1931

The Alumni Records Office has sent me a new computer printout on our class membership, dated last spring. I found a lot of interesting material in it and I hope my readers will, too.

Brought up to date, we have 358 living members of the class and 119 widows. As we all know, we have a wonderful group of widows who participate in and support both our class and College activities. Eighty members are listed as retired, but the number, no doubt, is quite a bit higher. Primarily, our professionals doctors, lawyers, educators, etc. appear to be carrying along in harness, as their business addresses indicate.

Florida noses out California, 33 to 28, as the preferred retirement state, with no others close. Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York all are represented by large delegations, of course. By my reckoning, we have 11 members in what I would call the rather immediate Hanover area. There are four members living outside the U.S.

Unhappily, the Records Office has lost track of 57 in the "not interested" category. Most of these appear to be nongraduates, of which we actually had 146 who matriculated with the class. The Records Office sure does a great job!

There has been a dearth of personal news coming in, and I really need the help of many of you to keep these notes going. Bob Marr, 1930's secretary, comes to my aid again by sending the following item from the publication Diplomatic and Consular Officers, Retired: On May 31, retired Foreign Service Officers Leslie Tihany and John Weisert ('31, of course), who had last seen each other in 1965 in Beirut, were brought together by fate in a tunnel of the Courcelles station of the Paris Metro. Jack was returning from Chicago to his retirement home in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, and Les was commuting from his apartment within a block of Jack's hotel and the Sorbonne, where he was a visiting professor. The two old-timers spent the next two days updating their friendship while Mrs. Tihant was vacationing in Sofia and Mrs. Weisert in Budapest."

Excerpt from a letter from Alumni Fund chairman Henry Eberhart to our Alumni Fund chairman, Don Stoddard: "Dartmouth Alumni Fund year-out giving records are made to be broken and I am pleased to be able to congratulate you, your class agents, and your 1984 Fund contributors for breaking the 53 year-out record of $93,850. Your final total for the 70th Anniversary Fund was $117,314 from 259 donors. I know your record achievement took a lot of organization, time, and hard work. For that and your willingness to serve Dartmouth as head agent, we are most grateful." So are all of your classmates, Don!

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