St. Louis

THE DEPARTURE of the men of the younger classes for the services has cut the attendance at the monthly smokers to handy poker gatherings. All visiting alumni are invited to call the secretary to learn the place and date of the next meeting and to try their luck. Weekly lunches have been abandoned, as few St. Louisans any longer spend the day within commuting distance from each other, but the club's other activities continue with customary irregularity. President Al Lathrop '28, led off the fall season by playing host at a Labor Day weekend picnic and swimming party, marked by the first and protesting appearance at a Dartmouth gathering of Peter Christopher, six months old son of Jack Merrill '30, and by the return from the navv of Boyd Rogers '35.

St. Louis has become a temporary locale of the Vox Clamantis by the acquisition within recent months of two faculty members, Lt. Jack Hurd and rail researcher Harry. Purdy, whose success at our smokers attests the merit of academic life. Other new comers and future nominees for Master of the Hunt, when the drought under the Anheuser Busch is properly eliminated, are Dick Meyers 35, Harry Hoyt '40, and Lt. Bob Shoup '42. We have also been glad to hear of the return to old watering spots of Lt. Dan Kerwin 35> whose new trimness was developed under a three time repetition of army basic training. Dan's present communications assignment is at nearby Scott Field, while brother Marty '33, Navy lieutenant, is quartered in Washington, D. C.