1971

Congratulations and good luck to Hal McCullouch, who will take over DeVry College of Technology next month, with plans to transform the trade school into a full-fledged university that will offer several bachelors and masters degrees. Hal held administrative posts at the University of Michigan and Princeton, and was most recently provost and vice president for academic affairs at Wagner College in New York. He moved into the presidents office at DeVry in July.

I received an e-mail from Jack Webber, who recently found a Dartmouth 1971 class ring and he would like to return it to its rightful owner.Anyone wishing to claim the ring can e-mail him at jackwebber25@hotmail.com. Provide to him a detailed description of the ring and he will be glad to return it to whomever lost it.

Tim Dreisbach reports that the Alumni Fund raised just over $30 million with 45 percent participation and he is proud to report that our class raised $375,244.00, which is the largest our class has given in a non-reunion year, once again, setting a new record for giving in an "out year." Three hundred and ten classmates contributed, resulting in 44.6 percent participation. Tim expressed his gratitude to the volunteer solicitors and to all who donated. Even though the year was a success, we still have plenty of room to improve, especially in the area of participation.

The executive committee has agreed that there will be an increase in class dues to $71 next year. The consensus was that the small increase would not deter those presently paying their class dues, and it will provide additional revenue to fund class projects. Once again, there is discussion of culling extremely inactive classmates from our DAM mailing list. A subscription to the AlumniMagazine for each classmate costs the class $19.73. We would have to take a hard look at whether or not saving the cost of the subscription (which every classmate receives regardless of whether or not they pay their dues), in an attempt to save the class approximately $3,000, is worth dropping those inactive classmates from the mailing list. The executive committee has been discussing this off and on for the past year or so and is now considering a proposal to remove approximately 150 inactive classmates from the list. This would also offer the opportunity to re-instate those who show an interest later on. Before any classmates are removed from the list, class president Pete Webster will send to them a letter of explanation and request that they become more active in their class, even if it just means payment of their class dues. If any classmates have comments, either pro or con, your input would be appreciated.

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