SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION

The annual meeting and banquet of the Southern California Alumni Association of Dartmouth College was held Saturday evening, March 25th, and brought together thirty-five of the alumni living in this section.

James A. Townsend '94, of San Francisco, member of the Alumni Council, who was the speaker of the evening, told of the present-day Dartmouth, both regarding student, faculty, and administrative activities, and giving details of the selective process of admission.

Charles G. Johnson '71 gave remarkably interesting details of the Dartmouth of his day, when tuition costs totaled $15 a term or $45 a year, and when board was $2.50 a week.

Dr. Karl Sleeper, the retiring president, was the toastmaster. The new officers chosen unanimously are James J. Norton, 1908, president, Richard B. Merrill, 1908, vice-president, and C. G. Milham, 1906 (non-grad), secretary-treasurer.

The members of the Alumni Association meet at luncheon every Monday at a. restaurant known as Ye Bull Pen Inn. Since the first of January attendance at these luncheons is never far below fifteen, and during most weeks it has been close to twenty. , The, association voices a cordial invitation to all Dartmouth men coming to or passing through Eds Angeles to be with the Southern California alumni at the weekly luncheons.

The newly elected secretary may be addressed either at his home, 5846 La Mirada Avenue. Hollywood, California, or at his office, care All Year Club of Southern California, Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles. The latter address is preferable.