1949
The last of the snow lies uneasily in the deepest shade, and in a matter of a few short days will water tree roots. Yes, Spring is here in all its glory, and it is a welcome change after a winter that made the ski tow operators and snow shovelers a lot of extra change.
I have been fortunate enough to hear President Dickey speak on two different occasions over the past month, and I shall never cease to enjoy this all too infrequent privilege. He chose to explode quite completely the myth about Dartmouth as a college rather than a university at a statewide New Jersey alumni dinner. You may recall that I grappled with this one some months ago in a rather cursory manner, pointing out that we no longer are a singlepurpose liberal arts institution but a complex of interests including three graduate schools, which are sufficient evidence in themselves to brand us as a full-fledged university. He also outlined the major events coming up in the yearlong Dartmouth celebration in honor of our Canadian neighbors, which many of you will be able to enjoy for yourselves if you stop in Hanover this year on either a New England vacation trip or en route to Expo '67 in Montreal.
I heard Mr. Dickey speak again just a few nights ago in New York in connection with the launching of the 1967 Alumni Fund Drive. Among the many points covered by Ralph Lazarus '35, 1967 general chairman, and the President were some rather startling statistics on the growth of the College over the past decade. They are certainly important enough to pass along to you. In 1956 the total college budget was eight million dollars. In 1966 it ran twentyseven million. The total value of the college plant and properties ran twelve and a half million dollars in 1956 and forty million dollars in 1966. The total cost of instruction jumped from almost two and onehalf million dollars to seven million, while tuition was forced up from $9BO to $2025. Now the real heart of the matter lies beyond mere comparatives. During the tenyear period the total number of students rose only slightly from 2700 to 3100. This obviates the main point which is that with all the staggering increases in the cost of a college education, Dartmouth wisely elects not to pack its halls of learning but to maintain its high standards of education for roughly the same number of young men. This makes for a genuine reliance upon all of us to help bridge the gap. Our local minister would call us "flying buttresses" for what he would credit as "visible outside support." That's a pretty good handle for the problem facing us as we head into our annual Alumni Fund Drive.
It was a real thrill to pick up my New York Times the other day and to see my old roommate's picture in the business section. Charles J. Urstadt has just been handpicked by Rockefeller as Deputy Commissioner for Operations of New York State's Division of Housing and Community Renewal. In his new capacity Jay will supervise the State's urban renewal assistance program, rental control in 171 communities outside the City, management and financial operations of 239 housing projects, the preoccupancy leadership training program, and the capital grant low-rent assistance program.
With all that going for him I was able to buy him a ham and cheese sandwich for lunch, so I guess he's still the quietly efficient, modest cheapskate he always was even with all that state money to toss around.
A letter came in from Bill Bollenbach a short while ago in answer to my plaintive plea for people to write. He claims to be as bald and blubbery as the rest of us and yearns for far away places like Jamaica or Acapulco, especially during the Fresca weather in native Saint Paul. Bill and wife Jean have a 14-year-old daughter Leslie as well as Bill and Ann, both elevenish, to ballast their favorite sailboat. Bill's family business was manufacturing water well supplies. The firm was acquired by Universal Oil Products Company of Des Plaines, Ill., last summer, and he is being retained to run the division. He and a business friend have gone into the indoor tennis business on the side, having installed ten courts in the Twin Cities and being about to install nine more in Seattle. He hopes to stranglehold a sport in key northern areas but admits only to a costly way of coming up with "free tennis" for his family at the present.
One of our Madison Avenue ad wizards, Bob Nutt, reports in that we might enjoy a tidbit or two from that area. The February issue of Madison Avenue, an adver- tising trade publication for which he is contributing editor, carried two of his articles. One was a semi-caustic, semi-humorous piece in the style he originated some seven years ago. The other was a longer piece for the figure men entitled "Systems Analysis in Advertising." Bob is a vice president at the Bruce Friedlich Advertising Agency in New York, and having had dealings with the shop myself I know that they are indeed a vibrant hustling outfit.
Vail Haak has just been named manager of the casualty agency at the Travelers Insurance Company's Philadelphia office. Vail worked his way up as a field supervisor and, most recently, as an assistant manager doing the same type work in New York before moving to Philadelphia earlier this year.
John Borys of nearby Peabody has been appointed a coordinator for the Training Center in Youth Development at Boston University. The center conducts programs designed to assist youth agencies, probation services, courts, and psychiatric court clinics throughout New England in coping with juvenile delinquency problems. John has specialized in youth service work since receiving his master's degree in sociology from Boston University in 1951. The training center is a program of the University's Law-Medicine Institute and is operated under grants from the Office of Juvenile Delinquency of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. It is one of four such programs in the country.
Word is out that Barbara and Sam Kilner have traded their skis for ten pounds of shelled Georgia pecans. IBM has picked our Sam to be district manager with headquarters in Atlanta. I had occasion to talk with a local IBM man just this morning, relative to a proposed installation at our plant in nearby Athens, and I couldn't resist a little name dropping. The local man was frank to say that Kilner was pretty far out of speaking distance being the big man at the top in the entire state. Now look, Sam, I'm sufficiently impressed, but if these hot noisy machines of yours don't do all that your boys claim they should, we're going to drop them off right on your new front lawn and go back to our abacus.
This is the last chance for Gold Pick Axe Award nominations. Send your candidate's name and qualifications in to chairman Carll Tracy, 20 Fourth Avenue, Warren, Pa., by June 1. Let's really back this wonderful class award with a flood of nominations.
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