1925

A major factor in the strength of the Class was evident during the Columbia game weekend, November 5, 6, and 7, the occasion for the annual meeting of the executive committee and informal fall reunion. This was the appearance of a number of men not seen at class gatherings in recent years, but obviously keenly interested and anxious to participate. It is the fact of its activities being so broadly based throughout its membership that has made 1925 so effective in its service to the College. The officers and the executive committee find their support not in a small clique but in a group some 400 strong, and from this have come vigor and purpose.

At the meeting, which is, of course, open to all members of the Class, there were present: Chairman Jack Davis, Class Agent Ford Whelden, Treasurer Ed Roessler, and your secretary, along with Ross Beatty, Ed Bums,George Cassels-Smith, Lane Goss, Mart Huberth, Bill Jenkins, Hens Jones, Bob McKennan, Ed Pease, Stan Smith, Ham Thayer, and George Zahm. A fairly comprehensive order of business was covered, a few important points of which are worth mention. The treasurer's report was accepted by the Committee and will be published in the Roundup. In his report as Class Agent, Ford reviewed the accomplishments by which 1925 has already distinguished itself, and described briefly his plans for the next campaign; with the assistance of an augmented group of assistant agents (and not one man who was asked to serve declined) he hopes to bolster one of the weaker spots in our record, namely participation.

Announcing his and Pete Haffenreffer's retirement as co-chairmen of the Scholarship Fund, Jack Davis reported that the fund now stood at about $22,000, with a present goal of $30,000, which will maintain one student always on a 1925 scholarship. Nothing the Class has done can bring it more pride and satisfaction than this, and a vote of thanks was offered to Jack and Pete for stimulating and sustaining the effort thus far. Once again, an anonymous classmate whose anonymity is fading but who prefers still not to have his name published will match the next $2500 raised from the Class at large.

As Bequest Chairman, Ford reported that this concept, originated in the Class of 1925 (by Ford himself, incidentally), seems now to be opening up one of the most encouraging sources of future revenue for Dartmouth. There is no active campaign and no aggressive solicitation. It is well understood that among men of our age group family obligations are still heavy and estates still being built up. But a good start has been made, and as the years pass, further progress may be expected. Meanwhile, the College continues to provide information on philanthropic estate-planning for those who may be interested. Ford suggested that perhaps he should not be continued as Bequest Chairman while serving also as Class Agent, but this notion was promptly voted down.

Except for the choice of a Class Agent, certain class offices which are appointive rather than elective were not filled at the reunion meeting in June. With the approval of the committee, the following appointments were made by the chairman, the term of service being until the next reunion: Class Agent and Bequest Chairman, Ford Whelden; Newsletter Editor, your secretary; Scholarship Fund Chairman, Ed Burns; Reunion Committee Chairman, Frank Wallis; Resolutions Committee Chairman, Bob McKennan.

Class dues for next year were set at $6, the same as this year's. An appropriation of $500 from the Class Treasury was made for the Scholarship Fund. Ed Pease, treasurer of the reunion committee, reported a surplus of something over $500 from last June's festivities, and suggested that this be held to be applied against the expenses of the next reunion in order to keep the individual tax as low as possible. There was some discussion of this but no action was taken; the money will be held in the Class Treasury pending further consideration, and the members of the executive committee will be glad to hear the opinions of their classmates regarding its use. It will be recalled that a somewhat larger surplus in 1950 was made the beginning of the Scholarship Fund.

November 6 was Prexy Hopkins' 77th birthday, and the following resolution" was adopted and sent to him:

RESOLVED: that the members of the Class of 1925, assembled here in Hanover to renew once more the pledge of fellowship and of service to Dartmouth, extend their affectionate greetings to President-Emeritus Ernest Martin Hopkins on the occasion of his 77th birthday, in grateful recognition of his share in that fellowship and his inspiring example in service.

The final, and possibly the most interesting and vital, discussion of the evening arose out of a report on the recent activities of the Alumni Council by Jack Davis, who is a member of that body. One of Dartmouth's pressing problems in the near future will be the replacing of a large group of faculty members who were appointed during the Twenties, and who are now approaching retirement all at once. The seeking out of new talent points up the inadequacy of present faculty salaries as compared with those elsewhere available to the first-class men the College needs. Teaching will probably never be a moneymaking profession (that seems a safe understatement) but it is wrong, and dangerous to the future of the College, to expect its teachers to accept sacrifices in their standards of living and the upbringing and education of their children. Comment along these lines was brisk and spontaneous among those present, and it was the sense of the meeting that the situation was of sufficient urgency and importance to require some immediate remedy as well as an ultimate long-term cure. Accordingly, the following resolution was drawn and unanimously approved.

