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Among Our Contributors

April 1931
Article
Among Our Contributors
April 1931

CARROLL A. BOYNTON '32 has already-written for ALUMNI MAGAZINE readers something of the air-progress of the college. This year his group is going in seriously for glider flying and much interest has been aroused already. The air port at White River offers opportunity to students of flying.

ARNOLD K. BORDEN is a Harvard man in the class of 1928. He came to Dartmouth in the fall of that year and was assigned to the reference desk which has worked out as one of the most useful factors in the operation of the new library. His home is in Everett, Mass.

T. A. MERRILL of the class of 1801 (Webster's class) taught in the Dartmouth Indian School (Moor's) from 1801 to 1803, studied divinity and ordained a Congregational minister. He occupied the pulpit at the Middlebury, Vt., church for nearly 50 years.

BEN AMES WILLIAMS is too well known to Dartmouth men to need any introduction. A graduate in the class of 1910 he went directly into newspaper work in Boston, in which he remained until 1916. Much of his earlier work appeared in the SaturdayEvening Post. His book Splendor in 1927 brought him the acclaim of critics as the most serious study of American Newspaper life. His latest book Great Oakes was reviewed in the February number of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. One of his boys is scheduled to enter Dartmouth next year.

VICTOR R. KING '31 is one of the chief reasons for the existence of the Dartmouth Yacht Club. Alumni who wish to fly the Dartmouth pennant on a boat of any kind should get in touch with King. He comes from Bound Brook, N. J.

J. F. MCELROY, a senior, becomes spokesman for the Outing Club in this number, with his article on the annual senior trip up Mt. Washington in the snow season.