1943

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A campaign is afoot to persuade more members of the class to increase contributions to the Alumni Fund to $1,000 or more this year. The drive is headed by Dartmouth's treasurer and Trustee BobField, who has assembled a corps of agents nationwide to contact their classmate friends on behalf of the fund. Last year 31 members of the class reached this pinnacle. So far, as of February 18, '43s have joined this leadership group. The goal is to boost the number at least to 40.

A, new wrinkle this year for $1,000 and over contributors will be membership in the Dartmouth Alumni Fund Associates, each of whom will receive a green "D" lapel pin with a replica of Baker Tower in the background. A total of about 1,200 Dartmouth alumni are eligible for the group.

The Casque & Gauntlet senior society will hold a 100th anniversary bash on the Hanover. Plain May 15-17 and at least two '43s have indicated they will attend: George Munroe and Frank Hartmann. A total of 19 members of '43 are C&G alumni. Incidentally, George retired February 1 as chairman and chief executive officer of Phelps Dodge, the giant copper company.

George Mason sent a nice note from his Shangri-la in Costa Rica to dispel any notion that that Central American nation is in the war zone. "We, living here, have yet to see a sandbag, except at construction projects," he says. "But somehow writers (in the U.S.) seem to have the impression we crawl out from beneath them each morning and dodge machine-gun bullets all the way to work." George writes a monthly newsletter titled CostaRica Report.

Herb Marx, a New York-based arbitrator and former class secretary, is a holdout on the growing list of '43 retirees. "Why should I give up doing what I love?" he asks, with characteristic logic.

Class president Fred Lent, from Michigan, and Mike Thurston, from Maine,

joined forces in February for a skiing trip to France and Switzerland.

Scott Mitchell, who retired from General Electric nearly four years ago, has become tennis coach for men and women at Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C. Scott has been a tennis buff for over 20 years. Elsewhere in this issue is the obituary of Charles Colcord Callahan, who died of a heart seizure October 3 at his home in Oklahoma City, Okla., after a long illness.

George L. Ballou 11, left, and West Shell Jr. '44,center, hand E. Leonard Arnoff, right, dean ofthe University of Cincinnati's College of Busi-ness Administration, a check for $200,000 givenby Ballou to endow a professorship in real estatein Shell's honor. See the '44 column for details.