1923
To Jim Lacdauer, our class agent, goes a great deal of credit for a good job well done. We all realize that when we are making annual payments on a pledge to the Development Fund it is exceedingly hard to make a gift to the Alumni Fund. Here is Jim's thank you to the class.
"DEAR CLASSMATES: Time and circumstances do not permit me to write each of you an individual 'thank you' letter. Your support of the College through your gifts to the Alumni Fund are greatly appreciated. Our Class raised $13,348.32 or 75% of its quota of $17,830.00, and had 378 contributors out of a possible 413, or 91%. This record is a good one for this particular year, although frankly I have every reason to believe we can and will improve it.
"To those of you who are still paying on your Capital Gifts pledges let me express particular appreciation both for your par- ticipation in the Alumni Fund campaign as well as your understanding of the confusing problems resulting from the two-pronged gift programs facing the College and the Agents.
"I should also like to take this opportunity to thank our Class Sub-Agents for their cooperative efforts as well as Irish for permitting the use of Skiddoo for Class communications and his kind words in the writer's behalf.
"My best wishes go to all you grandfathers for a healthy and happy summer, fall and winter - you've had your spring!
Sam Home and I had quite an experience last May. It seems we have a librarian at Bradford Junior College by the name of Christopher Legge. Mr. Legge is the great-great-great-grandson of the 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, of Dartmouth College fame. Mr. Legge's father arrived in town for a visit with his son, his first to the United States, and expressed a wish to see Dartmouth College. Sam and your secretary phoned President Dickey and found him very enthusiastic over the prospect of a visit by the Honorable Francis A. Legge, a first cousin of the 4th Earl of Dartmouth who laid the cornerstone of Dartmouth Hall in 1902. S. Home and C. Bixby subsequently drove to Hanover with Mr. Francis Legge and Mr. Christopher Legge. The reception given us by Messrs. Dickey, Hicks, and Meek will be long re- membered. It was real red carpet treatment. Mr. Dickey's luncheon at the Inn, the tour through Baker Library with the full description of the murals, and the visit to Dartmouth Hall where Mr. Legge viewed the old painting of his forebear left little undone.
Frank and Gladys Doten very graciously entertained the party for cocktails at their new home on Rip Road late the first afternoon.
The reception given our distinguished guests in the Alumni Offices and by Mr. Morin, the librarian of Baker Library, was very cordial. The Hanover Inn did all possible to make Mr. Legge's visit a memorable one.
One high spot of the trip was our meeting with President Emeritus Hopkins at the New Hampshire Motor Inn in Concord. Hoppy was attending meetings that week in Boston. A call to him at the Parker House brought about a meeting with Mr. Legge, on Hoppy's way back to Hanover and our way home. It seems Hoppy, then secretary to Dr. Tucker, made all the arrangements for the visit of Mr. Legge's first cousin, the fourth Earl of Dartmouth in 1908, when the cornerstone of Dartmouth Hall was laid.
Mr. Legge sums up the experience as fol- lows in a letter just in from London: "Independence Day seems quite a suitable one on which you should have a note of thanks from a most grateful Englishman. When I accepted my son's invitation to spend three months with him I must admit I had no idea of the wealth of hospitality I was to receive or the wonderful thoughtfulness of you all and I really don't feel I can say more. You were all just kindness itself and of course to be taken to Dartmouth by two alumni was just (as we say in England) it."
George Whiteside has an interesting and original retirement project, namely Great Masterpiece near Lake Wales, Florida. Briefly, George wanted a project when he retires at 65, so he organized two Florida corporations. One was the Tower Bay Exposition which holds a fifty-year lease to 200 acres of shoreline property on Lake Pierce, a large lake in Florida, with white sand bottom and loaded with bass. His largest catch is a beauty on a flyrod. The other was Great Masterpiece, Inc., a 300,000-piece mosaic recreation of Leonardo daVinci's immortal "Last Supper." This mosaic was completed by Europe's most highly skilled mosaic artisans in Germany in 1930. Hidden from the Nazis, it was buried in a Berlin cellar where it survived the bombings of World War 11. To prevent its falling into Russian hands at the end of the war the mosaic was flown out of Berlin by the U. S. Airlift, in ten crates weighing 800 pounds apiece, and brought to America. It was displayed for a time at Rockefeller Center and in 1950 was brought to Florida for permanent exhibition. George and his associates have taken in over $400,000 in admission fees since 1951.
Art Everett's wife Betty passed away last May. She picked up hepatitis of a virulent and contagious form in a Grand Rapids Hospital where she worked on occasion as a R.N. Just at this time Art fell from a stepladder, caught his ankle with a twist and chipped a bone, requiring an operation. Betty was in the hospital, during this time, and passed away thirteen days later. For Art this summer has been a tough one.
Bob Paterson is President and General Manager of the Crescent Department Store and The Spokane Dry Goods Co. Bob's son, another Robert, is Vice President and Treasurer of these family enterprises founded by Bob's father in 1889.
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