1930
Greetings to you all from-your secretary, reinvigorated but tired from the Class Officers Weekend in Hanover actually a 24-hour work session. The highlight of the affair was the selection of Harry Condon as "Class Treasurer of the Year." Harry passed this off, saying that this really was the result of the esprit of the class, but not so! A great honor and well deserved.
You might be interested in the format of the weekend. Saturday at 7:30 a.m. saw us at a working breakfast for all class officers, to listen to the new dean, Edward Shanahan, and to reports on coeducation, the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, and the Alumni Fund. By 9:45 we were all in group meetings for each type of officer, and President Dave McLaughlin got in a short visit with each group. In the class secretaries' group, which over the years has informally and perfunctorily supervised the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, there was discussion of a new charter for the publication which places ownership with the trustees, and clarifies the reporting struc- ture all to better serve an expanding alumni body and the complexities of modern life. The new editor, Doug Greenwood '66, was introduced and spoke of his hopes for the future.
The talk of the 1930 group over the weekend was all of the 1930 Room in Rockefeller Center. This will be opened to us for a special dedication ceremony the Sunday morning of our Woodstock reunion. In addition to its beauty as enthusiastically described by Ev Low, a central theme will be a continually updated wall display of Dartmouth alumni who have served their country in such national-level governmental positions as vice president, senator, representative, governor, Supreme Court justice, etc. The room will be a continuing reminder of the class over years to come. Plan now to stay over at the fall reunion to share in this experience!
Present in Hanover for the officers weekend were the Widmayers, Lows, Condons, Mclnneses, and Bowlens, and Charlie Rauch as newly-appointed chairman of our 55th reunion. The Widmayers served a great dinner at their home Saturday evening, which brought out the Frenches and the Crandells, just back from Eleuthera. One of the Hanover contingent most missed was Marge Chase, who was indisposed that day. Rumor had it that Johnny Marsh was around, but only Charlie Widmayer had seen him.
Our last contact with the class before leaving for Class Officers Weekend was a call from Meade Alcorn, who, with one hand in a cast following surgery, was leaving the next day for a program at the Kennedy Library in Boston for those people who had worked closely with President Eisenhower during his incumbency.
Things have come to a fine pass when your secretary has to go out and create the rest of the news for these notes! Two weeks ago (that is, in mid-April) we took off a few days from Walpole to travel to Rhode Island, and on the way stopped in to see the McFarjlands. Alex was busy working on the most devilish jigsaw puzzle you ever saw one mammoth picture of nothing but multi-colored jelly beans; he was really enjoying the challenge, a gift from LeeChilcote. Caroline, looking her usual wellgroomed self, was just back from a week or ten days at the hopsital as the result of continuing problems with breathing. They both send greetings to you.
On the return trip we visited with EleanorRaymond, who is keeping herself busy with meals-on-wheels, the symphony, church, and civic activities, as well as a training class for her Cairn. We anticipate a visit from her in the near future.
Back at the ranch in Walpole, Gwennie has recovered completely from her stroke of last year and is looking forward to a family vacation on Nantucket with our daughters and their husbands. At this time I'm busy planting Christmas trees which have been held for a year or two in our seedling bed, cutting brush, spraying brush and weeds, and all those other activities we hope to recoup come December. Let it also just be noted that our rainbow trout survived the winter.
George Porter writes a brief but happy note: "Lois and I are in good health and very busy with civic and church affairs."
Changes for your address book: the ZIP code for both Georgia Fitzpatrick and Eleanor Howe has been changed to 20815, and Lucia Dickerson now resides at 404 Cheswick Place, Box 491, Rosemont, Pa. 19019-
Our only other recent correspondence came from R. Gordon Granger, better remembered as "Dobbin." He enclosed the spring progam of the Dartmouth Club of Central Florida, marking two items of note. One was the second alumni seminar at Rollins College, followed by cocktails at the home of Rollins's president, Thad Seymour '49 ad, and the second was a presentation by the Dartmouth Chamber Singers, through the leadership of John Tiedtke '30, sponsored by Rollins College in a free public concert. Gordon reported that Snub Poehler and he both liked the concert and that the Grangers entertained two of the singers. Gordon and Betty also attended the seminar. By the time this is published they will be in the Berkshires, and Snub will be in Maine.
Since this will be last news column till next fall, we wanted to let you know that in August our former class president, Fred Scribner, will have completed a half-century in law; his firm in Portland started with six lawyers and now numbers 51. It might be said that Fred "nationalized" the class during his regime with the regional meetings which he instigated and participated in so actively and which have contributed mightily to our present cohesiveness. Congratulations, Fred.
Bob Chittim'30, right, found a calm interlude amidst the festivities of the final Campaign forDartmouth dinner in April to chat with President McLaughlin.
Harrison F. Condon '3O, selected as Class Treasurer of the Year, received accolades for his leadership in taking 1930's dues participation rate "steadily upward from a level of 59 per cent in 1967 to a record high last year of 79 per cent." His other College service on the Third Century Fund and as a reunion chairman also came in for praise.
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