Rochester, N. Y.
News from the Dartmouth Club of Rochester has been as absent as Joe Stalin in Washington. But our gang has really been active. I'm not bragging. It's just that when a man catches a real big fish he doesn't go home through an alley.
We started the New Year out right, January 3, by entertaining the then victorious basketball team and prospective applicants for the class of 1953 and their fathers. Luncheon was served at the University Club. Eighty-five hungry and interested followers of the Green came—eager to meet the coach, captain and basketball team.
Everybody was relaxed for the gathering except Em Turner, president. He had received no word from the manager of the team as to the arrival hour. (The letter arrived 3 days later. Paging the 3rd Ass't Postmaster.) Lou Alexander, basketball coach of the University of Rochester, assured him the basketball game was scheduled that evening and the Big Green was coming. We thought so, too. For over a month our gang had held admittance pasteboards so they could watch the hoopsters in action. One hundred and sixty highly partisan enthusiasts were looking forward to razzing the local brethren—after the game, that is.
The Chicago train puffed into Rochester at curtain time, 11:50 a.m., and the team was hustled over to the Dartmouth luncheon. Coach Lampe made up for everything by giving us an excellent briefing on the western trip—the athletic look in Hanover and things to come—even the 1949 football future. (Note to Wall Street: Selling will not be short.) Capt. Ed Leede spoke for the team and did a swell job. He hit the bucket from just outside the foul line and panicked the crowd by telling Lampe's favorite story.
As a finale, the 1948 coaching pictures of the Dartmouth-Cornell game were viewed. And Sullivan's terrific run again went down in our books as one of the best in 1948. (We saw it in Ithaca, but in a different light.)
Monthly stag dinner meetings have been planned for the rest of the winter and spring with dinner, cards, etc.
Plans are in the mill for developing a surer fire means of attracting more and finer candidates for Dartmouth. We hate to mention this even in passing but locally Cornell, Yale and Princeton—yes and Harvard, have the pulling edge. (Larger alumni bodies with local scholarship set-ups spells a good part of the answer at present.) That winds us up for now. See you all next month.
CHICAGO CHAT: President Dickey (left) and Bob Critchell '33, president of the Chicago alumni association, at the University Club during the holding of the second annual Hanover Holiday on Feb. 5.
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