Dartmouth Club of New York
MOST OF THE winter there hasn't been room in the club to take care of any more guests, but, thanks to arrangements with a neighboring hotel, no one has been turned away. That situation promises to continue through the summer since the influx of hinterland visitors to the World's Fair already has commenced.
Non-resident members bringing their families on for the big show on the Flushing Meadows should feel assured by this; since hotel rooms may be hard to find and rates pyramided over normal. By no means least of the club's service to its members is the fact that whether in the club or at the over-flow hotel will members have to pay any premium for rooms. This is only one more reason why Dartmouth men throughout the land should be glad there's a club in New York, and why the present campaign for non-resident members (at the modest rate of $11 a year) should certainly produce results.
In the meantime other facilities of the club are being well patronized. During April an even thousand members and guests lunched or dined at some pre-arranged function there in addition to the increasing number of men who continue to find the club food just about the best in town and very reasonably priced. Among the larger parties of the month were the annual Sophomore Fathers' dinner, when 162 men were shepherded in by Ernie Earley and his efficient committee, the Sphinx dinner with 40, the C. & G. dinner where Craven Laycock was guest of honor, Sigma Alpha Epsilon with Doc Kingsford as the attraction, the Class Agents get-together of 80, and other good sized crowds.
May's big event looks to be the Harry Hillman testimonial dinner with Harry, Lawson Robertson and Stanley Woodward as the greats on whom master of ceremonies Josh Davis will ride herd. The Messrs. Hillman and Robertson, holders boy and man these thutty years of the three-legged race record will be asked to do their stuff.
The register shows the names of such stalwart club supporters as Chippy Semmes '13, Allan Gottschaldt '18 (the exSouthern gentleman), Frank O'Gara '23 (the present Southern gentleman), Charlie Rauch, Dr. Bielschowsky of the Eye Clinic, Jim Shevlin '32, and Brice Disque. The sons of well-kYiown Dartmouth fathers begin to spot the list, too, with Jr. after such familiar names as James R. Chandler '38, C. M. Hubbard and Malcolm McDonald.
The club bridge team had rather an unfortunate year in the Intercollegiate League finishing somewhere in the middle. A team, consisting of Hal Halstead '11, A 1 Eiseman '12, Dick Rubens '24, Sam Wormser '27 and Mac Rollins '11, entered the Vanderbilt Cup struggle but capitulated in the second qualifying round.
All in all the winter has been a very busy one and from an operating standpoint the club is in good shape. However more and more and more members are necessary if the club is to prosper since the fixed charges are heavy. Pres. Bill Knipps '05 and his board of governors keep plugging away at the problem, but the real answer lies in a wider realization of the mutual advantage to every alumnus in maintaining a good club in New York.
ON THE WAY HOME President and Mrs. Hopkins were guests ofDr. and Mrs. VanderHoof 'Ol at "Windemere" on their way north from the President's leave of absence spent in Florida.The President spoke at the annual dinnerand meeting of the Dartmouth AlumniClub of Virginia in Richmond, April 75.
