1938

Class Officers Weekend took place May 2 and 3, with '38 represented by Squee and Helen Ellis and daughter Janice, Gus and Dorothy Southworth, Dick and Evelyn Holt, president, treasurer, and head agent, respectively, and your secretary. As it was a year ago, the entire weekend was an impressive manifestation of good organization by the college administration and dedication and loyalty by the attending class officers.

Friday afternoon's session featured talks by Dean of Freshman Ralph Manuel '58 and a panel of undergraduates, on the Dartmouth Plan, and a discussion and summary by President Kemeny of his Five-Year Report.

In the evening, following the presentation of Dartmouth Alumni Awards to Dr. Ted Miner '23 and Fran Fenn '37, a program entitled "Sounds of Hopkins Center" was offered in Spaulding Auditorium. The closing numbers were by the small men's and girls' groups of the Glee Club, and, as has been suggested in this column before, I can't see how any alumnus who is still breathing can look at and listen to The Distractions without endorsing coeducation at Dartmouth.

Saturday morning's program for the entire body of class officers included, among other thoughtful presentations, what impressed me as deeply moving words by Dean of Admissions Eddie Chamberlain on the chances for survival of higher education and democracy as we know them in this country. The rightly serious tone of the meeting was delightfully lightened by the presiding officer, Bill Hale '44, president of the Head Agents Association, and a masterful master of ceremonies if ever there was one.

The weekend's program closed with separate sessions for each of the Class Officer groups - presidents, treasurers, head agents and reunion chairmen, newsletter editors, bequest and estate planning chairmen, and secretaries. The secretaries meeting was largely devoted to Alumni Magazine matters and suggestions by individual class secretaries. As he was a year ago, your secretary was impressed and humbled by the enterprise and dedication of the secretaries of some other classes. Some send birthday cards to their classmates; there will have to be a lot fewer of us, and/or a different class secretary, before that happens for '38.

It was a pleasure for Gus and me, as hold-overs, to welcome Squee and Dick. At the sessions I attended there wasn't much discussion of the current Alumni Fund, but it's not only in progress but it'll be darn near over by the time you read this ... and its success is vitally vitally important to Dartmouth College, our college With last year's pretty tremendous achievement hind us. '38 just must not do anything but continue to be Amazing and Great. Not only loyalty to Dartmouth and '38 are involved; this year we have a new head agent, Dick Holt. I know he's putting in an awful lot of hours on what is inevitably a very tough job. Let's help him to help '38 to help Dartmouth by giving as generously as each of us can to this year's Alumni Fund....

Stearns McNutt made his appearance here two years ago as the new commander of the Sarasota Power Squadron and appears again by virtue of being inducted as commander of District 22, United States Power Squadrons. The district has a membership of 3,800 in 17 squadrons and extends from Albany, Ga., down Florida's west coast from Tallahassee to Naples. Stearns is an active member of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary and a director of the Sarasota Yacht Club.

The name of Bob Southworth hasn't graced this column for a pretty long time, but he and Katie and Gil and Fran Tanis attended the same dinner party in Concord, N.H., a few weeks ago. It's my understanding that Bob is now fully retired from his long-time association with Mobil Oil. Bob and Katie live in North Hampton, N.H., (not to be confused with Northampton, Mass., the home of a mono-sexual... or is it uni-sexual? ... institution of higher learning, that we probably visited more often than Dartmouth undergarduates do now). Bob has a boat that he takes-fishing parties out on.

Sox Calder, in addition to all the other things he does, was not so long ago chosen president of the board of trustees of Mountainside Hospital of Montclair, N.J. Sox has been a member of the hospital's board of trustees since February a year ago.

News has been received of the death of Ed Kirby at his home in Jamaica on April 15. The sympathy of his classmates is extended to his family, and an obituary will appear in this or a subsequent issue of the Alumni Magazine.

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