1926
Since this is the annual Alumni Fund issue our opening paragraphs this month are, with apologies to AI Louer, going to be a sort of open letter to you from the secretary on the subject of "How are we doing Fund-wise."
The record of the amount we gave last year and the list of the men of 1926 who participated in this gift are printed this month as part of our column. It's not a bad record; in fact it's a pretty good one, particularly that total of 383 contributors, which is a distinct improvement over recently preceding years.
To say merely that 383 men gave $11,794.72 for an average of $30.80 apiece is so far from telling the whole story, however, that I hesitate to emphasize it by repetition.
Here, gentlemen, is another side of the story:
19 men together gave $5,566.67264 men gave less than $25.00 apiece!
And there is our problem! For many years now a handful of generous men in the class have been doing a great deal more than their share. Several of these men have already indicated to Al Louer that they do not feel that they can continue to carry so substantial a part of the load. It thus becomes high time for all of us to reexamine our individual Fund records of the past and set our sights for the future.
The Dartmouth Alumni Fund is not a "Give Until It Hurts" campaign and here's hoping it never will need to be. Each man's circumstances and what he gives to the Fund are his own business, and there is no thought here or elsewhere to say otherwise. It stands to reason, nevertheless, that many of us could easily do more than we have been doing. The five dollars given in June would, if given also in May, April, March and February, become twenty-five without strain. Multiply this twenty-five by four hundred and you get the very respectable total of ten thousand. Add to this the amounts over twenty-five which a substantial number of men give regularly and you get a final total which puts us among the top classes every year, with no one under any pressure to do more than his share.
Is this goal of a minimum of twenty-five dollars per man too high? Let's at least each give it some serious personal thought and see if we cannot figure out a way to do it without undue sacrifice.
Al Louer has his organization all set and ready to go. Unless you have been a part of it and seen it work you find it difficult to appreciate the days and weeks of thought, planning, effort, hope and despair that go voluntarily into this campaign every year by the group who take the responsibility for the rest of us. And the primary function of the whole business is simply to remind you and me that there's a job to be done for Dartmouth, and to keep reminding us, tactfully, over and over again if necessary, until the job gets done.
Here are Al's Divisional Agents for 1948: Doug Everett for Maine, New Hampshire and
Vermont. Ran Cox for Massachusetts. Harry Fisher for Connecticut and Rhode
Island. Holt McAloney for New York City—Uptown. Les Talbot for New York City—Downtown. Van Van Duyn for New Jersey. Chuck Abbott for Upstate New York. Hub Harwood for Washington and the
Southeast. Ralph Thomas for Pennsylvania. Johnny Heavenrich for Michigan, Ohio,
Minnesota and Wisconsin. Del Worthington for Illinois. Norrie Williamson for Colorado, etc. Ritchie Smith for the Pacific Coast.
They will do their part as they and their predecessors have always done. For our part let's make their job this year the easiest, most pleasant and most successful they ever had!
Mildred Whitman has kindly written a letter bringing us up to date on Max. Last April Max suffered a coronary thrombosis, from which he made a remarkable recovery and has slowly been recuperating ever since. Their home has been in Buffalo, where Max was successfully engaged in income tax law and consultation work. Some months ago, however, Mildred and the doctors agreed that Max would be better ofE in a warmer climate during the winter, so they made the move to Florida. Mildred writes that the Florida climate is doing its work so well that they may decide to stay permanently, although uncertain at present. For the time being, however, their address is: 136 South Peninsula Drive, Daytona Beach, Florida. A word of encouragement addressed to them there would worthily assist the climate in its good work.
In the Book Review section of The NewYork Times for December 21, there appeareda lengthy review of Dick Eberhart's new bookof poetry, entitled Burr Oaks. Indicative ofDick's standing in the field of poetry the review starts thus:
"Among the half-dozen inspired lyric poets writing today in English, Richard Eberhart deserves to be better known in America. His neglect here may be traced in part to the circumstances that he was educated at Cambridge, published by Oxford.
