President Plans Tour
HAVING ENDED HIS enforced respite from alumni speaking engagements with dinner meetings in Manchester, January 26, and in Boston, President Hopkins during February and March will appear at a series of eight dinners in alumni centers as widely scattered as New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. The full list of cities to be visited this month and next includes New York, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and Atlanta. Between the far. western and southern portions of his alumni tour President Hopkins, accompanied by Mrs. Hopkins, will spend several weeks in Arizona as a final period of recuperation from the sinus operations which he underwent last summer.
President Hopkins' tour will open with the annual New York Alumni Dinner at the Commodore Hotel on February 15. The following evening he will speak to the alumni of Cleveland at the University Club, and then will journey to Detroit for a similar dinner engagement at the University Club on the evening of February 17. The annual Chicago Alumni Dinner is scheduled for February 19 at the Black-stone Hotel.
Mrs. Hopkins will join the President in Chicago to accompany him on the remainder of his trip. The two alumni dinners in California are scheduled to be held at the University Club in San Francisco on February 23, and at the University Club in Los Angeles on February 27. Immediately after the Los Angeles dinner President and Mrs. Hopkins will begin their brief vacation in Arizona.
The alumni speaking tour will be resumed on the evening of March 28 when President Hopkins will be guest of honor at a dinner in New Orleans, at La Louisiane Restaurant. The final dinner will be held in Atlanta on March 30, at the Biltmore Hotel.
Before returning to Hanover, President Hopkins' early April engagements will include meetings in New York of the General Education Board, of which he is chairman, and an address April 5 at a conference in White Sulphur Springs, Va., sponsored by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. Meetings with Alumni Fund class agents in Boston and New York are also scheduled for early April.
THE HOPKINS FAMILY AT ALUMNI GYMNASIUM Shown among the Green rooters at the Dartmouth-Harvard basketball game on January15 are, left to right, Mrs. Hopkins; President Hopkins; their daughter Ann, now Mrs.John R. Potter; and "Brue" Potter '38.
