1927

The high spot of the past month for your secretary and wife was a visit to Hanover the weekend of the Colgate game. On arriving at the Inn, I was pleased to see the name of BobPage posted on the board, but my excitement was changed to disappointment when I learned that Bob had already left, and they had neglected to take his name down. The next morning I ran into Helen Hardy, who had just arrived with Sykes, in town for a meeting of the Athletic Council. We had a couple of short visits with the Hardys, all too short, as Sykes was tied up with his meetings, and the meetings of the Alumni Fund Committee were taking up most of my time. That evening I was very pleased to run into JohnGreener, in Hanover to spend the weekend with his son Alan, who is a member of the freshman class.

We had a very enjoyable visit on Sunday afternoon with Bob and Peg Funkhouser, in their lovely home on Dana Road. Bob was burning leaves when we arrived, making the most of one of the first really nice Sunday afternoons that they have had in Hanover this fall. During the course of our conversation, Bob mentioned that Al Pulsifer had been in Hanover a couple of days before, visiting his son Allen, who is also a member of the freshman class. It was disappointing to have missed him, particularly as I haven't seen him since graduation, but the amazing sequel to all this is that, as Sue and I were driving home we stopped in Johnstown, N. Y., for lunch, and as we were waiting to be served there was a tap on my shoulder, someone asked if I wasn't Coggy Broer, and I looked up to see Al Pulsifer standing beside me. Al looked the same as ever, except for a little grey hair, and a few more pounds, which are very becoming, and if I had had my wits about me I wouldn't have been as surprised as I was, as I should have realized that I was in his home town, but even so, the odds on our picking the same place to have our lunch must have been pretty high.

Saturday was a typical New England fall day. It was warm and sunny, with enough clouds in the sky to make you realize that summer was about over, and colder weather wasn't too far ahead. Everyone expected Colgate to romp over Dartmouth, and when the Big Green scored in the first four and a half minutes, with most of the yardage gained on the ground, we all thought that we might be in for one of those wonderful reversals of the pre-game dope. However, Dartmouth didn't have quite enough strength to keep this up through the full sixty minutes, and, as you know, the final score found us on the short end by six points. I don't believe that any of the newspapers gave sufficient credit to Beagle, who completed an amazing 24 out of 36 passes, a record which I can't ever remember having been equalled.

There are eleven sons of the Class of 1927 in the freshman class this year, as follows: Clayton B. Freeman, Alan L. Greener, Murray W. Heifer, William M. S. Prescott, Allen H. Pulsifer, Ro.bert E. Rodormer, John M. Ryan, Joseph J. Slotnik, Lee A. Wesselmann, James R. Willing, and John H. Wolf Jr. Added to those in the upper classes, they make a total delegation of 38 sons of 1927 men in college this year.

I'm sure that Les will beat me into print on the news of the two class gatherings during the past month, but it seems to me that they are important enough to bear repetition. There was a class picnic before the Harvard game, attended by Les Battin, Doane, Marie, and Louis Arnold, Charlie, Barbara, and Gus Bartlett, Andy and Dodo Rankin, Meek, Jeannie, Margery, and Amy Slotnik, Bob and Peg Williamson, Bill, Kathryn, Bill Jr., and Jack Prescott, Phil and Madeline Fowler, Bill, Midge, and Louis Elliott, Rog and Marion Bury and Ken and Catherine Ballantyne, up for the game from New York. These preHarvard game picnics are getting to be a regular annual affair, and while the attendance is still below what it should be, it is growing, and in a few years they should afford an opportunity for all of the members of the Class who can possibly attend the game to get together.

The New York clan met for dinner at the Dartmouth Club on the evening of October 27, prior to the Yale game. This was, as usual, a stag affair, and there were 21 members of the Class present, not including Ted Girault who was in the club at the time, but couldn't attend the dinner as he was tied up with an interviewing committee meeting. Those who were there included: Tom Gillespie, Bunny Smith, Ken Murray, Seth Besse, Ros Nichols, Reg Vincent, Thomas Hession, Joe Russakoff, Jack Thees, Bob Stevens, Charlie Fleisher, Joe Creamer, Guy Bostwick, Orie Herwitz, Ed Frey, Stu Ensinger, Hank Bayles, Fred Page, John Shaw, Sam Wormser and Vern Whitney, who easily won the long-distance cup, having come from Walla Walla, Wash.

