1934
As we mentioned last month, the '34 dads averaged 1.4 sons and 1.1 daughters. These figures were affected by some specialists who stopped when they reached four of a kind all boys for Merrill Dubay, Vinnie Cerow, and Harry Cohen, and all girls for Hafey Arthur, Bill Ramsey, and Walt Crandell. With a coed student body now, we can wonder if the picture will be different for the class of 1984 when they meet in 2034 to spend our $1,934 reunion gift.
Incidentally, that idea must have had merit, since both 1933 and 1935 plan to provide a similar nest egg to a graduating class. What you may have found hard to fathom was how one estimate of the value of our gift in 2034 was a million bucks while I, the conservative, estimated $275,000. Money doubles every seven years at the ten percent rate I used, but if you assume just two percent more, you get $573,000 and if you prefer 13.3 percent (which the College was earning), it indeed comes out to a million. Startling what a difference a couple of extra percentage points, compounded for 50 years, can make. So now we know why Art Leonard asks us to consider bequests and life income trusts: to help young folks in the 21st century pay for a Dartmouth education at who-knowswhat tuition costs then.
Speaking of percentages, the 1985 Alumni Fund has a 15 percent higher goal than last year. If we add that increase to our giving level of 1983 (our last non-reunion year), we'll hit our '34 target for this year. Also, if we give early, we'll be letting the College earn the interest, and we'll be sparing our classmates the follow-ups.
As part of the '34 questionnaire, you indicated second addresses for specific times of the year. We are ready to include these with a future newsletter, along with any updates needed in the '34 directory listing of your primary addresses. If you are now receiving College mail at the new address, we will know this when the College provides us with an updated address listing. If any doubt or a change is pending shortly, drop me a card.
George and June Cogswell typify those with two addresses, but on their way from their Wilmette, I11., home to Juno Beach, Fla., they found it convenient to stop at Durango for Christmas with a daughter and then in Los Angeles en route to Hong Kong for a twoweek cruise with a son and his wife through the South China Sea.
You have heard from Bill Scherman about those who tailgated at Princeton in the comfort of the Smoyer home and enjoyed a close game. Stan and Barbara Smoyer have been relaxing from all the pressure of the 50th- reunion year by flying off to New Zealand and Australia in February. Charlie and Florence Levesque, who were at the game, opted for a change of scene, too closing their house of many years and moving to a comfortable retirement center nearby. Len andJean Harrison, also there, said their travel plans were to spend three weeks at an Elder Hostel, followed by an "add-on" tour of the British Isles. That sounded like a good idea. After our exhausting 50 years of graduate study we should be ready for the more leisurely learning pace of the Elder Hostel, especially when combined with travel.
Others have been traveling since reunion. John and Jane Roberts joined forces with Billand Maggie Judd in an interesting Dartmouth alumni trip down the Dneiper in Russia. John said they felt the bureaucratic presence but were able to converse in fractured English/Russian with residents on the street and sensed a genuine feeling of friend- liness. Andy and Nance Donaldson found plenty of tourists still around while enjoying a late season tour of Italy with Capri, Venice, and the Dolomites providing fine weather when wanted most. Hafey and LucyArthur took a history teacher's look at familiar European turf and then traveled through the capitals of Central Europe, spotting differences between media presentations and reality.
As you may recall, Dottie Morton had to miss our reunion because she was scheduled for a Dartmouth alumni trip to Peru. Word has come back that she did such an impressive job of climbing up the big Huayna Pichu peak that she was one of four dubbed "the Rockettes" by her tripmates. Other recent mountain climbers are Dick and Helen Campen: as part of their Swiss odyssey, they tried to reach a spectacular lake but had to retreat like drowned rats when the weather changed. Everything else the beauty, cleanliness, vitality, quaintness, accommodations added up to a highly-recommended travel experience.
Not everyone has been traveling. Marty Johnston is glad to be at home and finished with the operation that prevented his attending the reunion. He reports this has been successfully handled, and he is now through the initial therapy stage.
Did you blink, as I did, when you saw an article in the October issue (p. 42) of this mag- azine with a '34 author! Our John Anderson brought Dartmouth history to fresh life when he related the fascinating story of "Little Joe Wentworth 00," who coached Cleveland's Case University to a phenomenal 34 wins and five losses in a five-year span (1902 to 1906), defeating Ohio State regularly, then rested his Case and traveled to Boston to begin a career arguing cases in the law courts.
Want to know how many grandchildren we have? Watch for the April issue.
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