New York Club
Last night (April 5) the first spring football smoker ever held at the Dartmouth Club was tendered Coaches Blaik, Ellinger, Gustafson, and Donchess.
The second floor was taxed to capacity, and a more enthusiastic football crowd cannot be pictured. There were approximately 250 attending, and only limited facilities prevented the crowd from being still larger.
All four of the coaches did a beautiful job of telling the alumni group what they felt about the football situation in Hanover. Their ideas and attitude towards the College and the game were enthusiastically received, and everyone felt that these four men have answered to the fullest the football prayer of every Dartmouth man.
George Trevor of the New York Sun was among those present, and favored the group with some amusing and interesting football stories.
Eddie Dooley and Jack Hubbell alternated as toastmasters, and produced, in addition to other favorable feats, a corking musical program, featuring the Tastyeast Jesters of radio fame, whose program had the Club syncopators applauding and crying for more.
The meeting broke up at 10:30 P.M., with Harry Ellinger smiling a dimpled farewell and "Red" Blaik going to bed with a throat that showed the strain of a spring tour. The unofficial close was around 4:30 A.M.
FROM THE CLUB BULLETIN
Harry Gilmore, with Ted Leggett, Randy Burns, Mart Remsen, and Sherry Baketel as parties of the second part, have put up their choices for the Club's official positions for the next year. Their slate is as follows: president, C. K. Woodbridge '04; vicepresident, J. W. Knibbs '05; treasurer, N. C. Lenfestey '13; secretary, E. E. Martin '19; governors (for three years), J. D. Landauer '23, J. A. Davis '27, T. W. Towler '13. Members of course have the privilege of nominating other candidates, provided their nominations are endorsed by 20 Club members and the notice of said nomination is forwarded to the Secretary (J. D. Landauer) at least a week before the annual meeting.
Unique, or presumably so, among graduate functions is the Dartmouth Sophomore Fathers' Dinner. It started several years ago, and is the means of getting together a majority of the fathers of New York boys who are members of the current sophomore class. Never a formal affair, it always is a very satisfactory method of giving these fathers a little touch of interest that they decidedly appreciate. Especially to a father who has not himself gone to college his son is in a far country, away from his influence, and pretty much under the sway of a group of which he knows little, although he trusts them implicitly in their care of his son. These fathers come, sit for a couple of hours with an alumnus, listen to a couple of brief talks by the class advisors, and go home with a much heightened enthusiasm for the College. There is scant formality about the whole proceeding, but there always has been a great deal of real pleasure. Ernie Earley is the boss of this particular branch, and will appreciate as great an attendance as possible. One alumnus acts as host to one father. The expense is nominal—your own and one dinner check practically covering everything. As a means of showing these fathers that there is something more to the College than simply a collection of buildings this is the year's biggest opportunity. Can you be among us?
With all Dartmouth graduates the Club joins in extending its sympathy to those whose sons were so recently lost to Dartmouth. No doubt we would have known them later as members of the Club and would have liked them as they were liked and respected in Hanover.
Of direct and great importance in the upbuilding of the Club is an active and well-controlled organization. With almost 1000 members, it is both necessary and advisable to make full use of the committees provided for in the Club's by-laws if the greatest number are to benefit in the greatest degree. With that in mind, President King Woodbridge has appointed the following members to the various committees. In only one instance, perhaps, is there any need for elaboration. The Round Table Group chairmen have not all been appointed the engineers, law, education, arts, science, manufacturing, and several others being at present without guiding lights. The men noted have accepted this work willingly and with every intention of putting a shoulder to the wheel. Your cooperation with them will be pleasurable to you and welcomed by them.
House Committee, Thurmond Brown, chairman; Committee on Admissions, John C. Sterling, chairman; Library Committee, Thomas W. Streeter, chairman; Entertainment and Club Activities Committee, John W. Hubbell, chairman, S. S. Larmon, vicechairman; Auditing and Finance Committee, Eugene M. Prentice, chairman; Advisory and Administrative Committee, J. W. Knibbs, chairman, M. G. Rollins, editor bulletin; Committee of the College, Collin Wells, chairman; Membership and Promotion Committee, Elon G. Pratt, chairman and zone captain, George W. Scott, chairman and zone captain; Interscholastic Committee, James D. Landauer, chairman. Members' General Council of Round Table Groups, S. S. Larmon, chairman. Groups and chairmen: Medicine, Dr. Eliot Bishop, chairman; Insurance, T. F. McGaughan, chairman; Finance, Carl Allen, chairman; Advertising, Warren C. Agry, chairman; Real Estate, John Hubbard.