BE IT RESOLVED: by the Executive Committee of the Class of 1925 that it offer, on behalf of the Class, all encouragement and support to its Chairman, John H. Davis, Jr., in his efforts, as a member of the Alumni Council, to effect a prompt improvement in faculty remuneration by the direct allocation of monies raised in connection with the Alumni Fund.

But the weekend was not all work and solemn discussion. Glorious weather, a good although not violently exciting football game, and the class officers' cocktail party at the Norwich Inn after the game were the background for what turned out to have been one of the best so far of these autumn gatherings. A number of those who couldn't get to the meeting turned up the next day at the game or the party, or both, including (in no particular order) Kay and Red Martin, Howelland Dick Colton, Jamie Jameson, Mott Garlock, Gordie Marvel, Gordie Wygant, Kay andBen Bowden, El and Frank Wallis, Bill Calvert, Parker Merrow, Dot and Larry Leavitt, and Vel and Rad Tanzer. Of those already listed as having been at the meeting, a number were lucky enough to have their wives with them, and these included Evelyn Cassels-Smith, Doris Huberth, Elbra Davis, Susan Roessler, Fran Burns, and Emily Talbot. Gertie Whelden and Kay McKennan were delightful hostesses as usual. There may have been others whom your secretary missed, and if so he apologizes. It's hard to take notes with a drink in one hand and a pretzel in the other.

Prexy Hopkins' birthday lent a special radiance to the whole weekend, and on Sunday night, a host of his friends, representing fifty years of Dartmouth life, gathered at dinner to do him honor. It is wonderful to think of the admiration and love this man has gathered to himself in a lifetime, whose voice was for so many years the veritable voice of Dartmouth, expressing clearly and warmly all that the College is and hopes to be. Now, in his retirement, his stature as an educator continues to grow, and we see his bold and often original views of the purposes of the liberal arts college becoming now the fundamental premises upon which such colleges operate. But transcending his formal accomplishment is the sweet sane humanity of the man himself, by virtue of which a great educator becomes, which is more important, a beloved teacher.

