Mohawk Valley

A TYPICAL ADIRONDACK. FROST (ARCTIC BLIZ-ZARD TO MOST OF US) CUt Off OUr club's proposed February ski weekend, but our braves are looking forward to two events, the annual council-fire pow-wow on March 16, and the Big Chief's parley on April 1.

Jim Capps '19 has been named chairman of the nominating committee, including Dr. Jim Douglas '23 and Earl S. Liberty '29. Their slate of officers will be submitted and acted upon on the 16th, when we gather at Utica's exclusive Fort Schuyler Club.

President Jim Brown '23 is heading up activities in preparation for President Dickey's visit April i. We shall gather in the Mulberry room of the Hotel Utica for a noon luncheon. George Colton '35, who accompanies Prexy, reports that the Grand Chief from Hanover will cover the "Great Issues" course in detail.

No efforts have been spared to make this our best pow-wow of the year. (And that's something in view of our Dartmouth Night presided over by Charles DeAngelis 'OB and Bob Hage's '35 visit.) Jim Brown had one of the art boys at Moser & Cotins advertising agency design a snappy totem for our monthly bulletin. Although artist Jay Stewart is not a Dartmouth man, he grasped the essentials of Dartmouth tradition and legend. The result is a snappy green totem pole which includes Eleazar, the Bible, drum, rum, pine tree, sheepskin, pipe, mortarboard, athletic D, and several Indian heads. For ingenuity and authentic background, it is really in a class with "Squeaks from the Golden Gate," which caught our eye in the Secretary's manual.

Also on April 1, we are arranging for some of our braves to journey to Syracuse for the evening parley in the Central New York Club's hunting ground. Fred W. Smith, Syracuse president, has extended an all-inclusive invitation. We are hoping that a Central New YorkMohawk Valley union meeting for June will result.

Roland "Pop" Chesley '08, our natural in the promotion field (musical or otherwise), is keeping us in touch with the Hopkins Center Project Campaign. Roland also directs local interviewing of Dartmouth candidates for admissions. He reports,

"About 20 capable braves from this area have applied. Whatever choices are made by the college, our area will be again represented by talented frosh who will contribute to, and absorb from, DARTMOUTH."