Dayton

Forty-one loyal Dartmouths and guests turned out March 31 at our annual dinner to hear Dick Morin '24, Executive Officer of the College, give an up-to-the-minute report on activities in Hanover. Cocktails preceded dinner at the Biltmore Hotel and our prospective '54s and their fathers were our guests. A good part of the gang stayed on afterwards to drink a few brews, reminisce and sing Dartmouth songs with Nort Virgien '46 at the keys.

Those in attendance were: Al Beust '38 (who as President emceed), Bob Chollar '35, Ralph Clement '09 (who as our oldest alumnus sat as an honored guest), Bob Corwin '34, Bob Cowden '32, Bill Craig '44, father and son Hal 'lB and John '52 Doty, Bill Emerson '34, Tom Gillaugh '46, Charlie and Tom Hall '33, Horace Huffman '36, Bob Huffman '47, Tom Kennedy '27, Wib Kennedy '27, Bob Kuhns '30, Bob Larkin '30, George Lenning '47, Bob McCloskey '34, Sam McCray '34, Latta McCray '37, Dan Mitchell '37, Bob Moore '42, Dick Morner '43, Tony Nanos '40, Bob Oelman '31, Jim Peters '46, Oscar Scharrer '13, Dick Stowe '27, and Bud Welch '44, and Nort Virgien '46 and Joe Reinhart '40 from Springfield. Prospective '54s in attendance with their dads, each of whom incidentally have the same surname as the boys, were: George Shaw (Canterbury School), Frank Shipman of Troy, and Herman Lehman.

HERE AND THERE—We are most happy to welcome back to Dayton, after two years in Chicago, Bud Welch '44 with lovely wife Helen all the way from Atchison, Kansas, and 6-months-old daughter Debbie Bob Huffman '47 will get his M.C.S. at Tuck in June and will return to Dayton. Brother Horace '36 was recently named "Outstanding Young Man of the Year" by the Jr. Chamber of Commerce here. The Dartmouths have done pretty well on this award, Bob Cowden '32 having won it two years ago when the award was first begun This writer became a father on Feb. 5 when Mrs. G produced Gwendolyn Beth at 6 lbs. 11 oz. Mother and daughter are doing well This club has recently placed the ALUMNI MAG in three local schools through the Alumni Council plan.

Our monthly luncheons are continuing on the third Saturday of each month at the Biltmore Hotel and the next special event will be a picnic with wives in July or August. We are also making extensive plans for a caravan to Ann Arbor in October for the Michigan game.

DARTMOUTH'S NEWLY FORMED DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL proved on interesting subject of discussion among alumni on the recent visit to the Middle West made by George H. Colton '35, Executive Secretar>J of the Dartmouth Alumni Fund. In the picture taken in Minneapolis on February 16, he is shown (second from right) chatting with C. E. Whitney '24, President of the Northwest Alumni Association. Others are (I to r)- Stephen A. Osborn '27, Bobb Chaney '35, and John B. Faegre Jr. '33.

Secretary, 524 Daytona Pkwy., Dayton, Ohio