St. Louis Dinner
The month of April became eventful when our monthly smoker was converted into a very successful and pleasant banquet at the University Club with Sid Hayward the speaker and honored guest. Thirtyfour out of a total of around fifty-four members were on hand to revel and quench their thirst for news of the College. Sid's talk left us in a state of renewed interest in the advance of education and the part that Dartmouth is taking, according to her heritage, in the vanguard. Of course the movies of the College were right in order and made a fitting conclusion to the formal part of the gathering. Executive sessions were held in the tap room with beer presiding, afterwards.
Plans are going ahead for our annual spring picnic which we think will soon become as famous as the Winter Carnival and cause an influx from other cities. Its date will be in the early weeks of May when flowers carpet the fields and birds twit in the trees. This year the festivity will be a little saddened because of the loss of one of our most engaging couples Mr. and Mrs. John Laffey '29. "Laff" has been moved to New York by his employer, The Equitable Life Insurance Co., thus depriving us at one fell swoop of our president and main supporter. Pete Grace '33 has gracefully taken over the reins, but after all he was only a lucky Mr. Throttlebottom and we shall continue to miss our old Prexy. By the way Laffey, indigenous to New Jersey and only recently a denizen of Missouri, has been one of the main cogs in the evolution of the St. Louis Club. Well, we certainly gave the Laffeys a send off! It was some party. Gus Babson '33, one of our newly acquired members (selling dog food, of all things, to our St. Louis matrons) remarked that it was the closest approach to a Hanover houseparty he had seen since he last experienced an original.
I might briefly mention a few aliens of Babson's category now in the City, much to our benefit. Charly Jackson is here with Ivory Soap and a baby complexion. John Thompson '33 has something to do with silk and cotton goods, I don't know what department. Bill Byrne drives around in a truck-like car for Pillsbury. There are more, but the listing will be reserved for next month.
