1924
Having just visited the corner store and invested in a brand new sheet of carbon paper, we're all set for another year of bringing you news of the Class. And there is lots of it! The boys have done right well by us this summer with the result that our files are brim full of interesting information which will be ladled out as space permits. These are active days for all of us, so let's get on with the news.
First of all, a flashback on the results of the 1952 Alumni Fund Drive. As most of you know, Dartmouth smashed records right and left and came up with an almost unbelievable total of $611,531. Not to be outdone, 1924, in the last year of Chick Austin's stewardship, came up with a new high for our Class, and turned in $13,24.6.89. This record was made possible by the generosity of 320 members of the Class who dug deep to give evidence of their loyalty and affection for the College. To each and every one of them, our sincere thanks and appreciation.
It is a great pleasure to announce that HarrRanney has consented to assume the arduous duties of leadership in the 1953 campaign. Harr has been closely connected with the fund effort for some years as Assistant Agent, and is quite familiar with the problems confronting our Class. He has already started work in preparation for 1953, and we are confident that, under his leadership, we may look forward to increasingly fine results next year. We bespeak for him your active cooperation and support.
Unfortunately we must pass up our annual Call houseparty this year, owing to our inability to secure suitable accommodations in the vicinity of Hanover. Nevertheless, with all the '24 sons currently in Hanover, it is a good safe bet that many of the Class will be on hand for the Rutgers game which will be played on Saturday, October 18. In order that those who will be back might have the opportunity to see each other and say hello, it has been arranged to meet for a picnic lunch at noon on the road leading up to the Observatory, immediately behind Richardson Hall. This is the spot we have used for the past several years. It is convenient to the Stadium, and provides a pleasant spot for a picnic lunch. If you will be in Hanover, be sure to join us. We'll bg looking for you!
Ted Hubbell, pastor of the Southington Methodist Church, has really been stirring things up out there in his rural Ohio parish. Under his leadership the church has become increasingly active in the life of the community. Instead of allowing his church to drop into a period of summer somnolence, Ted Arranged a special series of sermons, and, taking a leaf from the Drive-In Theatres, arranged to broadcast his sermons over a loud speaker in the church steeple. That is church-going made easy. With such salesmanship, it is small wonder that things are moving in the vicinity of Southington. Our congratulations to our modern and up-to-date preacher.
Very early in the summer we received a fine letter from Dick Moyse in London. Dick is the perennial Secretary of the Dartmouth Club of London, thus serving to keep alive his interest in the College albeit he has only been back to the States twice since he left in 1925. In this connection Dick writes that he has hopes of coming back on a business trip this fall. In his letter Dick gives some inkling as to conditions in England by saying, "The factory for which I am responsible is devoting an ever-increasing percentage of its production to armanment work. No doubt this is the right thing under conditions as they exist, but no commercial man can look on a Works filled with armament orders instead of its own normal production lines with any degree of satisfaction." It was great to hear from our wandering boy and we hope we will be notified if his trip materializes.
Speaking of our "foreign" contingent, we also received a letter from Bevo Beers who is still contentedly managing the affairs of the Compania Frutera De Sevilla in Colombia, South America. Every second year he gets up off his terraza (Bevo didn't make it quite clear whether that is a portion of his house or his anatomy) and heads for the U. S. A. This is the year! Bevo and his charming Senora plan to be around this fall and no doubt will be in attendance at all football games. Anyone wishing to get in touch with the visiting firemen may reach them at 156 Westminster Avenue, Arlington 74, Mass.
Bill Fawcett, another of our welcome summer correspondents, brought us right up-todate on the affairs of the Fawcett household. We suspect his literary effort was inspired by the fact that he didn't actually have to write, but could dictate to his daughter Sally Lou, who graduated last June from Edgewood Park Junior College. Sally Lou is now a medical secretary, and certainly her typing should satisfy the most fastidious of Back Bay physicians. Bill is still peddling payroll and accounting systems for Shaw-Walker, operatingout of the Boston office. He took this job some ten years ago as a temporary expedient, but as Bill says, either Shaw-Walker or Fawcett are stuck with something permanent. Seems as if it must be a case of a good product and a good man an unbeatable combination.
Odds and ends from Here and There: Edand Mary Winsor have announced the marriage of their son Ed to Jean Sherwood Fowler on August 15. Young Ed graduated from Dartmouth last June and is doing graduate work at Columbia this fall. Shep Patterson was made vice president of the Peoples First National Bank & Trust Company of Pittsburgh not so long ago. Shep started his banking career with the National City Bank in New York in 1929, and became affiliated with the Pittsburgh bank in 1943. Since then he has moved right up to his present position of responsibility. Bob Morgan, another prominent member of the banking fraternity, was elected President of the Boston Real Estate Board adding one more responsibility to his already impressive list. Larry Treat, our successful writer of mystery and adventure stories, has recently published a romantic novel, The Grassy Place. Larry has written several books and innumerable short stories, but we believe this is the first time that he has tried his hand at a romantic novel. May it be as successful as his popular whodunits. Well, that about takes care of things for the time being. We'll be around again next month and, in the meantime, we'll be lookingfor you in Hanover on the 18th. See you later.
Secretary, 328 Orchard PL., Ridgewood, N. J. Treasurer, 1312 Greenleaf Blvd., Elkhart, Ind
