1927
1927's THUNDEROUS THIRTIETH JUNE 10, 11 and 12
In just one month, members of 1927 and their families will be converging on Hanover from all points of the compass for what looks like the greatest reunion in our history. If you have not already notified Les Battin of your intention to be there, please do so at once. The more advance information the committee has on the number who will be there, the better they will be able to complete their plans for our comfort and entertainment. Les's address is 27 Nahatan St., Norwood, Mass. of course, if your plans are uncertain, and you can't decide until the last moment, come anyway — there will always be room for more.
Since our last reunion, many classes have adopted a new plan of class organization which has already received the approval of our executive committee, and which differs from the plan under which we have been operating principally in that it provides for a class chairman, who will be the executive head of the class. The Alumni Council Committee on Class Organization has stated: "All evidence indicates that separating the secretary-chairmanship into two positions allows the secretary to do a better job, and also opens an administrative channel for well-organized class activities and projects under an executive head of the group who is not burdened with the more detailed activities of day-to-day routine." At reunion we will vote on the adoption of a new class constitution, which will make this new plan effective for our class. If the new constitution is adopted, we will elect the members of an executive committee, and this committee will, in turn, elect a chairman, a Secretary, and a Treasurer. Josh Davis, chairman of our executive committee, has appointed a nominating committee consisting of himself as chairman. Ken Ballantyne, and Stu Ensinger. It will be their responsibility to submit a slate of nominees for the executive committee to the class at reunion. Suggestions from all members of the class for names to be included on this slate are urgently solicited. Send your suggestions to any of the members of the committee, or to the secretary, who will forward them to Josh. Also, any suggestions which you may have for men qualified to fill the various offices will be most welcome. In addition to the Chairman, Secretary, and Treasurer, who will be elected by the executive committee, suggestions are solicited for the other class officers; namely, Head Agent. Newsletter Editor, Bequest Chairman, and Reunion Chairman. It is hoped that in this way new blood will be drawn into the upper echelons of our organization.
Harry Dwyer has been promoted to regional manager in charge of merchandising for the W. T. Grant stores in the Boston area. Harry has been regional manager for Grant in Worcester, having gone there in 1945 after managing their store in Hempstead, Long Island. He has two daughters, Nancy, a student at Middlebury College; and Susan, a freshman at Chandler Street Junior High School in Worcester.
Ed Ruth has been appointed manager of the Atlantic region for Oldsmobile. Ed has been with General Motors since 1927, and his last previous assignment was manager of the Midwest region. His new headquarters are in New York.
Sykes Hardy, president of Joseph T. Ryerson and Son, Inc., recently became the 500th member of the DePaul University chapter of Delta Sigma Pi, international professional commerce fraternity. Sykes was the principal speaker at the chapter's annual banquet in Chicago on Jan. 27, at which time he was initiated.
Sam Martin will represent Dartmouth at the inauguration of Richard Howe Sullivan as President of Reed College in Portland, Ore. on April 7.
Recent visitors to Hanover, according to the Inn records, are Shorty Oliver, Hal Pownall, and Sykes and Helen Hardy.
Howie Mullin has been appointed Assistant Vice President for Sales and Distribution of the United States Steel Corporation. Howie joined U. S. Steel in 1927, shortly after graduation. Beginning in the mills in Gary, he worked into sales, and has been in the sales department in Milwaukee and Kansas City, then became district sales manager in Detroit, then in St. Louis, and moved to New York as district sales manager, two years ago. He has just completed an assignment as Executive Secretary of the President's Citizens Advisers on the Mutual Security Program (better known as the Fairless Committee), during the course of which he traveled to every point in the world coming under our foreign aid program. Howie's activities on behalf of the College and the class have been numerous and effective. He was Class Agent for 1927 from 1954 through 1956; a member of the Alumni Council from the St. Louis District from 1953 through 1956, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Alumni Club Activities; and was President of the St. Louis Alumni Association in 1947 and 1948. During Howie's tenure as Head Agent, the contributions of 1927 to the Alumni Fund rose from $18,899 to $24,246, and last year he won for us our second Green Derby in our 29 years of competition.
Rog Salinger, who as you all know by now, is our new Head Agent, has set an objective which should challenge all of us. It is $30,000 on the 30th reunion year, and if all of us are willing to do our fair share, we should have no trouble in reaching it. We have been falling behind our contemporary classes in the past few years in the increase in the tempo of our giving. This, our 30th year as alumni, is an ideal time for each one of us to re-examine our own giving, to see if we are really doing what we feel our fair share to be. Most of us are approaching the peak of our earning power, and should not be satified to be giving Dartmouth what we did some years ago, when the need, as well as our own ability to give, was much less.
Secretary, West River Road, R.R. 2 Perrysburg, Ohio
Class Agent, 149 Dorset Rd., Waban 68, Mass.
