1928

The best news, as usual, comes from the Ed Flanders front. The final figure for our contribution to the Alumni Fund is $103,036, breaking all records by a wide margin for classes 61 years out. This, also, was pur fourth best all-time total. It represents 94 percent participation of our scoring base of 153 alumni, meaning only nine of the base failed to contribute. With gifts from widows, and other memorial gifts, we had a total of 200 donors. Considering all the controversy and bad publicity for the College during the last couple of years this result is surprising to some. Total receipts for the Fund were $12.3 million, breaking the record of $12 million set in 1987. However, only 61 percent of Dartmouth's alumni gave, down from 65 percent last year. That our class participation was so high can be credited to our Ed, whose hearing goes dead at the sound of the word no.

Responses to Art Kneerim's questionnaire keep trickling in. They should be very useful, particularly when—like those sent in by Red Edgar, Tax Connell, Don Solis, and some others they contain a fairly full account of what you have been up to since fraduation. Keep them coming. Tax's reads ke a travelogue. He mentions his fear that some of the students in programs in Chinese medical schools with which he had some connection have been involved in the Tienanmen Square episode. His opinion that the incident is chilling but in no way surprising is shared by the writer, who has had some experience with China and its people.

No doubt you will remember the picture and write-up in a recent issue of the Alumni Magazine of Charlotte Ryder Kenerson, the mother of our own former class president, Jack Kenerson, also of David Kenerson '37, and her many other connections with Dartmouth. Word has been received that she died April 22 at the age of 99. In addition to her sons she is survived by two daughters and 13 grandchildren including Dr. Robert F. Kenerson '60. A large bequest begun by her husband, Ned Kenerson '03, passes to the College to support the rare book collection in Baker Library in memory of Austin H. Kenerson 1886.

We regretfully report the deaths of Homer Dodge, on July 3, Craig Haines on July 12, and Parker Chick on July 22.

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