1917
The August issue of the Seventeen Sentry and the December issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE both summarized 1917's accomplishments in the 1955 Alumni Fund campaign. Perhaps you have forgotten the figures so let me remind you that we had 225 gifts for a total of $12,045.06, or only 92% of our objective. In brief, we fell short of our quota by approximately $1,000. We placed way down in the Number 8 spot among nine classes in the Group II — Green Derby. The 1956 campaign is just around the corner, so again it is time for each of us to give thought to what we can and will do, to quote Bill Eaton, "to keep Dartmouth strong today, stronger tomorow." We surely can improve upon last year's results, so let every one of us get behind Bill and his hard-working Agents and make a record for 1917 of which we really can be proud.
The Tribune-Advocate of Sanford, Maine, is authority for the news that Al Emmons, Kennebunk town moderator for many years, has announced that he will be a candidate for Representative to the Legislature. Can't keep a good man down, can you?
I regret to have to report the death of Stanley Lane, who died following a heart attack at his farm home, Flower Farm, Rockford, Ill.
Another of our number has decided to settle in Hanover. To tell you the story I quote in full a recent letter from Bob Boynton:
"Yes, we consider ourselves very lucky to be moving to Hanover and are planning the shift for about April 15. We have purchased a home on Dorrance Place - a comfortable colonial style house which seems to fit our needs. We will be at home there during the fall, winter and spring months with residence in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, from May to late September. We are looking forward with anticipation to the interesting activities of the Hanover Plain and will hope to see Seventeeners whenever in town. Bill Eaton is smoothing the way for us in Hanover with friendly advice and cordiality. Summer in Maine Gail and I are busy with our small resort. We were glad to have Derrill and Florence Trenholm with us last summer. Several Dartmouth men from other classes have been guests (no advertising intended!). We have two lively grandsons via son John. Unmarried Bill '51 is a graduate student at Cornell, in, guess what, Hotel Administration!"
Vic and Irene Smith have returned from their trip to see their new grandson in Germany and here is Vic's account of the trip:
"The flight was a pleasant one. We first touched down at Shannon, Ireland, where we stopped for an hour to refuel and then waited another hour for landing conditions in Frankfurt to improve before we took off. When we finally got started again, the dawn was beginning to break, and one of the sights we shall never forget was that sunrise high above the sea of white clouds somewhere over England. Shortly before 10 a.m. Frankfurt time, we landed safely and soon were through Customs and enjoying a happy reunion with Ginny, Bob and 2½-year-old Wes who was 4½ months when we last saw him in October 1953.
"A drive of less than an hour brought us to the Argonner Kaserne in Wolfgang, where our family is quartered. Of course we had to have an immediate look at the new grandson, Douglas Earle Bradley, and we soon gave him our hearty approval as grandchild #7.
"Bob had arranged to take two weeks' leave to coincide with our stay in Germany and he took us around a good bit in the Frankfurt area, and on one trip into Bavaria where we visited some German friends in Erlangen, which is near Nurenburg. This trip was especially interesting since we passed through Wurtzburg. The sun that morning was making one of its very rare appearances and we were able to get a grand view of the ancient Castle there high on a hill overlooking the Mam river. We worked our camera over time that day and got some interesting pictures. At other times we were able to get pictures of castles and churches in towns near where we were staying.
"Many bombed out ruins are still visible in the Frankfurt-Hanau area, but the amount of new construction going on is amazing. There seems to be little unemployment, and business in general seems to be good. Stores are well filled, and prices by our standards seem reasonable, but to the average German, due to his much lower wage and salary scale, the prices are high.
"We met several German people at Christmas and New Year's parties, and I wished many times that my study of German with Dr. Jones had been more recent than forty years ago. It is surprising how much of a language one forgets when one is not speaking or writing it.
"The trip back included another stop in Shannon, a crossroads of the world. Planes from everywhere landing and taking off every few minutes Our flight from Shannon took us to Gander, Newfoundland, a bleak and snowy place where we paused an hour for refueling before taking off on the final leg of our journey. We expected to reach Idlewild about 11 a.m., but that was the day of the big fog, and some time after eleven we were told that we would land at Baltimore, and that is where we came down safely about noon on January 4."
Hal and Helene Walker went to Florida during November, Hal on an inspection tour ofvarious Naval activities. They made theirheadquarters at Miami Beach, about whichHal says:
"Although the word 'fabulous' has been very much overworked, it's the only one which describes the place. I've never seen so many luxurious hotels and motor courts or so many millionaires' residences in such a beautiful setting anywhere in the country. We also enjoyed our visit to Key West, although one trip across the Keys will last a lifetime."
