Southern California

Staging a dinner in Los Angeles is usually like trying to get warm in front of a fireplace; if you hold it on the west side of town, your eastern delegation feels frozen out, and vice versa. But this year's Over-East dinner, held April 30 in the Mirror Room of Wes '41 Hadden's Huntington Hotel, drew so many unexpected long distance travellers that we ran into overflow tables to handle the crowd of 70 alumni, who represented classes from '98 through '50.

Bob '26 William's song-leading proved again that we're the only club around which can keep sounding real loud right down through Verse Three of Eleazar. Eck Hiestand '10 put in an able plug for the Alumni Fund, backed by Dick Merrill 'OB. President Bill '34, as one Adams to another, introduced Dr.Walter S. '98, guest of honor for the evening, internationally known astronomer and former director of the Mt. Wilson Observatory, who warmed everybody's heart. Bob Morris '36 brought on the evening's speaker, Dr. Joseph M. McDaniel Jr. Former Professor of Economics at Hanover, McDaniel is now Assistant Director to Paul Hoffman in the fabulous new Ford Foundation, headquartering in Pasadena. There has been a lot of cryptic publicity about the Foundation—what the immense re- sources will be used for, how their distribution will be decided, etc.—and McDaniel laid it on the line to an audience which listened much more attentively than is strictly usual at these gatherings. We closed with singing DearOld Dartmouth, with a warm and welcome twist—the man who wrote it, Wally Reynolds '10, was wiith us. (I watched him—he still remembers all the words.)

The big annual And-Wives Party in June. Annual Deep-Sea Fishing Trip August 4. See you there.

CAP PALMER '23

Secretary, 218 No. Canon Dr., Beverly Hills, Calif.