San Francisco Pow Wow
ALUMNI CLUBS ON PACIFIC COAST MAKING PLANSFOR NATIONAL GATHERING NEXT NOVEMBER 25, 26
THE TOM-TOMS are a-thrumming out by the Golden Gate! Word has gone out by the mysterious power of the four winds that a tribal ceremony is in the making. Along about turkey time there is being planned another momentous gathering of the clans of the Dartmouth Tribe. This tribe, commanding a loyalty and a centralized interest unlike anything known among the collegiate confederacy, will meet in not too solemn conclave, make much talk, feast of the fall harvest, and engage in an elaborate ceremonial designed to promote the tribal welfare, to increase game and crops, to bring rain, heal the sick, and, more particularly to bring success in the renewed war with these stalwart braves of the Pacific—the Stanford Redskins.
The peace that was made in 1931 with the "Cardinals" has been broken. The White Indians from the Old Colony are seeking revenge for the scalping received during previous wars with the followers of Old Fox "Pop" Warner. On the afternoon of the 26th day of the month of November, on the banks of the San Francisquito Creek, where the lone redwood marks the site of Palo Alto, the eastern warriors will attack the Reds in their own settlement.
So great is the interest among the loyal sons of the tribe that early this winter a general trek toward the setting sun will get under way—out of the East from Hanover, Boston, New York, Chicago, Omaha, Denver; up from Los Angeles and down from Spokane, Seattle, Portland; and even out of the West from Hawaii and Honolulu—converging on the city of San Francisco the day after Thanksgiving, where they will be greeted by the Dartmouths of the Golden West and regaled by a week-end of doings. The tentative plans for the "Pow-Wow" lead off on Friday, November 25, with a
JOINT LUNCHEON of Stanford University and Dartmouth alumni at one of the city's famed hostelries, followed by a
GOLF TOURNAMENT at the Stanford University Course with playing arrangements for both ladies and men. Then a rousing big
POW-WOW BANQUET, with Dartmouth music, songs, and cheers.
The plan is to bring the campus in Hanover to the first national Dartmouth meeting ever held on the Coast, with messages from officers of the College including, we now hope, President Hopkins, Director of Athletics Bill McCarter, varsity football coaches, and other representatives of the College and the alumni and guests.
Then on Saturday, November 26, with the '70's down to '38's giving a rouse at CLASS AND INTER-CLASS BREAKFASTS AND LUNCHEONS, interspersed with
SIGHTSEEING TRIPS around the San Francisco Bay Region. All this as a preliminary to a
FOOTBALL GAME, Stanford vs. Dartmouth, Stanford Stadium, Palo Alto. Followed by a grand celebration and SUPPER DANCE for Stanford and Dartmouth football squads, alumni, and guests. AND FOR THE LADIE-shopping trips through Chinatown, luncheons, theatre parties, golf, tennis, teas, etc.
The great trek continuing Hollywoodward will be taken in charge by the Dartmouth Association of Southern California at Los Angeles and given an opportunity to see movieland and all of the things made known to the world by Californians Incorporated, All-Year Club of Southern California, the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Graham McNamee, at al.
The San Francisco "Pow-Wow" will be conducted by the Dartmouth Association of Northern California, the officers of which are: president, R. R. Taylor '11; vice president, G. P. Wallick '21; secretary and treasurer, B. L. Winslow '20.
The plans and arrangements will be handled by the "Pow-Wow" Committee of the Northern California Association: general chairman, G. P. Wallick '21; Committee Chairmen: Program, F. J. Reagan '09; Promotion and Publicity, R. L. Howes '27; Reception and Entertainment, W. HNigh '26; Banquet and Dinner Dance, P. F. McKown '23; Football Game, C Stanley '26; Finance, L. S. Wilson '13.
The general committee will include approximately forty members of the Northern California Association and representatives from the Dartmouth Associations of Southern California, Oregon, Washington, and Colorado.
The San Francisco "Pow-Wow" is the fourth affair of this kind held by and for the Alumni of the College. The original idea leading up to the Pow-Wow was suggested by Henry H. Hilton 'go, of the Chicago Association. Receiving the approval of the Alumni Council, the first National Dartmouth Pow-Wow was held in February, 1924, at the invitation of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Chicago.
The First Pow-Wow attracted the attendance of some 500 Dartmouth men from practically every section of the country. An interesting feature of the first Pow-Wow was that it was carried on in connection with no athletic event and, while the social side of the affair was emphasized, it devoted a two-day program chiefly to a discussion of the affairs of the College.
The actual results of such an affair as the Pow-Wow are bound, to an extent, to be intangible, but the following thought as expressed by President Hopkins characterizes the opinion of the participants:
"1 can only say that I think that thePow-Wow was a very great contributionto the College, that it stimulated the enthusiasm of very many alumni, that itadded a large quota of understanding ofthe College purpose and desirable relationships between the College and thealumni over any understanding which hadbeen existent before I tend verystrongly toward the conviction that it isa desirable thing to repeat periodically."
After the first Pow-Wow the Alumni Council took the event under its wing by recording that the Pow-Wow contributed a real service to the college, that the idea should be perpetuated, that it should be held at intervals of four or five years, that the local association holding it should receive the counsel and the assistance of the Council, and that the Pow-Wow, to an extent at least, might well be made the subject of college support.
The Second National Pow-Wow was held in Chicago at the time of the Dartmouth-Northwestern football game in 1938, the attendance approximating 1000 alumni. It was the hope of both the Alumni Council and the Chicago Association at that time that as the Pow-Wow idea developed and became institutionalized among the activities of the alumni it would be sought for and carried on by* the local associations in other cities.
The Dartmouth Association of Northern California, in addition to requesting the sanction of the Alumni Council for the San Francisco "Pow-Wow" coincident with the Dartmouth-Stanford game, has extended an invitation to the Council to hold their regular fall meeting in San Francisco at the same time.
These matters will be taken under consideration by the Council in their spring meeting to be held in Hanover on June 16.
A WAH-HOO-WAH!For ZEEB GILMAN '63 of Redlands, Calif., 97 years old on May 13 and now the senior graduate of the College. For THEODORE B. NILSEN '24, new vice president and general manager of the Clinton, Mich., Woolen Mfg. Co. For DONALD G. ALLEN '34, Marshal of the graduating class at Harvard Law School. For JOE NUELLE '06, elected president of the Delaware & Hudson Company.
