1939

April Has been a busy month, what with a class executive committee meeting on April 26, followed by the annual Class Officers Weekend in Hanover. Bert MacMannis called the first meeting in his old offices at the Pan-Am building in NYC with Messrs. Boldt, Conkle,Corner, Coulson, Darby, Goding Hird, Howe,Jackson, Kaiser, Noland, and Tishman in attendance. As reported in our last, Wes Goding has just joined the group as the class coordinator with the Campaign for Dartmouth, and he learned a good deal more about his duties when he also attended the class officers meetings in Hanover. Cornie Miller, our treasurer, reported in absentia that we have 11 more duespayers (312) in the current year, with a total income of $6,430, putting us well on target for our $40,000 goal for our upcoming 40th reunion. The specific form that our gift will take has as yet remained "on the table," but a final decision is scheduled for our fall meetings, which this year will take place at Bonnie Oaks on September 22-23, the weekend of the Penn game. Memorial chair Jack Coulson proudly pointed out that $4,870 of last year's Alumni giving came via widows, much of it generated through committee member Betsy Wyman's close association with our ladies, with whom she is in constant contact.

Bequest Chair Bob Kaiser, who has always reported we are doing about average in his department, suddenly surprised us by estimating that we are doing a bit better than usual. He reported three new life income trusts plus two more very active prospects. We now have seven life income trusts totaling close to $250,000, plus two matured requests totaling $13,100. In addition, 35 classmates have indicated that they expect to do something for Dartmouth in this area and 41 more have said they hope to participate. Wells Bates has a solid corps of men signed up and working for his reunion committee, so plans are well advanced toward our Fabulous Fortieth in June of '79. With the help of editor O'Brien Boldt we completely reworked the format of the 40th year book, which will feature biographical material. With the participation of the Class members, we hope to publish current pictures of them alongside reasonable facsimilies that appeared in our freshman Green Book. If nothing else, it will be a document of contrasts. It will be distributed at reunion time and by mail to those who can't attend. Jim Corner and Bob Howe, our premier fundraisers, are in mid-stream and hard at work looking for the $70,800 goal, better than one-third of which had come in by our meeting date. With reunion next year, and the challenge of the Campaign for Dartmouth before us, Bob Kaiser reminded us that "the Alumni Fund includes reunion giving, both of which count towards the Campaign for Dartmouth, but funds must not be restricted - in other words, not earmarked for a specific cause."

About the meetings in Hanover held April 28 and 29 we have less to report because we spent part of our time visiting Mary Hitchcock hospital delving into the mysteries of a very sore neck and shoulder. We do know that the Class had a good attendance. Bert and SallyMacMannis, Cornie and Janet Miller, Walt andMary Darby, Bob and Evie Kaiser, Wells andBetty Bates, Bob Howe, and Wes and AnneGoding, along with Math Jackson and her "halt" husband, made the meetings. We missed what was described as an excellent general meeting (which featured some articulate students), all nicely tied together with a concluding address by President Kemeny. We did catch a session which featured the "mad language professor," famed John Rassias, who literally tore off his shirt with buttons popping to the fifth row in a denouement that has few equals. And we listened to newsletter editors and secretaries talk about common interests, mainly how to scoop one another and come up smiling. Also, we were treated to an overlong session of the Secretaries Association that dealt primarily with how to cut out, shorten, feature, or lengthen class notes and obits. T'was tabled for another year, always a good solution for the moment.

So much for meetings. We learned belatedly and with regret of the passing of the late DickJohnson's wife at Lake Placid in 1975. And with interest we heard from Shag Hatch, last posted in Montana but off to Fairbanks, Alaska, this summer for some schooling at the University of Alaska, along with some job-hunting.

Dave Lilly, along with his other important duties, has accepted the post of dean of the University of Minnesota's College of Business and Administration as of July 1. Joe Hoover was elected a director of Timken Company, makers of bearings and specialty steels. And Bob Bryant insists that despite spending some time in a house in Virginia, he is officially domiciled in Grafton, N.H., where he chairs the board of selectmen.

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