1927
I am very happy to be able to report that as of January 22 the 1927 Class Memorial Fund stood at a total of a little over 100,000, with a couple of pledges still to come in. This is an achievement of which the Class should well be proud, and having had nothing to do with raising it, I feel free in offering my heartiest congratulations to Gus Cummings and his hard-working team, and to all of the hundreds of you who did their share in making it possible for the Class to offer this great gift to the College. This is in keeping with the record that our Class has made ever since graduation, and for the benefit of those of you who may not have the opportunity to keep up to date on the figures, 1927 stands ninth among all the classes in total amount given to the College, being headed, among the recent classes, by only 1926, 1925 and 1923.
Now that our Memorial Fund is completed, our next big job is to take our place in the Bequest Program of the College, and it gives me a great deal of pleasure to be able to announce that Lee Greenebaum has agreed to accept appointment as Chairman of the Class Bequest Committee. As you all doubtless know, the Bequest Program is designed as a long-term effort to try to show to all Dartmouth men the importance of making some provision for Dartmouth in our wills, or through insurance arrangements. There will be no pressure on anyone, but in the months to come you will doubtless be hearing from Lee in much more detail about this program. The chairmanship of this Committee represents a great service to the Class and to the College, and I know that Lee can count on the cooperation of the Class in this work.
I had the good fortune to have the dates of the Class dinner in New York and a business trip which I had to make to the same place coincide, so I was able to be present at a very interesting meeting at the Dartmouth Club of January 22. There were about 25 of us present, and I believe that the fact that I completely forgot to make any kind of a list of those present is as good testimony as any to the fact that a good time and an interesting discussion were enjoyed by all. I won't make an attempt to list those present, except to say that we were all delighted to see VernWhitney, from Walla Walla, Wash., whom none of us had seen for a great many years, and who looked exactly the same as he did in Hanover 26 years ago; and to record the fact that Urb Lauber was in attendance, as he always was at New York Class dinners, in the finest of health and spirits, giving no hint of the tragic death that was to overtake him only a little over a week later.
On December 29, Manny Benson was named Dean of the Philadelphia Museum School of Art. After graduation from Dartmouth, Manny received his master's degree from Columbia, and his early career was devoted to writing in the field of the arts. He contributed to magazines and newspapers, and became associate editor of the Magazine of Art in 1935. He is also the author of a book on the artist John Marin. He went to the museum in 1937 and began a program which has given the museum the world's largest library of color slides on the subject of art. Prior to this latest promotion, he was chief of the division of education.
Ken Herwig, who has been an assistant county attorney in Tulsa, Okla., is now associated with Elmore A. Page in private practice. Ken previously was secretary-treasurer of the Norbla Oil Co., and served as a law instructor at the Oklahoma School of Accountancy. For six years he has been an instructor in Dale Carnegie's course on "How to Win Friends and Influence People," and has the distinction of having conducted more classes than anyone except Carnegie himself.
Charlie Gibson, on January 18, was elected a director of the First National Bank of Greenfield, N. C.
Steve Osborn is claiming the distinction of being the first 1927 grandparent, as the result of his son Merritt '50, having become a father of a baby boy and a potential third generation Dartmouth man in November. Will those who dispute Steve's claim to this honor please step forward? Steve says that he has sold part of his interest in Economics Laboratory (makers of Soilax and Soil-Off, among other things), resigned as Vice President though remaining as director, and is now operating a little better than a thousand acres of farm land, where he is running 450 head of Herfords plus a great many hogs. He says that some of his friends think that he has a hole in his head, but that it's fun. Having watched the prices of beef and hogs with a good deal of interest over the past few months, I wish Steve a lot of luck.
From the Chicago Tribune comes an item concerning the debut party given by Sikes andHelen Hardy for their daughter Cynthia following a concert by the Yale Glee Club, to which they invited the 57 members of the Glee Club en masse.
On January 26, Paul Hannah was the guest speaker at the Newton, (Mass.) Rotary Club, of which Rog Salinger is a member. His subject was "Industrial Conditions in Massachusetts." Paul is a member of the tax committee of the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, an organization which is doing all that it can to better the industrial climate in that state, where taxes, social legislation and transportation costs are putting local industry at a disadvantage compared to most other sections of the country.
Slew Schackne and wife Julie paid a flying visit to Toledo early in January, both looking very fit and tanned after some months in Aruba, Netherlands West Indies. Stew promised me that he would be at the New York dinner a few nights later, but something must have come up to prevent it. He admitted that life in the West Indies appealed to him very much, and allowed as to how it wouldn't take much to turn him into a beachcomber.
Visitors at the Hanover Inn during January included Howie Mullin, Charlie Bartlett and Gus and Madge Cummings, in town for the meeting of the Alumni Council, and Mr. andMrs. Rufus Choate.
New addresses since last month:
Arthur A. Armstrong, 458 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, Calif.; John F. Carey, 618 Cottage Grove Ave., Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Joshua A. Davis, Blair, Rollins and Cos., 44 Wall St., New York 5, N. Y.; Wilbur C. Munnecke, Chicago Sun Times, 211 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, Ill.; Curtis WrightJr., Station A., Trenton, N. J.; Harold E. Koerner, 20 N. Fitzhugh St., Rochester, N. Y.; Paul V.Staab, S.J., Marquette University, 1131 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, Wis.
Secretary, Pine Hill Farm, West River Rd., Perrysburg, Ohio Treasurer, Box 1927, Pittsburgh 30, Pa.
