Dartmouth in New York

EARLY LAST month, when it was spring vacation time in Hanover, visiting administration officials, professors, and students kept the Dartmouth Club here alive with a continuous round of activities. The biggest function was the Alumni Rally on the evening of April 5, when some 350 local alumni crowded into the clubhouse to greet an impressive Hanover contingent composed of President Hopkins, Dean Neidlinger, Secretary Hayward, A 1 Dickerson, and Coaches Blaik and Ellinger. President Hopkins and Dean Neidlinger made short talks expressing their enthusiasm of the new club quarters, and the coaches gave some inside information about prospects for next fall's football season.

The next evening the Alumni Fund dinner was held in the big downstairs room, and a larger turnout resulted, reported Fund Secretary Dickerson, then he's ever seen for the occasion before. On the following evening came the Sophomore Fathersand-Sons get-together, an annual meeting which is probably the only thing of its kind in the country. Every year at this time fathers of Dartmouth sophomores living in Metropolitan New York are invited to a club dinner where they can become acquainted with each other and meet and confer with the two Sophomore Class Advisors (professors) who come down from Hanover for the occasion. All sophomore fathers are invited—those who aren't Dartmouth men themselves are each greeted by an alumnus who acts as his host for the evening. Ernie Earley '18, ubiquitous Brooklyn insurance agent who's been handling the affair for several years now, turned up with another successful gathering this year. Some 150 men were present (including fathers, sons, and hosts), and the fathers all had fifteen minute interviews with Sophomore Advisors Arthur B. Merservy '06, and J. M. McDaniel to disuss cuss their sons majors, marks, special problems, etc.

Two months ago this column reported on the Dartmouth men who are working for R. H. Macy & Company. When we found fifteen Hanover alumni connected with New York's biggest department store, we thought that was quite a few Dartmouths for one concern, but we now have to report that this is but nothing compared with the Dartmouth influence which pervades the American Telephone and Telegraph and its associated companies in the city. We knew Dartmouth graduates had previously held important positions in the Telephone Company (Henry B. Thayer '79 was A. T. & T.'s president, E. K. Hall '92 a vice president, and Clarence G. McDavitt 'OO vice president of the New England Company), but were surprised to find that more than a hundred Dartmouth men in New York are connected with the Bell System. Getting information on such a group turned out to be something of a job, and, as a matter of fact, we ended up with more names than can probably be gotten into this column. But, at least, we can give you an idea of the situation.

A. T. 8c T., the largest corporation in the world, is, of course, the parent and operating company. There are three main associated companies: Long Lines, which handle long distance communications; Western Electric, which makes the equipment; and Bell Laboratories, which invents the new things for Western Electric to manufacture. In addition are twenty-four regional companies attuned to develop the particular territory each servesNew York Telephone Company, Illinois Bell Telephone Company, Southern Bell Telephone Company, etc.

Though we can't be sure it's an inclusive figure, we found nine Dartmouth men who are connected with the A. T. Be T.'s main offices at 195 Broadway here. Morton B. French '03 is a traffic engineer in the operations erations department, while Winthrop A. Griffin 'OB is an assistant vice, president of operations. There are four other engineers in the operation and engineering branches: Reuben R. Copp '10, Walter P. Emery '05, Harold M. Prescott '09, Edwin O. Raabe '10, and Warren O. Turner '20. Ralph W. Brown '15 is an attorney for the company, and Raymond H. Nead '11 is special assistant of the Benefit and Medical Department.

In the Western Electric offices at the same address Frederic H. Leggett '98, who for long has been active in Dartmouth circles here, is general manager and a director of the company. Harry B. Gilmore '10 is secretary. Other Dartmouth men include Robert L. Bartlett '16, field accountant; Kenneth B. Johnson '19, junior auditor; Richardson A. Libby 'si, accountant; Kenneth N. Meyercord '27, cost accountant; Charles E. Scott '2B, methods accountant; Philip T. Wagner '23, accountant; Albert W. Bates '09, chief inspector of telephone sales; Frederick A. Blanpied '19, "district methods, telephone sales"; Carlton P. Fronst '18, sales accountant; David L. Garratt '18, sales development supervisor; Frederick A. Muehleck '23, buyer for the Purchasing and Traffic Department; Bleike S. Reed '24, sound reproduction sales engineer; William G. Barker '25, adjusting specialist; and George W. Long '30, a price engineer.

