1930

The Alumni Fund is looking to 1930 to contribute $58,800 in this post-reunion year, a slight increase over the amount we raised in 1975. And Lee Sturman is looking to each of us to help him meet that goal. William E. Simon said recently: "The erosion of academic independence during the last twenty years has been directly related to increasing federal financing and controls which have made higher education one of our most regulated industries. Like any other institution; experiencing severe financial strains, college' and universities are losing their independence as policy-making authority is increasingly shifted to absentee government creditors." I'm sure we won't stand idly by and let that happen at Dartmouth.

Frank Gulden (Bay Shore, NY): "There is not a great deal to report from this neck of the woods. Am retired and usually spend the winters in Florida and the rest of the year on the Island mostly on the beach." Al Marsters: I've become well-adjusted to retirement. Golf 4 or 5 times a week year-round, and an occasional trip to England, which Esther and I both love. Down here [Naples] we had a brief but very pleasant visit with Kay and Lee Chilcote. They both looked great, as did Fred Page, whom I bumped into on the golf course. Both sets of grandchildren visited us this winter, forcing us to take a room at a motel for peace and quiet, but it was great seeing them with their parents! In any event, it's great to be alive, well, and keep your sense of humor."

At the Boston alumni dinner in March, Margaret and Joe Hancort and I were the 1930 representatives, sitting alarmingly close to the head table. Eleanor and I called on Caroline and Alex McFarland in early March. Alex is at home, making good progress and enjoying some of the most beautiful flowering shrubbery in Newton.

I don't agree with Dick Howell, who responded to a note I sent him recently. To me. it's very interesting to hear from a 1926-27 Commons jazz pianist: "Can't believe my life particularly interesting to Class of '3O inasmuch as I left after my second year to get married - which, incidentally, was the wisest move of my life. Celebrate our 50th anniversary in '79 having had the happiest married life of anyone I know of. Twin daughters, both married, with daughter and son each. Our son, Pete, is a vice president with Citibank living in Singapore - has three little boys. Seven grandchildren in all.

"Retired as chairman and president of Roanwell in '73. Haven't had an idle moment since. Active in town affairs as president of Greenwich Taxpayers Association. Great enjoyment from my greenhouse that is filled with orchids. Still keep up my piano, although little of the jazz I used to pound out in the Commons and occasionally with the 'Barbary Coast' - now mostly Chopin, Schubert and Brahms, which is much more of a challenge. Although not much of a reunion man, did go back to my 50th at Exeter last May, .which brought many memories."

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