1941

Since we filed our last column, a few classmates have taken pity on your secretary and forwarded a bit of news. A nice letter from Jack Waring from Statesville, N. C., arrived just in time to fill an almost empty file. Jack's letter reads in part as follows:

"At our 25th reunion in Hanover a few years ago, I told some of the folks that I was running for county commissioner that year and they asked me to let them know how I made out. Well, I made out fine. I put on a strenuous campaign and received more votes than anybody running for any office in the state and nation within our county. It was the first time in 40 years that any Republicans had been elected over competition in this county. I enjoyed the work immensely and talked myself deaf, dumb and blind from 8 in the morning until 12 at night it seemed.

"Among the things we did was to found a county-wide Council of Governments with the cities. We passed a 5-million-dollar hospital bond issue. We introduced the food stamp program for the poor. We established full-time, year around voter registration. We survived a re-evaluation of property, and took advantage of this to lower the tax rate 11¢ per hundred. We set out plans to lay aside one million dollars for a county vocational school and made a good start on consolidating the city and county school systems.

"All in all it was a very satisfying experience, but my employers suggested that they wanted a little more of my time and I had best not run again. Republicans, however, were overwhelmingly re-elected and I was honored with the 'Outstanding Citizen Award' for 1968, which was not bad for a 'transplanted Yankee,' in the bigoted (?) South!

"I have a daughter graduating from Wake Forest this spring and another finishing high school. Penny is fine and getting adjusted to my pacing around the house since my promotion to plant manager of Hunt Manufacturing Co., makers of Boston pencil sharpeners, etc., where I have been employed since 1954.

"Hank Palmer lives in the next town of Salisbury, some 25 miles from here. He used to be executive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce there, but has now gone into business for himself, opening a stationery store there."

A second welcome note was from Dr.Dick Olmsted. Dick didn't give me a new home address, but he can be reached c/o The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare - Public Health Service - National Institutes of Health - Bethesda, Md. 20014. Dick's note read in part:

"In August of '68, I started on a sabbatical leave from my position as chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Oregon Medical School to go to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for the purpose of studying the role of the Behavioral Sciences in Medical Education. With four children grown, Bobbie (Skidmore '43) and I are enjoying the excitement of the Washington scene plus the opportunity to be 'high-rise livers' with no burdens of lawns, pet, etc. We are looking forward to returning to Hanover for graduation of our son Deke this June and to a hurried trip to Africa in July for the wedding of our daughter Jill, a Peace Corps Volunteer in Togo. Then back to Portland and reality in September."

Included in an official memo from class agent Bob Thomas was a paragraph of news which read: "Son Bob Jr. headed for Carnegie-Mellon, and a career in architecture. Carl Krogh's third daughter headed for Swarthmore. Carl and Mary, Barbara and I are looking forward to a student-parent exchange deal come, September 1969."

I am sure you all have been receiving repeated mailings from the Dartmouth Third Century Fund Campaign. In a recent bulletin it was noted that George Flather was chairman of the area general campaign in Washington, D. C., and that Hank Gunst was chairman of the Richmond, Va., committee.

Most of you no doubt have read of the current student unrest on the campus and the problems that the Dartmouth faculty has been facing in its recent confrontation with the "Students for a Democratic Society." Less well-publicized, I believe, was a second group, the SBD (Students Behind Dartmouth) formed to oppose the militancy of the SDS. In tribute to the SBD, their slogan, which appears on tags that they have been distributing, deserves reproduction here. It reads as follows:

DARTMOUTH Love It or Leave It

All of which brings me to the current Alumni Fund Campaign which is now underway. Our quota for this year was set at $32,350, which figures out to a little better than $6O per man. As of the interim report of April 28, those of you who had contributed had done splendidly, but, far too few had contributed. On this report, only 78 contributors, or 15% of our potential had checked in. On the plus side, these 78 men had contributed or pledged a total of $10,709, averaging better than $137 apiece and giving us more than 33% of our dollar goal. To reach 100% participation and 100% of our dollar objective, 441 of you non-contributors should come up with an average of $50 per.— 41 OUT!

In connection with the foregoing paragraph, you might be interested to know that last year in Ivy League alumni fund drives Harvard's average gift was $148, Princeton's was $121, Yale's was $116, and Dartmouth's was only $93. I'm sure many of you will agree that this is not an area where Dartmouth should run a poor fourth, and will be guided accordingly. - 41 OUT!

In any Wausau, Wis., vote for favorite Ivy League college Dartmouth has a nicelead through this one family. In the rear center are Dun Schuetz '42, Bob Hagge '39,Ron Westgate '42, and Dan Hagge '42. Dun is a cousin to the Hagges and Ron ismarried to Dun's sister. The offspring include eight Hagges, three Schuetzes, andfour Westgates. Charlie Schuetz '49 and family in Lake Forest, Ill., can be summonedwhen the reserves are needed.

9 Oak Drive Bedford, N. H. 03102 Secretary,

Class Agent, 942 Woodcrest Rd., Abington, Pa. 19001