1923
At our 55th reunion in June, the Class will be announcing to the College the results of our special reunion gift project, which is now being promoted through the Class of 1923 Funding Association. In late January the Funding Association Committee reported to all of us that $542,253 in gifts and confirmed bequest provisions had been received since last July when the project got under way. Also, the committee listed a total of 56 members in the funding association. With only about four months to go, Pete Jones, Chet Bixby, and TrumanMetzel, who head up the committee, urge every classmate to support our 55th reunion gift project through the funding association by means of (1) a life income trust, (2) a bequest provision in our wills, or (3) an outright endowment gift. More information can be obtained by writing to the committee or to Frank Logan '52 in the Bequest Office in Hanover.
From Susan M. Kelley '81 comes a gracious letter of thanks to Bud Freeman for her share of our class scholarship. Part of her letter follows:
"I'd like to tell you a little bit about the person chosen to receive your scholarship. I am 18 years old and come from a small town on the south shore of Massachusetts, Scituate. As I come from a family with seven brothers, the ratio at Dartmouth is nothing new to me! I graduated salutatorian from Scituate High School last June. Extra-curricular activities were always very enjoyable; I was actively involved in the student council (vice president), the student advisory council to the school committee, the Varsity Club, and the National Honor Society. I also contributed to the literary magazine and played on the varsity basketball and Softball teams.
"Out of all my high school activities, though, by far the most rewarding was the year I spent in Cusco, Peru, as the recipient of an American Field Service International Scholarship. From March 1976 to February 1977 I lived with a host family in the heart of the Andes Mountains and attended a small Catholic girl's high school. Cusco is a very beautiful city and my Peruvian family couldn't have been warmer, more loving, or more understanding. They are really special people. It was truly a fantastic experience to come to know and understand a culture so different from ours.
"I am presently undecided as to my major at Dartmouth, but I hope one day to become involved in the field of public health. I was recently elected to the freshmen council and selected as a member of the varsity basketball team. I do have to admit that the academics here are rather difficult — I've probably never worked so hard; but I enjoy accepting the challenge and certainly will do my best.
"Please thank all the members of the Class of 1923 for the scholarship. I will try to live up to your expectations, and I hope that one day we will meet so that I may thank you all in person."
A card from Paul and Priscilla McKown in Cristobal dated December 6 brought Christmas greetings and word that the McKowns would celebrate the holiday in Buenos Aires. They are on a 56-day freighter cruise circling South America. Paul heartily recommends it.
Word comes to us that one of the leading law firms of Greenwich, Conn., Hirschberg, Pettengill, Strong and Nagle, will merge with Whitman and Ransom, a full service New York City firm with departments in corporate law, litigation, estates and trusts, taxes, and international law. Our Bill Strong, a senior partner in the Hirschberg firm, will continue to be active in the new organization.
Among our recent arrivals at the 75th birthday milestone is Dick Kershaw, who reports:
"I spent the day with cousins in Fairfield. The next evening, neighbors gave me a dinner party which lasted till 7:30 the following morning. I spent Thanksgiving in Rowayton with friends, whom I also visited over Christmas. It seems as if I've been on a merry-go-round ever since last fall. Some of the 'brass rings' were Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve with congenial neighbors, and a seemingly endless string of dinners and cocktail parties before, between, and after. As the fella said, 'This sportin' life is killin' me.' "
Jim Landauer and Karl Williams also reached their super majority recently. Karl says he still does a full day's work, jogs a daily mile, and enjoys the best of health. Jim's college roommate, Ike Phillips and Ike's daughter Debby joined the Landauer family in a — to quote Jim — "wonderful and nostalgic evening."
And speaking of address changes, I gave you the wrong one for Al Merritt in a recent issue. Al is now at The Winton Place, Apt, 1201, 12700 Lake Ave., Lakewood, Ohio 44107.
Cap Palmer advises me that there is a new "law" called Cohen's Law which supplants Murphy's Law. It reads — "Murphy was an optimist."
You will soon receive an update from IkePhillips on the response to his 55th reunion questionnaire. Quite understandably, some of you right now are a bit uncertain about your plans. I don't have to remind you, however, that, in these later years, time slips by all too fast. When this issue reaches you we will be well into spring and our 55th only a couple of months away. In the meantime Ike and his helpers are rapidly firming up plans for what looks like a real good one.
I am sorry to have to tell you that since the last issue word has been received of the deaths last year of five of our classmates: Rev. RoyHall Burgess on November 18, William NewtonBlood on November 19, George Fred Weston on November 25, Closson Perry Holley on December 4, and Edward Gaynor Roe on December 14.
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