1933

This is the kick-off month for the 1975 Alumni Fund and Chet Thomson and his team of approximately 45 assistant class agents are already at work trying to improve on our 1974 results, which totalled $55,427 from 331 contributors, or 92.4% of objective with 68.2% participation.

One of the great strengths of the Fund is that roughly 10% of the remaining members of the Class are actively involved each spring in making the Fund the success it continues to be. Our special thanks to all who are currently and previously involved, as well as to the other sixtenths of the Class who also contribute.

The College, with its increasing needs which are greatly intensified by the cost of fuel oil and the many other operating costs that have spiraled upwards in inflation, has to look to the alumni for an even greater measure of support. I am confident that 1933 will continue to do its share. Make that pledge to the Fund now!

At this point in time - March 1st - while preparing these notes, I cannot project a definite date for announcement of our new class president, or the replacement on the executive committee for Randy Valensi, or the additional executive committee members, but it could well be before these notes are published - via Bob Fox's Newsletter.

The annual Class Officers Weekend is scheduled for May 2-3, 1975, beginning at 3 p.m. Friday and concluding after luncheon on Saturday. Unfortunately neither Bob Fox nor I will be able to attend, but it is hoped that the other officers can.

I am pleased to report that as a result of the special insert in the class notes for February the 1933 Dartmouth ring found by a friend of Dr. Roger Hurwitz '56 in a hotel in Rome last fall has been returned to its owner. The owner turns out to be Arnie Salisbury who lost the ring during a brief stay in Rome with his wife Elsie last spring. Arnie lives in North Andover, Mass. and, after having served as assistant attorney general for the State of Massachusetts for a number of years, he currently has a private practice of law in Lawrence, Mass., devoting himself to: town counsel for the Town of North Andover; general counsel for a local bank; and probating estates for friends whose widows come to him for help. "

One of the very pleasant developments in recent time is receipt of newsy letters from the wives of three Ex- 33'ers: Emily Hobbs writes that she is now a grandmother three times over, having added two grandchildren during the past year. Her son David had a son in March and her daughter Dottie had a second daughter in June. Dottie and her husband have bought Emily's house on Brewster Road, Scarsdale, N.Y., and Emily has moved to 194 The Maine, First Colony, Williamsburg, Va. 23185, where she has built a new house with her sister and her husband.

Patty Dutcher is still living at The Highlands, Rochester, N.Y. 14622 and spends her summers in Rockport, Mass. Her daughter, Debbie Dutcher Bump, is a sculptress in wood, and her youngest daughter, Hope, was married in August, 1974, to John Tomich, a graduate student in Biochemistry at Purdue, and she is a graduate student in Voice at the University of Indiana in Bloomington, Ind. Her son, David, D-Ex-1965, graduated from the University of Hawaii after a stint in the U.S. Marines. After two years of graduate study at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, David is back at the U. of Hawaii teaching classical Japanese literature. He met his wife Kuniko, while studying at the University of Hawaii, and they have a two-year-old son, Ikiru Darrow Dutcher.

Adele Colla, whose new address is 72 Riddle Hill, Apt. B, Falmouth, Mass. 02540, tells of spending time with Ev and Alice Shineman during summers at Orleans, Mass., where they are building a retirement home. Her older son Coleman '58 and Thayer School '59 and his wife Leslie (daughter of Bob Collins '35) have three children and live in Newport Beach, Calif. Her second son Stan Jr. married Judi Bail (Princeton '73) and teaches English and coaches sports at Vermont Academy, Saxtons River, Vt.

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