Southern California

As THE COUNTRY WEEKLIES phrase it, "A good time was had by all and sundry." All being the 51 of Our Boys who checked in at the Ivy League picnic; sundry, the Cornell and Penn alumni, who turned out to be such nice guys that you could hardly tell them from Dartmouth men, especially after erosion had set in on the beer tubs. The time was Saturday, June 22, from noon till nine: place, the recreation lodge and grounds in Elysian Park: weather—gentlemen, we are speaking of California.

Thanks to their fielding a ten-man team, the tenth man being the umpire, Penn took the Helms Foundation trophy for softball. The horseshoe tournament, California's answer to the poolroom, went to Cornell. All other sports events—eating, drinking beer, shooting the breeze, listening to the music over the loud-speaker, and just plain lazing pleasantly around under the trees—were won in a walk by Dartmouth.

Nobody has yet figured out how the caterer managed to put out lunch, dinner, and beer for $1.50 gross, but we're grateful. Dick Hood '30 had a pair of his FBI men stage a superb shooting exhibition, in which incidentally the boys proved themselves as fast with repartee as with their guns. After dinner, a gathering around the fire in the family-size amphitheater featured a sports talk, mutual compliments and insults, award of trophies, and the dropping of a Cornell cheerleader's pants while leading a Wah-Hoo-Wah. Inside the lodge for some good 16 mm movies, and home.

Classes represented ranged from '058's Nourse, Lill, and Biggs, through the 'OB Ring of Merrill, Norton and Richardson, to '41's Broer, d'Olive and Lynch. If Lefty Caswell is any indication, the College has gained a large and loyally enthusiastic body of Alumni in the Navy group. As seems rapidly to be becoming a custom, '40 turned out the largest delegation: nine men, including Albee, Klein, Wentworth, Jacoby, Dewitt Jones, Boyle, Koch, Bonter, and Ingersoll. John Lyman '28 presided, and perennial secretary Leon Rothschild '24 floated around as usual keeping everything moving and in order.

News Note. Despite the regretted passing of Dr. Oilman, southern California still retains the honor of having on its rolls the Oldest Living Alumnus: Charles G. Johnson '71. At a gathering at his home July 4th to celebrate his 98th birthday, the Association and the College were represented by Alumni Councilman Jim Norton 'OB and Mrs. Norton. Alumni everywhere join in wishing Mr. Johnson a long and happy tenure of office.