1906

The 1972 Class Alumni Fund was a deep disappointment to me, not only because the amount was smaller than last year, but also because I failed to get a 100 per cent participation record. Two of our classmates who have given every, year, failed to do so this year and would not answer letters.

And, speaking of letter writing I appeal to each of you classmates. Unless each member writes some news of his family and friends, the only alternative is my files which contain personal stories of most of the group. I could start from there.

In a letter dated February 24, 1970, Walter Powers writes his feelings about the freshman-sophomore football game:

"I see an analogy, with which maybe you and the other 22 survivors may concur, between life in retrospect and that great struggle in which we all played our parts in September, 1902. the freshman-sophomore football rush. I found myself bewildered, and apprehensive. I didn't know why we had to go through with it, how to distinguish friends from foes, what I was supposed to do in the battle, what might happen to me, or how and when the affair would terminate. It was a confused engagement, the details of which I don't remember. I fought blindly, unenthusiastically, and so far as I know ineffectually. I got some bumps and bruises, most of them from unexpected quarters. After a while some superior authority decided that it was all over, a decision in which I acquiesced, but didn't understand. But this 85-year-long football rush, which has also bewildered me, I've really enjoyed, as I trust has been the case with you and my twenty-two other old friends who haven't yet been hauled off the campus."

Shorty Neal celebrated his birthday or October 5.

Secretary, Hanover Convalescent Home Lyme Rd., Hanover, N. H. 03755

Treasure, 14 Allen St., Hanover, N. H. 03755