May Perennial: Class Officers Weekend
FOR two days in early May while undergraduates were lost in thoughts of mid-term hour exams or the Green Key delights but one tough week away a near-record assemblage of 250 Dartmouth class officers plus wives swept into Hanover to dominate the local headlines and fill the new halls.
Dartmouth Class Officers Weekend 1963, held on May 3 and 4, had many extra features. The Nathaniel Leverone Field House was dedicated to the sounds of the U. S. Navy Band, and the benefactor made the principal address at the annual Class Officers Dinner. The Hopkins Center's Studio Theatre, Hartman (Music) Rehearsal Hall, Drake Room, and Green Room were meeting places for the discussion of class affairs and Alumni Hall was both dining hall and social hall for the returning alumni and their guests.
The events of the weekend began with tours of the Hopkins Center followed by a discussion of the first year of Center operation and programs led by Vice President Orton H. Hicks '21; Warner Bentley, director of the Center; and Prof. James Clancy, theatre director. Class reunion chairmen were also using this hour for the weekend's first planning session. A reception for officers, wives and guests from the College's staff and faculty filled the large dining hall of the Hanover Inn prior to the annual dinner, held for the first time in adjacent Alumni Hall.
Before the address by Nathaniel Leverone '06, M. Carter Strickland '29, president of the Alumni Council, presented Alumni Awards to Andrew J. Scarlett 'lO, Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, of Hanover and Charles F. McGoughran '20 of New York City. Citations that were read to the group and photographs of the presentation are published in this issue with the recipients' class columns. Professor of English John Hurd '21, president of the Class Secretaries Association, was toastmaster for the dinner. Mr. Leverone, when addressing the class officers, said, "For anything that I have done for Dartmouth, I've been amply rewarded in inspiration and fellowship."
The dinner ended in time for all to move to the attractively decorated Leverone Field House and a concert by the U. S. Navy Band before a crowd of some 3,800 drawn from many neighboring communities as well as the College com-the versatility of the Nervi-designed field house as it tested the acoustics, also provided the occasion for the formal dedica- tion of the facility. Ceremonies, in which Mr. Leverone was presented a model of the field house, were held during the intermission.
The next morning was reserved for class business and College affairs as the officers gathered early for several hours of reports from staff and others, panel discussions, and question periods. Class presidents and secretaries met together in the Studio Theatre with the featured actors, appropriately placed upon the stage, being Howard K. Clery '53, who presided; Emil Mosbacher Jr. '43, who reported on Alumni Council activities; and a panel discussion team of Edwin B. Pease '25, William W. Fitzhugh Jr. '35, Russell W. Brace '56 and J. Michael McGean '49, Associate Secretary of the College. Secretary of the College Sidney C. Hayward '26 and ALUMNI MAGAZINE editor Charles E. Widmayer '30 also addressed the group, and later Mr. Widmayer gave a similar report to the treasurers assembled in the Green Room. Craig B. Haines '2B, treasurers' representative on the Council, also reported and a panel program followed with Theodore R. Miner '23 and Simon J. Morand III '50 participating. F. Ray Adams '19 presided.
Class Agents had much to talk about in their Drake Room meeting presided over by Laurence G. Leavitt '25, president of the Agents Association. Fund Chairman Charles F. Moore Jr. '25 and Executive Secretary Clifford L. Jordan Jr. '45 led discussion on the results to date and the planning for the concluding weeks of the 1963 campaign.
Newsletter editors opened their meeting with a report by their association president Gordon P. Chipman '26 and their representative to the Alumni Council, William H. Scherman '34. Panel participants were editors Mosher S. Hutchins '17, Wellington F. Barto '29, and Eugene W. Wilkin '45.
