1933

This is darn near our swan song, and it's been an interesting six years (our last Reunion was in 1952, as you will remember ended on June 15, too, by golly!). Keeping track of and reporting the activities of the peripatetic palpitating pardners of Thirtythree has been an exciting and rewarding business, even though the deadline for these Class Notes seemed to arrive every two weeks. Now, however, we are coming to the end of an era and the beginning of a new one. The Secretary's job will change in emphasis, and he will become more of a correspondent and less of a reporter. Your new Secretary will be able to devote more time to other important class concerns since he will be freed to a great extent from the necessity of reporting the class news. Jim Fisher '54 hasbeen appointed Assistant Editor of theALUMNI MAGAZINE, and he is also executiveeditor of the enlarged class newsletter pro.gram. A bulletin from Charlie Widmayerputs it this way.

Now that this key editorial post has been filled, we hope to make better progress in coordinating the class news presented in the ALUMNIMAGAZINE columns and in the class newsletters. One of the objectives of this plan, as you have heard, is to make the newsletter the primary medium for personal news of interest mainly to one class, to reduce somewhat the disproportionate amount of space now required by the class notes in the MAGAZINE, and thus to give the MAGAZINE a chance to meet the growing responsibilities being assigned to it - responsibilities which we welcome but which we feel hamstrung in carrying out because we have so little room in the front section.

We hope the class officers' meetings in May will provide an opportunity for discussing this matter of class news and for our presenting some concrete proposals to take effect with the next publication year.

So, by the time you have read this, the class officers' meetings will have heard the concrete proposals and will have approved those which appear to be sound.

In making "the newsletter the primary medium for personal news of interest mainly to one class," what happens when a class is blessed with a good, able, intelligent, wide-awake, alert newsletter editor like Bob Fox, whose productions so far have been great? The College starts feeding him news, including address changes, and the alumni notes reporter who has not developed his own independent sources of news but has indolently accepted the official news handouts, suddenly finds his sources of news drying up and his column full of twice-chewed cabbage. For instance, this column has come to rely heavily upon address changes as evidence of fairly recent moves and news of various members of the class. Duplicates of these address changes go to Bob Fox, and the result is that we both print them, only Bob gets there fustest with the mostest since he publishes twice to our once and the lag between his deadline and publication date is much shorter. In addition, since official news from the College is now sort of pro-rated between us, this column is reduced to reporting that February visitors to Hanover included Bill Star Jr. and III, Harold L. Henchey and Dr. and Mrs. Swede Branson, and that Mannie Sprague was the principal speaker at the GOP Lincoln Day Dinner in Glastonbury, Conn.

Speaking of Mannie Sprague, however, reminds us of the exciting part of Hanover Holiday to be taken by 1933 on Friday, June 13: Two panel discussions by experts from this Class discussing two of the most important problems facing our country today, "American Security in a Dynamic World," and "Educating Americans for Leadership." Personally, we wouldn't miss the TREMENDOUS TWENTY-FIFTH for anything! From all indications it's going to be the most! If you haven't sent in your reservations for the whole family, do it now!

This is probably our last chance to urge you to do now for the Memorial Fund and the College what you know deep down you Would like to do. We are sure you will have other opportunities in the future to help Dartmouth, but this is the BIG ONE! Men, do your duty!

Secretary, 217 Goundry Street North Tonawanda, N.Y.

Combined Fund Chairman, P.O. Box 384, Dover, N.H.