1935
During the first weekend of May your class officers and members of the '35 executive committee met in Hanover. Chairman Bankart, Secretary McCarty, and Treasurer Chase were on hand for the Annual Class Officers' meetings, along with Head Class Agent Harbaugh, Memorial Fund Chairman Steele, and Reunion Chairman Ralph Specht. Executive Committee members who came up for the weekend included Wallace and Ley from Boston and Naramore from Bridgeport. All these dutiful representatives of your class are shown in the photograph accompanied by their attractive and patient wives.
The class officers were kept busy Friday night and up to Saturday noon with a series of meetings involved with various College activities, and then after lunch on Saturday all of the '35ers got together to discuss our own particular class business.
Of special importance was the report Ralph Specht gave on plans for our 25th reunion, which is scheduled for June 16-19 of 1960. Specht and his committee chairmen are arranging a full schedule of events - from the serious to the semi-hysterical - which all of you will be notified about in due time.
Also of top interest was a report from Don Cameron, who is preparing to edit and publish the 25th Yearbook for '35. It is planned for this book to be an interesting, useful and somewhat elaborate volume which will include vital statistics, business and family notes, and recent photographs bringing us up to date graphically on members of '35. Cameron plans to send out the first questionnaire for the Yearbook right after Labor Day this fall, and his timetable is to put the book to bed about March 1 and have it ready for distribution to members of the class no later than May 1, 1960. Don's assignment is an arduous one, and it will make his task much easier if all of us cooperate as fully as possible to get the information he requests back pronto. It is even suggested that this summer when we are on vacations with our families, we try to get a group picture which Don can use in this new 25th Yearbook for '35.
At the Executive Committee meeting serious discussion was given to the Capital Gifts campaign, and an analysis made of '35's overall participation. George Col ton, our classmate who heads up the Capital Gifts program for the College, was on hand to provide comparative figures from other classes, and these statistics made us all want to provide maximum help to Ted Harbaugh and Ted Steele, who are responsible, with their assistants, for developing a first-class showing for '35.
At the end of this business meeting Fran and Bobbie Chase took off to start an automobile vacation trip, and Ted Steele drove away to meet a prospective buyer for his "Potato Hill" property south of Hanover, but the rest of us drove out to the pleasant hilltop home of Bob and Henrietta Hage, where we spent an "Hour of Charm" or two before going to the Norwich Inn to have dinner together.
It was a delightful weekend, with Hanover displaying her finest spring weather, and served as a sort of pilot run for the 25th Reunion scheduled for our class next year.
NOTES & SUCH. . . .
Lowell and Hilda Haas announced the arrival of another member of the family, Jody Marshall, on April 20 at Alexandria, Va.
John Wallace reports that he and Helen had a third son and sixth child named James, born March 16. According to John, only two classmates, Fran Chase and John Harvey with six each, tie him; and only one, Jim Boldt with seven children, is ahead. We hope you will notify your Secretary if there are other claimants.
Harvey H. Conklin has been elected assistant actuary of the Life Insurance Company pf Virginia.
Dave Gallagher, long not heard from, is, we are told, a lawyer in Albuquerque, N. M., and lives somewhere out in the desert near that city.
Doug'Ley's wife Ruth is gaining renown as a photographer-lecturer. Formerly in radio and television in Boston, Ruth has been lecturing around New England and down the Atlantic seacoast with features and interviews which she filmed herself. Last year she was sent to the Brussels World's Fair to represent Massachusetts and show her documentary, "Nantucket - Island of the Whalers."
25 Years Ago (From the Daily Dartmouth)
January 17, 1934 - An extra edition headlines the announcement that Earl Blaik will be the new football coach.
May 30, 1934 — In a letter to "Vox Pop," and as a special Memorial Day reminder, Dean Neidlinger warns the undergraduate body that it is against College regulations to sunbathe in the local cemetery.
- Thirty-five's 25th - June 16-19, 1960 -
'35 MOVIES
At the recent Class Officers meeting in Hanover it was suggested that any film featuring Class activities could be stored at the Dartmouth Film Library, where it would be kept safely under proper temperature and available at all times. Thus, we urge anyone who has any 8 or 16 mm. footage of '35 activities to mail it to Milburn McCarty, 17 East 45th St., N.Y.C., and the film will be delivered for safekeeping in Hanover.
The '35 Executive Committee also recommended that such film be reviewed with the possibility that a professional editing job be done to consolidate the most usable footage into one '35 film which could be shown at the next reunion.
Secretary, 17 East 45th St., New York 17, N.Y.
Class Agent, Libbey Division, Owens Illinois Glass Co. Box 1035, Toledo, Ohio
