1941

Spring is here. The Red Sox are leading their division of the American League, having won their opening day game against the Yankees. Most of the snow is gone from the New Hampshire hills. And Bob Thomas and his assistant class agents are hard at work on the 1970 Alumni Fund.

First to the small bits of news that have come in in the past 30 days. Clint Reynolds was elected vice president of the Paul Revere Corporation in February. He has been connected with the legal department of this firm in Worcester, Mass., since 1948. He joined Paul Revere after graduating from Harvard Law School and has served in various capacities in this company and its subsidiaries. He is also a vice president and assistant secretary of the Paul Revere Life Insurance Company and vice president of the Paul Revere Variable Annuity Insurance Company. Paul Revere is a subsidiary of AVCO Corporation.

In February, Bill Belding was named regional manager for eleven department stores in the Los Angeles area operated by The Broadway. The position is a new one and will involve direct management responsibilities for the company's stores located in downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood, and various other Los Angeles suburbs. Bill has been with The Broadway since 1952 and has managed the firms stores in Westchester, Los Angeles, and Del Amo. Since 1967 he has been regional manager in charge of three stores in the San Diego area. Since assuming his new position, Bill and his wife are residing in the Pasadena area. Their son is presently on active duty with the U. S. Navy.

A recent note from Bob Thomas contained the news that Carl Krogh who recently moved from Pittsburgh to Riverside, Conn., was now working in New York City as assistant to the vice president for mar- keting of Kawecki Berylco Industries, Inc.

I am sorry to report to you that FelixLilienthal's wife, Muriel, passed away in March. I know all of his classmates and friends join me in extending to Felix our deepest sympathies.

As I mentioned above, the Alumni Fund is underway again. Bob Thomas has recruited 66 of our classmates as assistant class agents to insure that he gets maximum coverage in his solicitation this year. We can all make their jobs so much easier if each of us will sit down now and make out a check for our 1970 contribution. We are the senior class in our Green Derby group which includes the classes from 1941-1948, and it would appear that this would be a most appropriate year for us to help Bob come out on top in this competition. For our information and guidance, the Alumni Fund office has published some interesting statistics regarding the 1969 Alumni Fund drives of Dartmouth and the Big Three in the Ivy League. With respect to participation, Dartmouth and Princeton led with 62% each followed by Yale with 50% and Harvard with only 37% in dollar amounts collected, Dartmouth, with $2,128,000 was a poor 4th behind Yale who came up with more than $4,500,000 and Princeton and Harvard whose funds exceeded $3,500,000 each. The principal reason for the variance in size of the total funds was the difference in the size of the average gift recorded. Yale's average was $171 per donor, Harvard's was $165, Princeton's was $146, while ours was only $81! The Executive Committee and the class agents are hopeful that this last figure will be substantially improved in 1970.

News is still pretty scarce. If you don't want to spend the spring reading columns containing nothing more than pleas to increase your gifts to the Alumni Fund, some of you had better start writing.

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

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