1902

You all are certainly an uncommunicative crowd. When I do get a letter from someone he usually announces, "Nothing important has happened so I have nothing of interest to the class to report." Heck! Mighty few of us have anything important happen to us. What we are eager to have is your reaction to the small affairs of everyday life. Anyone can be pretty line and brave in the presence of big things. You remember the Marine who won a battle because he refused to run from the enemy. Well, he was the same fellow who lav in bed and swore when the baby cried at night and encouraged the little woman to do all the getting up. Not a likable person nor easy to live with. What we are curious to know about is whether or not you are an agreeable person to live with. So, send us some of the small things that come into your life and tell us how you react to them in deed and thought. Then we can come to really know you.

Just as a sample: when Roy Hatch writes I feel as if we had sat down and had a conversation together. There are others who give me the same warm, friendly feeling by their letters. These folks I really come to know though we rarely see each other. And, by the way, I finally sent to Roy my report on "This I believe." Of course that prompted another letter from Roy. Listen, why don't some of you other boys try thinking that thought through, then put it onto paper and send it to me? I'd be glad to swap conclusions with any or all of you. At any rate, we would come to know each other much better.

The College sent me "A Report to a Great Class," the report of the class of 1925. They are a good class. In total gifts and bequests to endowment and plant funds, they stand eleventh with $139,438. Of course I can grasp why this is such a good class if the secretary is a sample of the general membership. He went to school to your secretary who well remembers expounding to him the tremendous values of a Dartmouth education over those of, say, Harvard. Herb Talbot ever had a very tender spot in the heart of his old principal. I hope he reads this that he may know that that spot is still his.

Fellows, please bear in mind that it means much to our class agent that each man remain a permanent giver to the Alumni Fund. It does not make so much difference how much you give as that you give. Personally I am convinced that any man who does not rive till it hurts is giving very little. Whatever vow give comes off your taxable income, anyhow.

I should be pleased to learn how many of our class are graduates of the Hoskinorum Hall of Science. Herman Farwell tells me that he is. His diploma now lies in the archives of the College library. My own diploma is still in existence, I am sure. I shall try to look it up before our next reunion. I remember well the night that august group sent for me and I was conveyed nervously smiling to Sanborn Hall where a dignified faculty awaited me. I had been informed that there would be a somewhat vulgar delivery of some of the facts of life. I remember nothing of the kind. I was told nothing that could offend the mind of the most innocent of freshmen. Is it possible that those highly dignified and impressive gentlemen, Hoskins and Johnston, were only three years ahead of our class? If you were of that favored group write me- and "do it fast before you forget always provided you are still able to write.

A short time ago there came the College financial report. I wish X could sit down on my porch with a group of you and discuss it.

It has been a pleasure this winter to have Letty Goodell here at the small hotel near us. Of course you know she is the widow of our Bob. She and Bob spent many winters here while he was alive. I grieved when Bob died. Young Robert Goodell '34 is teaching at Williams. Son John, Princeton '39, is in the air force a major, I think.

You will have to admit that for one who gets no help from his classmates I have turned out quite a column.

If you have not read the i9°4 notes, do so and learn the interesting things that have come to Matt Bullock. A grand person, Matt.

Secretary, 210 Columbus Avenue Coronado Station New Smyrna Beach, Fla. Class Agent, 412 Garfield St., Pullman, Wash.