1933
As this is written, we are in Hanover for Class Officers Weekend. The weather is real cool and the surroundings are as beautiful as only Hanover in the spring can be. Attending for 1933 are: Chairman Theriault (with wife Ray), Treasurer Dewey (with wife Sue), Class Agent Jackson, Memorial Fund Chairman D'Arcy (with wife Muggs), Newsletter Editor Jackson, and your secretary. We came north from Boston on the B. Sc M. mail train which runs to White River Junction and which was transporting a goodly number of class officers in addition to uncounted tons of mail. An authoritative source claims that the Boston and Maine is trying to discourage passenger traffic. Truer words were never spoken. Jackson and your secretary were so discouraged by the time we reached Concord that we got off the train there and rode the rest of the way to Hanover with Muggs and Don.
On the way North we were trying to name all of the people appearing in the picture of the Rump Reunion taken in front of Jack and Dottie Manchester's house in Hanover last September. It was a good weekend, and we know that a lot of you want to do it again this fall, and a lot of us who couldn't be there last year are making sure plans to be there this year. You will get more explicit details through the Newsletter, but before that time, why don't you drop a note to John C. Manchester, 3 Dana Road, Hanover, N. H., and tell him that you will plan to come if the weekend is right?
Class Officers Weekend opened with a reception by President and Mrs. Dickey in College Hall (Commons to you), which was followed by dinner at the Inn while the wives ate at Hovey Grill in Thayer Hall. On Saturday, proceedings started with a joint meeting of all class officers and wives in the 1902 Room of Baker Library. Charlie Zimmerman '23 presented masterfully Dartmouth's forthcoming Capital Funds Campaign. You will hear a great deal more about this subject during the next two or three years and you will also be receiving direct correspondence explaining how this campaign ties in with 1933's Memorial Fund project, a relationship which has been hammered out at many meetings of your Memorial Fund committee (chiefly Don) and fund-raising representatives of the College.
After the general meeting Saturday morning, the individual officers met with their like numbers from other classes until noon. The afternoon provided golf and the opportunity of viewing freshman tennis and track, freshman and varsity lacrosse, crew races, varsity baseball and rugby, the latter against the strong Province of Quebec team. The "rugger" was confusing but quite enjoyable, enlivened as it was with the pushing, straining, milling, panting, sweating, and sometimes whirling scrums, occasional beautiful open-field running, dipsey-doodley lateral passing, and cries of "Who the hell let that man through?" delivered in impeccable Canadian accents.
Saturday night, Jeannette Gill at Thayer provided a fine chicken dinner for all the class officers and wives. Afteward, everyone met again at Commons where Bill Morton '28 reported on the Alumni Fund, those wonderful Injunaires from the Glee Club sang in their own inimitable style, and Hopkins Center in its final form, cultural as well as physical, was presented excitingly by Tom O'Connell '50 for the Development Council, Warner Bentley for the Theater Arts, Dean Arthur Kiendl '44 for the College, Professor Churchill Lathrop for the Manual and Fine Arts, and Professor James Sykes for the Musical Arts. We think you are going to like it, unusual and breath-taking though it is at first look! It is our considered wager that Dartmouth men everywhere will come to think of the Center in much the same spirit as we think of Dartmouth Row, Balch Hill, Tuck Drive, Baker Library — a wonderful, necessary, integral, vital part of the College, without which Dartmouth would not be Dartmouth as we know it. We believe that the more you see it and come to know it, the happier you are going to be for its clean modern architecture keyed so brilliantly to its beloved neighbors. Speaking of Bill Morton's report on the Alumni Fund, have you been following 1933's progress in the Fund? It has been quite good. In our group (1928-1935) there have been 3 classes above us and 3 classes below us. Each one of us now has about two weeks left to see that 1933 crashes all previous records this year. Check your status and send your check before June 30!
The fact that we seem to be hitting the ball in the Alumni Fund this year augurs better for the Class Dues next time Dewey duns us. We can stand improvement here, for there is only one class in all the College wrhich is below us in these percentages. 54% of our living graduates pay class dues and 24% of our living non-graduates, making a combined average for the Class of 47%. The percentages for the whole College in these categories is 66.5%, 32.3% and 57.9%, respectively. Don't forget that Mack is going to give away the College portfolio to the holder of the lucky Duespayer receipt-ticket number. Pay your dues when due.
Among the many newspaper clips which come to our attention concerning the activities of our class, those concerning the New England speech-making circuit of George M. Rideout, Vice President of Babson's Reports, lead all the rest by a country mile. The boy certainly gets around, and we are sure that there will be a spot on our 25th Reunion program for George to make his speech. We say "his speech" advisedly, because the title of it always is "The Business Outlook." That this is close to the hearts of all of us goes without saying, and it is obvious that the success of our 25th Reunion depends to a great extent upon the business outlook next year at this time.
You'll be interested to know that Bill Lang and Hobie Van Deusen were among those recently in Hanover, and that down in Union, N. J., Foley Machinery Co., headed by Ed Foley (formerly president of Foley Chevrolet Co. of Newark), has become Caterpillar Tractor dealer for Northern New Jersey (19 counties plus Richmond County in New York). Also that up Buffalo-way, Stan Colla is doing a good job business-wise (Socony-Mobil) and community-wise (Rotary and Boy Scouts, at least).
We're going to leave you now until next fall. Please send your check in for the Alumni Fund before June 30! Please have a good summer! We look forward to seeing each of you next fall in Hanover at the warm-up. Please drop Jack Manchester a note saying you'd love to come. Until then, then!
Secretary, 217 Goundry Street North Tonawanda, N. Y.
Class Agent, Legal Dept., B. & M. R.R., 150 Causeway St. Boston, Mass.
