Club Officers Hold Fall Meeting

THE Dartmouth Club Officers Association, which was formally organized last fall as partner to the class officers' associations, held its second annual meeting in Hanover on the weekend of September 25-27. Presidents and secretaries from 36 Dartmouth alumni clubs, mostly in the East, were in attendance, many with wives who shared in the social events that were scheduled along with two long working sessions.

Willis S. Fitch '17 of Washington, D. C., the first president of the association, presided at the meetings.

President Dickey spoke to the club officers and their wives at an opening dinner Thursday evening at the Hanover Inn. His remarks dealt with the start of Dartmouth's 190th academic year and particularly with the high quality of the new freshman class. As a feature of the dinner, Michael McGean '49, Assistant Secretary of the College and secretary of the Club Officers Association, presented the annual award for the best club president of the year to Carl Funke '35, head of the Dartmouth Club of New York City, and the award for the best club secretary of the year to Richard C. Litchfield '22 of Wellesley, Mass., secretary of the Charles River Dartmouth Club. The citations that accompanied these awards will be found with the 1922 and 1935 class columns in this issue.

Friday morning's session in Sanborn English House was devoted largely to the Capital Gifts Campaign and the relation of the clubs to the regional programs being carried out in the campaign this second and final year. Orton H. Hicks '21, Vice President of the College, discussed Dartmouth's development plans and the Trustee Planning Committee studies now in progress; and George H. Colton '35, director of development, reported on the capital campaign to date and explained the schedule of regional activity during 1958-59. The third speaker of the morning was Edward T. Chamberlain Jr. '36, director of admissions, who added some data on the Class of 1962 to the general remarks made by President Dickey the previous evening, and also discussed enrollment matters with the club officers, most of whom serve also on the regional enrollment and interviewing committees.

After a stag luncheon at the Inn Ski Hut, officers reassembled in the Sanborn House library for Friday afternoon's working session. Frank Smallwood '51, executive assistant to President Dickey, gave a progress report on the studies either planned or being carried out under the Trustees Planning Committee, of which he is secretary. Active sub-committees at present are studying Tuck School, the Outing Club, athletics, student health, community environment, transportation, student procurement, and financial relationships of the associated schools.

The greater part of the meeting was then devoted to a panel discussion of alumni club activities and problems, with E. Morton Jennings '28, president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston, as chairman. This was followed by a report from Sidney C. Hayward '26, Secretary of the College, on the work of the Committee on Alumni Relations, which has filed its final report with the Trustees Planning Committee.

At its concluding business meeting the Dartmouth Club Officers Association adopted an interim constitution and elected officers for the coming year, as follows: President, E. Morton Jennings '28, president of the Boston Alumni Association; Vice President, Richard Barnard '30, secretary of the Dartmouth Club of WinChester, Mass.; Secretary, Michael McGean '49 of Hanover; Executive Committee, these three officers plus John H. Chamberlin '31 of Syracuse, president of the Dartmouth Club of Central New York, and Reynolds E. Moulton '35 of Portland, secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Maine.

An informal gathering at the Inn Ski Hut on Friday night had Coach Bob Blackman as special guest. He spoke briefly on Dartmouth's 1958 football prospects, but did not predict the victory over Lafayette the next afternoon that opened the season and rounded out the weekend for the club officers.

In order to give the club officers and their wives a taste of Dartmouth academic life as it is today, a schedule of six elective classes was arranged for Saturday morning. The classes that welcomed alumni visitors were Art 1, taught by Prof. Hugh Morrison '26; Astronomy 1, taught by Prof. George Z. Dimitroff; Mathematics 3, taught by Prof. Bancroft H. Brown; Physics 3, taught by Prof. Francis W. Sears; Religion 1, taught by Prof. James F. Ross; and Russian Civilization, taught by Prof. Charles B. McLane '41.

Officers of the Dartmouth Club Officers Association for 1958-59 are (l to r) Michael McGean '49 of Hanover, secretary; Richard Barnard '30 of Winchester, Mass., vice president; E. Morton Jennings '28 of Boston, president; Reynolds Moulton '35 of Portland, Me., and John Chamberlin '31 of Syracuse, N. Y., executive committee members.