1917*

It was O'Neill night at the Dartmouth Club, January 29th, when Seventeeners came out to dinner at the call of New York's new Sergeant-at-arms, Elliott Mudgett. Our faithful but overworked Arch Earle recently asked for relief from this job so he could pay full attention to administrative work at Katherine Gibbs School, and Mudge volunteered to conduct the round-ups in the future.

Tom O'Neill received a warm welcome on his return to class festivities after long absence and paid extended homage to the picture of Old Dartmouth Row. He is as tall, trim and rosy as ever, and is in the general insurance business at 90 John St. Tom and his wife Jean live at Rockville Centre, Long Island, have an eighteen year old daughter, Betty, at Stratford College, Danville, Va. A son, Tom Jr., is six feet and weighs two hundred at fifteen, played tackle on the local high school team, until the coach found how he could throw passes. Yes, he is preparing for Dartmouth! Their second daughter, Barbara twelve, is in grade school.

Cliff O'Neill, who is manager of New Jersey Bell Telephone Cos., at East Orange and chemical manufacturer Reade of Weehawken, once more proved it is possible and profitable for our men working in New Jersey to brave the ferries and tunnels—to pass the pipe, pass the bowl. Cliff says his wife Margaret is the "Peggy O'Neill." Clifford A. is fifteen. Dave, aged ten, is the boxer of the family, takes after his father who gathered the nick-name "Slug" as a pupil of Eddy Shevlin The youngest O'Neill, Dick, is eight. Cliff says his only real cause for concern is irons and putts—they slay him.

Rudie Miller came in from Bronxville, where he is Village Engineer, living at White Plains. Art Stout was on hand, also Mike Donehue, Len Shea was preparing for a month's business trip to the Melville women's shoe branches around the country, of which he is sales manager Don Brooks said he is preparing to fight a big infringement case for The Texas Cos., Sam Saline engaging him in a lot of law lingo. Summy Emerson was enjoying the last lull before busy days as Chairman of the Alumni Fund. Everyone wanted Tom Cotton's perspective on the Russian fiasco. Tom pleaded, it is some years since he observed the Bolsheviks at close range, but never-the-less gave some interesting reasons for their miscue in Finland. Russ Marr reports he is doing the purchasing for the Street and Smith Publishing House and lives at Bayside.

Mudge urged everyone out for the Alumni banquet February 15, and promised a good dinner program late in March, then a family party at Lido Club some Saturday late in June, with swimming, golf, dinner and dancing. In the meantime he was going to let his partner run the Bryan-Elliott Co.,—purveyors of advertising displays and printing—while he and his wife motor around Florida playing golf for a couple of weeks in February, hoping to run across the Scotts.

FURTHER HONORS TO HONORARY DEGREE MEN

Doc Walters is chairman of the Editorial Board of The Archives of Surgery, the surgical publication of the American Medical Association. He also received promotion last year from Lieutenant Commander to Commander in the U. S. Naval Reserve. Since he writes, I haven't gottenput in jail yet, we can all congratulate him thrice.

Thanks, all you Bostonians for sending in clippings from the January 31st BostonHerald, featuring a very good likeness of "the Rev. Dr. Donald Bradshaw Aldrich, rector of the Church of the Ascension, New York, and former Chaplain of the Mass. House of Representatives." Don "has been called to succeed the late Very Rev. Philemon F. Sturges as dean of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul Dr. Aldrich told the Herald that while he deeply appreciated the honor of the call he could not decide immediately whether to accept. He admitted it would be like going home to return to the cathedral where he was pastor of the Sunday night congregations from 1920 to 1925." The article continues with an excellent review of Don's education, hitch in the Navy and services rendered in his church. "He is a member of the standing committee of the Episcopal diocese of New York, chairman of the church congress and a life trustee of Princeton University. He is active in the Labor Temple. Mrs. Aldrich is the former Frances Learned of Fall River. Their daughter Suzanne is a student at Wellesley, their son William attends the Pomfret School."

On February nth, Don announced his decision to stay in New York, but we congratulate him on the additional recognition of merit evidenced by this important invitation.

Dan Harris has been elected President of the Dartmouth Club of Cleveland, which meets each Saturday for lunch and bridge at the Midday Club, Union Commerce Bldg Bob Chase says "Bob Jr. is a junior in Hanover and crazy about it. Leonard, the younger boy has just been elected captain of the high school football team. Dot and I are fine, have been leading a quiet life.". .. .Sherm Smith wrote Slats Allen early in January from East Greenwich, Rhode Island, that he was recuperating from a serious accident, and hoped to walk with crutches before long. He described a very unusual and painful fall, which happened the Saturday before Christmas. His left leg was fractured in the accident, internal bleeding and paralysis followed at the hospital, then phlebitis in the other leg at home! That's enough, Sherm, for the rest of your life and we hope by this time you are fully recovered and enjoying life the same as ever. At the time Ray Allen transmitted Sherm's story, he was preparing for a trip to the Pacific coast and hoped to look up some of the brethren.

Secretary-Chair man, 18 Madison Ave., Cranford, N. J.

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