1935
At a meeting of your Executive Committee on October 30, held at the Dartmouth Club in New York City the night before the Yale game, the following three major '35 projects were decided upon, as follows:
25 YEAR BOOK
An attractive, permanent book will be published, on good paper and between hard covers, and will be mailed to members of the class previous to the June Reunion. Don Cameron, who has taken over the editorship of this new directory, says it will include feature and editorial material highspotting the activities of the class and its link with the campus at Hanover, but that the important and basic part of the book will be autobiographical material and photographs of the individual members of '35. Letters will come to you soon requesting that you write and send back a short autobiography, and that you search your files to uncover a recent head-shot, or preferably an interesting informal family picture which can be published in the directory. For anyone who does not come through with an autobiography, Cameron and his staff will prepare a biographical sketch from material available in College files, but it is sincerely hoped that a maximum number of self-written sketches can be included.
Not to be confused with the material requested for the new class directory is another questionnaire you will receive. This comes from the College, and is customarily sent to members of each class just before the 25th Reunion. This questionnaire asks for confidential information on income, etc., and the mailing is so handled as to be strictly anonymous. In the interest of Dartmouth history it is hoped you will also return this questionnaire.
REUNION GIFT FUND
It has long been customary for each class, at its 25th Reunion, to present a 25th Reunion gift to Dartmouth College. Previous classes have taken great pride in this Reunion gift, and substantial contributions made have been of real significance to the College. Because of the recently completed Capital Gifts Campaign, and the College policy of combining gifts under this campaign with contributions to the Memorial Fund, our class is already in the advantageous position of having $220,000 accredited to date to our 25th Reunion gift. At the New York meeting the '35 Executive Committee agreed that our class could be expected to do at least as well, or better than, either the class of '33 or '34. Their total 25th Reunion gifts were: 1933; $320,000; 1934: $280,000.
25TH REUNION
Reunion Chairman Ralph Specht and his committee chairmen have plans and preparations rolling for a big and bountiful Reunion in June. So that you can have the latest word we will give you here a report from Reunion Publicity Chairman Art Bamford:
We need some history, so the book of the class can reflect our business and family doings of the days since graduation. Soon there'll be the Questionnaire, and helpful indeed you can be if you shoot it back quickly. Don Cameron will need a snapshot of you - and of the family — so get one taken and be ready for Don's request.
There is an excellent reason to make the effort to come to Reunion. Perhaps it's an excuse, more than logic, but it is something to mull over as we count the time 'til June and make the decision to be on hand. While we talk of our youthful bearing and reflect on the distance from "over the hill," there is the spotlight of the 25th upon us. The Class of the Year in the eyes of the College. This is Our Year, and the 25 th Reunion is a reason, an excuse to come and relive those undergraduate years. Never again should '35 have as large a gathering. Never can we experience as intimate an identity with the College. Mark the dates and let's make this the great Reunion it is sure to be.
The following '35ers, according to Specht and Bamford, will be assisting with Reunion plans: Hanover Holiday Chairman: Bill Fitzhugh; Final Saturday Night Banquet Chair- man: George Colton; Children's & Teen Age Activities Chairman: Hall Colton, assisted by Sven Karlen; Publicity Chairman: Art Bamford; Finance Chairman: Frank Specht; Hanover Committee Chairman: Bob Hage.
YALE GAME
Because of business commitments on October 31, your class secretary was unable to get up to the Yale game, but Reg Bankart offered to pinch hit in making a count of the '35ers who were on hand to see our signal victory over the Elis.
Despite the rain which continued most of the afternoon, Bankart reports that the following were seen at the Bowl: Bud and Ginny Steinle, Tom and Ginny Lane, Doc Cliff Mills, Lou and Harriet Bookheim, Dick and Hortense Eberhart, Bob and Corinne Naramore, Phil and Violet Hemphill, Bob and Audrey Richter, Bill Fitzhugh, Sax Ziemen, Ted Steele and date, Dick Hube from New Britain, Russ Fields down from Schenectady, where he works for General Electric, Ed Elsenhans from Tuckahoe, N. Y., Fran and Bobbie Chase, John and Helen Wallace, and Doug and Ruthie Ley.
The Chases, Wallaces and Leys had all driven down from Boston to attend the Executive Committee meeting the night before, and had spent the night with Reg and Babs Bankart before going on up to the game. Reg says that various other members of the class were undoubtedly also present, but that these were all he saw through the rain and wet-weather gear that most people brought along that afternoon.
INCIDENTAL ITEMS
Cameron Duncan, the rancher and banker and butter-and-egg man from South Texas, was visiting in New York City in late October.
George McVicar, not heard from in several years, turns up as a recruiting specialist for aviation personnel. George is director of the Aviation Centre of the Job Centre Agency in New York, and lives in Hasbrouck Heights, N.J.
A message, finally, from John Lyon out in Harrisburg. Penna. John is married and has three daughters; one of them already married, one in Colorado University, and the other in Marjorie Webster Junior College.
Al Keenan, vice president of the Moore McCormack Lines, recently lectured before the Women's Traffic Club of New York on the subject, "Steamship Passenger Traffic in an Age of Speed."
Two '35ers, Howard "Biddy" Chase, manager of radio station WTSL in Hanover, N. H., and Paul Cummings, managing editor of the newspaper in Peterboro, N. H., recently ended up together on a VIP civilian junket on the U. S. S. Independence.
News from the Near East brings word that Steve Dorsey is now Counselor of the American Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan.
Edward T. Chamberlain '36 (r), Dartmouth's director of admissions who is commandingofficer of the Naval Reserve Unit in Hanover, receives from Capt. George Rogers, USN, thecup awarded to the unit for being judged the best in the First Naval District. Track CoachEllie Noyes '32, seated at the right, is executive officer of the unit and the man to whommuch credit also goes for the unit's record.
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