On a beautiful weekend in Hanover, eight
of our class officers assembled to meet and mingle with their counterparts,
compare notes and find out how we might better serve the Class and the
College. Hank Nachman, Jack Sutton, Loye
Miller, Ed Weisenfeld, Dave Batchelder,
Jerry Mitchell, Herb Knight and your Webmaster together with their spouses,
etc.
attended seminars on topics ranging
from communication and physical changes and opportunities for alumni programs
to
how to motivate and recognize volunteers
and their efforts. No other class was as well represented, numerically
as well as qualitatively.
There were separate
meetings of each category of officer as well as discussion groups categorized
by decade. President Wright spoke at Friday's dinner, reporting
on the decline in endowment last year (5.6%), the increase in the Dartmouth
College Fund (formerly the Alumni Fund) in dollars but adversely affected
by declining participation and the spending cuts to be instituted as a
result.
The last session dealt with the changes
contemplated in alumni governance and trustee nomination procedures that
are under discussion. The following photos show your officers at
work and at play.