Northern California

Again it was cheek-by-jowl diners, crowded hours, crashing choruses, with ever-overflowing gossip at this frontier's Dartmouth Night pack-in.

And Treasurer Carl Ward's '32 intake and output was so happily abundant that he danced to the club's bank next day with a put-in rather than a take-out slip — this on a civic proclaimed Credit Week! So the tradition of Dartmouth-ever-the-unexpected lives on at this far reach.

The propensity for the unforeseen, however, extended to the absence from the head table galaxy of several stellar luminaries forced from normal orbit. For at this teeming cross-roads of a touring world, unheralded visitors oft cause many a slip 'twixt cup and lip. The major blight was the truancy of Bob Leavens '01 for years club Nestor and Magnus Apollo. But a worthy substitute, '01 classmate Frank Cudworth, hurdled the traffic all the way from Los Gatos, ably seconded by effervescent Mose Perkins '02 of San Jose.

For the message from Hanover, President Al Lathrop '28 had corralled from Oakland retired Prof. Charlie Bagley h'32, who with his charming French-stylized episodics lent luster to the postprandial hour. Editor Charlie Widmayer '30, given little more than a coffee-break from a downtown conclave of collegiate editors, well sustained the role of modern space-man - here he comes! - there he goes!! There's gotta be a law permitting today's editors to stop by long enough at least to sharpen a pencil or restart the flow of a ball-point pen.

All in all, another rousing Dartmouth evening—but just wait 'til next year!!

Secretary, Pacific Tel. & Tel. Co. 140 New Montgomery St San Francisco 5, Calif.