1933

Every one of the 330 contributors (85.1 per cent of the Class) should share in a strong sense of pride in helping to oversubscribe the 1977 Alumni Fund goal of $4,600,000 by 102.5 per cent and the 1933 goal of $55,500 by 119.1 per cent. Compared with our 1976 efforts, the number of contributors increased by only 7 (from 323 to 330), but our giving increased $18,973 - from $47,153 to $66,126.

In our 44th year out of the College, it is highly significant that even though we were fourth in the seven classes with whom we are teamed in the friendly rivalry of the Alumni Fund and with whom we were in college, our per cent of dollar objective of 119.1 was the highest in the group', and we have surpassed one million dollars ($1,018,638) in unrestricted support of the College through the Alumni Fund. We also improved our average gift from $146 to $200.

For this proud achievement, the Class heartily thanks and congratulates head class agent Mannie Sprague and over 30 classmates who worked earnestly as regional and area agents, listed in Bob Fox's newsletter for August-September 1977.

A number of special items have accumulated during the summer, but as you read this (I assume sometime in late October) I am afriad that some of them will be a little out of date. I trust that each of you and your families had a reasonably good summer and that you will take time during the next nine months to send your secretary news of yourselves and other '33ers, so that the class notes will be well stocked throughout the year.

I am sorry to record the passing of two classmates. Fred Frank, of Los Angeles, Cal., died May 9, and his obituary will appear in this or a later issue. Also the Alumni Records Office informed me in May of the death of Bob Taylor, of Hillsboro, Ohio, on July 1, 1976. No obituary is planned at this time.

Unfortunately, there are two corrections to be made in the obituaries of Cliff Johnson and HalHenchey which appeared in the June 1977 issue. Cliff was reported as having prepared for Dartmouth at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., instead of Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.; and Hal's brother Ken, a one-year member of the Class of 1933, living at North Reading, Mass., was not listed among Hal's survivors.

In keeping with the continuing emphasis on the development of the Hanover Inn as a vital factor in the life of Dartmouth College, HeagBayles of Sands Point, Long Island, N.Y., and chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the advertising firm of Sullivan, Stauffer, Colwell & Bayles, Inc., of New York City, as well as head of the U.S. operations of Lintas, a London-based agency with subsidiaries, branches and clients in 26 countries, has been elected chairman of the board of overseers of the Hanover Inn, of which he has been a member since 1964. Our congratulations!

In addition to his retirement as vice president and chairman of the investment committee of the College effective June 30, 1977, John Meek was honored with a special citation at the annual meeting of the Association of Dartmouth class bequest chairmen for his particular service and support of the program since its inception; and at their June 1977 meeting the Dartmouth trustees voted to rename the Sachem Trail down Holts Ledge at the Dartmouth Skiway in Lyme, N.H., the John Meek Trail in honor of John's outstanding contribution to the College during his 28 years of service.

Alice Flaccus of Swarthmore, Pa., widow of Kimball Flaccus, poet and writer, has advised of the sale of his research archives. The notebooks on the life and literature of American poet Edgar Lee Masters were sold to the University of Texas at Austin. The remainder and larger part of the Masters research archive was sold to Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Swede Branson, M.D., of Concord, N.H., and a retiring member of the N.H. Heart Association's board of directors, was one of three recipients of the association's top award, the distinguished service award, at its 27th annual dinner in May, 1977. Jeff Davis was reelected president of the association for another year.

Pete Hart, who is retired from the State Department and is doing consulting work for the Bechtel Corporation in California on Middle East affairs, and his wife Jane visited Center Sandwich, N.H., in July to look at properties on the lakes and in the mountains. They expect to return during October for more viewing and a football game.

Jeff and Bea Davis visited old friends in Ft. Myers, Fla., and their daughter Shirley and her husband. Bob Zinn, and children, Gretchen and Robbie, in Largo, Fla., in May. We are sorry to have missed them.

According to Jeff, who also visited Ed andPeg Knapp in Vero Beach, Fla., the Knapps were planning a trip to Connecticut in late August and a trip to' Washington and Oregon in September to visit their three boys, Ron, Dave, and Bill.

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