1923

Here we are again in the middle of the ' football season, and as yet the boys have not done very well. However, in the Colgate game (just played as this is written) the first half looked as though Colgate could win by 70 to 0. There was a rally in the second half, and Dartmouth did much better. A few of us went up to the game on what was probably the most colorful fall day in many years. The scenery was magnificent. The Udalls, Rileys, Gosses,Homes, and Gladys Doten were all on hand. The Gosses stayed with their son who has just bought a house on East Wheelock Street. The Udalls and Rileys left Hanover right after the game, and so the Gosses, Homes, and Gladys had a very fine dinner at Cafe La Fraise, an excellent French restaurant on West Wheelock. Ike Phillips was present, but he and Clarence Goss slept through the last half of the game. This same weekend there was a convocation of the Dartmouth Medical School as a preliminary to launching a drive to raise $26 million over a five-year period. Committee meetings all Friday afternoon and Saturday morning kept your secretary very busy. DMS has the highest participation rate of any medicial school in the country and will in 12 years celebrate its 200 th anniversary with the completion of its fund-raising project. Incidentally, there are a few (very few) more women in this year's freshman class than men. Of 4,700 applicants, 190 were accepted, and of these 85 matriculated, a respectable rate of admissions.

Tuck School should also be considered here. More than 1,600 applied, making Tuck the most difficult business school to enter except for Harvard. Of the class 95 percent had had work experience; their average age was 26; 25 percent are women; and 90 percent had jobs upon graduation with an average starting salary of $43,000 (ranging from $25,000 to $60,000 annually).

The College has a record endowment of $412 million and has balanced its budget with no draw down on endowment. The budget for 1985-86 is $16.5 million. Dartmouth now stands in the top 20 institutions for endowment total. On a per student basis it has risen to number eight.

The Hood Museum is open. Snowmaking for the Skiway is close to reality. The Davis Rink has been demolished, and work has started on the Berry Sports Center.

The cumulative total of the class of '23 bequest and trust program as of May 1985 (the program began in 1951) is $4,104,295. Our scholarship program now has. a market value of $106,384 under the wise guidance of Bud Freeman. There have been 12 recipients.

Rus Perley is reported to have entered a nursing home in Laconia. Alfred Pierce has just lost his wife, Nancy. Alfred Gordon is about to publish his last (?) book. His editor is in East Berlin. He says he sees no classmates. It would be grand if some of us gave him a call. He lives at 401 Santa Clara Avenue, Oakland, Calif. His wife is Joyce.

And speaking of Bud Freeman: he wishes that the class as a whole would give some thought as to what to do with the scholarship fund and make a definite decision at our 65th reunion in 1988.

Speaking of the girls, Bunny Metzel gave Flo Miner and Mim Home a red carpet affair in Chicago quite recently.

Ort Hicks '21, left, and Charlie Zimmerman '23, right, swapped "stories Dartmouth" at the dedication of the Zimmerman Lounge in Blunt Alumni Centerin September.

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