1935

In a few days I expect to get the customary billet doux from the College reminding me that fall term charges are due for the eldest Fitzhugh son, who has somehow survived into his senior year. This makes particularly appropriate the schedule of charges which the Dartmouth College Dining Association made in 1910, a copy of which I have in front of me. When my father and yours were of an age to go to college, breakfast at Dartmouth could be had for consisting of prunes, rolled oats and milk, baked sausage, baked potato, graham muffin and butter, and "any drink on the bill of fare." If he had just cycled back from Northampton, and was understandably hungry, a small sirloin steak could be obtained for or lamb chops for 15¢. A combination dinner was 20¢, with beef broth, planked bluefish and potatoes, French bread and butter, and rice pudding. At lunch he could have had corn fritters with maple syrup for 84 - make it an even dime with a baked potato added - or loin of pork for 14¢.

By the time you read this, our off-year reunion and Executive Committee meeting in Hanover on September 28 will have come and gone. Since your secretary will be gallivanting in Europe about that time, BobNaramore has agreed to write the festivities up for the next issue of the MAGAZINE. It should be a gala time and the start of a tradition of September meetings in Hanover for years to come.

It is a great disappointment not to be able to plan on seeing Bob Sellmer in Madrid. Bob was one of the most colorful members of the class and it is a cruel blow to hear of his death on August 8 of a heart attack. It is particularly saddening, coming on top of the recent death of Mac McCarty. Mac made a point of visiting Bob whenever, and it was quite frequent, he traveled abroad. Bob would have been interested too, I know, in the current efforts to organize a Milburn McCarty Memorial Scholarship Fund, which has been sparkplugged by Tom Lane. All of us have felt that something important and tangible should be done to commemorate Mac's extraordinary impress upon his friends and his community. The sudden and bitter reality of his death should not pass into forgetfulness without the effort on our part to keep his memory green, as vibrant and outgoing as his own personality was.

Tom's initiation of the scholarship fund to honor Mac was necessarily delayed until the close of the Alumni Fund Campaign. Organization is now in full gear. Dr. Ernest Martin Hopkins has consented to serve as Honorary Chairman of the Committee, which includes an impressive array of Mac's friends and associates in every walk of life. The goal of the fund has been set as $25,000. Over $7,500 has already been committed in advance gifts.

It is only appropriate that a large share of the responsibility to make this effort successful should be borne by Mac's many friends in the class. The money will be used to endow a scholarship to be awarded to boys who have Mac's qualities: energy, interest in people, sense of responsibility, and mental alertness - when possible, boys of Mac's native state of Texas. Contributions, which are now earnestly solicited, should be sent directly to Hanover, to George Colton, Treasurer of the Committee, made payable to "Dartmouth College — Milburn McCarty Memorial." No man in the class better deserves the effort of the class to bring this fund to a successful conclusion. Mac shared all of himself with everyone he knew. We can do no less.

It is hard to stop talking about this living memorial for Mac McCarty, but there is mundane news to be covered. Ralph Lazarus has been re-appointed to the Board of Overseers of the Tuck School; Carl Funke has been elected Vice President of the Dartmouth Alumni Council; Dave Williams has been elected for a two-year term on the Alumni Council; Neil Roberts has been elected Chairman of the Alumni Council of Enrollment and Admissions (although, perhaps, he might like this to be a secret) and Reg Bankart has been elected Chairman of the Alumni Council Committee on class gifts for the College. Reg, incidentally, has done a yeoman job as temporary Chairman of the Class in the past few months. A nominating committee has been appointed, consisting of George Colton, Bus Latimer, Dave Williams, and Tom Lane, with myself as Chairman, to select a candidate for approval of the Executive Committee at our fall meeting.

The atmosphere of nostalgia which may pervade this month's column is marked by an item which appeared in my home town newspaper during the summer. Dick Lauterbach's daughter, Jennifer, was married to Anthony William Robbins in Chappaqua, N.Y., at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William D. Carlebach, uncle and aunt of the bride. Dick, who was taken away from us too soon, would have been proud of his daughter, who was a lovely bride, on top of being a magna cum laude graduate of Smith College. She is scheduled to take her master's degree in American history this year at Columbia.

One final item. The class extends sincere sympathy to Frank Wright on the death of his wife, Mims. She was a great addition to the class gathering last year in Hanover and we will miss her presence in the meetings to come.

Secretary, Hog Hill Road Cnappaqua, N.Y.

Treasurer, 305 Grosse Pointe Blvd. Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.