N. California and Nevada
On the evening of February 18, Mr. and Mrs.Robert F. Leavens '01 received Dartmouth families and friends at their home, 1900 Yosemite Road, Berkeley. Over fifty packed the large living room and balcony. (Yes, they do have a balcony, presumably designed to care for daughter Eleanor and the Dartmouth Smith and Wentworth kids of thirty odd years ago, when such alumni group meetings really started on Yosemite Dartmouth Row.)
This occasion was prompted by Bob's long desire to discuss William Jewett Tucker, the Man, and all that he did for Dartmouth during and subsequent to life at Hanover. He has a story there and we all see it more clearly after this most enjoyable evening.
Bob s talk from the heart was enthusiastically subscribed to by all with brief comments from a few old-timers who felt Dr. Tucker's influence face to face." First, a letter from Walter Hayt '78, our association's oldest member, expressing regrets not to be able to come down from his home in Sacramento. Then, in a clear, firm hand he wrote of his respect for Tucker's teaching. Oldest in attendance, J.Irving Read '94, took the floor with a word about life at Hanover in the 90's, followed by more on the subject from Henry Morris Lull '97, Frank Wentworth '03, Wayne Perkins '04, Winsor Wilkinson '10 with appropriate remarks from the youngsters, the 1911 delegation —Troy Parker, Arthur Gray, and George Morris who was here on a very brief visit from Washington, D. C. Classes all the way to the 1940's were represented.
Others attending were Mrs. Selden C. Smith ('97), fathers and mothers of undergraduates, applicants, and close friends of Dartmouth in the Bay Area.
ASSOCIATION ANNUAL DINNERMARINES MEMORIAL CLUBSAN FRANCISCO
April 29, 1949
Note this date and join us for dinner after which we hope to have as guest speaker our own Dr. David J. Bradley '38, author of NoPlace to Hide, who is scheduled to be back home from Washington, D. C., after weeks of talk on the atom bomb.
Secretary, 140 New Montgomery St., San Francisco 5.
