1931
Time rushes on and there is so much to be said on so many subjects that I feel I need four times the space I have available for these notes. Firstly, the Alumni Fund is proving to be a very exciting campaign as we bend every effort to hit the $100,000 mark. By May 1 we had much more that we gave last year—$54,000. Many class members have given several times what they gave last year, in this all-time one great effort. If you have already given, please review the problem and see if you can't manage a further increase. If you aren't coming to the 40th, why not send a check for what you might have spent if you had been able to come?
Secondly, the burning question of coeducation at Dartmouth needs your personal attention. The College needs to know your views and there has been some comment about the lack of response from the alumni body. Write to Orodon S. Hobbs, 171 Chestnut St., Lynnfield Center, Mass. 01940 and tell him just what you think of the idea. It's vitally important.
It looks as if we'll have between 250 and 300 at the 40th Reunion. Full details next month.
I talked with Red Gristede, who is now an employee instead of an employer. Gristede Brothers was sold to the Southland Corp. of Texas and they offered Red the job of handling public relations from 8 to 5 daily. It's the 8 to 5 part that gets to Red, where he used to make his own hours. Red did a magnificant job in presenting the Robert Rolfe memorial plaque on May 1 as reported elsewhere in this issue.
Doug Morris, en route to London, encountered Johnny Johnson on the same plane. They talked all night. Johnny is still studying but he can't get student rates for air travel any more. You have to be under age 26.
Bill Wilson forwards copy of a postcard from Jack Weisert who is presently residing in the Atlantic Pyrenees, or Basque country, about which Ernest Hemingway wrote so much.
Red Chamberlin castigates me for misspelling his name and I stand corrected. He was a candidate for Mayor of Highland Park, Ill., but I haven't heard how he made out.
Fred and Frances Hamerstrom have received from the National Wildlife Federation a 1970 National Distinguished Service Award for their work in helping to save the prairie chicken from extermination.
Ed Pastore is now assistant national director of the Boys' Clubs of America, culminating 47 years of youth work.
Add John and Lucy Cogswell to the list of property owners in Hanover. John is really plugging for the Alumni Fund drive, doing a fantastic job.
Dick Fisher writes: "We have been enjoying the Curling Bonspiels this winter. The Milwaukee Curling Club built a new facility adjoining our country club and it was busy from November to the first week of April. Still swinging all the golf clubs but it gets harder every year to get into the seventies. Made it three or four times last year. I got my first hole-in-one last year and the hole-in-one club was most generous with a few hundred dollars plus a beautiful sport jacket with club shield and 1970 hole-in-one. Phoned Len Clark about a year ago when I was East. Thought we might get together with Alice Reno but guess she has been real busy since her marriage to banker Binny Wolf."
Ralph Wardle, author, lecturer and teacher, has been named a Foundation Professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Ralph, who has a M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard, has been an Omaha faculty member since 1938. He is former chairman of the English department and now holds the Albert W. Jefferis Professorship in that department. Foundation Professors are selected for outstanding ability in teaching and research. Ralph is widely known as an author, and lecturer and his publications include "Godwin and Mary" (1965), "Oliver Goldsmith" (1957) and "Mary Wollstonecraft" (1949).
Hank McCarthy, back from cruising in southern waters, is busy firming up the exciting details of our on-coming 40th.
Remember, if you want to make the Yale game in Hanover October 30, send a deposit to Shep Wolff for a room at the Howard Johnson motel in White River. Twenty rooms are being saved.
Secretary, 23 Coughlin Rd. North Easton, Mass. 02356
Class Agent, 85 N. Pocono Rd. Mountain Lakes, N. J. 07046
