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Golf anyone? The College Club Golf League, to which the Dartmouth Club and eight other Ivy League clubs belong, was to hold its annual spring outing at the Apawamis Club in Rye on May 23. According to HerbRice '25, our representative in the League, this affair seems to get more popular each year. Once a man attends, it seems he has such an enjoyable time he joins the event year after year. Last year at the Meadowbrook Club, the local hand-mashie contingent nearly annexed the challenge bowl. Only missed by one stroke. By the time you read this, the divots will have all been taken, and (we hope) the Dartmouth "Walker Cuppers" will have walked off with the cups.
Cooled to your comfort. It's still indefinite, but there's a chance the Club Bar and Hunt Room may become a refreshing retreat from Manhattan's oven.-like heat this summer. House Committee Chairman Carl Ray '37 is investigating costs and availability of air conditioning equipment for these two rooms. (Fingers crossed, Carl.) With a system to refresh the air, plus Pete and Pat's own special system for inner refreshment, plus TV baseball the Club would be more tempting than ever on those wilting summer afternoons.
His Honor. Edwin B. Dooley '26, who was temporarily appointed Mayor of Mamaroneck, N. Y., last January 23, has since been duly elected to a full term in the March 20 polling.
Buy bonds, etc. Howard M. Chapin '28 was recently elected a director of the Advertising Council. The Council, an organization of advertising executives, directs the advertising industry's contribution of ingenuity and media to various causes in the public interest. Howie, a member of our Board of Governors, is marketing manager for the Birds Eye Division of General Foods.
"Are you one of the 375?" The Club mailbag has turned up some interesting cards and letters in response to a story in our February News, asking those who were charter members of the Club back in 1926 to help us take inventory.
Al Gottschaldt '18 wrote in from Florida. Vaughn Little '19 sent in a stat of his 1926 membership card. Warren Agry '11 uncovered an old check stub for 50 tax on his 1926 dues. Cliff Hart's letter went two pages, reminiscing . . about that era of bath-tub gin, auction bridge, primitive radios (some with Jess Hawley's 'dynamic' speaker)... Charlie, the Scandinavian-appearing bartender, assigned lockers for the safe-keeping of one's private (liquid) property. Auction stakes were usually a quarter of a cent a point, with Hicks and Hubbell practically unbeatable. Almost everyone tried to be a table tennis champ, and the out-of-town games of importance (to us!) came in over a radio hook-up from an upstairs room which housed a telegraph key and a Western Union operator to bring the bare statistics of each play from Hanover. The account, embellished by an imaginative and facetious prototype of today's Bill Stern, kept the crowd on the edge of their chairs."
Others in this original group who dropped us a line were Spider Martin '19, J. J. Hennessy '20, S. Curtis Bird '24, L. M. Symmes '08, Chuck Kingsley '14, Max Kenyon '22, Newell C. Smith '21, Donald Brooks '17, H. Sheridan Baketel '20, Herbert Callman '04, Bill Terry, Herb Harwood '26, Albert D. Osborn '20, Harry Storrs '07, C. K. Woodbridge '04, J. C. Vander Pyl '10, and Herbert A. Shepherd '11. Any others?
Have a nice summer.
Secretary, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc.
