Class Note 1947

Greetings from your Class Notes secretary. I hope you are surviving the winter and remain in good health. Sally and I are fortunate to spend a little time in our favorite island, Anguilla, in the British West Indies. Construction continues after the disastrous hurricane in the fall of 2017, but pretty much everyone is open for business now.

Liz Sistaire did her usual excellent job in writing the class newsletter this winter and since she receives the Green Cards, most of the information regarding classmates will show up there. Which brings me to a note on where your class dues go. As you know, we spend $250 for the Dartmouth athletic sponsors program, down considerably from past years. Not only does the class make this donation, but eight classmates and widows donated another $700. Bully for them! This program is not to be confused with the Friends of Dartmouth Football, which raises about three times more than the sponsors program. Ort Hicks ’21 started the sponsors program in 1955, and we have contributed to it ever since. The purpose of the fund is, of course, to encourage student-athletes to attend Dartmouth, and the program does that by having coaches visit them in their hometowns. The students are also encouraged to visit our beautiful campus, and the word I get is that, when they do that, half the sell effort is over. The NCAA now allows coaches to visit high school juniors, which is something new.

Thanks to the program, the College has more than 200 student-athletes enrolled from across the United States and seven additional countries. Outside of football, with its own friends program, three sports most impacted are men’s and women’s rowing, men’s and women’s swimming, and men’s and women’s track. These programs had the most coach visits and students coming to the College. The least number of visits were for golf, skiing, and women’s field hockey.

In the next issue, I’ll touch on what we do with the Dickey Center.

We are saddened to report the deaths of William F. Geber Jr. of Durham, North Carolina, on April 1, 2017; Donald W. Edwards, M.D., of Dixon, Illinois, on September 27, 2018; and Wilbert D. Greenlaw of Wayland, Massachusetts, on October 24, 2018.

—Joseph D. Hayes, P.O. Box 697, Rye Beach, NH 03871; jhayes697@yahoo.com