1924

This is the final word from your committee: We have done our homework well, we believe, and have been told so by the college planners. In the words of our chairman, "We want you with us ... to have an enjoyable time with good friends." (To which I'll add, and to make some new ones 50 years after our graduation) "June 7 is the date when we'll join in our 'once-in-a-lifetime' golden jubilee. Applications are pouring in from far and near and it looks as if we might break the record for 50-year reunings."

The committee arrives June 6 to make certain that every detail is 100 percent complete. A hospitality committee of Hanoverians will greet you and your wife, some of our widows, and perhaps some of the second or third generation, and will start you off with a social hour in the tent. We will have a college bus to tour the campus in the afternoon. Then come cocktail parties, dinners (planned with a minimum of speaking), undergraduate movies (edited for better shots), group singing, and a Glee Club concert. The traditional Memorial Service will be in the "White Church," led by Fred Berthold '45, chairman of the Department of Religion and former Dean of Tucker Foundation. The music will be reminiscent of President Hopkins. Widows will be able to see in the library the memorial books provided by the Class. And "many other things too numerous to mention."

Don't worry aboout gasoline; currently, there are no lines; a full tank can be bought if you take some care in when you ask for a fill-up. You can save your gas, too, by using a special 1924 bus to get you around the campus with a minimum of effort. The College will send to all who have registered a special sheet showing bus schedules from Boston and from New York to WRJ. They run frequently and almost as fast as you can drive your car; local people use the buses with pleasure. Also good is the air service to Lebanon airport and taxis are available from there to Hanover. If you take the Amtrak overnight train from Washington and New York, you arrive about 5 a.m. Be sure to make reservations and request a taxi to meet you the morning of the 7th. If, by some chance, you have not sent in your reservation checks, please do so at once as we must know how many meals to plan for. So says our excellent Reunion Chariman Don Wilbur.

And our Alumni Fund, with the special goal for this one time (as you have read in the literature) is off to a very good start says Phil Van Huyck. There are some new givers and some who have increased by the four-times formula. Get it up, '24! We're headed for big things this year.

Local news will have to be deferred for lack of space . . . except to remind you that in past reunions members of '24 made two good friends happy and honored ourselves by adopting two members. During the 30th Reunion we made Mal Keir (a favorite Economics professor who died in 1964) an honorary member. Jeanette Gill (University of Nebraska '24, ex-Marine, and now retired manager of Thayer Hall and Outing Club House dining facilities) became a class member at our 40th Reunion. Jeanette is helping the local committee with details in the refreshment department where she has special know-how. She'll be with us during Reunion of course.

Some local items: Don Bartlett's wife, always known as Henry, makes local headlines with her current chairmanship of the annual finance drive of the League of Women Voters of Norwich across the river. And returning from trips or winter away, are Ken and Ina Foley, Ives and Doris Atherton, and Dick and Delores Morin. Prize (?) for the longest trip must go to Stan and Barbara Chittick who went around the "girdled world," like the song says. Welcome home, one and all.

Secretary, 2 Brewster Rd. Hanover, N.H. 03755

Class Agent, Box 58, Warwick, N.Y. 10990