1945

April is, of course, the month in which you receive your annual notice of the opening of the Alumni Fund. Perhaps you have already opened the first notice. I remind you that contributing to this fund is vital. If you did not give last year, please do this. If you gave last year, please try to give a little more this. Why? Well bear with me for a moment. Your answer may be that you give enough already; it may be that you're just not interested in giving to Dartmouth; it may be that you don't like certain architectural plans and think not giving is a good way to show your'displeasure; it may be any number of reasons and they all may be good ones. But... despite all these, there is one reason, which stands way above all others, why you should give, and give as much as you can. You went to Dartmouth during the most formative years of your life. You found an established institution, a way of life, an opportunity to gain an education. You found what others had left for you. Whether or not you were aware of it, you were molded and shaped by what you experienced at Dartmouth through intellectual stimulation and personal association. And what you are today is in some part, great or small, due to your Dartmouth experience. Therefore, you do have an obligation to do what you can to assure others of that same opportunity. The matter is not purely monetary; it is social and human. It involves man's perpetual efforts to build a better world for himself and posterity. Dartmouth is part of that goal. Dartmouth is your responsibility.

Your SEC missed the annual Boston gettogether of Dartmouth Alumni, but thanks to Cliff Jordan I have a list of the faithful who attended what I understand was a delightful dinner and a most pleasant meeting. Those present included "Johnny" Brooks, Mo Frye, Bert Glovsky, John Leggat, Ted Smith, Ed White, Cliff Jordan, Nick Sandoe, Ken Nicholson, Eliot Mover, Stan Newton, and Sumner Dorfman.

Dr. Holden Farrar now resides at 80 Locust St., Winnetka, Ill., with wife Marilyn, and daughters Katherine, 5, and Barbara, 3. He has opened a private practice in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Evanston Hospital and is affiliated with Northwestern Medical School. Reports seeing John Allen and Fletch McDowell, both fine.

From lan MacKinnon, practicing internal medicine in West Hartford, Conn., comes a note prefaced with the news that he had no news and then extending through a couple of pages of quite newsy material. He speaks of the extremely active Alumni group in central Conn., and of seeing Dick Tracy frequently. Dick, incidentally, besides coaching consistently excellent track teams is a square dance caller of local fame and enthusiastic following. Lan has four children, Peter, Bruce, David, and Kate, ages 7, 5, 3, and 2.

Al Worthen reports a wife (hinted at by SEC sometime last year) Marian, and a baby girl, Wendy. John Tobias has been elected to membership in the Cincinnati Stock Exchange. John is a general partner of Westheimer & Co. Dick Miller has been appointed executive Vice President of the Pennsylvania Consumer Finance Association. Previous to this, Dick was associated with the Perfection Stove Co. and the American Sugar Refining Co. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Philadelphia Retail Credit Managers Association and treasurer of the Philadelphia Trade Association Executives.

That's the sum of it for April. Isn't the weather delightful?

Secretary, Middlesex School, Concord, Mass.

Class Agent, Bunny Bear, Inc., 210 Broadway Everett 49, Mass.