Two class officer groups met outside the Hopkins Center that Saturday morning. The class gifts chairmen under chairman Don D'Arcy '33 gathered in Crosby Hall for progress reports and planning, and the bequest and estate planning chairmen met in a very appropriate setting, the Treasure Room of Baker Library. Presiding at the latter meeting was Herbert A. Wolff '10, president of the Bequest Chairmen's Association, and a special guest of honor and participant in the session was Mr. Leverone. Also featured on the program was a talk by President-emeritus Ernest Martin Hopkins 'Ol, billed by the Association as its "youngest bequest chairman."
For wives of class officers and those officers whose meetings had concluded, a program highlighting new academic developments at the College was presented in the late morning in Hopkins Center Theatre. Nichol M. Sandoe Jr. '45, assistant to the vice president, presided, and featured speakers were Henry W. Ehrmann, Professor of Government and acting director of the new Center for Comparative Studies, and John H. Copenhaver Jr. '46, Professor of Biology and chairman of the Department of Biological Sciences.
All class officers came together for a stag luncheon at Alumni Hall to hear the annual address by the President of the College. Mr. Dickey reported on new College programs, on the many and varied accomplishments of the undergraduates in the past year, and on the important effect that the College's newest facilities are having on the College and community. At the same luncheon Class Officer of the Year awards were bestowed on Charles E. Rauch '30 (chairman); John A. Van Raalte '48 (secretary); Dr. Theodore R. Miner '23 (treasurer); Gordon P. Chipman '26 (newsletter editor); Carl F. Woods '04 (bequest chairman-in-absentia), and Lawrence W. Scammon '27 (the James B. Reynolds Trophy for head agent of a class 25 years or more out of College). Citations and photographs appear with the recipients' class columns.
The pleasant afternoon in Hanover that followed was a time for baseball action against Navy, lacrosse against Yale, tennis against Pennylvania, and for Dartmouth movies in Filene Auditorium of Bradley Hall. The evening program included a chamber music concert in Spaulding Auditorium and a showing of the movie of the America's Cup yacht race with introductory remarks by the victorious Weatherly's skipper. Bus Mosbacher '43, in Alumni Hall. This was followed by a social gathering for officers and wives.
Association officers elected for 1963-64 are as follows:
CLASS CHAIRMEN AND PRESIDENTS ASSOCIATION: President, John R. Wheatley '24; Vice President, Frank L. Harrington Jr. '50; Secretary, David E. Orr '57.
CLASS SECRETARIES ASSOCIATION: President, Russell C. Dilks '51; Vice President, Edwin B. Pease '25; Secretary, Sidney C. Hayward '26.
CLASS AGENTS ASSOCIATION: President, Warren G. Kreter '42; Vice President, Robert D. Reinhardt '32; Nominating Committee, Francis T. Adams Jr. '46; Secretary, Clifford L. Jordan Jr. '45.
TREASURERS ASSOCIATION: President, Waldon B. Hersey '24; Vice President, Norman Russell '06; Executive Committee, Donald G, Rainie '40 and David J. Mandelbaum '54; Representative on the Alumni Council for a three-year term, William H. McElnea Jr. '44.
NEWSLETTER EDITORS ASSOCIATION: President, Sidney J. Flanigan '23; Vice President, Hugh M. Chapin '47; Secretary, David E. Orr '57.
BEQUEST AND ESTATE PLANNING ASSOCIATION: President, Truman T. Metzel '23; Vice President, Martin J. Remsen '14; Secretary, Ford H. Whelden '25; Executive Committee, John F. Rich '30, Leon C. Greenebaum '27.
Dedication of the Nathaniel LeveroneField House was marked by a concert bythe U. S. Navy Band in a curtained-offconcert hall in the east end. Below,President Dickey presents Mr. Leveronewith a model of the field house duringa brief ceremony at intermission time.
Dedication of the Nathaniel LeveroneField House was marked by a concert bythe U. S. Navy Band in a curtained-offconcert hall in the east end. Below,President Dickey presents Mr. Leveronewith a model of the field house duringa brief ceremony at intermission time.
