DARTMOUTH IN FRANCE
May we introduce a new infant into the circle of Dartmouth Alumni Clubs: The Dartmouth Alumni Club of Tours, France? The birth, took place Sunday evening, May 5, at a little cafe in Tours, "The Hole-in-the-wall," with eighteen Dartmouth men present. I believe many Dartmouth clubs in the States have started with less than that. The best part of it is that there are more men here who were unable to round up, owing to the fact that they were on duty. We have twenty-one active members now in Tours, and also consider as members eight men who have recently left town.
You may perhaps be interested to know the names of the members: Major "Fat" Dillingham '09; Captain Les Snow '12; Lieutenants Ev Graves 'IS, Hort Kennedy '18, H. P. Full '14, Pete Winship 'IS, Newman '19 or '20, Lee Graham '15, Frank Grady '17; Ordnance Sergeants L. M. Folan '15, Tom Nichols '13, Ray Smith '17; Sergeants Gran Fuller '16, L. A. Shea 'l7, R. C. Bigelow '15, Carlton Fletcher 'IS, G. B. Rowell '17, C. P. Downer '17, Dick Woolworth '18 (we held Commencement for him last week), Cowles (he is here, but we can't find him), 2nd Class Buck Private Stick Parnell '15.
The following" men have been members: Lieutenant Roger Morse '16, Lieutenant Horace Borden '14, Sergeant Staf Brown '18.
Visitors lately: Lieut. J. P. Young '17, Lieut. Hal Ross '17, Lieut. Dick Pritchard '14, Lieut. Johnny Wheelock '17, and Hap Mason '17, also Lieut. Charles Jones, Lieut. Jack Storrs '18.
The "Hole-in-the-wall," which we have adopted as our club, is a small cafe in the old part of the city, and is unfrequented by soldiers, so we are quite exclusive. Drop in any Saturday or Sunday night and you will find from ten to twenty of the most loyal Dartmouth men talking over old times and new, and singing every Dartmouth song that was ever written and some that haven't been written.
We get The Dartmouth, The Bema, TheJack O'Lantern, and the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, and all copies are carefully nursed until they have been circulated among all the members. Regular meetings are held every two weeks, and the majority of the club are together at least two nights a week at informal meetings.
We endeavor to live up to all the old traditions as nearly as possible, and are planning an outing for next week; the kind of an outing termed by the unsophisticated in college "a keg party." The classic Loire is to be rechristened the Connecticut, and the environs of Charlemagne's Tower will become for the time a good substitute for the secluded Mink Brook.
We talk over with great interest the affairs of the College, and all wish that it was within our province to help materially. However, through the present circumstances our hands are tied, and it is up to those who remain in the States to put their shoulders to the wheel and push like the deuce. We all assure you that when we get back we will make up for lost time.
Officers: President, R. W. Winship '15; vice-president, L. M. Folan '15; treasurer, G. B. Fuller '16; secretary, C. A. Parnell '15; refreshment committee, "Full".
Ordnance Dept., U. S. M. P. O. No. 717, American Expeditionary Forces.
Censored, E. J. Graves, 2nd Lt. O. D. U. S. R.
