CHICAGO ASSOCIATION
The Dartmouth Alumni Association of Chicago are hard at work to make April 5 one of the biggest Dartmouth nights in their history. On this date the Dartmouth Players will give their performance, "The Sahara Derby," at the Aryan Grotto. At this writing over one thousand tickets have been sold, and it is anticipated that the Players will show to a packed house.
Considerable publicity has been secured in the society columns of the Chicago newspapers as well as in other sections of the papers. Plans were made to have the boys broadcast Dartmouth songs prior to the performance, but this arrangement had to be canceled because of conflicting dates.
A dance is to be given in the Crystal Ball Room of the Blackstone Hotel following the performance, for the entertainment of the Players, and the show and dance are being sponsored by the following patronesses:
Mrs. Lucius Teter Mrs. Arthur Meeker Mrs. L. Hamilton McCormick Mrs. George Dixon Mrs. Potter Palmer Mrs. Henry H. Hilton Mrs. Charles S. Peterson Mrs. Louis E. Leverone Mrs. Roy Keehn Mrs. Edward S. Bailey Mrs. Robert Peacock Mrs. Edward Leight Mrs. Clarence Hough Mrs. Claude C. Hopkins Miss Olga Menn
The Players are scheduled to arrive at 1:00 P.M. on Thursday, and will be given a luncheon at the University Club and entertained in the afternoon.
On February 26 a very successful luncheon was held with the Chicago alumni of the University of Michigan as our guests.
On March 26, on a similar occasion, we had the Cornell alumni as our guests, and expect to carry on this program by having the Brown alumni with us on April 30.
We find that these occasions have helped develop acquaintances and a spirit of cordial relations, and were of course pleased to learn at the Cornell luncheon that our baseball team is to christen the new diamond at Cornell this spring. Needless to say, we took this occasion to inform the Cornell men without boasting, and simply as a matter of information, of some previous christenings of Dartmouth athletic teams. It was gratifying to hear the Cornell alumni speak most highly of the existing athletic relations between Cornel! and Dartmouth, and express an ardent wish for their continuation.
Plans are now being made to entertain President Hopkins at an informal dinner and smoker at the University Club on April 23, and as it has been over a year since we have had the pleasure of having "Hoppie" with us, we look for a big turn-out on this occasion.
At one of our weekly meetings a letter from E. Gordon Bill was read advising that of the forty-eight freshmen entered this year from Illinois, and recommended by this Association, none had been separated from the College at the end of the semester. The enthusiastic and vociferous applause with which this announcement was greeted shows that our Association is quite jealous of the scholastic standing of the men from this section. A letter from the Secretary of the Association to Mr. McDaniels, principal of the Oak Park High School, congratulating him on the high standing of the two freshmen who entered last fall from the Oak Park High, and expressing a wish that more may be entered next year to qualify Oak Park High for the Dartmouth Plaque, was reprinted in OakLeaves, the newspaper of Oak Park.
Needless to say, the Association was highly pleased to learn of the appointment of one of its members, John J. Ryan 1911, as head football coach at the University of Wisconsin.
April 3, 1923.
