1961
Two of our hardest workers, Gerry Kaminsky and RonBoss, have agreed to become 30th Reunion giving cochairmen, according to head agent Art Kelton.
You'll recall that Gerry was class president a few years back, and Ron Boss has done just about everything for the college, including heading up the entire Alumni Fund and the Alumni Council. Art said the goal for the campaign will be $400,000, which he described as conservative for a reunion giving campaign, because reunions traditionally are the times when Dartmouth expects to raise the most money from its graduates. But because of the structure of combined reunions, our "30th" actually occurs in our 29th year out of Dartmouth, so we can get together with the classes of 1959 and 1960. That, Art noted, means that this reunion is our third in eight years. So he's going to place the emphasis on participation, as we did, by the way, for our 25th Reunion, when we reached 87 percent. Last year we were at 69 percent participation-well above the average for the Alumni Fund—and that was a key element in our Green Derby victory. Art said he would like to top that participation rate by a big margin.
One way he hopes to do that is through Challenge 61 a dollar-for-dollar matching campaign. If you did not give in 1989, Challenge 61 will match your contribution dollar-for-dollar hrough the first $61. A $61 pledge is worth $122 to Dartmouth. And if you are among the 410 classmates who did give in 1989, Challenge 61 will match your increase if you give at least four times what you did in 1989. If you gave $50 last year, and give $250 this year, $200 of that would be matched, giving the College $450.
"One of the early events the family encountered was a dinner held for the visiting Greek students at the headmaster's house. Elizabeth Knox soon discovered that at KUA everyone pitches in cheerfully," the article reported, and went on the describe a lobster dinner.
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