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WALKINGSTICK '18 IS FIRST INDIAN "Y" SECRETARY

February 1920
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WALKINGSTICK '18 IS FIRST INDIAN "Y" SECRETARY
February 1920

S. Ralph Walkingstick, Dartmouth '18, has taken up as his life work secretarial duties among the Indians as a representatives of the Y.M.C.A. According to "Association Men", the Y.M.C.A. magazine, Walkingstick is the first Indian to enter that field. He entered Dartmouth from Haskell Institute, and was elected president of the Dartmouth Christian Association. Before taking office, however, he entered war work, serving in India and, later, in Mesopotamia. Walkingstick has been assigned to the state of Oklahoma, in which there are 131,000 men of his race.