Bergen County

Last March 30, 1962 will be a date long to be remembered in the annals of our young club. The Dartmouth Glee Club not only gave an outstanding concert at the Paramus High School for over 700 Dartmouth graduates and friends, but in addition thrilled the whole Tenafly High School in the afternoon with an hour-and-15-minute pep concert before the entire student body. What a selling job for the College they did at both concerts!

Even more important to our group, the net proceeds of the concert, as well as our third annual Spring Dance later at the Ridge wood Country Club, swelled our Scholarship Fund to the point where we hope the College will give serious consideration to letting us help a worthy boy from Bergen County who may be entering next fall. This, of course, will be taken up with the College by our special Scholarship Committee.

Publicity handled by Gil Sykes '36 was found in forty area publications, plus several New York and. New Jersey radio stations. Phone campaigns with committees headed by Ed Senghas '47 and Brad Grinnell '44 covered one-hundred percent of the area, and Fred Wolf '53, our new treasurer, did a heroic job in supplying tickets to the many who sent checks to him.

Election of officers was held during the intermission at the Spring Dance as follows: Wood DeYoe '48, president; William Parmer '42, vice president; and Don Sisson '45, secretary. At a subsequent meeting of the Board of Trustees, Fred Wolf '53 was elected treasurer replacing Phil Trowbridge'52. New trustees elected are Dick Grassey'54 in our northwest section; Gene Bokor'46 in our northeast section, with RalphSpecht '35 being re-elected in the northwest area.

During the intermission at the concert, our former president, Bob Allabough '34 of Ridgewood, presented our 1962 Dartmouth Club of Bergen County Award of Merit to Charles Frederic Bruder '28 of Ridgewood. Each year the award is presented to an outstanding alumnus for contributions to his vocation, community, church and the College. The award cited Chuck's executive position with the Singer Manufacturing Co., his role in the Building Campaign of the St. Elizabeth's Church of Upper Ridgewood, his outstanding committee work as a member of the YWCA Board of Trustees, and his many contributions to alumni and college activities.

Many of us are now busying ourselves to get one-hundred percent collections for the Dartmouth Alumni Fund. Let's have one-hundred percent from our 400 alumni here in the County.

Colin Stewart '48 (r) with the coach and five-man ski team of Colorado Academy,near Denver, which won the Dartmouth Cup Ski Race for the third straight year.

Secretary, 29 Louise Lane, Tenafly, N. J.