New York City

Post-Christmas activities went into high gear at the New York Club with its Annual Alumni Dinner late in January. Despite rough weather, more than 700 local enthusiasts turned out to hear President Dickey, BillMcCarter '19, and Herb Carey '50, captainelect of the 1949 football team. This important event was followed last month with the appearance of the Dartmouth Glee Club, under the auspices of the New York Club, in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Roosevelt on the evening of March 28.

Guest soloist with the boys from Hanover was Michael Guida '41, whose singing of operatic arias had created such a sensation at the Alumni Dinner. "Mike" appeared at both functions at the invitation of Club President Charles E. Griffith '15 who had heard Guida when he sang on the Metropolitan Auditions of the Air last year. Though only out of College a handful of years, "Mike" performs regularly in opera in New York and Philadelphia, and last summer sung in the Berkshire Music Festival.

During March, a new record was set for class reunions at the Club when members of the Class of '27 met on March 23. They came from Boston, from Rochester, Pittsburgh and Hartford, from Manhattan, Westchester, Long Island, and New Jersey—sixty-two strong— to make this '27 dinner one of the high spots in class annals. Never before, outside of Hanover, had such a large number of '27-ers come together. The total attendance even exceeded the male contingent at at least two Hanover reunions! Which simply goes to show that with an energetic committee such as '27 had—headed by Don McCall, Tom Hession and Joe Russakoff—anything is possible. Well, almost anything!

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CLUB 37 E. 39th St., New York, N. Y.