1934

As you will have heard but such a record bears repeating—'34 raised an Alumni Fund record $302,433, with 304 donors, 40 percent higher than the previous 55-year-out record. Thank you all, and hats off to our new head agent, Bob Engelman, and to StanSmoyer, reunion giving chairman, and our veteran class agents team.

Also this was the year Funding Associates started for '34, and it includes all who have given or have written plans to make capital gifts of $5,000 or more to Dartmouth. Bequest chairman Art Leonard reports a record $3,552,000, and more than 60 now on the Associates list.

Now, going back to the beginning, we came to Hanover to be taught. Based on our surveys, nine percent of our class in turn chose education as their prime career, while another 21 percent did part-time teaching. What did we teach? Well, 20 percent were involved in the medical area, 14 percent in English and social studies, 9 percent in business, 8 percent each in law and history, 7 percent each in park services/geology and writing/speaking. Then several each did sales, foreign languages, elementary grades, and chemistry. Dick Campen taught architecture, Perry Gilbert marine biology, and Nick Xanthaky economics and accounting. Curtiss Howard and Bob Griffin were navigation instructors during WW II.

One of our prime teachers, Dr. GeorgeEngel, emeritus professor of medicine at the University of Rochester, was recently presented with the A.O. Bernstein Award given annually to a physician or scientist for an outstanding achievement in medicine. The award was for his work articulating the essential interconnection between workings of the mind and body.

Jeff Jackson has just begun teaching. He couldn't make reunion, but happily distance, not health, was the deterring factor. He and Sue still like their New Mexico location, and while cutting down on some activities he has found an intriguing new one, the Literary Volunteers of America, a program aimed at teaching adults (like 10th grade dropouts who read at 3rd grade level) to read better.

Guess in a way I'm instructing, too. I'm providing a monthly lesson to you in reading septuagenarian script, now in a shorter column. Hope to see all New York area folks in the stands November 4 for the battle with the Lions. Two years ago we won in the last five seconds!

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