It it is true that you are neglected in America, Richard, perhaps we had better start a campaign to inform the book reviewers that at least a part of your education was received not in England but in a small American school for Indians there are those who love.
With a deep sense of shock as well as of sorrow we have to tell you of three losses suffered by the class within the past year. A few weeks ago we received notice that BobHazel died in December, 1946, at Waltham, Massachusetts, and that Dick Gooding died in June, 1947, in Los Angeles. Now comes a newspaper clipping dated January 1, 1948, saying that Flash Fallon died in his sleep that day at his home in Sanford, Maine.
Further accounts will appear in the In Memoriam page of this or an early issue, but in the meantime we wish to express to the families Bob, Dick and Flash left behind them the sincere sympathy of the Class of 1926 of which they were so long and such loyal members.
Fund Contributors for 1947 383 Gifts (Participation Index 85). Total gifts: 511,794.72 (102% of objective). ALBERT E. M. LOUER, Class Agent.
1926
PARENTS
(We. have tried to list with the respective classesall the parents who gave such vital assistance tothe Alumni Fund of 1947, whether through giftsof their own or through sending gifts for theirsons. To those parents whose help in sending giftsfor their sons we may not have identified, equalthanks.)
Richter, Henry A. MEMBERS Abbott, Charles W. Akin, John S. Algar, George E. Allen, Carlos E. Jr. Allen, Paul S. Andler, Kenneth D. Appleton, Francis H.III Arenovski, Herman J. Bailey, Christopher T. Bailey, Frank E. Baker, Royal P. Banfield, H. Loring Barclay, William H. Barker, Oliver L. Barnes, Frederic P. Bartels, George J. Batchelder, Joseph M. Becton, Edward M. Bellaire, George P. Benjamin, Philip M. Benton, Webster W. Bickford, John H. Bishop, Charles S. Bixby, G. Henry Blair, A. Whittemore Blair, John W. Blake, Henry A. Blake, Keith E. Blanchard, Willard H. Blicke, Juilliard H. Blunt, Carleton Borden, Gail Borglum, George P. Bourne, Laurence T. Boyd, Kier M. Brand, C. Martin Breyfogle, Robert J. Bristol, Ralph B. Britt, Paul E. Brookes, Jason H. Jr. Brown, Courtney C. Brown, Gardner W. Buck, George W. Burlingame, M. Richard Bush, Horace's. Cadmus, Fred A. Campbell, Francis C. Cannon, John D. Carnell, Prentiss Jr. Carr, Robert W. Chaffin, Edward J. Chamberlin, Dean Champion, George Chipman, Gordon P. Church, Donald E. Clark, Russell W. Clarke, Norman R. Cleary, Robert E. Cole, Edward C. Collins, Charles W. Colt, Thomas C. Jr. Conant, Louis C. Cort, Robert P. Cox, Randall T. Crosby, Warren M. Jr. Curtis, T. Chalmers Darling, Herbert F. DesMarais, Hubert A. Dickason, L. King Diehl, Carl H. Dillingham, Paul A. Donohue, Joseph A. Dooley, Edwin B. Douglas, George E. Douglass, Gordon K. Drury, Francis R. Durgin, Guy E. Eaken, Bruce W. Eaton, Joseph W. Eaton, Roland G. Jr. Eberhart, Richard G. Edgar, Robert B. Elliott, Charles H. Jr. Emerson, Edward E. Esquerre, Henri P. Evans, William