Class Note 1947

I am indebted to Nicole Losavio who is assistant director of class activities and oversees the annual class report process. The College requires every officer in the class to report on their activities, reunions, class meetings, etc., for the past year. The report is 11 pages long. As a former mini-reunion chair I’m asked to answer 10 questions pertaining to each function. All of this, of course, is to provide assistance where needed to have successful events and to keep all their records up to date. According to our report, our original class had 670 students, even though our freshman yearbook shows 751; we have 132 living classmates and 149 spouses on record, nine of whom contribute to the class. Our own contributions come from 51 members of the class and our total assets show $10,755. An older class, when asked its goal for the coming year, replied: stay alive!

Of the many publications I receive from Dartmouth, one of the more interesting is put out by the Dickey Center and called Crossroads. It details events and the travels of people from the College reporting on world issues as well as visitors to the College. One named position caught my attention, the Allen Bildner Distinguished Fellow in International Affairs. This is, of course, our own Allen Bildner, who provided funds for the Bildner dormitory, where Don Page and I have stayed for various College events. In this case, Allen’s son, Jim ’75, provided funds for high-ranking foreign service experts to spend a full term on campus, where they deliver lectures and meet with faculty, staff, and students. Allen would be proud, Jim.

Our own contributions to the Dickey Center began in 2004, through the efforts of president John Trethaway, and as a class we have given more than $24,000 to date.

We are saddened to report the death of Eugene O. DeFelice of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, on May 13 and Morris Powers of King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, on June 19.

—Joe Hayes, P.O. Box 57, Rye Beach, NH 03871, jhayes697@yahoo.com