New York City
TAKING AN IDEA from the days when the old-timers used to plough through the mud to Etna and attend, as non-voting observers, the annual Hanover town meeting, the Dartmouth College Club staged a "town meeting" election of officers and general forum on April 17. The affair, following one of Pierre's steak dinners, was a jovial as well as a serious occasion, well attended by interested members from all classes.
Dr. Ted Miner '23, was elected president, Bill Pickens 'l9 vice president, Sid Flanigan '23 secretary, Otto Taylor 'io treasurer, and Charlie Boyle 'Ol, Bill Knibbs 'O5, Dave Cammerer '37 and Patch Tompkins '35, governors. The new administration takes over a club which is, thanks to the excellent management of Ed Redman and the devoted interest of many members, in good operating condition.
One most important piece of business was the adoption of a lowered scale of dues, which should make the club more useful to more men. Discussion of this and many other proposals was kept at a high pitch by such masters of forensic oratory as Mike Stearns, Elon Pratt and many others.
The great need of the club at the moment is more roomers. The draft has taken away several men from the younger classes, and the loss of room revenue is definitely felt. Rooms at the club are well furnished, comfortable and reasonably priced. If you're coming to New York for a day, a month, or for longer you'll do yourself and the club a good turn by turning in there.
Very helpful to the treasury this winter has been the number of outside organizations which have found the services of the club more satisfactory than a hotel. Stanford, Georgia, Georgia Tech, North Carolina and other college group and business organization dinners and private parties have kept the club full of activity.
At the annual meeting a letter President Hopkins was read in which he expressed the belief that the club as the Dartmouth outpost in New York was an institution that merited the support and interest of all Dartmouth men, especially in this vicinity. With the new and lower schedule of dues the membership should rise to a point where not only are the club's financial worries a thing of the past but where any Dartmouth man is surer than ever of finding always congenial company.
