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In order to make room for the Honor Rolls of Alumni Fund contributors in this issue, this column will comply with the request that it be made "as concise as possible and that some items where the time element is not pressing be held over for the following month."
The annual meeting of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers was held at the Dartmouth Club of New York Tuesday evening, October 23, with the following alumni in attendance: Hugh McLaren, Jr. '40, F. A. Davidson, Jr. '41, C. Y. Hitchcock, Jr. '39, Thomas W. Streeter, Jr. TT'48, Mark Ginsberg EE'56, N. L. Doe '13, H. A. Schroedel '26, George H. Andretta ME'53, S. R. Jelley CE'53, Victor C. Smith '20, Frank E. Cudworth '02, Peter H. Bixby TT'52, Bruce R. O'Brien '46, Stanley Sklar EE'56, Robert T. Barr '42, F. S. Schilling 'OB, Robert Elkins '40, Edgar Elkins '15, Ed Elsenhans '35, Kenneth W. Ross '17, Arthur C. Nichols '16, Robert H. Griffin '18, Philip L. Thompson '09, Gerald D. Sarno CE'51, Arthur W. Diemer CE'48, Robert M. Mclhvain TT'51, J. M. Devor '42, Nelson Bellesheim TT'52, J. A. Dunn '35, G. N. Collins '35, T. T. Whittier '00, M. R. Pender CE'50, R. D. Eckerson ME'49, R. N. Miller '20, W. M. Birtwell '18, Jack Woods ME'52, Charles L. Weinberg '43, Thomas L. Gustenhoven CE'48, Alan Jackson TT'53, Donald Armitstead CE'49, "Barney" Tomlinson '36, Foxhall A. Parker ME'49, Frederic A. Davidson '15.
Special guests at the dinner included Ed Sherrard, professor of mechanical engineering, John Webb ME'57, president of the Student Chapter, Jackson Smith DC'36, partner in the architecture firm of Eggers and Higgins, who was the feature speaker of the evening, and the dean.
Elections at the annual meeting were as follows: President for 1956-57, Howard A.(Dutch) Schroedel '26, vice president and director, Turner Construction Company; Vice President, Charles Y. Hitchcock Jr. '39, project engineer, Metcalf and Eddy; Member-at-Large of the Executive Committee, Robert M. Egelhoff '39, executive vice-president, New England Lift Slab Corporation; Life members, Harry M. Brown '14, Frederic A. Davidson '15, JosephM. Dolan '14, Herbert D. Hinman 'OB, E. Clayton Tucker '14 and Frederick S. Weston '09.
Just received announcement from Harriette and Jim Holway EE'48 of the arrival on August 11 of daughter Karen Patricia in El Paso, Texas. As a secondary item, Jim notes that he has become a registered professional engineer in the state of New Mexico where he is serving in the Naval Ordnance Missile Test Facility, White Sands.
Marie Louise Zumbuhl was married to JohnHalsey Martin CE'51 on the fourteenth of July in Stansstad, Switzerland.
Gwyneth Oatridge was married to IrvingKendall Clark ME'57 on the twenty-sixth of July in North Billerica, Massachusetts.
Announcement has been made of the engagement of Elizabeth Ann Lindsay of Great Neck, N. Y., to Ensign Peter Carll Buhler CE'56. The marriage is planned for December 29 in Manhasset.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. "Withheld" news will appear in following issues.