7925 Fund Contributors

384 Gifts (Participation Index 91) Total Gifts: $23,865.87 (125% of objective) MILTON K. EMERSON, Class Agent

Abel, Curtis A. Adams, James B., Jr. Akin, Frank J. Aldrich, Richard H. Allen, Ford W. Allen, Joseph E. Ames, David M. Amidon, George H. Anderson, James A. Antrim, Joel P. Archibald, H. Douglas Babcock, Charles W. Bankart, Charles L. Barker, William G. Barnett, Sherman R. Barnfather, Roland C. Barrett, Ford S., Jr. Barrett, Thomas F. Batchelder, Sydney H. Bates, Harold N. Baumann, Walter R. Beacham, Harold R. Beatty, Ross W. Becker, Walter W. Bickford, C. Allen Bishop, Robert H. Bjorkman, Henry B. Blake, Edgar B. Blodgett, Clarence E. Blodgett, Frederick N. Boies, William G. Booth, Edwin R. Borwell, Robert C. Bowden, Benjamin H. Brace, Lloyd DeW. Brick, Francis A., Jr. Bricknell, Clifton A. Bridenbaugh, Carl Brown, Francis Brown, Francis V. Brown, J. Clifford Brown, Winston B. Brownell, John E. Brundage, Paul B. Bryant, William J. Bugbee, Justin C. Bugbee, Nathan D. Bunting, William B. Burgess, Lee P. Burner, David M. Burns, Edward E. Calkins, Frank J., Jr. Callis, Eugene M. Calvert, William C. Campbell, Whitney Canfield, Norton Canfield, Robert E. Carey, Ralph F. Carpenter, Thomas P. Carter, William R. Cassels-Smith, George R. Chamberlain, G. N., Jr. Chamberlain, S. G. Channin, Nathaniel Chapman, M. W. Chase, Stephen, Jr. Childs, Edward B. Childs, Walter S. Chipman, Norris B. Churchill, Gordon L. Clark, Wilfred Clarke, Harry A. Clifton, Charles E., Jr. Clough, Henry P. Collins, Webster E. Colton, Richard C. Colwell, Nathan P. Conrad, Horton Coykendall, K. Philip Crawford, Francis Crawford, Henry B. Curry, James R. Davis, John H., Jr. Davis, Lincoln K. Deisroth, Paul B. Dewing, Arthur Disque, Brice, Jr. Dodd, Charles W. Dodez, Edward C. Duffin, Dan Durgin, Elmer S. Dwinell, Ralph B. Eaton, Chester W. Edgerly,, Stuart Edson, Andrew W. Edwards, Foster H. Elder, Harold M. Elmquist, Carl V. Emerson, Mark F. Emerson, Maxwell Emerson, Milton K. Fitch, Charles P. Fitzgerald, Clifford L. Fleet, Henry L. Fleming, David R. Flint, Charles H. Flynn, J. Carroll Foss, Bradbury P. Foster, Andrew B. Foster, H. Schuyler, Jr. Frenkel, Lester A. Friedmann, Karl Frost, Thurston D. Garlock, Mott A. Garrod, John E. Gaskill, Ralph H. Geisel, Theodor S. Gilbert, Blair B. Gleason, Willard Mcl. Goas, Lewis O. Goding, Stowell C. Goodman, Brud Goss, C. Lane Gould, Gerald F. Gratz, Richard "A. Graydon, Charles W. Green, George D. Greenebaum, Gerald Griffin, Edwin H. Griffin, William J., Jr. Guernsey, Raymond V. Gunnison, John V. Gutterman, Irwin S. Haffenreffer, R. F., 3rd Haman, Albert L., Jr. Hamilton, John D. Hardy, Robert C. Hart, Milton N. Harvey, John Haywood, Charles F. Hewitt, Edward C. Hexter, Paul L. Heydt, Richard G. Higgins, Thomas J., Jr. Hill, Arthur C. C., Jr. Hill, Kenneth B. Hinckley, Charles M. Holden, Richard K. Hollenbeck, A. D. Hommeyer, Paul G. Honeyman, Ronald J. Hoover, Judson R., Jr. Horton, Albert C. Howe, Gardner W. Howe, James R., 3rd Huberth, Martin F., Jr. Hunt, Donald C. Jacobson, Berger E. Jameson, Charles R. Jamison, Lee B. Jarnow, Alfred A. Jenkins, William W. Jerman, Paul Johnson, Derrol R. Johnson, Henry R., Jr. Johnson, Roger D. Johnston, Jack H. Jones, Berkeley F. Jones, Henson L. Jones, Matthew C. Jones, Roderick B. Jones, Wendell C. Jordan, Wallace S. Joslyn, George R. Kelsey, Preston H. Kennedy, Frank T. Kilby, Donald S. Kimball, Louis S. King, Karl D., Jr. King, Lester A. King, Lowell S. Kingman, Bradford M. Kirouac, Elpheage V. Koehler, Keith Kruse, Frederic H. Kurtz, Cornelius Laing, Alexander K. Lanphear, Roy H. Large, Judson Larrabee, Leonard P. Larson, Leonard W. Lauman, William M. Learnard, Everett F. Leavitt, Joseph F. Leavitt, Laurence G. Leffingwell, Henry D. Levison, Bernard