Australia

THE FIRST American college alumni meeting held by American service men in Australia took place tonight in an eastern Australian city when fifteen Dartmouth College graduates and undergraduates, who had enlisted before their graduation, met at dinner and organized The Dartmouth Club of Tokio via Manila.

Over a dinner of fruit cocktail, cream of chicken soup, chicken and ham, peas, roast potatoes and ice cream served in a private dining room of a hotel, the Dartmouth men reminisced about their days at Hanover, N. H., wondered what it was like there now while the Australian temperature is steadily rising with the coming of summer, and received reports of mutual friends serving in the American armed forces throughout the world.

The most extraordinary experience at the meeting was voted to Private William B. Hemphill, of Kennett, Mo., nineteen years old, a member of the class of '45, who had been in Australia one day when he saw a newspaper notice of the club meeting and attended on his second day. He came here with a replacement detachment. He had attended Dartmouth for two years before joining the army.

Another diner, Master Sergeant George A. Middendorf, of 84-74 Homelawn Avenue, Jamaica, Queens, had to leave the dinner early because he is attending an officer candidate school and regulations require students there to be in, as some of the others tonight jokingly said, "before we used to get in at Dartmouth."

Other New Yorkers attending were by coincidence both lieutenants (jg) in the United States Navy. They were F. Victor Schneider, of 645 Ocean Avenue, Brooklyn, a Dartmouth graduate in the class of '41, and Seymour Millstein, of 327 Central Park West, Manhattan, of the class of '35. Second Lieutenant John T. Weeks, of New Canaan, Conn., and member of the Army engineers, who would have been graduated next year, and First Lieutenant Chester W. Ray, of Pawling, N. Y., of the Army Signal Corps, a graduate in 1942, were others present from the New York area.

Other Dartmouth graduates at the dinner were Navy Lieutenant Robert Guggenheim Jr., of Beverley Hills, Calif., class of '33; Navy Ensign Charles T. Hibbard Jr., of Minneapolis, class of '39; Sergeant Chester S. Williams, of the 5th Air Force, of Needham, Mass., class of '41; Lieutenant Commander De Walt H. Ankeny, of Minneapolis, class of '21; Navy Lieutenant Carl F. Schipper Jr., of Newtonville, Mass., class of '26; Lieutenant Commander Samuel B. Haskell, of Cincinnati, class of '17; Lieutenant Colonel D. R. C. Batcheler, Quartermaster Corps, of Laconia, N. H., class of '21; Major Maxwell Emerson, Quartermaster Corps, of Boston, and Navy Lieutenant Donald Bartlett, former professor of biography at Dartmouth, both class of '24.

With Bartlett came his brother, also a Navy lieutenant, Sam Bartlett Jr., of Brookline, Mass., a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They are grandsons of Samuel Colcord Bartlett, who was president of Dartmouth from 1875 to 1892.

Major Emerson, who had been in the Buna, New Guinea, campaign last year, told of his joy at receiving the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE with a map showing where Dartmouth men were around the world and seeing a little flag representing him at Buna, where, he felt sure, no Dartmouth man had ever been before.

New York Herald Tribune.