DINNER FOR AMBULANCE MEN

Over three hundred Dartmouth alumni gathered at the Hotel McAlpin in New York City on May 4, and tendered a dinner to the two units of Dartmouth men who sailed the next day for the American Ambulance Field Service in France. Mr. Charles G. DuBois, President of the Alumni Association, presided at the banquet, and read the following telegram from Secretary of War Baker: "Say to the forty-four Dartmouth men about to sail for France, that the country takes pride in the work that they are about to do for America." Among the speakers at the banquet were President Ernest Martin Hopkins. Mr. Paul G. Osborn '17, a member of one of the units, Mr. Charles R. Miller '72, editor of the New York Times. Mr. Emery Pottle, Secretary of the American Ambulance Field Service, Judge William N. Cohen '79, and Mr. Edward K. Hall '92. The Amherst song was sung in honor of Mr. Pottle, a graduate of Amherst. The members rose and drank a toast to Richard Hall '15, who was killed while in the Ambulance Service. Every member of the departing units received a silver wrist watch, engraved with his name and the word Dartmouth. Fifty-two; men have already gone into Ambulance work either with die American Ambulance Field Service or with the Volunteer Ambulance of the Red Cross. On June 2, fifty more men sailed for France for die American Ambulance Field Service.