DARTMOUTH LAWYERS IN NEW YORK

THE "DARTMOUTH LAWYERS IN NEW YORK" and vicinity held their first annual dinner at the New York Athletic Club on the evening of January 23. Nearly every class between '94 and '38 was represented in the 110 attorneys present.

Seated at the head table were Toastmaster Roswell Magill '16, former Under Secretary of the Treasury and Chairman of the "Dartmouth Lawyers"; Basil O'Connor '12, President of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis; William J. Minsch '07, Trustee of the College; Sidney C. Hayward '26, Secretary of the College; Honorable James R. Erwin '12, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Hudson County, N. J.; Carl M. Owen '01 and Thurlow M. Gordon '06, leaders of the New York bar; also the two guest speakers: Westbrook Pegler, newspaper columnist, and Harold R. Medina, prominent trial attorney and author of numerous legal treatises.

Toastmaster Magill enlivened the meeting both by his pertinent comments on present-day political trends and by his light handling of the introductions. Letters of regret were read from Hon. Harrie B. Chase 'is, Judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit, who was confined to his home by illness, and from Judge Learned Hand, former Ambassador William C. Bullitt, and District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey—recipients of honorary degrees of Doctors of Laws from Dartmouth College.

William J. Minsch '07 spoke as chairman of the College Committee on Gifts and Bequests. He emphasized the value of a definite program in connection with the work of his Committee, and enumerated many ways in which attorneys could be of real assistance to the College in carrying through such a program by means of their many contacts with other than Dartmouth men. He showed that the per student endowment of Dartmouth is today much less than per student endowment figures of Amherst, Harvard, Yale, Williams, Princeton, and other eastern colleges. Great credit, said Mr. Minsch, is due those in charge of the finances at Dartmouth for their splendid work in steadily increasing the endowment funds during the past several decades.

Basil O'Connor '12 discussed die value of the legal profession to the community. By reason of the lawyers' training in clear thinking; the attorney is qualified to become a leader, he said. Mr. O'Connor urged that in these trying times leaders keep their feet solidly on the ground at all times and endeavor to ascertain the true facts before making decisions that affect the welfare of millions. He furthermore urged the members of the legal profession to stand up and defend their profession with all their might against the many unwarranted criticisms which have been leveled their way in recent years.

The guest of honor, Westbrook Pegler, took those present into his confidence when he revealed the many ways in which racketeers had been able to gain control of local labor unions. He emphasized the value of labor unions to the workingman when conducted in a legitimate manner and said that greater control over local unions must be exercised by national organizations if abuses are to be removed. He also spoke of the difficulties encountered by those trying to sift the records of unscrupulous labor leaders whose shady pasts are now the subject of investigation. At the conclusion of Mr. Pegler's talk, every person present arose spontaneously as a tribute to him for the splendid public service he has rendered, his fellow citizens through his work and writings.

The principal speaker of the evening, Harold R. Medina, Princeton ' 12, devoted a portion of his talk to a discussion of various aspects of present-day legal education. Mr. Medina informed his listeners that he deplored the present-day trend of discarding courses of study in Latin and Greek. Both of these classical studies, he stated, foster the development of an analytical technique which will prove of immense value to an individual in later years especially the lawyer. Furthermore, he attributed to the study of these classical languages both character-building and the development of refinement—of which latter quality much more is sorely needed in this upset world. Mr. Medina concluded his talk by relating humorous experiences from the many cases he has handled during his long and distinguished practice.

It was the unanimous vote of those present that this "Dartmouth Lawyers" dinner become a permanent annual affair and that all attorneys in the metropolitan New York area who have ever attended Dartmouth College be urged to join the informal group at their next gathering.

Those attending the dinner.

Class of 1894 Frederick S. Martyn. 1897 Horace G. Pender. 1898 Ernest P. Seelman. 1901 Carl M. Owen. 1903 Arthur J. Cohen. 1904 Herbert McKennis. 1906 Thurlow M. Gordon. 1908 John W. Thompson. 1910 Raymond B. Seymour. 1911 Kenneth F. Clark. 1912 James R. Erwin, Charles E. Gately, Basil O'Connor, Richard C. Plumer, Richard Remsen, Manvel Whittemore. 1913 Clarence C. Meleney. 1914 James T. Heenehan, Vahan H. Kalenderian. 1915 James LeR. Lafferty, Russell B. Livermore, E. Cummings Sanborn. 1916 John B. Butler Jr., Roswell Magill, Wilberforce Sully Jr. 1917 Donald Brooks, George S. Montgomery Jr., Samuel Saline. 1918 Harold S. Glendening, Francis T. Christy, Henry J. A. Collins. 1919 Nichol M. Sandoe. 1920 Thomas B. Davidson, William D. Fuguet, Roger Nutt. 1921 Lloyd E. Lowe; Robert Loeb. 1922 Francis H. Horan, Thomas H. Pinney. 1923 Kenneth C. Quencer, Joseph P. Zone, Sol Charles Levine. 192k Robert Y. Fistere, Edward J. Willi. 1925 Robert C. Hardy, Francis E. "Van Orman, Francis Brick. 1926 Henry G. McDonough, E. Allen MacDuffie, Arthur L. Nathanson.

1927 Alfred T. Chabot, Joseph M. Creamer, J. Edward Knight, M. Rudolph Preuss, Robert L. Reinhardt, James J. Kennedy Jr. 1928 William? M. Hobson, Myles J. Lane, John Wayne Van Orman, Henry L. Walker Jr. 1929 John C. Blair, Morris L. Heath, Laurence W. Lougee, Thomas Stokes, J. Lincoln Morris. 1930 John French, James Curtiss, Clark Denney, William F. Howe.

1931 Victor R. King, John G. MacKechnie, Martin B. O'Connor, Sidney S. Rubin, John G. MacKechnie. 1932 Donald S. Richardson, Carroll A. Boynton, John C. Couzens, Charles P. Maxwell Jr. 1933 John S. Black, Richard Jackson, John E. Masten, Eugene J. Schwartz, Robert H. Seabolt. 1934 William M. Sheffeld.

1935 Akin M. French, Robert H. Maida, William L. Russell Jr., Sidney A. Diamond, Paul M. Siskind, Albert J. Keenan Jr., William E. McMullen. 1936 Phil E. Gilbert Jr., W. J. Minsch Jr., Edward S. Redington. 1937 Arthur J. Cohen Jr., William H. Timbers, Latta McCray, Rowley Bialla, Paul Olson.

A SCENE WHICH WILL BE REPEATED THIS SUMMER Ross McKenney, woodcraft adviser of the Outing Club and director of Camp Jobildunc,shown with two of his youthful canoeists on a visit to Lake Armington, one of the manycamp excursions taken through D.O.C. country during both two-week sessions of theClub's woodcraft camp for boys. The first session, limited to 25 boys, opens on July 18.

DARTMOUTH LAWYERS AT THEIR NEW YORK DINNER ON JANUARY 23