These New York dinners are always a lot of fun, and invariably end up in a very lively discussion on some phase of college activity. A year ago the discussion was on the athletic situation, and as a result we upset Yale a few days later by the score of 32 to o. This year they concentrated on the attitudes of the graduates of Ivy League colleges in general, and their delusions of grandeur upon graduation, particularly as to their value to their employers when they first start to work. Inasmuch as we lost to Yale the next Saturday, perhaps they had better go back to discussing the football situation next year. Sam Wormser has been spark-plugging these dinners, and we should all be grateful to him for the job that he has done. The next one will be held either on February 10 or early in April.

This is the issue of the MAGAZINE which deals primarily with the results of the Alumni Fund. You have all had Howie's report on our performance, and you can find all the details in the complete report elsewhere in this issue. However, I think that there are a few things that should be said here. For the first time in history, the Class of 1937 exceeded $20,000, which seems to me to represent some sort of milepost in our record as Dartmouth alumni. Our Century Club is now up to 61 members. However, in spite of the herculean efforts of Howie Mullin and his fine crew of Agents, aided in no small measure by Les Battin's great job on the Speak, which increased our number of contributors by 32, we are still below the college average in participation. This means only one thing - those of you whose names aren't on the appended list are going to have to do something about getting them there. There are too few carrying the load.

Howie has asked me to pass this message on to all of you: "I don't know when I have had so much fun on a job. The work was terrific but the satisfaction in personal notes received more than compensated. Let me use this channel to thank you all who contributed towards the biggest year in class history, and to express the hope that you who were about to but didn't will be with us next year.

"A very special bouquet to New England, where Les Battin writes the best poop-sheet in the Fund history, and Williamson, Batchelder, et al swung like the champions they are. Rog Bury and Sykes Hardy were close on their heels. And special accolade to all you who labored hard as Class Agents."

