No. California-Nevada
OUR ANNUAL MEETING and dinner was held Tuesday evening, May 1, at the University Club in San Francisco. Plans were made on short notice after we received a tip trom our good old reliable Elmer Robinson '14 in Boston, Mass., that Bill Cunningham '19 would be in San Francisco for a couple of weeks to cover the United Nations Conference for the Mutual Broadcasting Company. An invitation to Bill brought the usual generous OK, and everybody turned to in getting the gang out. One card notice to our membership of 270 and a few extras posted at the A.W.V.S., Officers Clubs, U.S.O.'s, and a news release by the Navy and Army Personnel Offices directed to servicemen in the Bay Area, in addition to the usual cooperation of the local papers, and supported by the "pass the word along" campaign, brought results—more than usual. When the attendance was checked we found that 90 Dartmouth men and a couple of close friends of Dartmouth had enjoyed one of the biggest reunions we have held since the Stanford Pow-Pow.
Just to prove that our men were on their toes, our Tom Macey '3B learned on the day of the dinner that Judge John McLane '07 was arriving at 3 p.m. from Manchester, N. H. A couple of sales talks (contained decision) permitted John just two hours to say hello to his daughter (wife of Dr. David Bradley '38) and little family, and then he was whisked away to our dinner party. We were honored by the presence of this Trustee of the College and appreciated his very excellent short talk on conditions at Hanover.
With so many here in San Francisco for the United Nations Conference, hotel accommodations are not to be had and transportation is bad. Otherwise Walter Hayt '78 would have been down from Sacramento as always.
Instead he sent regrets and regards to all.
All Dartmouth representatives we know of at the Big Conference, except Nelson Rockefeller '30, were able to attend—John Dickey '29, Richard Morin '24, Stephen Dorsey '35, Charles Bolte '4l. Bolte's interests were somewhat easier to comment on publicly so he favored us with a clear and concise outline of the plans of the American Veterans Committee. He represents them at the Conference and our guess is that he'll go far with the plan.
Election of officers was duly held after Ray Taylor 'll, Chairman of the Nominating Committee, had done his stufl.—Naasson Young 'l7, President; W. Deane Howland '34, Vice President; B. L. Winslow '2O, Secretary-Treasurer; W. D. Danforth '4l, Assistant Secretary. I do not feel that Ray gave enough credit to Vance Campbell 'l2, retiring President, but apparently this was pure prejudice because Vance was president for two terms, first time in history. Did a good job too—both years—kept our weekly luncheons going despite the war.
Bill Cunningham gave us over an hour of his philosophy, which is good enough for any man. It was just like one of the old bull sessions on the campus when one of the gang had spent the summer travelling around a little more than some of the other brothers, and the conversation just naturally settled down with the pipes-undivided attention on a subject most vital to all—thanks Bill.
After the talk a few songs were in order and with Stew Steffey '4l at the piano, Alumni Counselor Gob Des Marais '26 had the opportunity to sing his famous interpretation of "Eleazar Wheelock."
Bill Cunningham then took over at the piano, lit the first of a long line of cigars, and as far as I know he may still be there as some of us had to get home in view of a day's work ahead of us. Upon second thought, I believe I did hear later that he went on to Los Angeles for a meeting—(an anti-climax so to speak?). Bill was on the air as usual last Sunday for Mutual, KFRC, 11:30 A.M.
If there are any bouquets left they should be presented to Jim Townsend '94 for representing the oldest class in attendance, and another for the class of '4l who had 10 representatives present; a record for any class at any of our parties.
The long list of those in attendance follows and we cannot be held responsible for any deletions or changes of rank that we may have recorded. There were just too many to keep track of.
'94 Jim Townsend; 'Ol Robert F. Leavens; 'O3 Herb Follett; 'O4 Wayne A. Perkins; 'O5 Robert S. Clark; 'O6 Gus Ayers; 'O7 John R. McLane, Frank Garby; 'OB Dick Danforth, Web Evans, John H. Gray; 'll Arthur H. Gray, Ray Taylor; 'l2 Bill Butler, Vance C. Campbell, Roy Frothingham; 'l4 Hugh A. Mackinnon, Dr. Bill Washburn, Herb Gridley; 'l7 Jack Baer, Naasson Young; 'lB Ed Butts Jr., Maj. Fred Morse Jr., Bill Mudgett, John Lawler; 'l9 Bill Cunningham; '2O Abe Winslow; '2l Guy Wallick, Capt. Benj. Tenney; '23 Paul F. McKown, Dick Townsend; '24 Harry Fairfield, Dr. Thomas Flint Jr., Richard Morin; '25 Tom Carpenter, Robert Carpenter, Maj. Leonard Larson; '26 Gob DesMarais, Bill Nigh, Lt. Les McFadden; '27 Roily Howes; '2B Muirison Taylor, Jud Whitehead; '29 Robert Monahan, Dick Robin, John Dickey; '3O Charles K. Faye, Sgt. Milt Fleischman; '3l Brant McCullough; '32 Lt. Newell Kurson, Steve Harwood; '33 Lt. Norman Erlandson, Rev. Robert James Jr., Robert Veres; '34 Lt. Martin Dwyer Jr., Deane Howland, Lt. Charles Kehoe Jr., Edward N. Klee; '35 Bill Gahagan, Lt. (jg) Lowell Haas, Stephen Dorsey, David P. Smith; '36 S/Sgt. James Tracy; '37 Lt. (jg) Bill Sayre; '3B Thomas M. Macey, Lt. John Nelson, Lt. Ferrian Davis; '39 Lt. Richard Storrs; '4O Lt. Buford Hayden, Lt. Phil McCoy, Herbert G. Porter; '4l Charles G. Bolte, Lt. Nick Carter Jr., Lt. Bill Clark, Bill Danforth, Lt. Jack Guenther, Lt. (jg) Wes Hadden, Lt. Walter Kuhn, Lt. Ed Lafner, Harold P. Rodes, Lt. Stew Steffey; '42 Capt. John Dills, Dr. Dick Hempstead, Lt. Harry Bartlett; '45 Ph.M. 3/c Ed Washburn, Ens. David Kendall; '4l Sl/c James Pettit, (Army) Frank Ettari; Hon. '36 Nathan Van Patten. Guests: Major Tom pooling (Cunningham), Sumner Perkins (Wayne's son).
Weekly luncheons are held every Wednesday noon at the Pearl Oyster House, 442 Pine St., San Francisco, in a private room upstairs. All Dartmouth men welcome.
DR. HENRY M. SILVER '72, one of Dartmouth's distinguished elder alumni, chats with President Hopkins at the Annual New York Alumni Dinner.
