ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE PACIFIC COAST
The Alumni Association of the Pacific Coast held its annual dinner on the evening of Friday, March 22, at the Bohemian Club. The evening was a great success for many reasons, chief among which were the presence of vice-president John Post '05, for the first time during the year; the fact that Al Priddy remembered everybody's name; the attendance of Frank Garby, who was elected master of the hounds; and the continuation of Able Winslow '20 as perennial secretary. This reporter seems to recall also that the dinner was very good indeed, but cannot be sure.
Forty-seven loyal granite-heads were assembled in the Owl Room of the Bohemian Club at 6:30, when Bill Wassail Washburn '14 announced that he had been able to get "Eleazar Wheelock" and "Men of Dartmouth" on the air over station KFRC. Everyone stopped biting his glass long enough to take this in; it was a big boost for the College to have these songs on for West Coast listeners. And it was an equally great treat to see the movies of the Pow Wow in Chicago, which were in town for the week-end. We plan to broadcast some pictures of a Pow Wow ourselves about a year and a half from now.
After the catsup and half-shells we looked over a pea-green prospect for Hanover, fresh from Healdsburg, Cal., the prune land. He was cross-examined by Roy Frothingham '15, and gave some pretty keen answers, but we turned him down because we knew all the time that it was Bill Washburn. He's too aggressive for a Dartmouth man. He tried later on for three quarters of an hour to sell us some land or something.
Over the small blacks, Jim Townsend, '94 for the nominating committee, presented the nominees for current year offices, and because the Chi Phi's were kept scattered at the banquet this year, the results were as follows: president, Elmer Robinson '14; vice-president (ex-officio in charge of attendance this year), Al Livingston '15; secretary, Abe Winslow '20; and master of the hounds, Frank Garby '07. Ritchie Smith '26 will be the quartet when he is not away selling books to the schoolmarms.
Every one of us is grateful to A1 Priddy for the clear and comprehensive picture he gave us of College activities. We, three thousand miles westward, must depend for renewed contact with the College upon those who come to us directly from Hanover or from recent contact with the College, and it is a real treat to get all the latest news by special messenger
