1938
Hanging from the wall facing my desk is a Dartmouth calendar - a calendar of familiar Dartmouth scenes month by month - that I presume has been sent to all alumni as a precursor of the 1974 Alumni Fund drive. The pictures are great, and I think it's a great idea.
How many of you remember the Dartmouthin Portrait calendars that used to be available in our undergraduate era, and into the fifties, I think? They were great too. In fact, quite a number of years ago, on a nostalgia kick, and with the kind cooperation of some one in the Alumni Records office, I collected a supply of those old Dartmouth in Portrait calendars, with January falling on each day of the week, so I've had a Dartmouth calendar for each year. The calendar for the year 1940 is the one I have on the wall now, beside the 1974 model. It's a day out for January and February, but March 1 comes out right, on a Friday, because 1940 was a leap year.
That calendar has Dean Strong and Dean Neidlinger on its frontispiece, Pudge leaning on a mailbox in front of Commons. I remember him also at a class meeting we had to practice for Commencement. Some one asked him which hand he should take his diploma with, and Pudge countered, "Some of you better take it with both hands!"
End nostalgia.
Except to observe that nostalgia is something closely akin to, and wrapped up in tradition, and both are good, and both are part of the Dartmouth we love. If you read the November 28 Bulletin, you'll recall that tradition was the theme of Convocation for this, Dartmouth's 204th academic year. An integral part of that tradition, in your secretary's opinion, is the Dartmouth Indian symbol.
From the office of the University and College Designers Association comes word thai Scotty Scotford received an award of special merit for a poster design at the association's fourth annual conference and competition in Denver last fall. Scotty's award-winning poster was done for the Planned Parenthood Association of the Upper Valley and featured the slogan, "Love Carefully." Your classmates are proud of you, Scotty, and also grateful to you for the fine letterhead design for our ' 35th Reunion stationery.
Speaking of that reunion, which will be less than four months hence when you read this, you will recall that a class banquet is scheduled for Tuesday evening, June 11. Your secretary is now in receipt of a copy of a letter from Dean Brewster to President Paul Urion, accepting with thanks Paul's invitation to speak at that affair.
"One class president in his time wears many hats," to paraphrase the bard of Stratford-on- Avon. I'm indebted to Don Rainie '40 for a newspaper photo of Paul, in his role of Rochester, N.H., City Solicitor, administering the oath of office to Mayor John Shaw in inaugural ceremonies January 2, 1974.
It is with sincere sorrow that I have to report the recent death of Bob Cataldo. The sympathy of his classmates is extended to his sisters and brother.
Too late for inclusion in the last class notes, but some time ago now, and longer ago when you read this, I received word that Marsh Land was back after a three-week vacation with Polly in Florida.
Over the course of the months your secretary has received from the Alumni Records office a tremendous volume of changes of addresses. Among the most recent are the following; Sherm Sherman from Northfield, Ill., to Merritt Island, Fla.; Chuck Wiggin from an APO to 16th Street N.W., Washington; Cramps Chapman to New Hartford, Conn.; Ral Jenny from Rocky River, Ohio to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; and Carl Sharpe from Shrewsbury, Mass., to Bailey Island, Maine (just a couple or three peninsulas to the west of here). Some of these, especially to Florida, may well be only for the winter, and for more complete and reliable information I'd suggest that interested classmates check with the Alumni Records office.
Secretary, Box 187, Damariscotta, Me. 04543
Treasurer, 1335 Woodside Dr., McLean, Va. 22101
