1938's 50th Reunion Book

Setting a new standard against which future reunion books will be measured is the handsome volume produced for the class of 1938's 50th Reunion on Commencement weekend in June. Nearly 200 pages long, it is the work of a team of 38s: Gene Waggaman, editor; Bliss Thorne, features editor; John Scotford, designer, producer, and photo researcher; and Richard Sherwin, printing consultant—along with quite a few contributors from the class.

In addition In addition to photos and profiles of about 300 living class members-and obituaries for those who have died—the book includes a message to the class originally written in 1956 by former President Ernest Martin Hopkins and a current message from President James O.Freedman. There's a poem by distinguished '38 poet William Bronk, reminiscences by several other '38s, cartoons and photography from the late thirties, quizzes, lists, records of honors given and received, and other bits of information—which no loyal '38 would refer to as trivia.

By itself the cover—front and back—holds interest for alumni of any era. There are photographs of 34 different "Doors of Dartmouth," a few gone forever, others still very much a part of the Hanover scene. Some of the doors: Bissell, Chandler, the old Nugget, Tanzi's, McNutt, Webster, Wilder, Reed, Baker, Bartlett Tower.

Copies of the book have been distributed to the class, 200 of whom attended the reunion, and to widows of classmates.