South Shore

The Dartmouth Alumni Association of Southeastern Mass. had their fall meeting at the Cotillion Room in Taunton, Mass., on the evening of October 22, 1962. Before we sat down to a fine roast beef dinner we listened, via radio, to the speech of President Kennedy proclaiming a blockade of Cuba due to the build-up of Russian arms on that Island. Our attendance was below average, with only thirty men present, probably due to the fact that some of our members wanted to make sure they saw and heard President Kennedy over their own television sets.

After the dinner our President, KennethE. Sampson '31, asked everyone to stand for a moment of silence in memory of Judge (Luke F.) Callan '23 of Middleboro and Samuel W. Crocker '31 of Wareham, both of whom passed away in July. Judge Callan was serving a term as vice president of our Association and Sam Crocker was a past president. These two men were very much interested in our Club and we shall miss their advice and counsel.

After a very short business meeting, our President introduced our speaker, Dr. Richard Elliot of Duxbury, Mass., a graduate of Dartmouth class of 1949 and B.U. Medical 1956. He gave, us a very interesting and enlightening talk, illustrated with slides, of his eight-month trip in 1961 to Indonesia and Viet Nam on the "S.S. Hope" as senior medical officer. Project Hope is a medical teaching-training program of the People-to-People Health Foundation aboard a former Navy hospital ship on loan to the Foundation. Dr. Elliot and his team of 75 doctors and nurses conducted seminars with native doctors and nurses in their own, few and far between, hospitals and on the ship. They treated thousands of patients and we commend them for a fine job, well done, and may Project Hope continue to bring help to the less fortunate people of the World.

Secretary, Shore Acres Rd., So. Dartmouth, Mass.