New York City
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CLUB 37 East 39th Street
APPROXIMATELY SEVEN HUNDRED attended the annual alumni association dinner held late in April at the Hotel Pennsylvania. Considering the relatively small number of men from younger classes present—most of whom of course were busy with far more important objectives in Europe and the Far East—the consensus is that the attendance figure was exceedingly good. However financially the story is not nearly as good as when the annual dinners were held at the Dartmouth Club,—a fact that will have to be faced when plans for the 1946 event come up for discussion.
Top honors for class attendance at the dinner, based on the number present in relation to total area enrollment, went to 1908. Mike Stearns' speech accepting the honor was witty and to the point. Nineteen-nineteen had the greatest number of men at the dinner, 42, but only placed third in the competition; 1918 carrying off second position honors.
President Hopkins, as usual at Dartmouth gatherings, had a quiet, attentive audience which appeared impressed by his clear, forceful discussion of the College's present and postwar problems. In the other major talk of the evening Capt. Damon E. Cummings, USN, commanding officer of the V-12 unit at Dartmouth, paid high tribute to the thorough training navy men are receiving from the college faculty.
John E. Moore '23 has been chosen by the Dartmouth Club's nominating committee, headed by Spider Martin '19, as its candidate for president next year to succeed Batch Batchelder 'ig. Other committee selections are Harry E. Mills '24, vice president; T. Latta McCray '37, secretary; L. C. Milliken '2B, treasurer; and M. G. Rollins 'll, C. F. McGoughran '2O and D. F. McCall '27 to serve three-year terms on the Board of Governors.
V-E day passed quietly at the club, with far less bar business than on a normal business day. The card-room, too, was inactive with only a couple of late afternoon cribbage games in progress and nobody at all on hand for an evening bridge match.
Recent dinners at the club were sponsored by 1927, Casque and Gauntlet, and a threeclass informal reunion of 1942, 1943 and 1944. Classmates of Bill Huntress, 1915 class president, had an impromptu farewell luncheon in his honor early in May.
