DARTMOUTH ALUMNUS DEVELOPS Y.M.C.A. WORK IN NEW YORK

A recent article on Y. M. C. A. service contains a glowing account of the achievements of "Tom" Cotton '17, who has developed the Foreign Born Department of the Twenty-third Street Y. M. C. A., in New York city.

"Every immigrant on arrival," says Mr. Cotton, "has to make a large number of adjustments to an often indifferent and unfriendly environment. In making thlese adjustments, he comes in contact with American officialdom and is not always given the best of treatment because of misunderstandings which arise due to the lack of method of communication, very few of them knowing English. Therefore, at Ellis Island, also in prisons, courts, hospitals and other places, the representatives of this department serve as shock-absorbers by the tactful handling of every ramification pertaining to the different cases at hand."

This service to foreign born was formally recognized as a phase of the Y. M. C. A. program in January, 1920, when Mr. Cotton was installed as Director of the Foreign Born Department of the Twenty-third Street Y. M. C. A. Under his able leadership, this work rapidly expanded until in October, 1921, the Greek Department was inaugurated with an impressive ceremony at which His Holiness, The Right Reverend Miletius Mataxakus, who is now Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church at Constantinople, officiated.