1927 Fund Contributors

345 Gifts (Participation Index 83) Total Gifts: $20,340.84 (121% of objective) HOWARD J. MULLIN, Class Agent

Abbott, "William R., Jr. Allen, Charles G., Jr. Allis, Jairus S. H. Amann, M. Frank Andersen, Kenneth B. Andrews, John G., Jr. Anglem, Thomas J. Armstrong, Arthur A. Arnold, Doane Askew, J. Dean Auer, Frederick M. Auer, Hildreth Charles P., Jr. Baker, H. Edward Ballantyne, Kenneth C. Barde, Bernard L. Bartlett, Charles W. Batchelder, Edgar M. Battin, Leslie B. Bayles, Henry L. Bell, Bennett D. Benson, Harry N. Berry, Ledlie H. Besse, Seth J., Jr. Beyer, Lewis W., Jr. Birch, Robert W. Blanchard, Royal I. Bliss, Albert C. Bliss, Robert W. Bonald W. Bonsai, Dudley B. Bostwick, Guy B. Bradley, Clinton S., Jr. B ram an, Roger P. Brewster, Charles T. Brickett, Gerald S. Broer, Carleton G. Browning, William H. Bruguiere, Francis J. Brush, Merle E. Burgert, Woodward Burnett, James R., Jr. Burnham, Donald C. Bury, Roger M. Buschmann, August Butterfield, Warren H. Byrne, Albert H. Camph, Howard W. Carroll, Charles A. Carter, Richard P. Carver, Frederick E. Cavis, Morton H. Chabot, Alfred T. Chandler, James K. Chapman, William D. Choate, Rufus ] Choukas, Michael E. Cleaveland, Stuart W. Cleaves, Marshall L. Clokey, Frank C. Cloran, Francis B. Cohen, Abraham Colby, I. Gordon, Jr. Cook, Spencer S. Copeland, Henry N. Copeland, Mark A. Corliss, Philip G. Cotton, Merton L. Coulter, Francis L. Crane, William B., Jr. Creamer, Joseph M. Cuilen, William W. Cummings, Harry B. Cusack, William C. Daley, Carroll F. Davenport, William H. Davis, Jonathan Davis, Joshua A. Davis, Thurlow W. Delmarle, John M. DeWolf, Lewis F., Jr. Dey, Harrison S. Dowe, Neal R. Doyle, Justin J. Dreher, Leßoy H. Dreyer, Ernst H. Duncan, Laurence I. Dunn, L. Arthur C. Dwyer, Edward M. Dwyer, Harry L. Edmonds, George C. Elliott, William P. Ensinger, Stuart M. Fellingham, Frederick C. Field, Charles N. Flannery, Roy L. Folkers, Kern E. Forgie, James R. Fossum, Niels B. Fowler, Edwin H. Fowler, Philip Fox, Richard Bowers Fox, Richard Bradley Freeman, W. Brownell French, Philip R., Jr. Friede, George W. Fry, S. Edwin Fryberger, H. B., Jr. Fryberger, William B. Fuller, Bradley Funkhouser, Robert D. Gardner, Donald W. Garfield, Owen R. George, Frank E. Gibson, Charles A. Gilboy, Robert C. Gillespie, Thomas V. Gintzler, Joseph H. Girault, Theodore A. Gore, Lionel C. Gray, Houston Greenebaum, Leon C. Greener, John H. Gruver, Elbert A., Jr. Gustin, Bertram P. Guyer, Reynolds Guyot, Roscoe E. Hale, Henry F. Hall, Richard D.1 Ham, Thomas H. Hannaford, Glenn L. Hannah, Paul F. Hansen, Herbert W. Hardin, Joseph L., Jr. Hardy, Charles L. Harvey, Rolfe M. Haynes, Charles H.2 Hazelton, Robert C. Head, William B., Jr. Heap, Hargreaves, Jr. Heifer, Martin A. Herwitz, Oren C. Hession, Thomas A. Hitchcock, Ethan W. Hodell, George T. Hoge, William S., 3rd Holbrook, Raymond W.3 Holden, Frederick P. Hollands, W. G., Jr. Holleran, John H. Hope, Gordon R. Horton, H. Reginald Hough, John N. House, Albert V., Jr. Howe* Herbert A. Howell, George E. Howes, Roland L. Howland, Winston D. Hunt, Philip B., Jr. Huntley, Charles S. Ingham, Kermit W. Ingham, Van Wie Jackson, Frederick Jacob, Edward H., Jr. Jamieson, William C. Jennette, Daniel E. Johnson, Edmund R. Jones, Harvey P. Jones, John F. Joslyn, Merritt L. Keleher, Arthur B. Kelly, Joseph N. Kennedy, Thomas G. Kennedy, Wilbur G. Ketz, Kilmarx, Leslie F. King, William C., Jr. Kinne, Farrington B. Kinney, Donald