1921

Let's remember our 65th-reunion motto:To look up and not down,To look forward and not back,To look out and not in, andTo lend a hand.

Edward Everett Hale

From Lucy Briggs, I received a copy of the pamphlet called "New Hampshire Charitable Fund." The front page carries a photo of our classmate and president Bob Burroughs, which tells us that in June 1985 the assets of The Burroughs Foundation were transferred to the NHCF to augment the Robert P. Burroughs Fund. Bob has been intimately involved in philanthropic enterprises throughout the state. He was the first chairman of the Bean Foundation and established one of the first scholarship funds within NHCF. One of New Hampshire's most distinguished businessmen, Bob was a special advisor to General Eisenhower during his campaigns for the presidency and performed a number of subsequent services for the government. He has served as director of numerous nonprofit organizations in New Hampshire.

Our class notes column, Bob, is the correct place to record this generous act of yours.

Received a fine letter from Art Gilbert, who has been retired for 20 years but has stayed busy in fruitful work taking care of a little piece of Vermont (Dorset, to be exact). He was a member of the school board for 10 years and chairman of the Town Planning Commission and the regional one, too.

Vermont has been exploding, and Dorset is in the middle. Art says that local interests are trying to keep it somewhat under control. (I trust with better success than along the Florida beach land.)

One of his sons is a geologist with Chevron. Another son (University of Colorado) is with EPA. A son-in-law, George Fisher '59, is dean of the faculty at Johns Hopkins. They are scattered from coast to coast.

Finally, Art gets his daily exercise by keeping the gardens and orchard trees producing abundantly. Can your apple trees compete with those of our own president Bob Burroughs?

Lady Montague said: "But the fruit that can fall without shaking, indeed is too mellow for me."

A fine report-perhaps it will awaken more classmates to do the same.

After reading all the letters in the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine about our presentday Dartmouth education, we can quote from Mortimer Adler: "The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live."

Bob Burroughs, president of the class of'21, was caught in an informal moment"while I was saying something to my audience before snapping a picture of them."Burroughs is active in business and philanthropy throughout New Hampshire. Formore details, see the '21 class notes.

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