THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION

Members of the Southern California Association need little excuse to get together at occasional intervals in addition to meeting regularly every Tuesday at luncheon, and they therefore took full advantage of an excellent opportunity for meeting together late in January through the presence of former Governor Channing H. Cox '01 and Mrs. Cox in Southern California. The former Governor and his wife were in and around Los Angeles for nearly three weeks, sailing for home on February 2nd, on the Steamship Kroonland of the Panama Pacific Line.

The Southern California Association staged a dinner in honor of Governor Cox at the University Club in Los Angeles on Friday evening, January 30th. Dr. George P. Laton, President of the Association, was toastmaster, and brief talks were made by Dr. Walter S. Adams '9B, Willis'B. Hodgkins '99, V. R. Salinger 'OO, Royal B. Thayer 'Ol, S. H. Burnham '74, Dr. H. G. Brainerd '74, and C. G. Milham 'O6. Mr. Burnham, who comes from Lincoln, Nebraska, where he is president of the First National Bank, gave an interesting talk concerning some of the former employees of his bank, who had included Charles G. Dawes, General Pershing, and the president of the First National Bank of Boston, of which Channing Cox is now a vice-president. Mr. Burnham is a winter visitor in Los Angeles.

Governor Cox gave one of his usual felicitous addresses, touching especially on the relationship of the members of the Southern California Association to Dartmouth, and to New England from whence most of them had come. He also spoke for a few minutes in the course of the evening to a group of Boston University alumni, who by an odd coincidence were holding a dinner in a room adjoining the Dartmouth gathering.

Those present at the dinner in addition to those already named included Edward F. Adams '95, R. D. Ahlswede '12, R. L. Bennett '13, Charles H. Brock: '88, James E. Durkee '17, Clark H. Edwards 'll, Roland Foss '19, J. F. Glynn '09, Roswell E. Hall '12, Leslie A. Hatch '98, E. H. Hiestand '10, E. A. Maling '19, Richard B. Merrill '08, James J. Norton '08, Charles W. Remele '12, J. Leland Richardson '08, Ed. Seward '20, Edmund J. Shattuck '10, George C. Stoddard '18, John J. Troy 'l2, Harold F. Whitcomb '11, E, R. Dewey '17, Ralph M. Kilpatrick '19, E. D. Martin '09, Harry B. Morse 'O4, Sumner C. Willis '10, Wallace Wright '19, and H. Fishback, Jr., '16.

So that the Dartmouth wives might have the opportunity of meeting Channing and Mrs. Cox, "Vic" Salinger and Mrs. Salinger threw open their home at 1703 Milan Avenue, South Pasadena, for an informal reception to the Dartmouth group on Sunday evening, February Ist. It proved a most attractive affair, enabling the ladies to meet each other and to know what a fine crowd the Dartmouth men were, and the Dartmouth songs were trolled out so lustily that the honor guests of the evening fancied themselves back in Hanover, New Hampshire.

"Vic" and Mrs. Salinger were assisted by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Salinger and Miss Mary Mac Donald, Mrs. Salinger's niece, and by Catherine Anne, who is the shining star of "Vic's" household. Most of the men who were present at the dinner Friday night were on hand at this "get-together" Sunday evening, and also present were E. A. Abbott '99 and Mrs. Abbott, Webster B. Evans 'OB and Mrs. Evans, Dr. Carl R. Sleeper 'OO, Mrs. Sleeper and their children Bob and Carline, and Mrs. Atkins Nickerson, who belongs to 1910. The ladies present included Mrs. George P. Laton, Mrs. J. Leland Richardson, Mrs. C. G. Milham, Mrs. R. D. Merrill, Mrs. James J. Norton, Mrs. Ed. Seward, Mrs. George C. Stoddard, Mrs. J. F. Glynn, Mrs E. D. Martin, Mrs. Edward F. Adams, Mrs. R. B. Ahlswede, Mrs. John J. Troy, Mrs. Edmund J. Shattuck, Mrs. Clark H. Edwards, and Mrs. Harry Morse.

Secretary,