1927

It's too bad that either the Class Officers' weekend in Hanover can't be a couple of days earlier, or the deadline for these notes be pushed back a few days, because I would like to be able to get a report of the coming weekend into this issue, rather than waiting until next fall, when the news will be a bit stale. However, this cannot be, so all I can report at the moment is that present indications point to an excellent representation by your officers, and an interesting program which will, we hope, inspire us all to do a better job for you in the year to come.

Dr. Edward E. Redcay, dean of Plattsburg State University College of Education since 1949, has received a special professorship to develop a new honors program for talented students. In order to accept this new post, Ed will step down as dean. His new appointment was announced by Dr. George W. Angell, president of the college, who stated that "Dr. Redcay's limitless knowledge of and faith in youth has made him unusually successful in helping them to develop scholarly interests and qualities of leadership. There is no doubt that under his guidance the honors program will toe one of the finest in the nation." Ed came to Plattsburg College in 1936 as a professor of education. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, he has been basketball coach from 1936 until 1942, dean of men from 1937 until 1952, advisor to various classes, advisor to the student governing body, chairman of the education department from 1941 until 1946, director of education from 1946 until 1949, director of the summer session, chairman of the curriculum committee, chairman of the educational policies committee, and acting president from 1952 until 1954. He is listed in the current volume of "Who's Who in America" and 'has been listed in "Who's Who in Education" and "Who's Who in the East." He has a Master's degree in psychology from Dartmouth, an M.A. from Yale, and a Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia. Before going to Plattsburg, he was research director for the Slater Foundation in Washington, and is the author of several books on the educational problems of the southern Negro.

Charles G. Allen Jr. has been named to the advisory committee of the Worcester County (Mass.) National Bank. Charlie is general manager and treasurer of the Chas. G. Allen Co. of Barre, Mass., a machine tool manufacturing concern, founded by his grandfather, with which he has been associated since his graduation from Dartmouth.

Charles T. Brewster has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Congregational Church in Meredith, N. H. Chuck returned to New England last fall, after having spent the past thirty years as pastor of the Congregational Church in Yankton, S. D.

Capt. Al Lawrence, dean of academic instruction at the U. S. Coast Guard Academy, spoke to the parent-teachers association of the Lincoln-Lewis School in Meriden, Conn., on the subject of life at the Academy, the requirements for entrance, and what a good preparation for entrance should include.

A note from Don Gardner, ardent ski enthusiast, as well as ardent yachtsman, deplores the absence of classmates from the ski slopes of. New England during the past winter, stating that Hitch Hitchcock was the only '27er he found. Dinty asks that any members of the class who plan to ski at the following places get in touch with him, so that the big 1927 banner can be hoisted: Mt. Washington Carriage Road; Ravine Trail; Sherburne Trail; The Ravine; Dartmouth Skiway; Cranmore; Black Mt.; St. Anton, Austria; Zermat, Switzerland; Chamonix, France; Les Houchs, France; Smugglers Notch; Temple Mt.; Iron Mt.; Sugar Loaf Mt. During the coming summer, Rog and MarionBury plan to join the Gardners on the Borogrove III for a cruise down the Nova Scotia coast to the Bras d'Or Lakes, Cape Breton. This will be the annual cruise of the Cruising Club of America, and Dinty expects to be joining up with Charlie and BarbaraBartlett aboard the Gurnet Light. All of this sounds like the good life, and should be a great encouragement to any young men about to embark on a career in the advertising business.

Gordon Colby has joined the ranks of the grandfathers, with the birth of Ira Gordon Colby IV. son of Ira Gordon III, who is studying law at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Hopefully, he will join a long line of Dartmouth Colbys, already consisting of Ira Jr. '57, Ira Gordon '94, IraGordon Jr. '27, and Ira Gordon III '56, with Don's older son, James G. '54, thrown in for good measure.

Tom Gillespie, on a recent trip to -the west coast, had dinner with Ros and Jean Guyot and Ed and Bobby Ripley.

Chuck and Marie Baker, with their daughter Carole, spent their early spring vacation in San Juan and the Virgin Islands.

Better make a note right now of the dates of the next Fall Reunion, which will be Oct. 13-14, the weekend of Dartmouth Night. Since this will be the last MAGAZINE column prior to October, it's my last opportunity to tell you that if you miss it it's your own fault. Headquarters will again be at the Hotel Rogers in Lebanon, better known in 1927 circles as the "Jolly Roger." The entire hotel is tentatively reserved for us, but it is up to each one of you to make his own reservations. Early reservations get the better rooms (those with plumbing).

We're now in the home stretch on the 1960 Alumni Fund, and the next few weeks are going to separate the men from the boys. I have just seen some comparative figures on the gifts of the Dartmouth and Princeton Classes of 1927 in last year's campaign. They raised a little over half again as much as we did, but, surprisingly, we had a lot more in really large gifts ($1000 and up) than they did. Where they licked the tar out of us was in the number giving (they had 419, more than we have ever had) and they were way ahead of us in the number giving from $50 to $1000. I've always thought that Princeton beat us because a few very wealthy men gave very large amounts, but this isn't true at all. They beat us because the whole class gave realistically, as though the success of the campaign depended on each individual man, as it really does. It makes you think!

Have a good summer - see you in October.

Secretary, 29150 West River Rd. Perrysburg, Ohio

Class Agent, Massachusetts Automobile Bureau 89 Broad St., Boston 10, Mass.