1927

If this is one of the shorter and less satisfactory columns, you will have to forgive it, on the grounds that your secretary is presently doubling as Toledo Area chairman for the Capital Gifts Campaign, and, in addition, is trying to get things in shape to leave on a vacation. Doubtless a winter vacation won't seem very timely when you read this some time in April, but, believe me, as I'm writing it on February 23 in the midst of one of the nastiest winters we've had around these parts for a good many years, there isn't anything that could be more appealing.

While we're on the subject of the Capital Gifts Campaign, it might be well to point out that we still have a long way to go, if 1927 is to retain its usual position of leadership. At the last tally, slightly less than a quarter of the Class had made pledges. While there have been many commitments which represent extremely generous giving, it is still up to the great majority of us to do our parts between now and the end of the campaign in late spring if 1927 is to stand up and be counted among the leaders when it is all over. As you know, there will be no Alumni Fund campaign this year. Our Class Agent organization will be working with the Capital Campaign Committee, contacting all of you who have not yet given. When you hear from one of them, respond promptly, and generously. Remember that Dartmouth is asking for more than just what we can spare from our current funds - if success in this great undertaking is to be achieved, we will all have to do much more than that. The seventeen million dollar objective of this campaign is just a little less than twenty times the largest amount ever raised by the Alumni Fund. The standards of giving that we have used for the Alumni Fund just won't do the job.

A small part of the old Barbary Coast Orchestra of 32 years ago functioned early this month, when Cliff Randall was in Oakland, Calif., to address the Rotary Club there. The night before he gave his talk, Bill and EloAbbott entertained the Randalls, Phil andJane Thompson, and Roily and EvelynHowes. We understand that it was not quitelike old times, but was a lot of fun, at leastfor the ex-Barbary Coasters, if not for theiraudience.

Sid Voice was thrown into a reminiscentmood by the picture of the campus in pre-Baker days on the birthday card. Sid says:

Of course I remember the campus before the days of the Baker Library. But I remember even more vividly the fact that during my last year at Dartmouth I stayed at that fine little inn known as The Tavern, located near the Post Office. A few of these rooms were occupied by transients, most of them members of the construction gang working on the library. On more than one occasion these individuals caused a great deal of excitement, and a lot of petty thievery. What I recall mostly was the complete disappearance of my Vitalis and after shave lotion, which was apparently much relished by some of the more alcoholic carpenters and bricklayers.

Sid and Sam Wormser are busy with interviewing and enrollment work, and Sid regrets that his son's decision to attend the University of Rochester deprives him of excuses for many trips to Hanover.

Bob Funkhouser, who is comptroller of the College, took part in the panel discussion on Market Value versus Book Value Method of Accounting for Consolidated Endowment Funds at the fifth Biennial Workshop Clinic of the Eastern Association of College and University Business Officers at the Biltmore Hotel in New York on Feb. 23 and 24. Before returning to Dartmouth in 1937, Bob was with the Motors Accounting Co. of Detroit, and the Frigidaire Corp. of Dayton. He joined the College Administration as assistant bursar, and was named comptroller in 195°.

Dr. Lowell Wormley has been elected chairman of the Arizona State Hospital Board, of which he has been a member since 1954. Lowell is engaged in the practice of medicine in Phoenix.

Brad Fuller has again been elected vice-chairman of the Newburyport, Mass., school committee. While the mayor is always chairman of this committee, by reason of his office, the vice-chairman is the presiding officer. Brad has served on this committee for nine-teen years, and has held his present office since 1943.

Al Welty, assistant vice president of the First National City Bank of New York, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the National Travelers Aid Association. Al is also a member of the Board of Police Commissioners Assn., Inc., and a director of the Larchmont-Mamaroneck Community Concert Association.

Paul Hannah, secretary and general counsel for the Raytheon Manufacturing Co., has been elected a director of the Waltham Federal Savings and Loan Association. Charlie Bartlett was elected a director of the Middlesex County National Bank.

An editorial in the Brown and Nichols Bulletin, published by the school of the same name, where Bill Elliott is assistant headmaster, discloses the esteem in which Bill is held at the school. One of the significant portions of this editorial says:

It is not hard for his colleagues and the boys to sense the quality that Mr. Elliott brings to his profession. One cannot fail to feel his desire for a high standard not only in his own teaching and management, but in the behavior of boys and the character of the school. This consistent setting and seeking of high standards puts heavy demands on a man's time and energy, but in the exercise of these, Mr. Elliott seems indefatigable. Related to the unsparing devotion of time and energy to his work is another Elliott characteristic - that of eternal youth.

I wish that space permitted the quotationof the editorial in its entirety.

Bill Laighton, advertising manager for theWestfield, Mass., Mfg. Co., recently was the speaker at a meeting of the Westfield Kiwanis Club.

Win Rodormer, president of E. W. Edwards and Son, one of Syracuse, N. Y.'s, largest department stores, recently outlined a series of proposals for major improvements in the downtown area of Syracuse, which received strong editorial endorsement by the Syracuse Post-Standard as a sound basis for strengthening the downtown section.

Dick Pierson has been elected president of the Illinois Manufacturing Co. of Quincy, Ill.

Al Byrne is now at Elgin Air Force Base, Fla.; Headquarters 32015t Air Base Wing, Air Proving Grounds Center.

Dr. Lowell C. Wormley '27, presently a staff member of several Phoenix hospitals, has been elected Chairman of the Board of Control of the Arizona State Hospital.

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