Chicago

Belying our long silence on this page, the Chicago Association has far from retired to a senile existence. In fact, the events and renovations in the activities of this calendar year could prove to be the stimuli of a new growth in our active membership.

Back tracking only long enough to mention our annual Hanover Holiday in January at the University Club and a very successful party at the Morrison Hotel last spring, featuring Paul Zeller's excellent group of self-supporting West Coast hungry musicians, we then encountered our only disappointment of the season, the loss of Louis Leverone's wonderful estate and his very traditional pre-All Star game outing. With hopes of pulling this out of the fire in some form again next year, attention was then turned to more immediate matters.

In September, this year's Chicago area freshmen were given a flying start at a luncheon presided over by A. Newell Rumpf '30, chairman of our enrollment committee. And men- tioning enrollment work reminds me that, without intent of omitting any deserving members, particular kudos are due Kent Calhoun '52, Tom Rowe '50, Herb Knight '51, Gene Hotchkiss '22 (as usual), All Dodd '35, Newell, Bob Bowler '51, Don McKay '29 for their time consuming efforts along these lines. Our special thanks also to Don McKinlay of Denver and Ed Chamberlain, who made special trips our way this summer to hash over the omnipresent alumni group problems of enrollment, interviewing, and admissions with our officers, directors and enrollment committee in a special session.

To get the Association's social program underway for the current "indoor" season, we followed through with plans conceived earlier in the year and put a new touch to our Dartmouth Night celebration. Since we had been experiencing increasingly questionable success and enthusiasm over our annual Christmas cocktail party, we are eliminating that event from the calendar this year and livened up Dartmouth Night, formerly also only a cocktail and song function at the University Club, by staging a black tie dinner-dance at the suburban Kenilworth Club. This was preceded by several cocktail parties sprinkled liberally over the area, and judging from all reactions so far, was definitely a social, as well as financial, success. Caps sporting feathers for that event include those of Bill Howell '49, chairman, entertainment committee, and his still unpaid hired hands, Herb Ray '50 and Si Morand III '50. A well-run Alumni Club never achieves that status without a very active Prexy. Ours, fortunately, is Justin A. Stanley '33.

We're looking forward now to entertaining Doggy Julian, et al., at luncheon on December 28, and expect a victory over Northwestern the following night in return.

Secretary, 199 Forest St., Winnetka, Ill.