Class Note 1954
Issue
Shelly Woolf, no doubt remembered by many classmates as the founder and chief salesman of Woolfie’s Whites, a successful white bucks shoe-selling effort during our undergraduate years, has assumed the mantle of head agent. For the next five years Shelly will be leading the increasingly important effort to ensure that the class of 1954 contributes significantly to the annual Dartmouth College Fund drives. For starters Shel’s entrepreneurial skills led him to spot an anomaly in the history of class giving that represents a potentially significant target market of its own. He observed that 99 classmates had made a contribution to the fund in each of the years since graduation. (Full disclosure: Shelly was not in this group of exemplars.) He further found that many classmates had missed only one, two or three years of giving.
With the College’s endorsement Shelly has established the ’54 Set the Record Straight (STRS) program. Classmates will receive letters advising them that if they make a one-time payment for all years missed, approximately equaling the average of their last four non-reunion-year gifts, they’ll join the elite group of classmates and be recognized as having a perfect giving record. Shelly also points out that this one-time gift will signal yet another outstanding distinction for the class of 1954. This gift would be in addition to your 2010 contribution to the DCF. Questions or comments to swoolf1060@comcast.net or call (508) 362-3522. And, yes, Shelly is a charter member of the new ’54 STRS program, as is your Class Notes editor.
As you’ll no doubt note the DAM no longer runs obituaries in the back of the magazine, enabling the publication of smaller issues, which will thereby result in “significant savings on printing and mailing costs.” Obituaries will now be featured on the new DAM Web site.
Mini-reunion co-chairs Jay Davis and Steve Mullins have been hard at work planning a number of important ’54 get-togethers. At this writing an early May trip to Washington, D.C., is planned. Check the ’54 Web site for exact dates.
A fall mini is planned for Hanover October 7-10 and will include the annual executive committee meeting. Peak fall foliage is promised for that weekend.
—Anthony Kane, 650 Park Ave., 18A, New York, NY 10065; (212) 628-2147; akane32@nyc.rr.com
Mar - Apr 2010
Shelly Woolf, no doubt remembered by many classmates as the founder and chief salesman of Woolfie’s Whites, a successful white bucks shoe-selling effort during our undergraduate years, has assumed the mantle of head agent. For the next five years Shelly will be leading the increasingly important effort to ensure that the class of 1954 contributes significantly to the annual Dartmouth College Fund drives. For starters Shel’s entrepreneurial skills led him to spot an anomaly in the history of class giving that represents a potentially significant target market of its own. He observed that 99 classmates had made a contribution to the fund in each of the years since graduation. (Full disclosure: Shelly was not in this group of exemplars.) He further found that many classmates had missed only one, two or three years of giving.
With the College’s endorsement Shelly has established the ’54 Set the Record Straight (STRS) program. Classmates will receive letters advising them that if they make a one-time payment for all years missed, approximately equaling the average of their last four non-reunion-year gifts, they’ll join the elite group of classmates and be recognized as having a perfect giving record. Shelly also points out that this one-time gift will signal yet another outstanding distinction for the class of 1954. This gift would be in addition to your 2010 contribution to the DCF. Questions or comments to swoolf1060@comcast.net or call (508) 362-3522. And, yes, Shelly is a charter member of the new ’54 STRS program, as is your Class Notes editor.
As you’ll no doubt note the DAM no longer runs obituaries in the back of the magazine, enabling the publication of smaller issues, which will thereby result in “significant savings on printing and mailing costs.” Obituaries will now be featured on the new DAM Web site.
Mini-reunion co-chairs Jay Davis and Steve Mullins have been hard at work planning a number of important ’54 get-togethers. At this writing an early May trip to Washington, D.C., is planned. Check the ’54 Web site for exact dates.
A fall mini is planned for Hanover October 7-10 and will include the annual executive committee meeting. Peak fall foliage is promised for that weekend.
—Anthony Kane, 650 Park Ave., 18A, New York, NY 10065; (212) 628-2147; akane32@nyc.rr.com