1952
As faithful readers of this column know we have followed the policy of touching on the class Alumni Fund drive but not dwelling on it in our spring columns over the past four years. It's been our feeling that John Rosenwald's communications to the class have been complete and varied and that the story has been well told without moving greatly into the class notes column.
This month, however, we're choosing a different path. We talked with Rosie by phone the other day, and we're in agreement that in this 10th reunion year every means of class communication should be utilized to the fullest to emphasize the importance of an outstanding drive. The goal for the class after ten years out is $7,050. In those ten years the members of the class of 1952 have gone a long way in achieving responsible positions in business, professions, etc. Measured against what has been gained personally by the class members our group goal for the 10th year is peanuts. Rosie and his agent organization are out to surpass this goal by reunion weekend. If every man reviewed" his ten years of accomplishment and measured it against his ten years of giving to the Alumni Fund through the class, then acted realistically and thoughtfully in writing his check, the class could be $10,000 or more.
This is no rah-rah pitch, old school tie and all that. Your memories of your personal Dartmouth years and ours are meaningful, but we're being asked for our hardearned cash because we have a personal commitment to an institution, a concept of higher education and to the common society which must eventually be the beneficiary if Dartmouth is what we think she is.
The class campaign is now in full swing. Rosie kicked off a full month ahead of all other classes. In our tenth year we want to be ahead all the way in every way. Write that check today and make it your best. You'll not only feel damn good when you do it you'll also be making it easier for the funnyman of Wall Street and his helpers and you'll have them off your back too!
Now on to the world population crisis. Don and Pat MacLeod had their third child, first boy, on February 5. The young man's name is Scott James and pop, I'm told, is already biting his nails about tuition costs in the 1980s. The very next day after young Scott met the world a fellow named Charles David Katz joined the family of Herb andBarb Katz over Beantown way. Charles is number three for the Katz tribe, all boys.
Ray and Judy Hinds became parents of Miss Holly Elizabeth Hinds on December 4, just in time for Christmas. Holly will have to contend with an older brother when she gets mobile. Down Washington, D. C„ way Dave and Gail Schwartz are becoming accustomed to parenthood. Their first child, Anne Elizabeth, was born on November 14. Dave is legal assistant to Commissioner Howard Freas, chairman of the rates division of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
It was a third child for Bill and LoisThornton on January 4 and their first daughter. Young Miss Sandra Lee has two brothers, Bill, about nine, and Steven, about seven. She's really a junior miss. Big Bill is president of the Manchester Sand and Gravel Company, trustee of the Manchester Memorial Hospital, secretary of the Manchester Redevelopment Agency, president of the Connecticut Ready Mix Concrete Association and incorporator of the Savings Bank of Manchester.
Fred and Irene Hecht and their three children will be traveling to Seattle, Wash., this summer where Dr. Fred will be a fellow for a year in medical genetics at the University of Washington.
Jim Toffey was elected president of the Pingry School Alumni Association. Dr. PaulBlack and Miss Sandra Merkin of Patchogue, N. Y., have announced their wedding plans (spring ceremony). Sandra is a senior at Simmons College of Nursing. Paul's presently in research at the department of allergy and infectious disease, National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Md. HarveyElliot has been appointed a publicity representative of the State of Maine Department of Agriculture. Bid Guild, and this sure seems to be his year, has been elected an officer of the National Life Insurance Company.
Dick Watt very kindly sent us a clipping from a recent New York Herald Tribune where our own Dek Davidson was quoted on the moral issues of the day. Dek, it seems, has been riding a special commuter car from upper Westchester to the big town with other members of the First Congregational Church of Chappaqua. With the assistance of a clergyman Dek and his riding companions use their Monday morning commuting time for an hour-long symposium on moral questions.
The quote of Dek is as follows: "Deck (sic) Davidson, a sales engineer who lives in Thornwood, said he had looked up the word 'moral' in a dictionary and had found it to have at least two meanings. He then presented a somewhat complicated argument to prove that one meaning pertained to his personal life and the other to his business. He seemed satisfied with the interpretation."
Visit Scenic New Hampshire in June and while you're in the state why not stop by for the 10th reunion of a Fabulous Class.
Secretary, 15 Rayton Rd., Hanover, N. H.
Class Agent, 135 East 83rd St., New York 28, N. Y.
