St. Louis Association

December 28, close to fifty St. Louis alumni and friends joined in a luncheon feting undergraduates home for the Christmas holidays.

In keeping with the tradition of the Christmas party, Phil Bassett '3O, vicepresident of the St. Louis Association, turned the major part of the program over to the undergraduates.

Although supposedly caught unawares, the boys certainly gave a noble demonstration of their prowess in extemporaneous speaking. In rapid-fire succession, there ollowed about as snappy and complete eye-witness accounts of one semester's activities at Dartmouth as has ever been the pleasure of a St. Louis audience to hear.

The stories varied from a thrilling sketch of a fast trip down the new Jobildunk ski course to a dramatic description of the emergency lighting of the Claremont Airport with headlights of student automobiles. Football, Steeplejack, Musical clubs, Junto were subjects covered in an hour all too short.

A number of applicants to the class of '38 were present—two of whom drove in from Springfield, Mo.—a distance of nearly 200 miles.

On the evening of January 8, the St. Louis Association launched the first of a series of monthly "smokers" at the home of Tom Curtis '32. This new activity permits closer association of alumni than is possible at the regular weekly luncheons downtown.

Weekly luncheons have been changed from Thursday to Saturday noons, at the Mark Twain Hotel—Bth and Pine Sts., St. Louis.

Secretary.