L. Lipsohn, Karl P. Livermore, John W. Lowry, Scott K. Luten, Granville H. Lyman, Donald A. Lyman, Elliott B. Lyon, George R. Lyons, Barrett McCleery, James W. MacCready, Robert A. McDonough, Kenneth P. McGaughan, Terrence F. McHenry, Harold A. McKennan, Robert A. McKown, Lyle S. McLaughlin, Willard T. MacMillan, Charles W. McNulty, William J. Mahool, Barry Manning, Alan M. Manning, Bernard J., Jr. Marshall, Lawrence C. Martin, James O. Martin, Norman W. Marvel, Gordon S. Mason, Warwood E. Matteson, Hobert V. Matthews, Daniel J. Medeiros, Joseph F., Jr. Megee, Howard W. Meginnity, Robert Merrow, Parker McL. Mickelson, Howard Milnor, Sidney D. Misch, Robert J. Montgomery, K. F. Montgomery, K. M. Moore, Charles F., Jr. Moore, Don W. Moore, George B. Morrison, C. E., Jr. Mosher, Lionel M. Murphy, Joseph J. Myers, Robert G. Neilson, Charlesworth K. Newman, G. W., Jr. Newton, Marshall Norris, John L. Nugent, Kenneth S. Nute, Paul B. Nye, Richard S. Ober, Edwin H. O'Connell, Philip C. Orchard, Richard S. Osgood, Franklin T. Packard, John S. Palmer, Robert J. Parker, Kenneth R. Patterson, M. Wilder Peabody, Millard S. Pearl, Ross E. Pearson, Paul F. Pease, Edwin B. Penney, Cyril F. Perkins, Albert R. Perkins, Harold A. Per-Lee, Jack H. Peterson, Charles A., Jr. Petrequin, Edouard J. Phillips, Bernerd D. Pierce, Robert W. Pike, Robert E. Poorvu, Sumner L. Prescott, Winston N. Price, Lincoln C. Pugh, William Quint, Edward D. Reading, Robert A. Reddy, Anthony W. Reed, Paul J. Reeder, John F. Reeves, Mart W. Rhoades, Robert C. Rhodes, Cooper B. Rice, Herbert LeR. Rice, Winthrop H. Richards, Elmer E. Richardson, Laurence E. Rider, Harold E. Roberts, Porter Robinson, Clifton F. Robinson, Sanford Robison, John G. Roche, John W. Roessler, Edward W. Rogers, Irving E. Rogers, Jas. G., 2nd Russell, Hiram S. Russell, William J. Sailer, Henry C. Sanborn, John W. Saunders, Robert C. Sawyer, Robert C. Sawyer, Walter F., Jr. Schroedel, Howard A. Scott, George L. Scott, Harry G. Sharp, Robert L. Shea, Francis M. Shepard, William M. Shineman, Ralph E. Simms, William H. Simonds, Robert T. Slater, Drennan J. Sleigh, William B., Jr. Smith, Arthur R., Jr. Smith, Bradford, Jr. Smith, Carl W. Smith, Dudley T. Smith,. Frederick W. Smith, James V. Smith, Norman F. Smith, Reynolds W. Smith, Robert W., Jr. Smith, Stanton K. Snyder, Robert A. Sprague, George E. Spring, Arthur L. Spring, John D. Statzell, Harlan P., Jr. Stebbins, C. Rowland Stephenson, Roger F. Stevens, George T., Jr. Stevens, Harold E. Strickland, Norman W. Sullivan, J. Kenneth Sweet, Harold C. Taft, W. Halsted Talbot, Herbert S. Tagney, John G. Tanzer, Radford C. Taylor, B. Clinton Thayer, Hamilton W. Thompson, Ralph Thompson, Ralph D. Thompson, William A. Tilton, Homer S. Tinker, Harry A. Tissot, Francis E. Tobey, Newton H. Tompkins, G. Patchin Torrens, Robert W. Tourtellot, Gair, Jr. Tower, Walter T. Tucker, Ralph H. Udall, Ralph O. Van Orman, Francis VomLehn, Walter R. Wakefield, Laurie C. Walker, Channing S. Wallis, Frank B. Walls, James H. Walter, Paul B. Walton, Joseph R., Jr. Waring, Ellis A. Warner, J. Eliot Warren, Robert O. Y. Washburn, Carl T. Washburn, Warner M. Watson, John I. Webster, Fred W. Weinig, Robert F. Welch, Laurence A. Wellman, Howard D. Werner, Tyrrell H. Werntz, Orrin B. Westfall, Oliver A., Jr. Weston, Frederick L. Wheeler, Maynard C. Whelden, Ford H. Whitbeck, John McN. White, Llewellyn P. Whitman, John T. Whitney, Roland A. Whittemore, Dolloff Williams, Neil Williamson, Percy E., Jr. Wilson, Alva S. Wilson, Charles M. Winger, George J. Winn, James J. Wright. Stuart P. Wyckoff, Rodgers L. Wygant, Gordon J. Yates, Edwin L. Zahm, George G.

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Treasurer, R.D., Old Mill Rd., Chester, N. J.

Bequest Chairman,