1961

By the time this issue of the AlumniMagazine reaches you, the 1974 Alumni Fund Campaign should be in its final few weeks. Hopefully, our class will have distinguished itself both in participation and in percent of the dollar objective achieved. As of March 25, we are off to a good start relative to where we were at the same date last year. We are ahead by 38 more contributors and by $2,151.

This year three anonymous alumni donors have agreed to contribute up to $250,000 as a Challenge Fund to encourage increased gifts from a majority of alumni and to help increase participation. Two major provisions of the Challenge Fund struck us as worth noting. First, each increased gift received from a donor who contributed $100 or less last year will have the amount of the increase matched on a dollar-for-dollar basis. Matching dollars will be credited to the donor's class up to a limit of $1 donor. Second, the 1974 gift of any donor who did not give in 1973 will be fully matched on a dollar-for-dollar basis up to $1,000.

The Challenge Fund is a great idea! If ever there was time for each of us to dig a little deeper and give a little more to the Alumni Fund, this is the year. Every dollar of increase is really worth two dollars. We especially encourage those of you who did not give last year to make a contribution this year. In the Green Derby competition this time around we are competing for Alumni Fund honors with the Classes of 1962 to 1968. Are we going to let a younger class beat us? Of course not! So okay everybody, let's get those dollars into the Alumni Fund!

Hank Laurelli is practicing neurosurgery at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, R.I. Russell Boss has been appointed executive vice president of A. T. Cross Co., manufacturer of pens and pencils. Jim and Joan Watson are residing in Stamford, Conn., with their two sons, David and Geoffrey, who are eight and four, respectively. Jim is the modern furniture buyer for Bloomingdales.

Ron Fagin has been certified as a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine with a subspecialty in gastroneterology. He has also been elected a trustee of the Georgia Gastroenterology Society. Ron and his wife Bethe have two daughters, Meredith and Kimberley, and live in Savannah, Ga.

Tom Gates has been named marketing manager of Foremost International. Headquartered in San Francisco, this company is an international processor and marketer of dairy and other products. Prior to joining Foremost, Tom was managing director of STP Corporation in Australia.

As a parting shot, when you send in your Alumni Fund contribution, include a few lines on what you, the wife, and kids are doing. Think of it: with one mailing to Hanover you can help the Class win the Green Derby, multiply your money with matching gifts from the Challenge Fund, and help keep this column alive by sending in some news. You can't pass up a great three-for-one deal like this!

Secretary, 14 Glen Rd. Winchester, Mass. 01890

Class Agent, 34 Colony Road Westport, Conn. 06880