1934
The beginning of a new college year and we become the next class to celebrate a Twenty-Fifth Reunion, the holy of holies in the alumni circles. Bill Scherman as class chairman has contacted people to help in the planning and he will keep you posted through his Newsletter and in this column, of the month to month progress.
Now for a brief review of some of the summer highlights. Dotty and Nels Krogslund entertained for our 24th Reunion at their scenically attractive home. Their hospitality is unexcelled along the Eastern seaboard and we are very grateful to you for these annual eet-togethers which make for a wonderful class spirit and love for Dartmouth. It was too bad that Alice and Nick Xanthaky who had planned to be there couldn't join in the fun. The poor weather kept down the attendance. Jean and Len Harrison, Kay and Harry Wallace, Nona and Bob Kolbe, Helene and Charlie Strauss, Sara and Bud Hart, Bud Yallalee, Wil Maynard, Bernice and Sy Lewis, Doris and Art Grimes, Alice and Les Reeve and Jane and Bill Stein all had accepted but last minute change of plans caused them to miss the ball game. Before leaving the picnic everyone raised a can of beer to toast Mary and Dick Gruen for their unstinting assistance to make the day a success.
Just a week before to the day Carl Hess took beautiful Desa Pavlu for his bride. We wish them a lifetime of happiness. At lunch the other day Carl told us he had rented a colonial mansion in Greenwich Village and plans to live there as long as possible. A garden in the rear is an added attraction.
Speaking of the Village those former residents, Shirley and Ray Hulsart, sold their home in Chappaqua and bought into one of those new fangled cooperatives. Their new address is: 103 East 84 Street, New York 28, N. Y. It may or may not be a coincidence that the building is in the same block with Sarah and Jerry Danzig. My two former room-mates are now practically under the same roof. It seems strange in this day and age when the trend is away from the city to the country that occasionally the advantages do favor urban life. I think Ray found it necessary to be close to his job and you can't find better schools especially for girls than right in New York City.
Tried to get Marge and George Copp to come to the Monmouth race track where my Liz spends most of her summer afternoons. Never could find a suitable date but we did get together for a round of golf. George won handily.
I hear Marian and Orv Dryfoos had a fabulous trip in Europe this summer. Am waiting for full details. One of their more interesting experiences was being present at the American Embassy in Moscow the day the Russians demonstrated over the Lebanon situation.
I'm sure that all the avid readers of Orv's paper saw the articles and pictures about Clarence Davies, the new director of New York City's Bureau of Real Estate. Clarence was sworn in by Mayor Wagner the day we had a luncheon downtown to discuss some Reunion plans. This prevented us from being present. Bill Hartman and Carl Hess were there to give their blessings and approval. The appointment was as popular with the Republicans as with the Democrats. And may I be pardoned if I gloat a bit about a column of mine which expressed the hope that one of these days we would be able to vote for Nelson Rockefeller '30 for Governor of New York. All you residents of the Empire State no matter what your party allegiance can and should vote for a Dartmouth son. You will get an able and intelligent administrator.
Harry Gilmore was in town one hot summer day and we kept a luncheon date open for him. The fates were unkind and he had to call it off. Still I want to pass him some laurel wreaths for his work as Alumni Fund Chairman. At the final count-down we had a participation percent of 94. We had a contributor count of 429 which included both direct Alumni Fund gifts and contributor credits given for classmates removed last spring from Alumni Fund solicitation because they were being contacted by the Capital Gifts Campaign. Actually we contributed 213 gifts directly to the Alumni Fund amounting to $5714.00. The college in turn raised &455,300.91 from 14,361 contributors. Had Harry not devoted a great deal of his time and efforts to the chairmanship of the Capital Fund Drive in Manchester I'm positive we would have had a better Tribal Sweepstakes record. Let us take a certain degree of satisfaction from our accomplishments but let us not lay down on the job nor relax our endeavors to attain the goals set by ourselves and the objectives of the College.
Many a day during the summer I crossed the Hudson on the Jersey Central Ferry with Ed Corson. His office is in the same beehive as mine. Ed's oldest son is at the College of the Pacific and his middle one enters Lehigh this year. We reminisced about his roommates, Bob Singleton, Karl Weber and Solon Palmer. Ed had also seen Flamen Ball and Ed Heffernan in the course of his transcontinental wanderings.
A recent communique from the office of admissions in Hanover advises that the following sons of '34 Alumni were accepted for admission and matriculated this fall: Dave, son of Ed Bishop; John, son of Phil Eckels; King, son of Bill Embry; Bill, son of Dick Emerson; Tom, son of John Foley; Dave, son of Bill Haist; Laurence, son of Laurie Herman; Dick, son of Jamie H. King; Al, son of Sam McCray; Lane, son of Al Newbury; Christopher, son of Art Nissen; Carl, son of Bob C. Palmer Jr.; and Dave, son of Bob Singleton. Congratulations to fathers and sons.
Your secretary has been roundly criticized for failure to organize some class get-togethers in New York City. We called the Dartmouth Club of New York and arranged for three dinners on the following dates: Thursday, November 20, 1958; Tuesday, January 80, 1959; and Wednesday, March 25, 1959. The Club will make available the facilities of the new Daniel Webster Dining Room, with private bar and our old friend and host, Jim McKeon promises to roll out the red carpet. Jot the dates down now. We will send you reminders by mail and unless we hear violent objections we think our wives should be permitted to attend.
Secretary, 120 Broadway, New York 5, N. Y.
Treasurer, Hovey Lane, Hanover, N. H.
