SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION

The biggest assemblage of Dartmouth men ever brought together on the Pacific Coast turned out on Friday evening, March 19, at the University Club in Los Angeles to pay tribute to the old College and to President Hopkins at the annual dinner of the Southern California Alumni Association. Last year's dinner of the Southern California Association brought out sixty-nine, and this year's meeting set a new record of ninety-nine, this figure including eighty alumni, eight boys from this section who are entering Dartmouth this fall or the fall of the following year, and guests. The association was honored by the attendance of several well known alumni from distant points. Clarke Tobin 1910, member of the Advisory Football Committee, was one of these, and he gave a splendid talk about the work that is being done by President Hopkins, and about the leadership that Jess Hawley has brought to Dartmouth football men, making him, as Tobin expressed it, not so much a football coach as a teacher of men. Charley Boyle of 1901 was another of the visitors from New York. He remained over for another day in Los Angeles while on a hurried business trip, so that he could be present and tell President Hopkins howi glad he, Boyle, was, that he had been five years at Dartmouth so that he could have the signal distinction of graduating in the same class with President Hopkins. Clarence B. Little 'Bl, who was named recently as life trustee, was another of the speakers, pointing out the accord that exists at Dartmouth between administration, board of trustees, and faculty.

Also among those present were Louis B. Hopkins of the class of 1908, brother of the President; E. C. Ward '17, of Waseca, Minn.; and Dr. Shepherd Ivory Franz, formerly of the Dartmouth faculty, now of the Southern Branch of the University of California. Guests included Dr. Fred A. Speik, famous all-American end and varsity captain of the University of Chicago team in 1904; F. L. S. Harman, assistant secretary of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and president of the local Exeter Alumni Association; Elmer Green, former registrar of Williams College; and Harry Heffner, an associate of E. W. Hiestand, first vice-president of the local Association. The boys present who will enter College next fall or in the fall of the following year were John B. Henry, Carl D. Jenson, Romer Grey, Keating Coffey, Edgar Wix, Willoughby Dye, Jr., T. P. Pike, and Walter Donald Douglas, 2d. Dr. Tristram Coffey, Dr. Willoughby Dye, and Mr. J. H. Henry accompanied their sons. As usual, "Chic" Currier of 1908 regarded the long- journey from El Centro in the Imperial Valley as only a step, so that he might be present at the dinner, while Sydney Ickes '12 similarly refused to let the hundred and fifty mile journey from Indio in the Coachella Valley prevent his being on hand for the affair. Dr. H. P. Newman, 1875 M, made the trip up from San Diego, writing in advance of his coming, "Will certainly be there." S. W. Robertson '83 was among those who made a long trip in order to be on hand, Mr. Robertson traveling 110 miles from Santa Barbara in order not to miss hearing President Hopkins.

Numbered among the features of the dinner were a most felicitous address of welcome by the retiring president J. Leland Richardson '08; a showing of the new film from College portraying the 1924 football team in action, and giving the high lights on this year's winter carnival; and a film prepared by E. D. Martin '09. Martin has been taking motion pictures for several years of the various picnics and other important affairs of the Southern California Association, and has a picture worth going miles to see; especial sections of it reveal that the supposedly staid members of the Association are just as prone to go swimming unburdened by clothes as they were a rather fair number of years ago.

The chief end of the program was of course the address by President Hopkins. In it he blocked out something of the background of the things that haVe produced the present day Dartmouth, and he explained something of what is being done there today. As he always does, he made his hearers see exactly what is being aimed at and why, and the address was voted unanimously more than ordinarily notable, even for "Hoppy." He was assured, in a brief response by the newly elected president of the Association, C. G. Milham '06 that every member of the Southern California Association recognized that Dartmouth's destinies were in the right hands so long as President Hopkins was at the .helm.

The dinner committee was headed by President J. Leland Richardson, and numbered also Dr. George P. Laton '06, E. W. Hiestand '10, C. G. Milham '06, and E. D. Martin '09, the latter the song leader for the evening. The old songs were sung with great gusto. The nominating committee appointed by Richardson was made up of Hiestand, James J. Norton '08, R. B. Merrill '08, V. R. Salinger '00, E. A. Maling '20, and Roland Foss '19. The committee recommended the election of Milham as president, Hiestand, first vice-president, John J. Troy '11, second vice-president, and Maling as secretary. The recommendation was accepted, and these officers unanimously elected for the year 1926-27.

Besides those already mentioned, the following were among those present: E. A. Abbott '99, Dr. Walter S. Adams '98, R. B. Ahlswede '12, Gerakl Barnes '11, R. L. Bennett '13, Prof. F. P. Brackett '87, David E. Bradley '03, Dr. H. G. Brainerd '74,' C. H. Brock '88, R. C. Brummer '19, Eugene D. Burbank '91, Ashton Castle '24, R. K. Charles '20, G. L, Clewell '22, Andrew W. Comstock '13, R. E. Cox '92, Warren Currier '08 E. R. Dewey '17, Dr. Harry Dunham '12 M, Wm. A. Dresser '77, James T. Durkee '17, Clark H. Edwards '05, Webster B. Evans '08, Merrill M. Follansbee '09, Walter B. Gibson '11, D. K. Hammond '10, Rev. W. P. Hardy '87, Dr. Albert L. Hill '04, Charles C. Hitchcock '16, Edgar D. Hoag '23, Willis B. Hodgkins '99, Neal C. Hotaling '11, Henry D. Howard '07, Charles G. Johnson '71, A. E. Kimball '99, Ralph M. Kilpatrick '19, T. W. McFadden '26, James W. McCleery '25, Howard M. Miles 'IS, R. W. Morrill '24, Henry B. Morse '04, A. P. Nelson '89, Fred H. Nettletora '84, Walter L. Nourse '05, H. W. Pease '11, L. I. Rothschild '24, Paul S. Sample '19, Lynn F. Seller '18, Ed Seward '19, Robert S. Shackford '12, George W. Shaw '87, Albert Shiels, Jr. '17, Harold F. Whitcomb '11, Charles H. Woods '76, Charles W. Wright '24, George W. Yates '24.

E. A. MALING,

Secretary.