Northern New Jersey

More than 120 turned out recently, to hear the word on the Hanover athletic picture, as expressed by the man who knows it best, Red Rolfe '31, Dartmouth's popular Director of Athletics. The occasion was our Association's annual dinner meeting on March 2 in East Orange's Hotel Suburban.

The attendance constituted a record for recent years, and those present were treated to a very frank discussion by Red of past, current and forthcoming policies and plans on the Dartmouth sports front.

Announcing a stepped-up program of encouraging good schoolboy athletes who are also good scholars to enter Dartmouth, Red predicted that in two or three years "we'll be able to hold our own in the Ivy League." In his travels, Red said, he has discovered that "some of the Ivies really have been digging, doing a lot more than we have," and he voiced a strong appeal that all alumni take an active role in their own communities in getting their best all-round local boys interested in Dartmouth.

Paying particular tribute to the success of this year's soccer and basketball teams, Red reviewed the prospects for every individual sport at the College and also outlined in detail the extreme pains that were taken in the selection of Bob Blackman as our football coach.

During the business portion of the meeting, the following slate of officers was voted in for the season of '55-'56: President, Bill Carter '39; Vice President, Jim Elleman '43; Secretary, Allen Bildner '47; and Treasurer, DonPalmer '51.

Secretary, 7 Beaumont Ter., West Orange, N. J.