Worcester County
ON JULY 9 THE annual meeting of the Dartmouth Club of Worcester County was held at the Hotel Bancroft in Worcester.
Following a steak dinner, officers for the year 1942-43 were elected as follows: president, Benjamin B. Hill '32; 1st vice president, C. Henry Hartshorn '24; and vice president, C. Lane Goss '25; secretary, Donald G. Mix '21; treasurer, Howard M. Booth '24.
There was a brief memorial for Lieutenant Roger P. Warfield '38, U. S. Army Air Corps, who was killed in the South Pacific near Australia on April 5. Edwin R. Warfield, father of Lieutenant Warfield, attended the meeting.
Speakers included President Ernest Martin Hopkins '01, Professor Andrew J. Scarlett '01, and William C. S. Remsen '43. President Hopkins spoke on "The College," Professor Scarlett of "The Wartime Curriculum," and Mr. Remsen on "The Undergraduate." Benjamin B. Hill, president of the Club, presided.
President Hopkins gave a picture of Dartmouth at war and spoke also of the place of the liberal arts college in the present emergency and its obligation in the future. He mentioned particularly that, while Dartmouth has a problem at this time, it is no more acute than others which have been solved successfully in the past. He was very certain that, with the help of the alumni, Dartmouth will not only survive but will go ahead as she always has in spite of difficulties.
Professor Scarlett mentioned the new streamlined wartime curriculum and spoke particularly of the serious attitude of the undergraduates who are working in Hanover this summer. Bill Remsen made it very clear that the undergraduates now in Hanover understand that they are there on borrowed time and all of them are making the most of their opportunity.
The meeting was attended by over one hundred Dartmouth men and their guests. Because most of the gasoline pumps in this area were entirely dry at the time, the attendance from the county was necessarily small, but those who were able to attend were treated to a program which might have made headlines in any metropolitan newspaper.
