1938
Amazing 1938's Thirty-fifth will be over by the time you read this . . . and it will have been great! A happening that isn't yet over, though it's fast nearing its June 30 conclusion, is the 1974 alumni fund campaign.
The most current figures that I have indicate a pretty tremendous '38 achievement, and it is surely, to be hoped that subsequent information won't alter this trend. It's hard to imagine that any classmate who enjoyed our Reunion can have failed already to have responded to the Fund to the maximum extent that he is able. However, additional gifts - because '38 is a great class, and it was a great Reunion, and Dartmouth is a great college - would still be worthwhile recognitions of those facts.
If you went to Reunion, you can't have failed to have been reminded of how great Dartmouth and our class and our classmates are. How about implementing that realization with an additional gift to the Alumni Fund?
On the other hand, if you weren't able to make it to Reunion, how about applying the $49 fee you didn't pay, or a part of it, plus whatever else you might have spent for reunion incidentals, as a gift, or a supplemental gift, to the Alumni Fund? '38 is amazing, and additional amounts given, and increased participation, will make it even more so.
Further assurance of our perpetuity is provided by a note from Terry Shumaker III '70, son of Ed Shumaker Jr. '38. The proud Dartmouth father (and son) writes that his son Nathan was born March 9, 1974, and further that the boy's maternal grandfather is Raymond D. Merrick '39. What a great Dartmouth lineage!
The Alumni Records office is a lot prompter in conveying address changes to me than I am in passing them on to you. Here are some of fairly recently received vintage: Dune Buttrick to Box 546, Jamestown, R. I. 02835; Dutch Holland to 82 Elm Street, Camden, Me. 04843 (where, as noted last month, he and Nancy live, and own and operate a gift and craft shop, The Stell and Shevis. Your secretary had occasion to pass through Camden last month and called at the shop and can confirm that both it and its merchandise are most attractive . . . and the owners looked well too); Ed Korn-Patterson to 3201 Landover St., Apt. 1718, Alexandria, Va. 22305; Jim Miller to 105 Meadowbrook Dr., Coraopolis, Pa. 15108; Howie Casler to "Broadwood House," Lady Margaret Rd., Sunningdale, Berkshire, England; and Bob Steams to 198 Toilsome Hill Rd., Bridgeport, Conn 06605 (where Bob has obviously been working his way up.)
A note from Slats Slattery transmits the sad news of the death of John Mayer on April 25. John died at his home in Kentfield, Calif., of an apparent heart attack. An obituary will appear in a later issue of the Alumni Magazine, and the sympathy of his classmates is extended to John's widow Dorothy.
Slats writes that he himself is feeling great, that he wishes Hanover were nearer (his letterhead reads Baywood at Crest, Ross, California 94957), and that he cannot make Reunion but wishes all his classmates the best.
I mentioned last month that Treasurer GusSouthworth had noted that class dues remittances were running a little behind a year ago. If I understand my copy of another letter from Gus to President Paul Urion of recent date aright, that situation continues to obtain. Surely it would seem only logical and right that in a reunion year we could improve this indicator of class loyalty and class support. If we don't . . . that would be wrong.
If you'd like to know of some more address changes, just sit tight, and quietly, and they will appear in subsequent issues. If you'd prefer other news, of possibly more general interest, make it and convey it to me, and I'll report it.
1938 members saw to the dedication of the '38 Room in Room 304 College Hall at ClassOfficers Weekend. From left, Carl vonPechmann, Jim Briggs, Paul Urion, GusSouthworth, Bob Hallock, and John Scotford (without name tag.)
Secretary, Box 187, Damariscotta, Me. 04543
Class Agent, 15 Damon Road Holden, Mass. 01520
