Memorial Books
FOUR CLASSES ADOPT NEW PLANIN TRIBUTE TO DECEASED MEMBERS
FOUR DARTMOUTH CLASSES are now participating in the plan of contributing rare and beautiful books to the Baker Library as memorials to deceased classmates, and a number of other classes are considering the adoption of these "living memorials" in preference to floral tributes which are usually sent in the name of the class.
The Class of 1914, which originated the plan, has thus far given Si2o to the Library for the purchase of memorial books. Ten dollars has been contributed for each classmate who has died since July 1945, and it is hoped that similar memorials for '14 men who died before that date will be established by their closest friends.
The Classes of 1912 and 1913 have also made a start 011 memorial books for deceased members, and the Class of 1939 has made an initial contribution of §300 for the purchase of books memorializing the 16 members of the class who lost their lives in service in World War 11. A special bookplate has been engraved and has been placed in the first 1939 memorial volume, a rare 15th Century book now in Baker's Treasure Room.
All memorial books will be kept in the Treasure Room or Treasure Room annex and will carry the name of the deceased alumnus on a bookplate which the Library has had engraved especially for the new class memorial plan. The alumni names will also be entered in a large and handsomely bound book to be kept in the Treasure Room. An engraved card announcing the gift to the Library has been prepared for mailing to the family of the Dartmouth man thus honored by his class.
The Class of 1914 is endeavoring to have its memorial plan more widely adopted by the alumni, with each class contributing to the special book fund the ten dollars or more that would normally be spent on flowers. The plan has the double advantage of benefiting the Library and of creating appropriate and useful memorials that have great appeal to the families of deceased Dartmouth men.
RECORDED FOR THE ARCHIVES is this first group of Dartmouth NROTC trainees who got their sea legs last summer on a Caribbean cruise aboard the "USS Albany". The trip gave trainees a chance to test seafaring skill acquired vicariously in landlocked Hanover. Sunning themselves in the second row are Lt. Comdr. Felton (second from left) and Prof. Richard H. Goddard '20 (fourth from left), guest of the Navy.
FUTURE NAVY AND MARINE CORPS RESERVE OFFICERS swab the deck of the "USS Albany". In addition to Dartmouth's, several of the other 51 NROTC units on U.S. campuses were represented on the cruise.
AGAINST A BALCH HILL BACKGROUND THE 104 MEMBERS OF DARTMOUTH'S FIRST PEACETIME NROTC UNIT DRILL ON CHASE FIELD
