In Brief...
DARTMOUTH class officers will hold their annual spring meetings in Hanover on the weekend of May 4-5. This year the regional alumni officers, whose numbers have grown with the larger number of clubs and the expansion of enrollment and other regional activity, will return to the campus as guests of the College in the fall, holding their separate sessions on the football weekend of September 28-29. Hitherto the class and club officers have met at the same time in May, but the whole Dartmouth alumni program now involves so many men that one weekend can no longer satisfactorily accommodate all the leaders in alumni work. Last May a record total of 350 officers and wives came to Hanover as guests of the College.
The class officers who will hold joint and separate association sessions May 4-5 include class presidents and chairmen, secretaries, treasurers, class agents, memorial fund chairmen, and the reunion chairmen and newsletter editors o£ classes holding reunions in June. The reunion classes this year are 1896, 1901, 1906, 1916, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1931, 1940, 1941, 1942, and 1946.
Class bequest chairmen, who have regularly been meeting in the fall, will continue to hold their annual Hanover sessions at that time.
The campaign to raise $125,000 for a new Dartmouth ski area at Holt's Ledge in Lyme, N. H., was close to success by mid-March, at which time the total of cash gifts and pledges was $116,000. Next month's issue will carry a final report and also the name chosen for the ski development by a board of judges headed by President Emeritus Hopkins. A name contest, giving a lifetime ski-lift pass to the winner, has brought in a stack of entries from students, alumni, faculty and residents of the Hanover-Lyme area.
To help raise funds for the Holt's Ledge ski area, Lowell Thomas Jr. '46 brought his new film, Flight to Adventure, to Hanover on March is for two showings in Webster Hall, with all proceeds going to the ski fund. The film, narrated by Thomas, was made when he and his wife covered much of Asia in a small plane and flew into all sorts of adventures.
On April 14, Dartmouth's oldest living alumnus, Franklin N. Newell '84 of Springfield, Mass., will celebrate his 96th birthday. Mr. Newell, looking forward to another spring and summer in his garden, is the senior member of a Dartmouth alumni body that numbers 37,414 men, according to the last official tally of the Alumni Records Office. Of this total, 26,4.19 men are alumni of the undergraduate College. The College's active mailing list in all alumni categories totals 26,586, and just at this point there is great bustle in Crosby Hall as the Alumni Fund Office makes ready to send out that many mailing pieces as the opening gun in its 1956 campaign to raise $775,000.
Nearly three hundred fathers of Dartmouth freshmen were in Hanover on February 24-25 for the seventh annual Freshman Fathers Weekend, sponsored by the Class of 1959. At a Friday night smoker they heard talks by Dean Stearns Morse, Director of Athletics Robert A. Rolfe '31, and Fred C. Scribner Jr. '30, counsel for the U. S. Treasury Department, who spoke on behalf of the fathers. Saturday morning was given over to attending classes and meeting faculty members; that afternoon and evening offered an unusually full athletic schedule of three varsity and four freshman contests, plus the interfraternity plays. Sunday morning a College Union Service was held, with the Rev. Dr. Albert B. Coe, Moderator of the National Council of Congregational Christian Churches, as guest preacher. The student committee in charge of Freshman Fathers Weekend was headed by Patrick O. Burns '59 of New York City, freshman class president.
In the state Presidential primaries on March 13, Hanover Democrats went counter to the majority of New Hampshire Democrats by giving Adlai Stevenson a 240-10-33 victory over Senator Kefauver. Hanover Republicans voted 679 for President Eisenhower, four for Stassen and one for Knowland; and gave Vice President Nixon 212 write-in votes to 117 for Governor Herter. The town elected four delegates to the New Hampshire Constitutional Convention: David J. Bradley '38 (R) 564, James W. Campion '28 (D) 547, Prof. Donald L. Stone (R) 538, and Edgar H. Hunter '01 (R) 534.
