Chicago

A/S EDWARD A. MORTIMER JR. '44 who is finishing at Northwestern Medical School continues an old Dartmouth custom by becoming engaged to a Smith girl, Joan F. Rothwell of New York. They intend to be married around Christmas time.

It is a small navy after all, otherwise the ships of naval lieutenant brothers Donald C. McKinlay '37 and Edward S. McKinlay '42 would not have arrived in New York harbor on the same day with no pre-planning and tied up alongside each other.

We have resumed luncheon meetings every Monday at the University Club and are seeing some out-of-towners. Ralph Pendleton of Providence, R.I., Ingham Baker of Spring- field, Mass., and Tracy Higgins of New York, all 1921'ers, ate with us a short time ago.

Army Capt. A. L. Patton '19 back in town after a couple of years in the European theatre is slated for a medical discharge.

The first evidence I have had that anyone reads this stuff is a letter from my old roommate USAAF Capt. E. E. (Laddie) Myers 'so in Italy. An item put him to reminiscing about Ma Smalley's place half way down the Wheelock street hill while also recalling to his mind other things that bore a closer relation to fact. The confidence that letter instilled leads me to believe there might be another reader and to inquire if he has enough belief in the brotherhood of man to write in so these notes may give Myers more reading pleasure, presuming Myers is a constant reader.