M. Knapp, Edwin M. Koerner, Harold E. Koles, George S. Kortlucke, F. F., Jr. Krogstad, Earl E. Lacoss, Donald A. Lagacy, Alpha O'C. Lashar, Walter B., Jr. Lee, Cebern L. Lee, Kenneth E. Levis, Howard T. Libby, Granville E. Lindenmeyr, Carl E. Long, Robert L. Lougee, Richard J. Lovegrove, Marshall P. Low, Harold D. Lowell, James B. Lund, Arthur C. Lyman, Arthur C. Lyon, Roswell H., Jr. McAnulty, Ralph H. McCall, Donald F. McClure, Alfred B. Macdonald, Albert G. McGough, Samuel M. Machen, John W. MacKay, William H. McKee, Hiram W. McKennan, Bruce Manson, Stanley H. Margolies, Asher F. MarstOn, Edwin L. Martin, Samuel H. Megathlin, Donald E. Merriam, David H., Jr. Messner, Paul B.4 Meyercord, K. H. 4, 5 Michelini, Ronald J. Milliken, Lyman F. Mills, Stephen D. Minnich, John H. Mix, Robert C. Mooney, Richard D. Morand, Simon J. Morey, Nathaniel B. Moulton, Lloyd W. Mullin, Howard J. Munnecke, Wilbur C. Murdoch, Kenneth V. Murray, Kenneth H. Murray, Warren E. Myers, Walter E., Jr. Nichols, Roswell S., Jr. Norris, Arthur H. North, William G, Norton, Tom E. O'Connell, Paul R. O'Hara, J. Donald Oliver, Warren D. O'Rourke, T. Nelson Orth, Henry W. Osborn, Stephen A. Owl, Frell McD. Paddock, Erwin B. Page, Norman F. Page, Robert W. Patten, Hawley Pelton, William M. Pettengill, Harry B., Jr. 5 Picken, James E. Pierson, Paul R. B. Pierson, Richard L. Pownall, Harold C. Prescott, William S. Preuss, M. Rudolph Proudman, Donald W. Prouty, Richard P. Provost, George W., Jr. Pruner, Alfred W. Pulsifer, Allen H. Pulver, B. Jordan Randall, Clifford A. Rankin, Andrew M. Redcay, Edward E. Reed, C. Raymond Reynders, John F. Reynolds, Edward C. Reynolds, Victor G. F. Rice, G. Clifford Ring, Raymond McC. Rintels, Jonathan B. Ripley, Edward P. Risley, Howard W. Robinson, Nelson Rodormer, E. Winston Roe, John Rose, Theodore Russakoff, Joseph M. Russell, Howard I. Russell, Kenneth H. Ruth, Edward D. Ryan, Joseph H. St. Amant, G. W., Jr. Salinger, Roger B. Satterfield, W. J., Jr. Scammon, Lawrence W. Schackne, Stewart Schlossman, David R. Schroedel, Robert E. Segall, Arthur A. Selig, Ernest T., Jr. Senn, Frank R. Sercombe, H. Dudley Shaw, John H. Shaw, Maximilian C. Shaw, Wilfred E. Sheldon, John P. Simpson, Richard W., Jr. Slater, Robert H. Slotnick, Moses Smith, Gordon Smith, Warren B. Smith, Willard H. Spinney, William A. Sprague, Willard F. Staab, Paul V. Staubach, Joseph N. Stern, Leonard I. Stevens, Robert N. Stiff, Cary P. Stinchfield, Allan J. Stone, Bradford W. Stowe, Richard E. Strong, Frank P. Swartzbaugh, Richard B. Swift, Norman G. Tanzi, John S. Thees, John D., Jr. Thompson, Fred H. Tracy, Stephen P. Tucker, Robert W., Jr. Turpin, Miles A. Upham, John H. Van Loon, James H. Vietor, Henry T. Vincent, Reginald P. Voice, Sidney P. Voorhis, Nicholas R. Voorhis, Sheldon S. Ward, Frederic K. Weiss, Carl A. Wellman, Albert A. Wesselmann, Roy A. Weston, Russell G. Whitney, Vernon E. Wilder, Evan A. Williams, Bedford Williams, J. Palmer Williamson, Robert W. Willing, James B. Wise, Allan L. Woelfel, George L., Jr. Wood, John D. Wormley, Lowell C. Wormser, Samuel Z. Worth, Elmer H. Wright, Curtis, Jr. Wyckoff, Edward H. Yeaton, Kenneth J. Zaroy Nicholas J. Zimmerman, Elmer W.

MEMORIAL GIFTS FROM:

1 Sister, Mrs. Laurence G.Leavitt.

2 Mrs. Haynes.

3 Mrs. Holbrook.

4 Anonymous.

5 Mrs. Meyercora.

CLASS AGENT HOWARD J. MULLIN '27

Secretary, Pine Hill Farm, West River Rd., Perrysburg, Ohio

Treasurer, Box 1927, Pittsburgh 30, Pa.

Bequest Chairman,