1903

It will be another month yet before we will be flexing our muscles in preparation for the Alumni Fund Campaign starting April 1. You all know what the Fund campaign is for and have already thought through your respective parts in it - so I figure on not bearing down too heavily on you this spring.

Christmas and the Holiday Season brought some nice messages to indicate at least some of you still have a good wish to share with your Secretary - I hope you have also thought to get off some good wishes to others in our '03 family.

A greeting card and their wishes that all goes well was welcome from our good friends, Nell and Tom Cohen. Very often a good executive works so quietly and efficiently that he does not get the appreciation and praise his work deserves. Kid is one of these - we all wish him to keep up his fine work. May 1965 be a good year for him and Mrs. Cohen.

By this time Ned and Charlotte Kenerson are settled in their apartment at Green Valley. A note from Ned tells that he is very much better than when he finally reached Arizona after his bout with pneumonia; he ends his note "Wish I could have a class reunion in this sunshine." Maybe he has something.

After a too long silence, Dick Brown quieted my worries about him with a cheering report, "I had a virus in January and am only now beginning to get up some steam. Keep well - there are only a few of us left."

A nice greeting card and note from Harold Comstock. He is still at Toy on Lodge in Saratoga, Calif. He tells of receiving a letter from Matteson - the last '03 man he has seen, "probably in 1952." For himself, "I keep about the same with the help of a doctor and lots of pills." More power to him and the pills.

From Mrs. Sarah Wentworth, Brat's widow, not only a long-time friend but a friend of Dartmouth, a welcome Christmas greeting and the personal note that means so much from those we don't see very often. I wish I knew how to persuade her and her sister to come East (Binghamton) and do Hanover. Maybe we will have to wait until our 65th in 1968 - but it is a long way off.

In his note Ned Kenerson enclosed a letter from Margaret Patch, widow of George W. Patch, Ned's roommate in college for their last three years. Mrs. Patch tells of her trip around the world which she made for the World Crafts Council of which she is Secretary. She is also busy with the Genealogical Headquarters in New York City of the Miles Merwin Association, Inc.

Please scan these notes carefully for misspellings. At Christmas I received a copy of recent edition of Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary and there should be no excuse for future blobs in spelling. If you catch me napping I will gladly let you write the notes for the next month's MAGAZINE. Earliest postmark will determine whose turn comes first.

Secretary, 13 Vermont Ave. Binghamton, N. Y.