1903
By the time these notes reach you we should be all set and ready to go in the 1967 Alumni Fund campaign. Already material has started coming in with decisions so far made and also the first Interim Report No. 1.
So far decided, 1967 goal is to be $2,000,000. This is an increase of $lOO,OOO over the 1966 goaln - approximately 5¼%. It is designed to meet that gap between educational expenses and income from tuition and endowment funds. This gap has been running at a ratio of about 12½% and has been met by the Alumni Fund each year. The promotional emphasis will continue to stress primarily faculty compensation, library resources and scholarship aid.
1903 was in its last Green Derby class competition in 1963. It finished second in its group. I have always felt that I was largely at fault (it was my first effort as Class Agent) by reason of my failure to understand and bear down sufficiently on the vital importance of individual participation. Veteran classes in which grouping we are now, are not competitive as in the Green Derby and their class ranking is based solely on participation. I figure that each of us and our 1903 family must go all-out to build up this participation ranking. Each of us is in competition not with other classes but with ourselves for the good of the College.
Sorry but not much news. Ernest Brown wrote that Mrs. Brown (Elaine) had finally graduated from the hospital and they both were looking forward to their usual sojourn at their Kilton Cabin in Grafton, N. H. Also improving is Mrs. Neva Kimball. Leigh writes they hope to make their summer stay in the Poconos as usual.
While typing these notes, the mail man has just left me a note from Mrs. Mary V. D. Matteson telling of the serious illness for several months of her husband, our Byron W. Matteson of Denver. Byron is now in a nursing home. I am sure he will appreciate a word from you folks. I am writing Mrs. Matteson today.
I only hope all these sick folk will come along as well as my much better half seems to be doing.
A recent newspaper clipping tells of the gift of the Crawford House to Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital. The gift of the hotel an historical White Mountain resort situated in a 500-acre estate, was made by Brunson S. McCutchen of Princeton, J. His purpose in making the gift was his desire to "assist the hospital in the pursuit of its worthy and much needed services to the public and in particular in the continuing development of its neurological services.
Secretary and Treasurer 13 Vermont Ave. Binghamton, N. Y.
Bequest Chairman,
