the country than was performed by Mr. Compton this year. Through his competence and alertness as an observer and his vigorous writing, he broke down official complacence. He probably saved the nation from a real famine."
Dr. Robert (Bob) Finkelstein has been appointed a member of the famous Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N. J. Our salutatorian took his doctor's degree at Harvard in 1941, worked with the Navy on anti-submarine research and high explosives during the war, and served as liaison between the Navy Laboratories and Dr. Einstein. Bob's appointment is a tribute to his capacity in his specialties, mathematics and physics.
We have limited this month's output to a few high spots and promise that with some of the football pressure out of the way we will dig into the files of births and marriages and bring one and all up to date on these vital happenings.
We close with a report from the secretary's secretary.
Number of letters received since reunion o Amount of material we will have left from the files if this cooperation continues o Total o
Secretary, Alumni Gymnasium, Hanover, N. H.
Treasurer, Box 121, Deerfield, Mass.
