Southern California

In celebration of Dartmouth Night on October 3, the temperature in Los Angeles reached 102 degrees. Despite the heat, congested freeways and raging canyon brush fires, a hard rock core of Dartmouth stalwarts met for dinner and election of officers at General Lee's Man Jen Low in new Chinatown. The air-conditioned banquet room overlooked a picturesque Chinese garden and silk clad attendants padded to and fro from the teakwood altar of friendship dispensing potables to thirsty Dartmouth men prior to the dinner. Camaraderie ran rampant. Honored at the speaker's table were four of the Association's old guard. Harry Lill '05, Jim Norton'08, Dick Merrill '08, and Gerry Barnes '11. Each man gave a short reminiscence of Dartmouth way back then and Harry Lill's telling of his remembrance of the fire in 1904 held the group enthralled. The old timers were followed by the youngest man present, BobDanziger '56, a recent arrival from Boston, who talked briefly on the college today.

Rudy Pacht '35, retiring president, conducted the election of officers for the coming fiscal year and the following men were unanimously voted into office. Dick Hefler '35, President; Stu Durkee '33 and Dick Milliken '50, Vice Presidents; Bob Purvis '49, Secretary; George Hamilton '33, Assistant Secretary; Bob Jackson '51, Treasurer and Bob Newsome '53, Assistant Treasurer. Leon Rothschild '24 will continue to serve as Honorary President. Mr. Jackson, the new Treasurer, ended the meeting with a novel declaration. "I got news for youse - pay your dues."

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