D.O.C. of New York
AFTER GRADUALLY DEVELOPING over its six years of life into a fairly lusty boy, the DOCNY has been beset by a yellow fever which has sapped its vitality and sent it scurrying back into its father's lap. The undersigned parent has been commissioned as "Chairman of the Perpetuation Committee" to nurse the child through the next few years until the disease is licked and the boy can recoup his lost strength.
Dropping the metaphor, the active members of the last few seasons are scattered over or outside the country in the services or in war work. The ranks were beginning to be thinned by the close of last season. Since Spring, the two stalwart administrators of recent years, Bleecker Ripsom and Dick Rocker have enlisted in the glider and ski troops, respectively. Dick Clarke and Bob Carson have been commissioned in the Navy. Morg Hobart is rationing film for the War Production Board in Washington, where Captain Al Hadlock of the Quartermaster Corps also sits. Brown Dickinson is purchasing agent for a big new ordnance plant put up by Procter & Gamble in the South. Ethan Hitchcock is another naval officer. Ex-Prexy Harry Gilmore was tapped by the Army in October. The list could be extended to a page.
No plans can be formulated yet, if ever, for the coming winter. Papa Chandler will be restricted both by his own flesh-andblood son and by wartime office hours (5:20 P.M. on Saturdays), but all past and prospective members are urged to join up as usual and, if there is any snow within a couple of hundred miles of New York, we'll find the time and transportation to get there. Send a dollar to me c/o The Dartmouth Club and we'll count you in.
Tilden ArmsForest Hills, L. 1., N. Y.
