The Class Officers Weekend
THE annual spring meetings of the Dartmouth class officers took place in Hanover on the weekend of May 2-3, with a record attendance of 189 officers from the classes of 1894 through 1961. The program was also attended by 107 alumni wives and a large number of College officials, making the sessions the largest ever held.
Back as guests of the College were the class presidents and chairmen, secretaries, treasurers, class agents, newsletter editors, bequest chairmen, memorial fund chairmen, and reunion chairmen of classes holding reunions this year. During the weekend the class presidents and the newsletter editors formed two new associations, joining those already existing for the class secretaries, treasurers and class agents. These actions were the natural and expected results of the new organization now adopted by virtually all the classes, and of the growing importance of the newsletters as a medium of alumni communication.
Following an open house at the new Choate Road dormitories, the alumni, College officers and wives gathered for a dinner at Thayer Flail on Friday evening. Scott C. Olin '50, president of the Secretaries Association, was toastmaster, and speakers were President Dickey and Ronaid L. Snow '58, chairman of Palaeopitus.
The traditional awards to the top class officers of the year were made at the dinner. Russell D. Meredith '10 was honored as the Class Secretary of the Year, Russell J. Rice '15 as Class Treasurer of the Year, and Jack Childs '09 as Class Newsletter Editor of the Year. Awards for outstanding performances during the 1957 Alumni Fund were also made at the dinner. Philip H. Chase '07 received the James B. Reynolds Trophy as top class agent among those more than 25 years out of college, as well as the Ellsworth B. Buck Trophy for achieving the highest combined class rating in percentage of participation and dollar goal. Bruce Friedlich '41 received the Harvey P. Hood Trophy as the outstanding class agent for classes eleven to 25 years out of college; and Bernard J. Lewis '52 won the John R. Mason Trophy as the best class agent among the ten youngest classes. The John H. Davis Jr. Trophy for the largest dollar total in the Fund campaign went to Ford H. Whelden '25 for the third straight year. The citations that accompanied all these awards will be found with the winners' respective class columns in this issue.
Sidney C. Hayward '26, Secretary of the College, presided at Saturday morning's joint session of all class officers in the 1902 Room of Baker Library. George H. Colton '35, director of development, gave a progress report on the capital gifts campaign, and Charles E. Widmayer 'go, editor of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, discussed a new program for coordinating the coverage of class news in the MAGAZINE and class newsletters.
After the joint session, the various class officer associations held their separate meetings for the rest of the morning. The presiding officers at these group meetings were: Secretaries Association, Mr. Olin; Treasurers Association, Frank T. Weston '36; Class Agents Association, Bruce Friedlich '41; Bequest Chairmen, Herbert A. Wolff '10; Newsletter Editors, Prof. Allen R. Foley '20; Reunion Chairmen, J. Michael McGean '49. The class presidents and chairmen, whose own association was formed later, met with the class secretaries and took part in a panel discussion of their interrelated activities.
What would have been a very full afternoon of sports events was washed out by heavy rain. On Saturday evening the class officers and wives attended an informal meeting in College Hall, featured by a Freshman Glee Club concert and the showing of the new capital gifts campaign movie, "Dartmouth College Case, 1958." Still later that .evening, a social gathering in the Inn Ski Hut brought the scheduled program to a close.
Association officers for 1958-59 were elected as follows:
SECRETARIES ASSOCIATION: President, Carleton G. Broer '27; Vice President, Samuel E. Cutler Jr. '45; Secretary, Sidney C. Hayward '26; Assistant Secretary, Michael McGean '49; Editor of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, Charles E. Widmayer '30; Executive Committee, Messrs. Broer, Cutler, and Hayward, Charles F. McGoughran '20, and Robert H. Zeiser '49; Member of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE Advisory Board for three years, Milburn McCarty '35.
TREASURERS ASSOCIATION: President, John S. Fenno '48; Vice President, Victor C. Smith '17; Executive Committee, Messrs. Fenno and Smith, Simond J. Morand '50 and Craig B. Haines '28.
CLASS AGENTS ASSOCIATION: President, Jack Dodd '22; Vice President, Eliot S. Mover '45; Nominating Committee Member, John W. Moxon '29.
NEWSLETTER ASSOCIATION: President, Herbert S. Talbot '25; Vice President, William H. Scherman '34.; Secretary, James B. Fisher '54.
ASSOCIATION OF CLASS PRESIDENTS AND CHAIRMEN (Acting Officers): President, Roscoe A. Hayes '19; Vice President, Allen I. Bildner '47: Secretary, Michael McGean '49; Executive Committee, Messrs. Hayes, Bildner and McGean, Henry R. Bankart '35 and Bernard J. Lewis '52.
Carleton G. Broer '27 (left), new president of the Class Secretaries Association, and John S. Fenno '48, new head of the Class Treasurers Association, at the May meetings.
