1943

The month of June will be on your calendar by the time you receive this issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Possibly you will be lying in the hammock, magazine in one hand and a cold beer in the other.

The most urgent matter concerning our class at the present time is its participation in the College Alumni Fund campaign. Everyone has received an envelope in which he can mail his gift, and as you will note, the ending date is June 30. Consequently by the time you read the notes for this month there won't be much time until the end of the Fund-raising drive.

It is worth quoting that "Dartmouth men through their Alumni Fund contributions serve as living endowment for the College, just as real as any stocks or bonds in Dartmouth's vault. This annual giving provides the marginal current funds which enable Dartmouth to give service each year beyond the limits of its endowment and tuition fees. Take away 13% of Dartmouth's income provided by these funds and you reduce the College to the kind of diet which spells quick deterioration in everything about Dartmouth that matters."

The importance of the Alumni Fund and its bearing on the future of the College cannot be stressed too strongly. Your contribution provides Dartmouth with the most valuable type of resource at its disposal. Unless there is full participation by every member of our class, we are doing an injustice not only to ourselves but to future students wishing to attend the College. If it had not been for the Alumni Funds of the past your education and mine would not be all that it was. I sincerely feel that this is the time for soul-searching and reflecting back on what Dartmouth has given each one of us.

In trying to assimilate the bulletins, letters, and other information that have come to me I was rather disappointed in the showing of our class up to the present time. Consequently I hope that everyone will get behind the Alumni Fund and send a contribution no matter how small.

At the time of this writing, the class of '43 ranked in sixth position within our group number five. This group consists of classes '40 through '48. It might be of interest to know that the Class of '45, which is in first position, has contributed $2522.25, whereas the Class of '43 has contributed $1776.86. This is an interesting comparison in view of the fact that a number of members of the Class of '45 were unable to finish their college work until well after the war. Even the Class of '48, which is in second place, has a higher rating than the Class of '43. Are we men or mice ? Beyond this comparison a big question mark looms on the horizon in that 230 members of the youngest alumni class, fellows who hadn't even taken their comprehensives this time last year, have already made gifts to the Alumni Fund. This is far more than any other class and they deserve a terrific pat on the back. Such achievement is outstanding but isn't it up to the rest of us to show the novices the way?

For those who remember the good old days and the rivalry with Princeton, it will be interesting to know that in Princeton's 1954 Annual Giving Campaign, alumni participation was exactly 68%. This is the best that any college or university has ever done. Just the satisfaction of showing up Princeton should be a challenge to all of us. For those who are living in the East the challenge is greater since there are more Princeton men in that neighborhood than in the Midwest. So go to your mirror, look yourself in the face, if that's a Princeton man you see do you show him the white of your eyes or the red of your rear.

A letter from old reliable Bob Craig reads as follows:

"I saw Bob Ales bury in Philadelphia recently. He is practicing obstetrics and gynecology with his uncle and plans to be in Chicago to take his specialty board examinations in the near future. SmedWard is a new V.P. of the Dartmouth Club in Philadelphia. He seems to be enjoying his work with Gulf Oil very much. Smed and I tried to get together with Charlie Webb but Charlie had just come back from a trip to India and was trying to pare down some of his paper work. Over at the University of Pennsylvania, psychiatrist Jim Ewing is one of the bright young lights in his department. Spending an extra year in the department of psychiatry with him is Sam Bullock, who expects to go into practice shortly. At a recent meeting of the American Surgical Association in Cleveland I ran across Hugh Lena, a surgeon now practicing in New London, Conn. Hugh's younger brother Paul is one of our internes at Evanston Hospital who is doing a very fine job. In Cleveland I had a short visit with Bill Chilcote who is deeply involved in holding the Chilcote empire together at the present time but has been temporarily diverted by his second son which he just brought home from the hospital."

That's about all the news for now, but let's all make a sincere effort to get behind the Alumni Fund. Remember - will you face that Princeton man?

Secretary, 200 E. Jefferson St., Springfield, Ill.

Class Agent, Middlefield St., R.F.D. 1 Middletown, Conn.