1924

There were 108 living classmates when we published our 1990 class directory. As of this writing, we still have 63 living classmates. At our 65th Reunion we had 25 classmates in attendance and of those 25, 20 (80 percent) still survive.

I have passed these figures on to Chinee Allen, our reunion chairman, and his assistant, Robin Robinson, to give them an idea how many classmates they should aim to attract to our 70th. Of the 20 survivors from the last reunion, we should plan to get all these plus some of those who did not attend the 65th and will attend this reunion. There are 40 in this group, but I suggest that the survival in this group would be somewhat less. It does seem possible to me that we can real- istically target well over 20 classmates.

Chinee has met Dave Orr ’57. They already have a program for the reunion laid out and will soon be going to work to advise everybody of the plans. We have already received from Dave the turnout of previous classes for their 7 Oth. If we reach our target, we will set a new record! Why shouldn’t we? I have always known that we were a superi- or class. It is particularly necessary to empha- size this because of the publication—in the so-called Freshman issue of the magazine— of the 1923 class poster which was imposed upon us in our freshman year. We must knock out the prestige, if any, of ’23. How we come out depends upon you, the readers of this column.

I don’t mean to ignore our widows group. We had five at our 65th, as well as 17 spous- es or other family members who accompanied our 25 classmates.

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