1932

It's Alumni Fund season again. In the March issue I tried to describe the effects I think Dartmouth has on those who go there. If you agreed with me, you have at least some reasons to being generous to the Fund. There are plenty of other reasons. Let's pool them and this year put 's2 in a class showing better results. At least one of you thought that my comments in the March issue might have been intended to provide a justification for the poor showing that past performances might lead us to expect in this year's drive and the 25th year's memorial gift. It was no such thing. What I said should show why we, who I thought had gained so much from our stay in Hanover, should help generously to make it possible for many to follow the same course and perhaps become equally creditable parts of their neighborhoods.

Plans are moving ahead for the Reunion that second weekend in June. I don't see how any of you could think of a nicer place to go at that particular time than Hanover. When you add the expectation that there will be scores of classmates and friends from the nearby classes in town at the same time, surely it's irresistible.

One of the activities at Class Reunions is the election of class officers for the ensuing five-year term. We make use of our Executive Committee as nominating committee, so send suggestions to any of them: Rushmore, Whitehair, Hazen, Tucker, Pierpont, Hubbard, Byram, Toothaker, Olmsted and Todd. Don't

try the easy way and suggest reelections. MaryChandler would like a rest from the presidential responsibilities. As for me, I can express my position no better than by saying that I shall not be a candidate for reelection. I have served my class long and, I think, impartially though articulately. I shall not accept a renomination. I do not feel it is my duty to

spend the next five years of Sundays at this typewriter." I might add that the only difference between my wife and Bess on this general subject is that the latter was prepared to make the concession of saying, "Of course, anything he says goes."

I had hoped to be able to include a lot of lively comments on what you think Dartmouth did for our class, but, aside from oral remarks that don't lend themselves to reproduction, I only received one letter. While I welcome it, I'm going to save it up in hopes there'll be more to add to it next month.

Mighty little news has appeared about our class these past four weeks. Howie Sargeant, having been confirmed by the Senate, was duly sworn in as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs. Mr. Acheson, officiating, and noticing that Mrs. Myrna Loy Sargeant was present, commented that, "It occurs to me that we're getting two assistant secretaries for the price of one." Both Howie and Myrna were recently cited for distinguished service to UNESCO by Fairleigh-Dickinson College.

Ernie Lanoue has been appointed district director in the Albany region of the New York State Mediation Board. Ernie has been in the labor mediation field in New York for many years. The area covered in his new position reaches from Poughkeepsie to Canada.... A number of papers carried the announcement of Bob Coltman's appointment as vice-president in charge of the trust department of the Philadelphia National Bank. He has been just one of the vice-presidents since 1946.

I promise to make up a full column again next month—and I mean "make up"—unless a few of you surprise me and fill it with news from you-all. Meanwhile, firm up your plans to go to Hanover in June and see once more why it's so worth while to give as much as you can to the Alumni Fund.

PORTRAIT PRESENTED TO DARTMOUTH: A painting of the late John McLane Clark '32, completed by Elmer W Greene Jr., Nantucket artist, and recently exhibited at the Portrait. Inc., Galleries in New York, is to be hung permanently at Dartmuth. The gift of friesds The portrait was commissioned as a remembered for his able editorship of "The Dartmouth" his enior year.

Secretary, 3909 North sth Street, Arlington, Va. Treasurer, 144 Brixton Rd„ Garden City, N. Y. Class Agent, 40 Meritoria Dr., East Williston, L. 1., N. Y