The Class Officers Weekend

THE population explosion that Hanover experiences on certain big weekends of the year is now close to being a characteristic of the annual May gathering of Dartmouth alumni class officers. On May 13-14 some 440 officers and wives representing 66 classes from 1898 through 1965 were in town for working sessions of the six associations into which the officers are organized and for the general meetings, annual dinner, stag luncheon, and informal socializing that always form a part of the weekend program. This was the largest attendance yet recorded for the event. The class officers back as guests of

the College included presidents, secretaries, treasurers, Alumni Fund agents, newsletter editors, and bequest and estate planning chairmen, as well as the reunion chairmen of the classes holding official reunions in 1966 and 1967. The Class of 1921 had all seven of these officers present; seven classes had six officers at the meetings, and thirteen other classes had five.

The senior alumni worker present was Oscar P. Tabor Jr. '98, head agent. Close behind in seniority were Kenneth Beal '99, secretary, and Professor Emeritus Everett Goodhue '00, who has the quadruple duties of class president, secretary, treasurer, and agent. Professor Goodhue' now 88 and head of a devoted group of twelve class members and sixteen widows, was in the limelight at Friday night's general session when he was saluted as Class Secretary of the Year - a popular decision that drew a prolonged, standing ovation from the assemblage in Spaulding Auditorium.

The weekend program began that afternoon with a meeting of reunion chairmen and then a general session for officers and wives in the Hopkins Center Theater. Reports from College officers were presented by J. Michael McGean '49, Secretary of the College; Edward T. Chamberlain Jr. '36, director of admissions; John W. Masland, Provost; George H. Colton '35, director of development; and Robert W. MacMillen '40, assistant dean of the summer programs.

Following a cocktail party in the Top of the Hop, the annual Class Officers Banquet was held in Alumni Hall of Hopkins Center, with contemporary class groups served also in the Drake Room and the Hanover Inn Tavern. The after-dinner program was held in Spaulding Auditorium for the first time and was presided over by John A. Van Raalte '48, president of the Dartmouth Secretaries Association.

Professor Russell R. Larmon '19 of Hanover was honored with an Alumni Award, presented on behalf of the Alumni Council by its former president, Wilbur W. Bullen '22 (see Page 55 for photo and citation). In addition to the tribute paid to Professor Goodhue as Class Secretary of the Year,, other awards as class officers of the year went to Russell W. Brace '56, class president; David G. Halloran '53, class treasurer; Wilton S. Sogg '56, class newsletter editor; and Edward H. Kenerson '03, bequest and estate planning chairman. The citations accompanying these awards, presented by Mr. McGean, will be found with the respective class columns of the recipients.

With Dean Thaddeus Seymour as chairman, the rest of the program was devoted to talks and demonstrations by undergraduates prominent in debating, film-making, music, engineering, and geology. Kappa Kappa Kappa's glee club, winner of this year's interfraternity hum, sang several selections.

Saturday morning was devoted to meetings of the separate associations of class officers. The programs, which drew on a large number of College officers as participants, were chaired by Herbert H Harwood '26, president of the Class Presidents Association; John A. Van Raalte '48, president of the Class Secretaries Association; Edward J. Hanlon '26 president of the Class Treasurers Association; Edward M. Condit Jr. '53, president of the Class Agents Association; Windsor C. Batchelder '19, president of the Newsletter Editors Association; and Martin J. Remsen '14, president of the Association of Bequest and Estate Planning Chairmen.

Mr. Harwood was presiding officer at Saturday's stag luncheon, the concluding formal event of the weekend. Rupert C. Thompson Jr. '28, chairman of the 1966 Dartmouth Alumni Fund, gave a progress report on the Fund as of that date, and also made a 1965 campaign award to Roger W. Brown '05, who won the Fred A. Howland Trophy as the outstanding head agent of a class more than forty years out of college. Mr. Brown's citation appears with the 1905 class column in this issue.

President Dickey was the principal speaker at the luncheon. As a departure from his customary way of reporting to the class officers, the President answered a number of the written questions that were submitted by those present (one question to a table). These questions ranged all the way from student haircuts and" football scheduling to civil rights marchers among the faculty and the declining appeal of business as a career for graduating seniors. President Dickey was Tn good form and the informal style of dealing with matters on the minds of the alumni was a popular success.

Association officers elected for the coming year were as follows:

CLASS PRESIDENTS ASSOCIATION : President, John B. Whitman '46; Vice President, John E. Moore '23; Secretary, David E. Orr '57.

CLASS SECRETARIES ASSOCIATION: President, Roger M. Bury '27; Vice President, Ernest L. Barcella '34; Secretary, J. Michael McGean '49; Executive Committee Members, Thomas J. Swartz Jr. '49 and Charles N. Blakemore '52; Member of the Alumni Magazine Advisory Board, Jerry Tallmer '42.

CLASS TREASURERS ASSOCIATION: President, W. Curt Glover '18; Vice President, Edward W. Roessler '25; Executive Committee Members, Frank A. Bruni '57 and Edward S. Brown Jr. '34; Representative on the Dartmouth Alumni Council, Carroll Dwight '22.

CLASS AGENTS ASSOCIATION: President, Josiah Stevenson IV '57; Vice President, Samuel Z. Wormser '27; Secretary, Clifford L. Jordan '45; Representative on the Dartmouth Alumni Council, William M. Alley '21; Nominating Committee, Edwin C. Chinlund '29, chairman, and Charles A. Rowan Jr. '45.

CLASS NEWSLETTER EDITORS ASSOCIATION: President, Richard W. Lippman '42; Vice President, Robert S. Fox '33; Secretary, David E. Orr '57.

ASSOCIATION OF CLASS BEQUEST AND ESTATE PLANNING CHAIRMAN: President, Martin J. Remsen '14; Vice President, Leon C. Greenebaum '27; Secretary, Robert L. Kaiser '39; Members of the Executive Committee, John F. Rich '30 and Thomas E. Wilson '35.

Edward A. Keible Jr. '65 graduate student at Thayer, demonstrates machine. he and Thomas M. Morton '65 invented for assembling multi-wired cable for electronic equipment. Class officers learned that this ingenious machine can produce in one second the same cable now takes twenty minuters by hand.