ALUMNI IN "LONG LINES"

The Long Lines Company has a twenty-six story building all of their own down on lower Sixth Avenue. We paid a recent visit there and had a talk with the company's publicity manager, Kingsland T. Rood '18, who took a little time off to show us around the radio control room and the overseas switchboard. The broadcasting people own very little of their equipment, it seems—it belongs to the Telephone companies and is rented out. Mr. Rood showed us the control board where all programs of the big networks (NBC, CBS, and MBS) come through before they are thrown out over the nation. The complicated facilities necessary for all this are a little too much to go into here, but we were interested in the mechanism which lets you hear (at the same time) the program as it comes directly from the studio and the same program after it has whipped out through Detroit, Chicago, and come back to the Long Lines control board. Rood explained there was only one-tenth of a second difference in the time between the two arrivals of the program at the control board, but it was enough to make the lecturer talking from MBS sound like ten lecturers. At the overseas switchboard there were fifteen girls handling calls going to Canada, Europe, Africa, and South America. Back before 1929, said Rood, Wall Streeters like William Durant used to run up $1,400 charges in hour and a half conferences with their London and Paris brokers, but today such expensive calls are pretty rare. During the fifteen minutes we stood before the board, however, the little light under "Rio de Janeiro" remained on, indicating that someone in New York was running up a nice bill with a midday talk to South America. Besides Mr. Rood at the Long Lines building there are five other Dartmouth men: Edward B. Marker '07, supervisor in charge of traffic circuit engineering for New England, New York and Canada; Edward W. Higbee '10, an engineer of equipment and buildings; Howard S. Fa' hey '14, Commercial representative in the New York Division office; and Richard B. Holt '36, who's in the Press Service Department which handles the AP, UP, etc wire services.

In the Bell Laboratories at 463 West Street is another group of Dartmout men: Rush F. Newcomb '10.. the assistant treasurer; and twelve members of the tec nical staff-Reginald H. Colley '09, Walter A phelps '10, Karl O. Olson '14, Walter 5 Ross '18, Luther W. Hussey '23, George g Rockwood Jr., '24, Everett A. Potter '26, Owen R- Garfield '27, Edwin P. Felch '29, Henry K. Krist '29, Gordon F. Hull Jr. 33 and A. E. Ritchie '35.

just at present there are 48 Dartmouth fflen working for the New York Telephone Company, the regional company which handles the New York State business, and of these about 45 are located in or near the city. Space is running too short to tell what they do, but here's a list of the men: From the class of 1903—Julius B. Walther. 1904—Owen L. Burdett. 1910—Ernest W. Unangst. 1913—Howard Stoughton. 1915 Robert B. Fredericks and Howard P. Penny. 1919—Arthur I. Palmer. 1921 Al- ton S. Palmer. 1922—Albert E. Cole, John D. Dodd, Roger M. Eastman, Clyde L. Healy, Stanley P. Miner, and William A. Morrell. 1923—Theodore S. Barstow, George A. Behringer, Matthew G. Jones, andDwightL. Keef. 1925—John W. Roche. 1926—Walfrid E. Bengtson, William B. Fish, and Richard Major Jr. 1927—Guy B. Bostwick, Edward M. Dwyer, and Theodore A. Girault. 1928—Lewis R. Beers, Edward N. Chamberlain Jr., and William E. Dietz. 1929—Robert M. Cate, Albert C. Fisher, Edward C. Buhler, Herbert M. Garratt, Arthur L. Hayes, William R. Jessup, James W. Mitchell, and Oscar G. Sandberg. 1931—John W. Cogswell. 1932 Arthur H. Oesterheld Jr. and Frederick R. White Jr. 1933—Robert C. Glendinning and Richard A. Rocker. 1935—F. B. White. 1936—D. J. Moir. 1937—A. C. Morse Jr.

That so many Dartmouth men are connected with the Bell System doesn't, however, the officials warn, mean that anyone with an A. B. from Hanover can come down and snatch a job forthwith. The companies, as a matter of fact, feel that they're overstaffed now, and they've given up the practice of sending representatives to Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, and other campuses every spring to look for new talent. Still, there's a good-sized turnover, and the feeling is that Dartmouth will continue to supply as many men as almost any other school, with the exception of Purdue and M. I. T. in the engineering field.

PROF. C. P. LATHROP, HEAD OF DEPT: OF ART (Left); AND PROF. G. C. WOOD, CHAIRMAN OF EDUCATIONAL POLICY COMMITTEE