Wisconsin

COMES a day when you feel that day marks the beginning of an epoch, a change of stride, a new era, or what have you. Well, that day for our Association was on Friday, January 18, when we had a dinner meeting at the University Club. We were so darn happy to see our fellow members who have returned from the service that we forgot all about having had a bowling date, and busied ourselves with an old fashioned (high level) bull session. Formally, we heard each ex-serviceman recount the highlights of his years in the service. Several of them spent more time in the service than they did at Dartmouth but the years at Dartmouth were happier ones.

Dr. Tarbell '7B remembered hearing Henry Wadsworth Longfellow read a poem at a centennial celebration in Cambridge, Mass., in 1876. Dr. Tarbell described the poet's white locks and beard, and added that Longfellow, who was in his sixties at the time impressed him as being a grand old man. Dr. Tarbell hoped he didn't show his age at 92 and appear to us as old as Longfellow seemed to him in 1876. Don't we all have that same problem?

Cliff Randall '27 reported the meeting of the Dartmouth Alumni Council which was held in Hanover in January. He anticipated seeing a hockey game scheduled for that weekend, but there was no ice! When his train arrived late he found he had no room waiting for him at the Inn, found that a friend was registered there and obtained permission to clean up in the friend's room. When he returned to the Inn that afternoon he found to his dismay that not only had the friend checked out, but in error Cliff's baggage had been thrown into the station wagon and was well on its way to Glens Falls, N. Y. No change of clothes, and where can you buy a shirt nowadays? The visiting Alumni Council member found someone who literally took the shirt off his back—a store dummy in the window of one of Hanover's emporiums.

At our next meeting, Friday night March 1 at the University Club in Milwaukee we will elect officers. On Saturday March 30 we will have the privilege of meeting President John S. Dickey and, I understand, A 1 Dickerson will accompany him. This luncheon meeting is scheduled for 12:30 P.M. at the University Club, Milwaukee, and all Dartmouth men in this area are invited.