1942

December 1938-January 1939. Our first winter on the Hanover Plain begins. With Hitler pushing people around in Germany, the student body votes 21 to bring one or two German refugees to Dartmouth "if they have the necessary qualifications to gain entrance." Plans are announced for a 35-foot Eleazar at midcampus at Winter Carnival. The Interfraternity Council votes a $100 limit on budgets for rushing.

We break for our first Christmas vacation, then return to our first bout with blue books and mid-year examinations. In our first class election, with a record 88 percent voting, we elect Stubby Pearson, GordyMcKernan, Jake Davis, and Ad Winship as our first class president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer, respectively. December 1938-January 1939. Fiftyyears ago.

Fifty years later, at what class officers hope might be a harbinger of others to come, eight classmates met in Hanover on September 30 for a roundtable discussion about "Dartmouth Today: Our Attitudes and Concerns." Jim Erwin, Al Britton,Wally Farr, John Corwith, Dutch Schaefer, class president Ad Winship, class representative to the Alumni Council BobKirk, and your class secretary Proc Page chipped in with their opinions and feelings about current issues and programs at the College. This was an outgrowth of feelings and concerns which surfaced at Reunion in June and in correspondence received by a number of our class officers. The development of a questionnaire to be sent to the entire class and a program of similar roundtable meetings around the country were on the agenda of the mini-reunion class officers meeting coming up as this report went to press.

In the days following the meeting Page,Schaefer, and Corwith, together with Bill Hotaling '41, had home-and-home golf matches at Eastman Lake and in Burlington, the latter in a driving rain that raised questions about the intelligence of these four Big Green.

Speaking of golf, Dick Remsen once again qualified for the championship flight of the USGA's national Senior Championship, held in Milwaukee in mid-September, but was eliminated in a close 2-and-l match in the second round.

Charlie Weinberg, our head class agent for the past six years, was honored with a citation for outstanding service to the Alumni Fund at the class agents meeting in September.

The mailbag this month brought the sad tidings of the deaths of Burt Keirstead in Hartford on July 31 and John Brill in our nation's capital on September 20. Obituaries will appear in this or a later issue of the Alumni Magazine.

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