1937

Again we must begin with a note of sadness, all the more tragic coming in our reunion year. Al Jones passed away after a short illness in Syracuse, N. Y. Details will be found in the In Memoriam section.

One of the major assignments for the class, that of Class Memorial Fund Chairman, has just been accepted by Fran Fenn. This represents quite an undertaking on Fran's part, the more so if we are to keep up with the fast pace set by those classes holding their 25th reunions in recent years. For several years past each 25-year class has presented the college with gifts totaling or exceeding $100,000. This has become a very important source of new unrestricted endowment so necessary for Dartmouth in her struggle to provide a constant improvement in the quality of her education. While the annual Alumni Fund is used each year in a large part to help defray current expenses, the 25-year memorial gifts are added to endowment to provide continuing income through the years ahead.

Any effort to raise $ 100,000 from a large group of potential contributors is a major undertaking, but to raise such a fund from less than 600 potential givers will require careful planning and a great amount of devoted effort. Fran Fenn is well qualified to do both things well. Since undergraduate days he has been active in alumni affairs in his native Hartford area and served on our 1947 Reunion Committee and on our class executive committee prior to that. His great success in the insurance field (life member of the million dollar Round Table) is good testimony of the ability he brings to this job which he did not accept without thorough deliberation. But beyond his own efforts Fran will need the solid cooperation of all of us if his task is to be successfully completed. This is a long-term project and first he will need an organization, so if Fran contacts you bear in mind that he will need your assistance.

In the last issue we mention that Bill andNan Storck were (a) a new father and (b) a new mother, but word from the bird was delayed. Now we have it —Elizabeth Chapman arrived on November 23 at Bethesda Naval Hospital and Bill is back in the first tenor section again. Also, a bit overdue but fresh, in comes the announcement from Kim andElise Hall of a boy, David, born last July 25. Kim is working in Pasadena as a research engineer at the Caltech Jet Propulsion Lab (you ain't seen nothing there yet what'll compare with David when he's 7 years old).

New York's a big and busy place but they found time to print a picture in the NewYork Times of Mort Berkowitz and appended that he had just been appointed Eastern Advertising manager for Woman's Day, the A & P magazine. Formerly with the AmericanWeekly, Mort joined up with A & P in April 1951.

Prudential Insurance Co.'s home office in Newark has announced promotions, among which we find Fran Evans boosted to associate director of sickness and accident underwriting.

Any of us who are familiar with the city of Baltimore will be particularly interested to know that the Raleigh Haberdasher store at 1310 F St., NW, has been taken over by the family enterprises of Sid Lansburgh and Sid is the new President, apparently in addition to his other duties connected with the family real estate interests. No changes are planned and the store will continue in operation as here- to fore. Sid is also, by the way, a member of the Board of Trustees of Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Ed Casey was recently called in to be a special guest on a kids' quiz show between two Natick schools which was broadcast over Boston's WBZ. We note with pride that Ed was listed as coach of the undefeated Coolidge Junior High football team of Natick where he also teaches.

We have not heard much from Russ Tompkins and are pleased to quote a letter from him:

"For the past five years I've been the Staff Assistant for Industrial Relations for Socony's New England Division, however, starting January 26 I am going to Buffalo as the Industrial Relations advisor (in most places called manager) for our Lakes Division. It is a real opportunity for me and naturally I'm tickled to death over it as are Jeanne and Leslie. My work will be cut out for me for some time to come and it looks as though come June I won't be able to make Hanover. I understand there are several wearers-of-the-green in my new outfit - as a matter of fact, with my arrival we'll outnumber them all."

Best of luck to you, Russ, and hope you can spare the few necessary days in June even though it does not look like it now.

This department does not like to inject itself into these columns even though we sometimes have items at hand, but this story we feel shows a particular Dartmouth fellowship and what it meant to us. Seems last summer Kay, the two boys and I spent a pair of weeks on Lake Winnepausaukee, N. H. The day after our arrival we went to a farm owned by a former city friend to say hello and dig up a few worms for fishing. Shortly after arriving the kids were all out playing in the hayloft when one of theirs came rushing in, all tears, blurting out that our youngest guy had fallen out of the hay onto a concrete floor and was not moving. Net upshot was a concussion for sure and unknown internal injuries. Under doctor's telephoned orders we rushed him 20 miles to the very excellent Laconia Hospital where he underwent every conceivable exam but they could not give definite assurances until next day all of which left us hanging as we had no phone in our island camp some 12 miles away. So while waiting in town we wandered in on Tom Mclnlyre in his law offices and from then on things began to brighten. He and Myrt placed their home at our disposal and in general squared us away in a strange town with reassurances as to the attention our son would receive there. As it finally turned out our son was OK except he had to remain in the hospital for 48 hours and we did not have to stay as the state of emergency no longer existed. We were mighty grateful to have friends like the McIntyres standing by.

Our class is now in the process of putting out a new class directory and we want everyone's address up-to-date. There have been hundreds of changes since the last directory was published. We'd feel the effort was completely worthwhile if it served just one instance for someone else as it did for us last summer. It goes to press in March and we hope you're in it and up-to-date.

Nominations are now in order for our three Class Off cere, namely, Secretary, Treasurer and Class Agent, also for six members of the Executive Committee. The slate will be voted upon at our class meeting on Saturday morning of our Reunion, so if you have any suggestions please write to your secretary who will pass them along to the nominating committee.

REUNION DATES JUNE 19, 20, 21 EVERYBODY'S TALKING IT UP

Secretary, 10 Colby Rd., Wellesley 81, Mass. Treasurer, 17 High Street, Greenfield, Mass.