F. Everett, Douglas N. Fallon, Hillman O. Farnsworth, William P. Farnum, Edgar A. Farwell, Thomas B. Fellingham, Warren L. Fish, William B. Fisher, Harry J. Fitts, Osmer C. Fitz-Gibbon, Laurie Fleming, Edward J. Floyd-Jones, Thomas L. Ford, Graham B. Ford, Wesley DeW. Forrest, Arthur L. Forrest, William S. Jr. Foster, Kendall P. Fowler, Edmund P. Jr. Frankenberg, Charles H. Gearhart, John I. Gibson, Harold H. Jr. Gleason, Anthony H. Gooding, Richard D. Goss, Robert F. Gould, Alphin T. Granville-Smith, W. J. Greeley, Henry E. Greene, John S. Gresley, Reginald E. Gunthorp, Richard G. Gurney, Fred P. Hadley, Leonard Hadlock, Canfield Hall, Clyde C. Hall, Harry A. Jr. Hanlon, Edward J. Hanson, Reginald W. Harper, Paul A. Harriman, David E. Harrington, Robert D. Hartley, Forrest E. Hartman, Henry Hartwell, Lindley S. Harwood, Herbert H. Hay ward, Sidney C. Hazel, Robert L. Heacox, Cecil E. Healy, Francis D. Heavenrich, John P. Herlihy, Thomas Jr. Herz, R. Theodore1 Heydt, Louis J. Hilton, Henry H. Jr. Hodgdon, Robert M. Hoffman, Donald S. Hopkins, Donald B. Hornburg, Charles H. Jr. Howland, Foster A. Hudgins, Henry E. Hughes, William S. Hurd, Frederick Husband, Richard W. Ide, Paul A. Infield, Frederick A. Ingram, Louis W. Jacobus, Roland A. Jr. Jenkins, Gordon M. Jenkins, James H. Johnson, Per E. Johnston, F. Kenerson Johnston, Harold M. Jones, Floy C. Jr. Jones, Malcolm L. Jones, Ralph N. Kelley, Clinton H. Kelley, Leßoy J. Kenney, George S. Kennison, Lawrence S. Kent, Bennett T. Kinney, Joseph N. Jr. Knight, Granville F. Knowles, Francis Kolb, Howard Korten, W. Kenneth Kyburg, Paul E. Lake, Morse B. Lamb, Henry G. Lamb, Richard W. Lary, William L. Lattimore, Richmond A. Lawson, Fred F. Leech, John W. Lenke, Sidney E. Lewis, Harold S. Leyser, G. Everett Linke, Gordon Littlefield, Thomas E. Loomis, Robert H. Louer, Albert E. M. Lowell, Albert H. Lower, Martin E. McAloney, S. Holt McCarthy, F. Jordan McClintock, Edward C. McClintock, Richard P. McConnaughey, R. K. McDavitt, Clarence G. Ji McDonald, Leon E. McDonough, Henry G. McFadden, Leslie B. McGinn, Sylvester Mcllwraith, John W. Mclndoe, Robert L. McKenna, Charles M. McWilliam, Thomas N. Macdonald, Charles J. MacDufiie, E. Allen Mackay, Donald K. Major, Richard Mandel, Richard H. Mann, Richard D. Manser, George E. Jr. Marsans, Romulo L. Jr. Marshall, Harold T. Martyn, F. Sanford May, Robert L. Meader, Jerome C. Menges, T. Franklin Merrill, Francis E. Merrill, Malcolm H. Merry, Perley B. Metzer, Freeman W. Metzger, Albert L. Millard, Stephen H. Miller, Edward W. Milliken, Franklin A. Mills, Seward Minton, Robert H. Minuse, T. Bayles Mitchell, Stephen W. Moderwell, Horace M. Moore, Hugh J. Moore, Walter II Morgan, Jesse J. Morris, Albert E. Morris, Leonard M. S. Morrison, Chester T. Morrison, Hugh S. Morton, Chester A. Murdough, Thomas G. Nemiah, Royal C. Neuman, Louis E. Newcomb, Russell L. Newhall, Paul H. Nichols, Richard M. Nickerson, Winfred M. Nigh, William H. Norstrand, H. Donald O'Connor, Andrew J. Oakes, Abner2 