1917

Dartmouth and the Class of 1917 lost another loyal and devoted member when, on April 16, Karl Koeniger passed away following a heart attack. Karl's genial personality and boundless enthusiasm for the college he loved so well will be sorely missed. The funeral service at Hillside Presbyterian Church, Orange, N. J., on April 19, was attended toy several classmates whose names you will find in the In Memoriam notice, prepared by Gene Towler, which appears elsewhere in this issue. Other classes also were represented at the service by Roy Lafferty '15, Edward Foley Jr. '33, Thomas Jardine '41 and Andrew Murtha '46 who also represented the Dartmouth Club of Northern New Jersey. Upon receipt of word of Karl's death your Secretary sent a letter of sympathy to Elsie and her son and daughter on behalf of all 17'ers. Should any of you wish to contribute to the Karl W. Koeniger YMCA Memorial Fund, referred 'to in the In Memoriam notice, you should address Mr. Clarence R. Mease, General Secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association of the Oranges and Maplewood, 125 Main Street, Orange, N. J.

Make a note on your calendar right now that the ninth annual Fall Outing of our class is to be held over the September 30-October 1 weekend. The White Cupboard Inn at Woodstock, Vt., again will 'be our headquarters, but as many of you know, the Inn cannot house our entire group and, as during the past two years, some will have 'to be quartered in nearby guest houses. Because of the limited accommodations available in the Inn proper, reservations should be made at an early date. For this purpose write to Allan Darrow at the Inn. Probably this is the only notice of this gathering of the clan you will receive as the first issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE in the fall will not reach you until after our meeting.

Last fall Walt and Phoebe Walters took off on a trip that kept them out of the country until mid-March. Leaving San Francisco during September Walt visited surgical clinics and gave surgical papers at medical schools and hospitals in the Middle and Far East. Upon their return from that extended 'trip they went to Florida for a few weeks of rest, and to give Walt an opportunity to write up reports of his observations for publication in one of the surgical journals, and to prepare additions to revisions of hooks that he wrote in 1940 on cancer of the stomach and diseases of the gall bladder and bile ducts. Walt is due to be in New York on May 11 to attend a meeting of the Dartmouth Medical School Policy Committee with John Bowler '15, Chairman, and the Deans of Harvard and Johns Hopkins Medical Schools, and the Emeritus Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Columbia University, a group that has done wonders for our Medical School.

After describing his trips, both past and contemplated, Walt wrote such a warmhearted tribute to our departed classmate, Don Aldrich, that I want to give it to you in full. He said,

I can't begin to tell you how sad I was arid am and will continue to be to learn that our friend, and great American, Don Aldrich, will no longer be with us. I think Don exemplified in his life the highest type of man. From the time I first had an opportunity to make his acquaintance as a classmate in our freshman year, I admired him and watched with the greatest of interest his conduct, and heard from him his philosophy of life and plans for his future. He followed the course that he set for himself and attained a place in all the activities with which he was engaged far beyond what most men could or would accomplish.

A recent letter from Curly Carr expresses great regret that he and Ann will be unable to be with us for our reunion. They sailed for France on April 5 and will be away until they land at Montreal on the return trip on June 28. Their trip is to take them by car to the Riviera, Rome, Florence, Venice, and Vienna, and then on to Paris and London. After a week in London they plan to head north for Scotland from which point they will leave for home on June 21.

Like Curly Carr, Hal Walker has expressed sincere regret that he and Helene cannot attend reunion. They, too, sailed on April 5 for Europe, and do not expect to return home until the latter part of June. They expect to be in Oxford at the very time we are getting together at Hanover. Hal concluded his letter by saying,

Helene and I are both enjoying good health and we are getting a lot out of semi-retirement. It is difficult to define just what one does but we've both kept active and busy ever since my retirement from the Navy last May. As a matter of fact, there hasn't been enough time to do all of the things that we had planned.

On May 3, at Concord, N. H., there was a joint meeting of the New Hampshire Alumni Association of Manchester, Nashua, the Merrimack Valley and 'the Seacoast. 1917 was well represented at the meeting by Percy Howland, Perne Hutchinson, Larry Nourse, RalphSanborn, Deering Smith and Bud Steele.

The last word received from Bob Boynton since he and Gail took off for foreign shores, was that they had spent eight days in Frankfurt and four in London, and were at that point leaving for Devonshire.

During late April Spique and Ruby MacIntyre made the long trek from Lexington to Hampton Falls to be dinner guests of Ralphand Ethel Sanborn. Dinner was followed by a beautiful shore drive.

Time is getting short for those of you who have not already done so to send in your contribution to the Alumni Fund. As of May 2 only a bit over 32% of our quota of $16,900 - $5,446.69 to be exact - had been contributed by 17'ers. We certainly don't want to end up in sixth place in the Green Derby, our present position among seven classes, so sit down now and write out the largest check possible, and mail it in pronto.

The July issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE will be devoted largely to reports on class reunions, and there will be no other class news. So I take this opportunity to wish you all a very pleasant summer.

Secretary, South Pomfret Rd. Woodstock, Vt.

Class Agent, 6 Wyeth Rd., Hanover, N. H.