Chicago

ANEW YEAR for the Chicago Association is now well under way. On August 31st, around 100 paying alumni assembled out on the site of an old Indian reservation for their annual outing picnic, the location now being part of an estate owned by Louis Leverone '04, the perennial picnic host.

Always the highlight of the local season, Lou's affair was carried out this year strictly in accord with ancient precedents. After the initial stalling around the beer barrels, a baseball game got under way with Bill Walrath '35 and your secretary choosing sides. As a feature attraction, Chris Chrissinger '30 was imported from Detroit to umpire the game.

After the last ball players had drifted off the field, a swell picnic dinner was dished up, with John Goodwillie '3l checking the antes, and Lou had a tremendous wood fire started back of second base. Some of the boys got to singing, some to bulling, and all to emptying steins until the last barrel was dry. Had it been handy, an enormous floral wreath would have been thankfully presented to Lou.

On September Bth, the annual undergraduate luncheon was held at Mandel Brothers, with over 90 attending. Prexie Bill Abbott '27 had members of the class of '4l and all undergraduates present themselves to their approving elders and extended them all an official welcome on behalf of the Chicago Association. Charles J. Zimmerman '23, an immigrant from Northern New Jersey, was introduced to the crowd. Next up was Lou Leverone. In presenting him, Abbott quoted a picnicker as saying the picnic was the closest he had been to Hanover since his graduation. Which raises a query as to what kind of a college career the picnicker had. Lou proved himself a good speaker as well as a fine host in his delivery of welcome and congratulations to those Hanover-bound.

Wednesday luncheons at Mandel Brothers, in the Green Room, are to be served with speeches and supplemented with Saturday broadcasts at strategic times, in places to be announced.