1905

On December 3 and 4, Jane and I attended the special Class Agents meeting at the Hanover Inn. About 40 men were present and, with wives and guests, 65 sat down to the Banquet Friday night.

Charles Zimmerman, Chairman of Trustees, gave the principle address, outlining the research and votes that led to the final vote binding the College to start next September on coeducation and the four-term year. This will make it possible to earn a degree in three years. It is hoped to have an enrollment of 3,200 boys and 800 girls by 1974. This will require the yearly Alumni Fund to raise $2,700,000 in 1972 and $4,000,000 by 1975.

We all agreed that the job of raising this amount would require an all-out effort from the Dartmouth Family. I am sure 1905 will end up with a substantial increase over 1971.

The football season ended in a blaze of glory with Dartmouth and Cornell sharing the Ivy Crown. The two co-captains of the 1972 team are Robert Norton, defensive back from Danbury, Conn., and Fred Radke, defensive end from Orono, Me. We are happy to have these two boys from New England.

Oar 1971 Co-captain Wayne Young said in his farwell address, "Dartmouth football means tradition and that tradition means winning." Let us all say Amen.

Carroll A. Campbell died October 31 in a convalescent home. He and Clara had been in the Middletown Hospital for some weeks. Carroll and Clara were always regular attendants at all our '05 get-togethers for many years. Carroll's father graduated in 1877 and Royal Parkenson's father graduated in 1878. Clara is in the Chesterfield Convalescent Hospital, Mam St., Chester, Conn. 01412. Their daughter Mrs. Jean Tugman lives in Koneche, Hawaii 96744, #47-744, Lamaula Road.

C. C. Hills reports receiving 35 happy 90th birthday cards for which he thanks all the '05 folks. He finds it quite a job to write so many thank you notes. C.C. is looking ahead to seeing us as soon as we get to Florida.

1905 is off to a good start for our 1972 Alumni Fund with early memorial gifts from four widows and substantial pledges from two of our regular men. We will need some increases to cover men lost during this year, so let's all do our best.

Jane Lawrence will be spending the winter at the Homestead in Woodstock, Vt. This is a very comfortable retirement home. Brockway Lawrence, Jane's son, is still in Casablanca, Africa. He is looking for his return to the States next summer. Her daughter lives in Oregon which is too long a trip for her to make this winter.

Helen Gilbert, 66 Front St., Exeter, N. H. 03833, is going into a hospital for eye surgery and will much appreciate a note.

Sunday, on our way home from Hanover, I called John Bell on the telephone. Had a nice talk with him at the Hillsboro House, Hillsboro, N. H. 03244 where he has excellent care and a good nurse. He will be there until spring and is hopeful to be able to go home when the warm weather returns. Lucy is in Florida at the apartment they usually have in Clearwater. She is lonesome, but is happy to be away from the cold and snow.

Birthdays: Herford Elliot, February 3, 89 years old; Robert Falcone, February, 90 years; Fred Chase, April 9, 89 years.

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