1887

Dartmouth is presently enjoying happy and promising times. While I was attending Commencement this year, its Alumni Fund drive was booming along even better than last year. It was certain that the total drive would amount to well over $850,000. Then, a week later, at the Reunion of other Classes, announcement was made of the big grant of $1 million from the Rockefeller Foundation; and the July issue of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE, where this gift, in honor of ExPresident Ernest Martin Hopkins is mentioned, also explains that an equal amount is definitely going to be available, so that the contemplated Fund for building The Hopkins Center is assured.

At the final analysis of the contributions, it was shown that the Class of '87 was at the top of the list of the Participation Summary.

The Class of '87 for many years has set a good example for contributions to the Alumni Fund, but this is the first year that it has ever been at the top of the participation summary. Your Secretary will not attempt to explain just how the Class of '87 is entitled to this top rating, but its scoring base is given as 2 (number of '87 class members left), contributors 15, participation index, 750. At the top of all classes, all the way down the list, the classes, vary 100 or more below 750.

It is an unexpected honor. At my advanced age of 91, I must give credit for closer class contact to past agents such as: Herbert Gage, Dan Hadlock, Ed Knight, Fred Howland, Emerson Rice and others, all active workers for the Alumni Fund.

Secretary and Treasurer 37 Arlington St., Cambridge, Mass.