CHICAGO ASSOCIATION
The attendance at the Monday noon meetings at the University Club is running very high. At the last four meetings there have been 65, 65, 55, 61 respectively. This is considered quite a good turnout, even for Chicago.
At the meeting on May 4, General Manus McCloskey, West Point '98, gave a powerful talk on the need for national defense. On the May 18 meeting, Nat Leverone '06 reported on his attendance at the secretaries' conference, and brought back word that the enthusiasm generated at the time of the Pow Wow was still in evidence, and that plans were under discussion for another Pow Wow to be held sometime, somewhere.
A1 Priddy '15 of Boston, chairman of the Alumni Fund Committee, was the speaker at the meeting of May 11, and he gave us a very clear picture of the Alumni Fund situation.
A number of visitors have been attending the lunches on their way through town. Among them were Gladstone Jordan '11 from Manchester, N. H., Professor Maurice H. Robmson '90 of the University of Illinois, F. B. Quackenboss '11 of Worcester, Mass., M. B. Perkins '02 of Pittsburgh, Pudge Neidlinger '23 of New York, Max Bonter '09 of Seattle, Dr. Bob Smith '02 of Akron, Ohio, and Alex Steenrod '17 and K. H. Knowlton '19 from Freeport.
Right now plans are being made for the alumni field day, which will probably be held some time in July. All Dartmouth men expecting to be in Chicago at that time are invited to attend.
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Considering the time of year, the attendance at the weekly lunches is gratifying, running between 45 and 65 each time. Out of town men are always welcome at our meetings, and apparently they are beginning to find this out. On June 1, M. F. Johnson '21 of New York, was present; on June 15, R. W. Tackaberry '12 from Sioux City, George M. Morris of Washington and Charley Luitweiler, Jr. '24 of Boston; on June 22, Gene Prentice 'OB and Bill Carlisle '11 and Joe Cheney '13, Orlando, Florida; and on June 29, Bill Knight 'OB of Rockford, and Ed. Johnson '22 of Sioux City.
Final plans have been made for the annual field day which is to be held Thursday, July 9, at the Wilmette Country Club.
Following the custom introduced when Dr. Emilius C. Dudley presented a picture of the College in the early '70's, Charley Webster '82 gave us a talk of Hanover in the early '80's. Later decades will be taken up shortly.
On June 8, Henry Hilton '90 reported the results of his trip to Hanover, during which the senior class considered and finally accepted the suggestion that each man pledge to pay over a period of years the amount of money that it actually cost the College for his education in excess of what he paid in. This figures roughly at $1000, and if each class will follow this example, the financial affairs of the College will be in very good shape.
Monday, June 22, was Nat Leverone day. Nat took the fatal plunge on the following Thursday, and the boys staged a shower for him, consisting of a great variety of kitchen utensils and other articles likely to be useful to him in his married life. From last reports he is headed for the tall woods.
Warren D. Burner
Secretary
Secretary
