Northwest

PRESIDENT John Dickey and executive officer Al Dickerson recently spent several days with Northwest alumni climaxed by the Annual Dinner of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of the Northwest at the Minneapolis Club, Tuesday night, March 26.

Previously the same day John Dickey demonstrated his ability to handle the press at an early morning session for reporters, and talked informally on the admissions situation to a small group of alumni at a Minneapolis noon luncheon meeting also attended by head masters of local prep schools.

The Dartmouth Alumni Association of the Northwest, comprising some 475 alumni in Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Montana, has a growing and very active group indicated by a banquet attendance of 128, including individuals from St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth, Rochester and Albert Lea, Minnesota.

Alumni in attendance were characterized by a large number of ex-servicemen who were welcomed back. In addition to John Dickey and A1 Dickerson guests at the speakers' table included the following Minnesota educators: Dr. J. I. Morrill, President, University of Minnesota: Dr. Lawrence Gould, President, Carleton College; Rev. Donald Henning, Head Master, Shattuck School; Dr. Gormley, Registrar, College of St. Thomas, representing Father Flynn, President; Mr. Eugene Alder, Head Master, Blake School; Mr. James Marshall, Superintendent of Schools, St. Paul.

Following a brief business meeting, which included a report on admissions from the alumni view by John Faegre, chairman freshman admission committee, President Osborn read a very fine letter from Hoppy acknowledging and thanking this Association for its gift of a hand-bound, hand-illuminated book containing an expression of our esteem and affection for him and our appreciation for what he has done for education in general and Dartmouth in particular.

The first speaker of the evening was A1 Dickerson who gave a review of current events in Hanover. President Dickey then delivered an address on his view of the mission of the Liberal Arts College and the role Dartmouth proposes to play in fulfilling that purpose. He received a tremendous ovation on closing. Let it be said in passing that John Dickey remarked that at no point in his meetings with alumni to date had he observed such intensity of feeling for Dartmouth as among alumni of the Northwest.

George Porter, outgoing Secretary, was thanked for the good job he has done during the past several years, and the meeting then closed with Dear Old Dartmouth led by George Hoke '35 with Wally Fisher '37 at the piano.

On Wednesday, March 27, President Dickey again talked informally on the admission situation to St. Paul alumni and prep school headmasters at the Minnesota Club, entraining for Chicago thereafter.

New officers and executive committee members elected at the Annual Banquet are: President, Wood R. Foster '33; Vice President, John B. Faegre Jr. '33; Treasurer, Samuel B. Stickney '24; Asst. Treasurer, Lyman E. Wakefield Jr. '33; Secretary, Stephen A. Osborn '27; Asst. Secretary, William A. Schmitt '45; Historian, Whitney H. Eastman '10; Asst. Historian, Richard Brierley '36; Trustees of Scholarship Fund, Whitney H. Eastman '10, George P. Hoke '35, Geo. A. McLaughlin '23, Luther S. Oakes '99: Executive Committee, Wood R. Foster '33, John B. Faegre.Jr. '33, Samuel B. Stickney '24, Lyman E. Wakefield Jr. '33, Stephen A. Osborn '27, William A. Schmitt '45, Whitney H. Eastman '10, Richard Brierley '36, Arthur S. Dunning '11, Paul W. Loudon '14, Luther S. Oakes '99, John W. Kelley '41, Edward B. Lynch '23, and Lewis Gluek '22.

The annual June picnic is our next major event, but the Association continues to function at the regular bi-monthly noon luncheon meetings held at Donaldson's Tea Rooms, Minneapolis, on the first and third Mondays of each month, and at the St. Paul Athletic Club, Saint Paul, on the second and third Fridays. Wandering Dartmouth alumni are more than welcome and are urged to attend whenever they are in town on these days.