1927

The Dartmouth Educational Association is celebrating its 100 th anniversary. It was organized as a non-profit corporation October 16, 1896, by Charles W. Bartlett and others. Its purpose was to provide a source of loans (not grants) to students who, for temporary lack of funds, would otherwise be unable to complete their course of study. Funds are derived from annual dues, currently $25 per year, from anyone who wishes to join the association, plus life memberships and memorial gifts. The repayment of loans has been exceptional and after 100 years the fund now amounts to $1,854,347, most of which is in current loans.

The association has 949 regular members, and 476 life members. Endowment funds have been established for Joshua A. Davis and Samuel Z. Wormser. Class of 1927 life members are Mrs. Joshua A. Davis and Mrs. Joseph W. Staubach. Annual members include Charles P. Baker Jr., Roger M. Bury, Thomas V. Gillespie, and Stephen Dow Mills. Applications for membership can be made to Michael L. Fay '71, Hale & Dorr, 60 State St., Boston MA 02109. Another fund helping Dartmouth is Friends of the Library, in which 192 7is represented by Mrs. Dudley Bonsai, Roger Bury, Mrs. Robert Gilboy, Thomas Gillespie, Merritt Joslyn, and Mrs. John Macham.

The athletic department has established a Sponsors Fund to bring prospective student athletes to Hanover to see the advantages of coming to Dartmouth. Last year the "fly-in" program brought 250 talented recruits to the campus, 80 of whom are members of this year's freshman class. Without this program of recruitment it would be virtually impossible to compete with other Ivy League schools for our share of the nation's top student athletes. Class of 1927 supporters include Charles P. Baker, Roger Bury and Robert L. Long. The class also makes an annual contribution from the class treasury.

The class of 1927 did well in the Alumni Fund campaign thanks to the leadership of Gordon Colby and Allice Wormser and the support of the widows and friends.

Additional deaths to be reported include Reginald F. French, Feb. 10, 1996, at Amherst, Mass., where he had been a professor; William R. Tobey, July 25, 1995; and Stephen Osborn, March 1, 1996.

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