New York

ED REDMAN '06 has been doing a great job since he became manager of the Club some sixty days ago. He found a lot of loose ends which probably were no one's fault in particular but were goat feathers that almost any operation acquires through the years. He's done, and continues, to do, a man's sized job in eliminating waste motions and money, in keeping the personnel on its toes—and particularly in making the members realize that, after all, perhaps the greatest attribute that a college club can have is an active, interested alumnus at the major point of contact with members and guests.

He's also learning, through day by day personal experience with mail and phone calls, what an important outpost of the College the Club has become. Not a day passes but several, often many, calls are made for all sorts of information. How do you go to Hanover—what does it cost for tuition—where is Joe Zilch of the class of 'ls—when's my class dinner—have you seen anything of Bill Beep—when is President Hopkins coming to town—and a thousand and one other requests for information come in that Ed may, or may not, be able to have at the tip of his tongue.

This brings up a very definite reason why the Club not only needs but deserves the active support of all Dartmouth men, particularly those in New York of course, but those in the hinterlands as well. We all know, to some extent at least, that the center of alumni population has swung into New York. Naturally this concentration hereabouts adds very measurably to the responsibilities of the New York group to keep the ball rolling and rolling fast.

The Club is the only visible and tangible point where all Dartmouth activities in this area may focus—and it is the best and most convenient point where the activities of the College and the extra-Hanoverian activities of the alumni may impinge.

It is no particular secret that all clubs nowadays have a much tougher row to hoe than they did in the Tumultuous Twenties. The Harvard Club, that sanctum sanctorum of the male sex, is dallying with the idea of admitting women to its precincts, the Yale Club took in the Dekes and rumor hath it that the lions and the lambs live in amicable friendship, the Princeton Club houses the Brunonian forces, and the Columbia Club signed on the Army and Navy lads as co-partners in their enterprise. The Dartmouth Club has maintained its independence for nearly 15 years, and, deo volente, will continue to do so. Maybe we're snooty, maybe we're as clannish as we are often accused of being. Well, so what? Isn't it better that way? Isn't it better that we be our own unadulterated selves, making the welkin ring with our own tunes rather than having to harmonize with any one else?

The Board of Governors, from hard fighting Bill Knibbs at one end of the table to Sid Flanigan, the wild Irishman from Westchester, at the other, most firmly and finally believes it. But the Club needs more members, more active members, more members who'll walk a block or two for a lunch or dinner at the Club, who'll use the Club not alone for what it affords in physical comfort but for what it, and it alone, offers in personal association with men who feel as you feel, who think as you think, who have the same reasons for wanting to see you that you have to see them.

And,so the Board asks that you do what you can, either as a member to become a little more frequent in your use of the Club, or, as a non-member, to see if you can't come aboard.

The new slate of Club officers, as nominated, consists of Bill Knibbs '05 as president, Jack Mac Donald '13, vice president, Walter Gless '35, treasurer, G. P. Tompkins '25, secretary, and Clarence Goss '33, Hank Bjorkman '25, and Mort Berkowitz '37 as governors. Upon election they will take office in June.

Jigger Pender, president of the Long Island Association and 9 members of his executive committee held their meeting at the Club May 6.

The rooms continue full, and the transient trade was excellent during April.

Dartmouth Day at the Fair will be repeated this year, with a dinner at some good restaurant, a trip through the General Motors Futurama, and speeches and songs as added attractions. The date will be announced later.