Southern California
Recent activities of the Southern California Association include the April and May Hollywood luncheons and the Dartmouth-Cornell-Penn Field Day.
At the April meeting, Bobo Williams '26 gave the highs and lows of his career as a stage and screen actor. He told of the coincidental manner in which he had landed good parts and missed others. He supplemented his own story with interesting side lights on stage and motion picture personalities. The half hour allotted to him passed very quickly and Bobo established himself as a raconteur to be recalled for a future meeting.
At the May luncheon, Prexy Jack Reeder '25, who had just returned from a trip to the East, brought greetings from President Dickey and told of a conversation with Navy Secretary John L. Sullivan .'si, who plans to meet with our local association while on a western tour. Jack also discussed the proposed western visit of the Glee Club. Gene Markey '18 took over the speaking assignment and after skipping hurriedly and modestly over his spectacular careers as a motion picture producer and naval officer, very ably made a plea for a better-informed local press, the success of the United Nations, cooperation with Russia and a Republican president. He told of the important role the foreign correspondents played in international politics, and paid tribute to his friend George Polk, CBS correspondent in Greece, who died recently under mysterious circumstances.
The Hollywood luncheons have passed their experimental stage. They are now building tradition within the local association. The second season, October through May, is now completed, and we find that the attendance has steadily increased. A list of those who attended the May meeting (many of whom also attended the April luncheon), follows:
Lawrence Odlin "11, Dan Dinsmoor 'l6, Leonard Joy '16, Murray-Hawkins 'l9, Clark Ingraham 'l9, Howie Alman '22, Bill Conrad '23, Herb Melleney '24, Leon I. Rothschild '24, Jack Reeder '25, B. Reynolds (visitor) '25, Berkeley Jones '25, Bob Williams '26, Reg Gresley '26, Frank Appleton '26, Charlie Starrett '26, Bus Heydt '26, John Lyman '2B, Woody Isham '2B, Frank McEntee '29, Dick Rogers '29, Collier Young '3O, Nate Blumberg '3O, Dave Lewis '3O, Bill Wilson '3O, Bill Farley '3l, T. F. Gafford '3l, Dick Clarke '32, Ken Jacques '33, Bob Guggenheim '33, Leon Kent '33, Marty Dwyer '34, Bill Adams '34, Wendell Williams '34, Dave Teachout '34, Bill Short '35,. Ed Ramsey '35, Tom Lane '35, Dick Hefler '36,. Brad Peterson '37, Bob Kirstein '37, Frank Danzig '37, R. W. McChesney '3B, Bob Willheim '39, Dave Boyle '4O, Jack Rourke '4O, Ned Jacoby '4O, Dewitt Jones '4O, Gerald Schnitzer '4O, Fred Fuld: '4O, Bob Kiger '43, Bob Ives '44.
Credit for the success of the Hollywood luncheon should be given to the spark plugs. Cap Palmer '23 (refugeeing in New York), Bob Guggenheim '33, Jack Rourke '4O, and now Frank Danzig '37, who is being trained as a stand-in—to make change and handle the door prize department.
The young athletes and old spectators met with similar characters from Penn and Cornell to vie for honors in baseball, horseshoe pitching, bull throwing and beer drinking.
The weekly luncheons continue at the Savoy Hotel. They are held every Tuesday noon and perpetuate a 40-year-old tradition. Out-of-town visitors at recent luncheons include: Frank Wallace '25, Roger Wilde '21, Robert King '34, and William Butler '12.
Secretary, 609 So. Grand Ave., Los Angeles 14, Calif.