Oakes, Calvin G. Oakes, Franklyn K. Oatman, Lawrence W. Oberlander, Andrew J. Obermeier, Leonard J. Jr. Opdyke, Gordon McC. Orr, Stewart G. Owen, Shubel J. Parker, E. Cummings Parker, Henry L. 11l Parker, Nathan K. Patten, Robert W. Paul, Stanley E. Peirce, George L. Peterson, Ward A. Pillsbury, Walter A. Pitney, William F. Poole, Edward N. Poor, Frank S. Potter, Everett A. Powers, Leland F. Quint, Maurice3 Raisbeck, Edward A. Ransdell, Robert B. Randell, Richard Rankin, Walter M. Redman, Herbert J. Revoir, Theodore R. Rice, Howard C. Jr. Richard, Lester M. Richter, Traugott L. Riotte, Robert C. Roberts, John W. Robinson, Gilbert H. Robinson, Percy S. Robinson, Winfield E. Rosenberg, Harold B. Rowe, Frederic L. Ryder, Morrill S., Jr. Sage, Henry A.4 Sagendorph, Richard S. Salinger, Robert D. Sanford, Lloyd M. Savage, Harry W. Savage, Joseph C. Schipper, Carl F., Jr. Schmidt, Kenneth P. Scott, George W. Scoville, Laurence McC. Seasongood, Albert, Jr. Seely, Frederick F. Seibold, Arthur 8., Jr. Semple, Kenneth S. Sharp, William L. Shaver, Homer M. Shellman, Norman C. Sherman, Roger F.5 Simmons, Charles E., Jr. r. Singleton, Charles B. Smith, Arthur C. Smith, Hinsdale, Jr. Smith, Laurence C. Smith, Ralph O. Smith, Ritchie C. Snodgrass, George W. St. Clair, John P. Stack, Arthur E. Starke, G. A. Schrader Starrett, Charles R. Stebbins, Ernest L. Steel, Edwin deH. Stentiford, Harry R., Jr. Sterling, Raymond W. A. Stevens, Joseph B. Stevenson, Howard S. Stopford, Robert M. Straight, John P. Sullivan, Frederick T. Sullivan, James F. Tagliabue, Charles R. Talbot, Lester Tarr, John C. Taylor, Clarence S. Thomas, Ralph L. Thompson, Reginald E. Thompson, Warner F. Tilton, Sumner B. Tomlinson, W. Bruce Tomlinson, Walter C. Tourtellot, Gair, Jr. Traquair, James E. Trefethen, Harold P. Trefethen, Herman J. Tully, George C. Tyler, Seward S. Upham, Ralph H. Van Duyn, H. Norton Van Eiszner, Frank Van Horn, William K. Venneman, E. Paul Vermillion, Lawrence R. Viall, William B. Volkhardt, William T. Waggener, Leslie, Jr.6 Waggener, Leslie, Jr.7 Wallace, J. Branton Walters, E. Worthington Watts, Bennet K. Weare, Harry C. Webster, Charles D. Webster, Russell D. Weeks, Kenneth W. Weil, Maurice H. Weil, Robert L. Welch, Ross S._ Wenck, Frederick M. Weston, Stephen P. • Weymouth, Clark Whitman, Max Whitmore, Henry, Jr. Wilbar, Dexter W. Wilcox, Arthur D. Willard, William B. Willcox, Alvah M. Williams, Bleecker R. Williams, Robert B. Williams, Sydney R. Williamson, Norris E. Willis, Emmet Wolfe, William B. Wolff, Lawrence Woods, Wadleigh W. Wooster, James W., Jr. Worthington, Delwyn J. Wright, Murray J. Wyles, Tom R. Yaffe, George J. Zaeder, Benjamin MEMORIAL GIFTS FROM: IMrs.Herz.2 David E. Harriman '26.3 Brother: Ed-ward D.Quint '25.4 Frank H. Granata '24.5 J. Franklin Menges '26.8 Income of Leslie Waggener, Jr., Fund.7 Parents, Mr. & Mrs.Leslie Waggener.
CLASS AGENT ALBERT E. M. LOUER '26
Class Agent, 1 North State St., Chicago, 111. Secretary, 140 Federal St., Boston, Mass.
