1954

54 May 1951. Ed Horton was elected to The Undergraduate Council, and the World Federalists elected Ken Schramm secretary and Rock Grundman membership chairman. During wet down, 's4s ran the gauntlet. OUE first Green Key Weekend, we danced to Ray Anthony's Band. Howard Sloane, Al Tirrell, Mike Marx, BillBriggs, and Charles Martin, members of the Caving Club, spent six hours 100 feet underground in Knox Cave in Knox, N.Y., accompanied by Bob Bauman, who reported the event in The Daily Dartmouth. Remember Strauss's "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" coming from each dorm as we "studied" for Freddie Sternfeld's music class?

Dave Mandelbaum wrote to assure me that someone does, indeed, read this column and to take me up on my challenge. Dave has been a board member and an officer of the University Settlement, the oldest and first setdement house in the U.S.A. For nine of those years he served as board chairman and also served as treasurer and vice president. The settlement serves a diverse population on New York City's Lower East Side and makes a difference in the lives of thousands of underprivileged people for whom New York City is the first stop in this country.

An interesting article in a recent New York Times reported a survey on the extent to which those who pay fall tuition at Ivy League colleges subsidize scholarships for less affluent students. There is another way. The Dartmouth Educational Association was formed in 1896 for the purpose of assisting needy students pursuing courses of study at Dartmouth. The association has a revolving fund raised from donations, annual dues, and life-membership fees from which loans are made to needy students, secured by their promissory notes and bearing no interest while the student is an undergraduate. As of June 30, 1994, the association had more than $1.6 million in loans outstanding, and it is the College's largest nonfederal source of loan funds for students. Defaults exist but are minimal by any standard. Things can be done without government help! Thirty-nine '54s are members of the association, the second largest group of contributors up to the class of 1974. Twenty '54s (Pete Barker, Bob Berry, John Buffington, Bill Bullen,Peter Dwight, John Freund, John Heston,Ed Horton, Bud Martz, Dave McLaughlin, Charlie Morrison, Steve Mullins, PeteRoos, Tom Sayles, George Shaw, JohnSteel, Dick Steinberg, Ron Stillman, DaveThielscher, and Bob Woodberry) are life members. This is the largest group of life members of any class. Fifty-four can again be proud.

Have a great summer.

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