Washington, D. C.
NEWCOMERS to our local group: Paul Woodbridge '39, with the Rural Electrification Administration; J. F. Miller '38, with the Nash Floor Company, Washington; T. A. Boyan '38, in the carpet and rug business; Louis Fortuna '3B, studying at Georgetown Law School, and Tom Lane '36, in his third year at George Washington Univ. Med. School.
Sometimes our weekly lunches go along with only a handful attending for a few weeks and then we hit the jackpot. February 7 was one of those, because the following showed up whom we had not seen for a long time, some of them making their first appearances at these luncheons: Howard Shaffer '17, commander of the Supply Corps of the Navy; Ralph Wells '17, of the Tariff Comm.; "Simms" Hartshorn '17, Procurement Div. of the Treasury; Clarence Opper '18, member of the Board of Tax Appeals; Hal Fitz '23 and his cronies from the C. and P. Tel. Co., also George Morris '11, Paul Hannah '27, Jim Pimper and Page Worthington, both '33, of the fast-slipping bowling team, Herb Woods '10, of the Int. Eng.; Ted Stafford '11, full of the latest news from his son, a plebe at the Naval Academy; Pres. McCoy '18, Duke Barto '29, Dick White '18, of the Amer. Assoc. of Nurserymen, and others. Overflowed our usual table.
The lull at Hanover during exams made us fall back on other topics of conversation, although there was a basketball victory over Yale last Saturday. Our Dartmouth Night and annual dinner will be combined this year on March 9th. Duke Barto '29, after asking the assembly what their pleasure is, announces that he will make his own plans as usual. Some demand for Hal Fitz '23 to do another Robert Benchley. Last year he did the Treasurer's Report a la Benchley, and so effectively that the boys took him seriously for nearly half of his talk.
In these notes last month I am told I wronged Wade Safford '30, naming him as a Methodist minister in Garret Park, Md. Actually he is an Episcopalian and has his church in Kensington, Md.
The ears of this correspondent are tuned towards the hunting stables and fields of Montgomery County, Md., to be sure we don't miss the call of Chippy Semmes '13, to his farm party, held the last two years, and voted one of the most unique and enjoyable occasions of the Dartmouth year. A good old fashioned beer and sandwich and harmony party, with Chippy and Mrs. Semmes beaming hospitality in front of their gargantuan fireplace.
The alumni down here are getting tired of the effluvia of callow undergraduates who assume there is a natural enmity between alumni and students, and who forget that what they are we once were, and what we are they some day will be. When they get out they will find out that you don't know what Dartmouth is all about until you look back at it, and you keep doing that the rest of your life.