I asked Mose Hutchins to give a report onthe reorganization plan and here is his report:
"There probably aren't many of us members of the Class of 1917 who ever did much more in connection with a church supper than buy a nock of tickets. However, as we analyze the tremendous success of such affairs, we discover it is due largely to the fact that all the women members of the church have their hands in it. Some bake beans, some scallop the potatoes, some cook the hams, some brew the coffee, some whip up the salads, some bake the cakes and pies and all sell the tickets. And everybody enjoys doing it because, when all work together, the work becomes fun.
"That is why the members of the 1917 Executive Committee adopted the successful church supper plan in reorganizing the Class a year or so ago. As you know, 27 geographical divisions were formed, with an average of approximately eleven classmates in each group. Each division has a coordinator, Alumni Fund chairman (Class Agent), class dues chairman, class notes chairman, Bequest Program chairman, meetings chairman and Sentry news chairman. In the larger groups these chairmen appoint assistants. Thus the work is so distributed that it becomes fun and promotes the kind of fellowship that men of Dartmouth so dearly love.
"We are all working diligently - and enjoying it - to increase our attendance at class and college gatherings, to step up participation in the Alumni Fund, class dues and Bequest Program, to obtain more personals for class notes in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and more material for the Sentry.
"As the Sentry editor, I am particularly interested right now in doing all we can . to help Bill Eaton, our Head Agent, and his divisional chairmen in the 1956 Alumni Fund campaign. Therefore, I'll greatly appreciate it if you will give your divisional Sentry news chairmen, whose names and addresses are listed below, all the news that you can on your group's activities in connection with the Fund drive, so that he can pass it on to me for inclusion in the forthcoming issues of the Sentry."
1st - ROBERT B. BUXTON, Box 427, Damariscotta, Maine.
2nd - PROF. CARL C. COLBY, 7 Lake Street, Meredith, N.H.
3rd - RICHARD L. HOLBROOK, 217 Court Street, Keene, N.H.
4th - JOHN W. DAVIS, 12 Highland Ave., Northfield, Vt.
5th — PAUL L. BURNHAM, Box 422, Lawrence, Mass.
6th — TRACY A. DIBBLE, 8 Buchanan Circle, Lynn, Mass.
7th — DONALD RICHMOND, 61 Main Street, Brockton, Mass.
8th — DR. ALLEN W. LOCKE, 76 Washington Street. Welleslev Hills, Mass.
9th - DR. HOWARD S. BARTLETT, 1265 Bea- con Street, Brookline, Mass.
10th - EARL M. WOODWARD, High School, Medford, Mass.
11th - RALPH J. COCKS, 35 Sumner Street, Hartford 5, Conn.
13th - CHARLES S. HEDWALL, Apartment 503, 330 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
15th - RUDOLPH N. MILLER, 24 Bryant Ave., White Plains, N.Y.
16th - DONALD F. WALTON, 12 Winding Way, West Orange, N.J.
17th - FRED P. GOODWIN, 1610 Pelham Ave., Havertown, Penna.
18th — PARKER R. KARNAN, 335V2 Woodland Ave., Williamsport 12, Pa.
19th - VINCENT K. SMITH, Speed Control Corp., Wickliffe, Ohio.
20th- RALPH R. BRITTON, 6119 Wynnwood Rd., Wod Acres, Washington 16, D.C.
21st - WESLEY C. THOMPSON, 902 Commercial Bank Building, Charlotte, N.C.
22nd - ELMER J. GRAY, 824 Fisher Building, Detroit, Mich.
23rd - HARRY T. WORTHINGTON, 607 E. Corley Blvd., South Bend, Ind.
24th - DR. LEE F. HILL, 3200 University Ave., Des Moines, lowa.
25th — MYRON S. FALES, 4329 S.E. 16th St., Oklahoma City 15, Okla.
26th — PROF. PORTER G. PERRIN, Dept. of English, Univ. of Washington, Seattle 5, Wash.
27 th - ALBERT SHIELS JR., 310 N. Gower Street, Los Angeles 4, Calif.
Members of the 12th and 14th divisions will note that no Sentry News chairman is listed for their groups. Until this situation is rectified, please send Alumni Fund news on the activitiesof these two divisions directly to MoseHutchins at his new address, Stonegate Lane,Pittsford, N.Y.
Robert A. Brown '16, who has been connectedwith the paper industry since shortly aftergraduation, is now rounding out his firstyear as President of the Nashua Corporation,Nashua, N.H.
Secretary, 9 Park Terrace, Upper Montclair, N.J.
Treasurer, 315 Oxford Rd., Havertown, Pa.
Bequest Chairman,
