Milwaukee

Wisconsin and, from where we sit, Milwaukee (the city that made a certain beverage famous — or maybe vice versa) were buried in snow and shivered in the cold from January through mid-March. Accordingly, Dartmouth Alumni Association of Wisconsin activities during this time were limited to non-organized, unsponsored sojourns to local and distant ski slopes by those alumni still partaking of that sport d'hiver. On either side of this Christy and sitzmark season, however, were held two events most worthy of note.

During Christmas Week our annual Undergraduate Christmas Luncheon was held at the University Club in Milwaukee. A good turnout of alumni, undergraduates, and applicants came to renew acquaintances and hear about what's going on in Hanover. A successful gathering and a notable enrollment event. In this latter connection, I am advised that this year Dartmouth has 41 applicants for undergraduate status from Wis- consin. A sharp drop from last year's total of 76, yes, but our guesstimates of acceptance indicate that we will do considerably better than last year's one-out-of-three accepted. Private joke - if we can only send 'em off without drivers' licenses....

Then, on Saturday, March 24, Dartmouth really had a day in Wisconsin! Without stealing the thunder of that author who will report elsewhere in this issue, I can say that Dartmouth was most well-represented here. An academic program, sponsored jointly by Dartmouth and the University of Wisconsin in Madison, was put on for some 400-500 Wisconsin high school educators. John Willetts '40 and Gene Burnkrant '35, the latter as Superintendent of Schools in Wauwatosa and host to the conference, shouldered major local responsibility for this endeavor. To them go our thanks for their part in what we understand was an extremely interesting and successful program. To those professors who gave a portion of their spring vacation to this experiment, we are similarly grateful. That Drs. John Masland, Provost of the College, Roy Forster, Professor of Zoology, John Stewart, Professor of English and Associate Director of the Hopkins Center, and Gene Lyons, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Director of Great Issues, were also able to join us at the University Club that evening for our Annual Meeting was most stimulating. The fresh look we got at current academic and, to a degree, administrative goings-on in Hanover made us all feel just a bit more closely identified with Dartmouth.

Secretary, Smith, Barney and Co. 411 E. Mason St., Milwaukee 2, Wis.