1939

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In case you haven't noticed, this Magazine is working under an entirely new set of policies which were officially voted into being at the last Secretaries Association meeting. In part said policy states that classes of our vintage are limited to 500 words per column. But there are such things as profiles and short essays added to the Class Notes section, featuring subjects of universal interest to the greater Dartmouth community.

Although we write this copy in early August, it is scheduled for your eyes in October when the class will have concluded its September mini-reunion. There is still time to join classmates at the parade on Dartmouth Night over the Yale weekend at this month's end.

We note that our class Alumni Council representative, Jack Cumming, has been placed on the committee on Bequests & Trusts of that Council. This leads us to quote a resolution adopted by the Council at its May meetings reading as follows:

"The Council acknowledges with great appreciation the contributions of one of the truly unsung heroes of Dartmouth College —Bob Kaiser '39. Bob retires on June 30 following 22 years of service to the College in the Bequests & Trusts office. He has been a creative administrator, an invaluable in-house tax expert, a quiet facilitator of countless benefactions for Dartmouth, a mentor to hundreds of planned-giving officers around the country, and a guiding paternal light for the Psi U fraternity. Dartmouth College is deeply indebted to Bob Kaiser for his low-key but effective development skills which have without question helped to enrich the quality of the Dartmouth Experience for many generations of students, past, present, and future."

In eulogizing Dave Lilly's response to Jim Donovan's letter in the April issue of '39 Out, Bill Goodman writes:

"Too often we criticize without knowledge and understanding. Too often our prejudices result in taking a position which lacks perception and understanding. "To quote from your letter, 'the contemporary

world is marked by rapid social change, by increasing interdependence, by emergence of complex questions as cultures clash and new technology shortens the time to decide as it increases the direct consequences of failure. In private lives and in the public arena we confront a multiplication of choices demanding to be made.'

"Too much of the American public—and too many of our classmates—look for the easy answer or welcome the 'optimistic statement' without considering its longrange implications. Too often we judge how things should become because of our memory of how things were. When one considers the exponential growth of man's knowledge since 1939 it should be impossible to think in terms of either our knowledge and our perceptions as developed when we were undergraduates."

A final geographical tidbit: Rob DeGraff didn't make the mini-reunion because he and Pat were in the Orient doing a bit of sightseeing.