1933
The summer has came and went, wh-oo-sh, and we take pen in hand again (though it seems but a moment ago we laid it down) to fill you in on the activities and peregrinations of the brotherhood of 1933.
We were saddened to learn of the death at Key West on August 23 of Comdr. Earle C.Gordon Jr. of Hanover, and the sympathy of the Class goes out to his family.
Ernie Early '18, our faithful bloodhound, has sent along two articles by George N. Farrand, assistant treasurer of Young & Rubicam, Inc., appearing in the June and August issues of Advertising Agency and Advertising & Selling dealing with the financial management of advertising agencies and particularly with problems in client accounting and client billing. Recommended reading for anyone in the business.
The fortieth anniversary of the Alumni Fund was a smashing success, with a new record in dollars and alumni participation, $700,365 and 67.7% respectively. Princeton, which last year took the long-time alumni participation championship from Dartmouth, still holds the record in this department with 67.9%, but next year the loyal sons of Dartmouth will unzip their checkbooks in unprecedented numbers to snatch back this coveted honor. The achievement of '33, unfortunately, was not spectacular and did not come up to our fond hopes; 375 members of the Class, somewhat less than last year, gave $11,861 toward a greater Dartmouth. This amounted to 81% of our $14,700 quota. We stood 57th among the classes of the College in participation and 55th in percentage of quota raised. A little more push on our part in the participation department might have enabled the Fund to nose out the Princetons, for only sixty more alumni gifts out of 16,500 would have done the job. It is readily understandable that circumstances arise from time to time which make it impossible for each of us to give what we would like to give, but it is extremely important at such times that each of us rededicate his loyalty to Dartmouth in a tangible way, even though it must be but a token gift. Through the years the opportunity will come to each of us to translate these tokens of loyalty into substantial amounts. The habit of Alumni Fund giving is one of the priceless assets of the College and one on which the future greatness of Dartmouth depends.
In the vital statistics department, congratulations are in order for Dave and Mary Hatch who had a daughter out Syracuse way.
Mr. and Airs. Richard Bee and son, who now live at Upland Drive, Greenwich, Conn., were July visitors at the Inn, as was also HalMackey. Fran Harrington, from down Worcester way, stopped at the Inn in August with wife and sons.
August address changes show George Flagg at 429 Waverly Rd., N. Andover, Mass.; Dave Flynn at 166 Ossining Rd., Pleasantville, N. Y.; HardingMacdona with Life magazine in advertising sales, Hanna Bldg. Annex, c/o Time, Inc., 13600 Ardoon Rd., Shaker Heights 20, Ohio; George Mundt at Oak Beach, Babylon, N. Y.; Sven B. Funander managing a shiny brand new modern functional astrodome Grant store in Auburn, N. Y., and living at 59 Franklin St. there; Don Phinney, Morrison-Knudsen Co., Inc., 122 E. 42nd St., New York 17; John Woodman. Box 48, Meadowbrook, Pa.; and Dr. Bob Swinehart at 5504 Roland Ave., Baltimore 10.
The political pot starts to boil during the summer, and evidence of this is found in a report of the Providence Journal of July 30 stating that Frederick C. Jackson of 28 Oak Hill Road, Greenwood, R. I., the publicity and promotion manager for the Grinnell Co., is the candidate of the seventh ward Republicans committee for election to the Warwick school board; and a report from the Worcester Telegram of July 20 stating that StantonH. Whitman of 17 Stoneleigh Road with law offices at 340 Main St. has announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for register of probate. Undoubtedly, other political aspirants from the Class in all corners of these United States have been attending clambakes and assiduously cultivating the electorate during August. All such activities, with news of primary and general election victories and defeats, should be reported promptly to this column in order that the information may be passed on to you and early trends detected. Dartmouth men are spread thinly over the nation, but our heritage and tradition of service to the community makes us a potent force.
Next month we hope to be better organized to present to you a cogent account of interesting activities and bits of news and gossip from here and there, but this month we are quite disorganized, as witness the fact that this column was started this morning in Wellesley, Mass.; is being finished this evening in southern Ontario on the shores of Lake Erie; our notes are at the office, and we are already a day late for the editor's deadline. Better knock off now before C.E.W. arrives by Western Union demanding bluntly to know whether or not we're still working for him and you.
See you in the deep fall.
Secretary, 217 Goundry Street, North Tonawanda, N. Y.
Treasurer, Quechee, Vt.
Memorial Fund Chairman, 44 Maple St., Dover, N. H.