Membership Committee: Below Chambers St., Charles Singleton '26, captain, George Scott '26, R. E. Cleary '26, R. C. Wilkin '31, Bill Shaw '27; Chambers to 14th St., Alpha Lagacy '27, captain; 14th St. to 23d St., W. O. Keyes '29, captain; 23d St. to 34th St., John Weser '2B, captain; 34th St. to 42d St., T. F. McGaughan '25, captain, C. J. Hackett '28, C. S. McAllister '31, John C. Hubbard '29, Morey Hubbard '32, Charles Graydon '26; 42d St. to 59th St., Louis Pelletier Jr. '28, captain; 59th St. to 72d St., Collin Wells '13, captain (tentative); 72d St. to 96th St., C. A. McKendree '07, captain (tentative); 96th St. to 125 th St., T. A. Hellwig '23, captain (tentative); 125 th St. to Bronx, John F. Steeves Jr. '11, captain (tentative); Brooklyn, Richard Charlock '20; New Jersey, J. G. Hodge '29; Westchester, S. J. Flanigan '23.
Chairmen heading class dinners: 1900, Homer E. Keyes; 1901, Harry B. Gilmore; 1903, P. P. Edson; 1903, Morton B. French; 1904, Herbert McKennis; 1905, Walter Emery; 1906, E. B. Redman; 1907, Samuel C. Bartlett; 1908, F. H. Munkelt; 1909, F. J. O'Brien; 1910, Harold P. Jackson, John H. Hinman; 1911, Warren F. Kimball; 191 a, R. G. Burns; 1913, Collin Wells, T. W. Towler, J. J. Remsen; 1914, S. S. Larmon; 1915, Charles Griffith, R. G. Clarke; 1916, Percy Burnham; 1917, C. M. Gilmore, Don Brooks; 1918, F. W. Cassebeer, E. H. Earley, Stanley Jones; 1919, E. E. Martin, R. A. Jackson; 1920, H. S. Baketel; 1921, L. S. King; 1922, Frank Horan, S. P. Miner, S. D. Kilmarx; 1923, John Allen; 1924, S. B. Stickney; 1925, Chester Bolles; 1926, Charles Singleton; 1927, J. A. Davis; 1928, Ed Heyn, E. Hammesfahr, M. Halliday, M. B. Makepeace, O. Skinner, L. Dwinell, J. B. Wallace, C. Pollock; 1929, J. G. Hodge; 1930, L. S. Calloway; 1931, Charles McAllister; 1932, Charles Owsley; 1933, T. Okie.
You wouldn't know that old club of yours with the face-lifting that it's undergoing this spring. (Did we say "spring," with the'snow spitting in little jets around the eaves?) Well, anyway, spring or winter or what have you, your Club now has as comfortable and convenient bedrooms as you are likely to find anywhere and here you'll pay much less than you would expect to pay for similar accommodations anywhere else. During the past few weeks all floors have been scraped and refinished. The walls have been painted, the curtains cleaned and rehung. The baths have been gone over very completely, with new seats placed on all the toilets. And withal the prices are moderation itself. Starting at .$7 a week you can't pay over $12 and you may compare these with other prices and find out in the end that here are the greater values. To be sure, this Club is housed in a remodeled brownstone and some criticism may be made that we do not have the refinements that a newer building affords. The answer to 1 that is simply that we have here a sense of roominess that one doesn't find in the newer clubs, where the bedrooms have been planned solely for sleeping and where to wind a new cravat around your neck you have to step out into the hall and even that is usually so narrow that anyone moving in has to ladle his clothes into suitcases because a trunk blocks the aisle! Come around and let the Club management show you what there is available. The old-timers, like Lou Stone and Moon Scanlon, will tell you that the Club is cool and comfortable during the summer, and well worth the price of admission.
Every now and then some judge publicly brands a penny-snatcher or baby-whipper as the meanest man in his experience. As the leading candidate for the lowest form of animal life in the current social season the Club offers as Exhibit A the person who took from the lobby wall the old lithograph of the famous faculty fight that threatened to rend the College hip from thigh in the middle seventies. As most of you remember, this was a page found in an Aegis of that day, and suitably framed and placed in the lobby. Its story was one of bitter feeling and harsh treatment. An internecine battle among the members of the faculty was the subject of a cartoon by Thomas Nast, printed in color. The faculty was shown in the form of dogs with easily recognizable heads. It was a dogfight of dog fights. It was a memorable and extraordinary reminder of days long past. Now someone has taken it. Somebody at least the person who took it knows where it is. If any one else knows, the Club would be very grateful indeed to have the picture returned. No questions will be asked of course—because the kind of man who would do this could hardly be annoyed by any questions that could be asked.
