Mohawk Valley
The Lost Legion Reports best warns readers of what is to follow. Although unreported and unsung in ALUMNI MAGAZINE for some time, the Dartmouth Club of the Mohawk Valley has been "silently active."
Dartmouth men are definite leaders in the Utica area and, as such, have added to and supported the prestige which the College ordinarily commands. Numerically smaller than the hordes of Cornell, Syracuse, Hamilton, and Colgate men that surround them in Central New York State, Dartmouth men make up for their lack of quantity with quality.
Although there are three meetings to be reported on, I should like to mention a few of the activities of some of our members.
James G. Capps '19, the highly successful president of the Utica Chamber of Commerce, was reelected president of the Empire State Association of Commerce. Col. James N. Brown '23 lead the recent local reactivation of the 366 th AAA Battalion of the National Guard. Both of these men are past presidents of our club.
Roland. E. Chesley '08, club president, nourishes the cultural appetites of Uticans. He has presented the "Great Artist Series" for several years. This is the area's only sustained big-time, largescale musical program.
Charles DeAngelis 'OB, vice president and former district attorney, was one of the leading advisers to the Republican Party in the November election. He plays an important part in the election probe which has resulted. Thomas B. J. Quinn '22 was a candidate for City Judge in the election.
Dr. James G. Douglas '23, an official of the State Police Association, has been active in preserving and defending the rights and privileges of the individual members of that group. Like his father before him, Dr. Jim maintains an active political interest in addition to his large surgical and medical practice.
Capt. Price Lewis Jr. '42 hasn't been home long enough to attend club meetings. Accounts of his recent voyage to the South Seas on a sailing schooner have again called attention to the talents and achievements of Dartmouth men.
Club members are everywhere. As a newspaper reporter, I have been able to see this. Church gatherings, credit and industrial conferences, civic drives and the like, the Dartmouth Club is represented.
As for the meetings, their very being has publicized Dartmouth. Since April 1948, Dartmouth, through the Dartmouth Club of the Mohawk Valley, received 13514 inches of newspaper space. These advance and follow-up announcements were made more attractive by the use of six one-column cuts, one two-column cut, and one three-column cut. The Sept. 6 meeting, at which six incoming freshmen were honored, provided the material for the feature story in my own "HI NEIGHBOR" column.
That Sept. 6 meeting was one to remember. Dining with us at the Fort Schuyler Club were the Dartmouths of the future, now the present. All in the class of '52, they are Yates Eckert, Remsen; Charles Lyon, Mohawk; Richard McMahon, Rome; Allen Gschwind and Don Staubes, Utica; and James Richard Crangle, St. Johnsville. Gschwind, it was reported, became the 1952 class president.
"Dartmouth in the Old Days" was the theme. The following speakers were asked to describe the Dartmouth of their respective times by President Chesley; 1904-08, Charles DeAngelis; 1915-19, Jim Capps; 1934-38, Red Boutilier; 1947- Joseph Manganelli.
Dartmouth Night, Oct. 10, found 25 members gathered in the Fort Schuyler Club to hear Bill Morton '2B, vice president of the Onondaga County Savings Bank at Syracuse, explain the Citizens Foundation. Bill is a founder of this non-sectarian cosmopolitan group organized to combat Communism and to acquaint people with the benefits of our natural heritage.
On Nov. 2, the night before the CornellDartmouth game at Ithaca, members met again at the Fort Schuyler Club. John A. DeCamp, the former superintendent of schools and a member of the last Williams team to defeat Dartmouth, gave a humorous speech. Special guests were Judge Ezra Hannigan, president of the local Cornell club, and Jacob Goldbas, an attorney and former Big Redathlete.
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