Connecticut

REPORTS FROM the various Club Secretaries in Connecticut indicate considerable activity during January for the several organizations.

Art Shurts '3O, writing for the Eastern Connecticut Alumni group, states that their annual meeting was held on January 28th at the Norwich Inn, Norwich, Connecticut, and there were thirty-nine assorted husbands, wives, bachelors and friends present. The program consisted of a buffet supper, business meeting and pictures of the 1937 Dartmouth football team.

The next meeting on March 9th will be held at Norwich and thereafter the meetings will be held alternately at Norwich and New London. This plan will give a break to the out-landers who have hitherto often found meeting places not easily accessible. Art reports great enthusiasm in the Norwich-New London territory and an executive committee to boost future meetings has been appointed by president of the Club, Hug Lena 'l2. consisting of Mayor Ed Moran '24, of Norwich, Francis McGuire '32, Arno Vogt '3O, and Peter Banas, of New London, and Superintendent of Schools, L. W. Moulton '27, of Old Lyme.

Ev Robie 'l7, of Stamford and the Western Connecticutites have confined their recent activities to already having interviewed fourteen Dartmouth applicants, a big job in itself, and also have been pressing their drive, previously mentioned in this column, for funds out of which to eventually create a small "Dartmouth Library."

New Britain had a very successful Christmas get-together on December 30th at the Hotel Burritt. Forty turned out, including twelve undergraduates. An election of officers was held and S. H. Cross 'Ol was elected president, succeeding A. H. Schilling 'Ol. Phil Pelletier 'l5, remains in office for the ensuing year as secretary.

A letter from Ed Smith '32, Waterbury secretary, informs us of a meeting in Naugatuck on January 6th. Twenty peared for dinner. Out of this meeting was born a new idea for Connecticut Clubs, but one which is very exhilarating and commendable, the formation of a Dartmouth Outing Club of Waterbury. The seeds of this new brainchild may result in the blossoming of other such typically Dartmouth projects in Connecticut to follow the excellent lead of the New York and Boston D. O. C. Clubs. Plans are in the formative stage with a committee consisting of Bernie Berman '29, Bob Lowell '35, George Thomas '34 and Bob Treat '27 working on the details. The results of this experiment will be keenly watched by other Clubs not only in Connecticut, but throughout New England where such organizations do not exist.

The Waterbury conclave was productive of further results in the planning of a cellar party on February 17th and a showing then of the 1937 football movies, and also of a big dinner meeting in Naugatuck on Dartmouth night. Arrangements are also well underway for a bigger and better State Dartmouth banquet in Waterbury in May. This somewhat sketchy resume is ample proof of the enthusiasm and initiative of one of the finest Dartmouth Clubs in New England, that in Waterbury. Officers for the coming year are as follows: president, A 1 English 'l5; vice president, Bill Boies '25 and Ed Smith '32, secretary. Dave Gibson 'l6 of Waterbury is president of the State Association in charge of the State banquet.

The New Haven Club will meet at the Graduate's Club in New Haven on February 18th. The program will include football movies and a talk by Charlie Ewart, erstwhile Yale quarterback.

The Bridgeport Club met on January 12 th. Another good crowd was on hand. A business meeting preceded the annual election of officers. To supplement its program of monthly meetings it was arranged that luncheon would be served every Thursday noon in a private room at the University Club in Bridgeport for Dartmouth men only. To date there has been an average weekly attendance of twelve for three weeks. All Dartmouth men are welcome. Of considerable importance was the adoption of a plan to form a permanent revolving committee to deal not only, as has been true in the past, with interviewing applicants for Dartmouth, but also to take very definite measures to check up on the records of boys from Bridgeport at Dart- mouth during their first year with a view to assisting them with their problems through contacts in Hanover, and further to provide a medium by the aid of which Bridgeport boys in the senior class may be assisted in obtaining positions after grad- uation in this area. Officers elected for next year are L. S. Stone '24, president; Paul Harper '26, vice president and again Ed Spargo '24, secretary. Following the meet- ing, Montgomery "Monty" Chapman '25, onetime captain of a championship Pennsylvania Eastern Intercollegiate basketball team, spoke interestingly on the "Evolution of Basketball as It Is Played Today."

All Connecticut alumni should begin to plan now for personal attendance at the May Waterbury State meeting.