Central New York

The fall season began auspiciously on August 29 with a fine gathering at the summer home of Win Rodormer '27 on Skaneateles Lake, where 80 alumni, undergraduates, and their fathers met to honor the sixteen entering freshmen from this area. The afternoon was taken up with a touch-football game among the undergraduates, water skiing, swimming, keg tapping, and pretzel bending.

One of the more popular features of the day was the sudden appearance up the road of the motley Schnickelfritz Band to entertain the customers. The aggregation played lustily during, the afternoon, adding a certain 'quelque chose' to the occasion which no one has quite been able to identify - something akin to gastritis, is the way one alumnus put it. Seriously, it added a festive touch which everyone appreciated. Yrs. trly., after some years away from the old trombone, stood in for a couple of numbers, and determined that though the spirit is willing, the chops is weak those Barbary Coast days are gone forever!

Late in the afternoon, the cooking team of Bill Morrow '41, Russ Carlson '44, RogerBrown '45, and Norm Simpson '44, stoked up the fires, and an excellent charcoaled hamburger feast ensued. Sociability continued to prevail after dinner, and as an added feature, Pete Searl '57 showed some beautiful slides of things Dartmouth, with narration by TomTormey '48.

Our Club's fine enrollment committee, directed by Bill Morrow '41, has done magnificent things in putting '43 undergraduate representatives on campus from our area, and the class of 1960 delegation, sixteen strong, is worthy of the best that is Dartmouth. We are extremely proud of them all.

Win Rodormer '27 and John Chamberlin '31 were co-chairmen of the send-off party, with the entire production under the supervision of President Bob Beadel '29.

Immediately after Labor Day, the program committee began laying plans for a Dartmouth Night gathering, and organizing the siege of Ithaca on November 17th.

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