Fairbanks, Alaska

The Club picked up a new member this fall—makes four now.

Lawrence Worth '29 transferred to a western college for mining engineering before graduating from Dartmouth, then worked his way up here this summer for practical experience in the gold country. He ended up working on a road construction job between here and Livengood, a comparatively new mining camp seventyfive miles northwest of here. When the road work stopped with the cold weather he decided to satisfy a life long ambition and is going to winter in an abandoned cabin a mile or so outside of Livengood. And that means really living a suburban life; for Livengood itself has a population of possibly twenty-five in the winter.

If you could see that cabin this winter you'd see some extraordinary contrasts. Lighted by kerosene and heated by an old time Yukon sheet metal stove; and alongside of it a small radio set bringing in the same chain broadcasts you listen to outside. A quarter of moose and a few birds hanging outside the cabin and probably shot almost from the door; and in the larder lettuce, celery, oranges, fresh eggs (well, pretty fresh), and any brand of beer you name, all of which may be purchased at the Livengood store brought in by the weekly plane service from Fairbanks. This same plane will bring him the ALUMNI MAGAZINE less than a month after it leaves Hanover.

The Secretary is glad Worth can satisfy his lifelong ambition; but he himself, having turned forty, finds prospects brighter for the winter to remain in Fairbanks in his steamheated apartment with his hot shower and with a phone at his elbow to call up a taxi and get dropped at the theater for the latest newsreel, with hopes of seeing a shot of one of the Dartmouth games. Sorry to spoil any illusions you may have; but more white people up here live under those latter conditions than the other.

Secretary.