Long Island

Activities of our Association during 1953-1954 were unmarked by any major event. The final official get-together was the annual meeting at Felices' May 20, and it proved highly successful. The boys who were accepted to Hanover and their parents were invited, and a great many attended. In addition, many old-timer association members turned out, and the result was that Felices' downstairs solarium was jammed. Eddie Chamberlain '36, our guest, lost ten yards on the first down by sheepishly admitting he forgot to bring My First Week at Dartmouth with him, although he had it on his desk the entire morning, prior to entraining for New York. But like the truly great ball-carrier he was, and still is, Eddie ran through the entire opposition with an account of what faces a new student in his first weeks at Dartmouth. His talk entirely spellbound new freshmen, their parents and our members alike. Eddie should have brought a tape recorder instead of the film, to keep for posterity his running, fascinating account, given in the most graphic terms, about what present-day colleges like Dartmouth expect of their new crop of freshmen. Many members, remembering their Ernest Martin Hopkins days, silently wondered how they ever got through their baptism of fire. After a question-and-answer period, refreshments were served and conviviality reigned supreme. Everyone left happy. It was a wonderful way to end our season.

On June 27, Jack Coulson '39 held his Gilgo Beach picnic. The results are now history, but it's enough to say that more than a couple of hundred people attended, and everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves. The kids who were also invited, swarmed over the beach and pavilion, consuming countless "vittles" and flying numerous kites. It is no secret that this affair was Jack Coulson's "baby." With DickDarby '41 and the rest of his committee, details had been well planned, down to the proverbial gnat's eyebrow. Five times what the party cost the Association would have been worth the good-will created and the good fellowship which resulted. In addition, Jack may well have created a precedent for annual picnics of similar ilk. Kudos to Jack!

Secretary, 17 Meadow Lane, East Williston, N. Y.