New York

FOLLOWING AN OPEN HOUSE at the Club on New Year's Eve, for which almost a hundred alumni showed up, a full-fledged schedule of Dartmouth affairs in New York City was launched for the year 1948.

Heading the list of new activities is a series of monthly "Club Nights," including dinners with speakers of national prominence. CharlesE. Griffith 'l5, president of the Club, announced that this series would begin sometime late in January, with radio commentator John Gambling scheduled as the first speaker.

Maury Dampier '43, the Club's party and cocktail impressario, set his first social gettogether of the year for 5:30, on Saturday, January 31, and stated that these punchbowlsinging festivities would be a regular feature every month through the winter and spring months. As in the past, many class groups plan special class gatherings in conjunction with these Saturday parties.

A large number of regular class luncheons and dinners are being set for the next several months. Recently Tubby Besse '05 and LonnieRuss '06 organized a joint dinner for their respective classes which brought members in from Philadelphia, Boston, and Ithaca, as well aS from all around the Metropolitan New York area.

The television set purchased by the Club last fall continues to be an important drawing card not only for Dartmouth Club members, but for many visiting men from the Princeton side who come over to get visual reports on basketball and hockey games, the fights, and other events programmed over the video waves.

The squash team, captained by Orton Hicks '2l, has chalked up four wins against one loss in the Class C League, and the Dartmouth Club bridge team, led by A. L. Coleman '10, has issued a call for additional Green players who can participate in the various bridge matches scheduled with other local college club teams.

The Club's financial condition, meanwhile, is in sounder shape than any time in history, and the increased membership, approximately 1,400 alumni, is looking forward to the big annual New York Dartmouth dinner which will be held sometime in April,