1933

Following the decision of the class get together last year, Bob McDonald has set about drumming up attendance at the Hanover minireunion set for October 7, the date of the Yale game. In conjunction with Bob, Ned Lord is reserving a block of rooms at the Airport Inn in Lebanon, a comfortable caravansary, where some members of the class stayed last year. Incidentally, air service to Manchester has expanded and improved greatly.

The occasion to write obituaries for Kip Rosser and Fritz Galbos, college roommates, highlighted for us the effect of the Depression on the Dartmouth careers of numbers of our '33 classmates. Because of family financial stringency, both were forced to leave Dartmouth after sophomore year, the critical 1930-31. Even though the tuition was $300, dollars were scarce and the wherewithal was not forthcoming. For us, their departures were significant because they were for a cause shared by many others. In September 1929, 624 classmates matriculated, while in June 1933, 440 graduated, thus we lost 184 members in the intervening difficult years. Not all were for the same reason, of course, but no doubt the economic slump was the major cause. Daunting days those, their pain and want long forgotten and radically foreign to our current euphoria.

Completing our statistics for this session, a mathematical calculation indicates that 129 of our class are still able to voice a vigorous "Wah Hoo Wah" for dear old Dartmouth. Turning to a more personal note, our Pacific operatives inform us that President Sprague and Chilant have been frolicking on the beath at Waikiki.

-John Monagan, 3043 West Lane Keys NW, Washington, DC 20007-3057; jsmonagan@aol.com