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President's Tour

March 1940
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President's Tour
March 1940

P RESIDENT HOPKINS will close a tour of eight Dartmouth alumni centers with dinner meetings at New Orleans on March 28 and at Atlanta on March 30. The alumni gathering in New Orleans will be held at La Louisiane Restaurant, and that in Atlanta two nights later will be held at the Biltmore Hotel.

Up to the date of the New Orleans dinner President and Mrs. Hopkins will spend the month of March in Arizona. This period of relaxation follows a strenuous schedule of alumni speaking engagements which took the President to New York on February 15, Cleveland on the 16th, Detroit on the 17 th, Chicago on the 19th, San Francisco on the 23rd, and Los Angeles on the 27th. President Hopkins was accompanied to the first four dinners by his executive assistant, Albert I. Dickerson 'go, who stopped off at Buffalo, N. Y., on his return trip to Hanover to speak at the meeting of the Dartmouth Club of Western New York on February 21. Mrs. Hopkins joined the President in Chicago to accompany him on the remainder of his trip.

Before returning to Hanover, President Hopkins will also have a full schedule of early-April engagements, including the dinner of the Alumni Fund class agents in Boston on April 1, a similar dinner for New York agents on April s, a meeting of the Rockefeller Foundation on April 3, a meeting on April 4 of the General Education Board, of which he is chairman, and a speaking engagement at the dinner of Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad officials in White Sulphur Springs, Va., on April 5.