Denver

The Christmas holidays always prove to be a time of good cheer for the local families of the Dartmouth students returning from the distant. Hanover plain. After a comparatively mild fall and early winter, "the wolf-wind" really wailed at the doorways of those of us living in the country of the Great Divide. Some attributed this to the fact that the students brought Hanover weather with them to Denver, but a more reasonable explanation is that the frost and cold, long overdue, had preserved their blasts for the yuletide.

Thus, the wintry scene was set for Saturday, December 22, at the University Club in the College Room. A very enthusiastic group assembled for the annual Christmas luncheon of Dartmouth men, their sons, undergraduates, and prospective Dartmouth students. Monte Pascoe '57 presided at the head table and introduced the speakers for the day, each of whom represented one of the classes at Dartmouth: Ronald Tracy '66, Dick Durrance '65, Charlie Greer '64 and Peter Wells '63.

Each spoke briefly giving excerpts from his impressions of Dartmouth as a student and discussed many topics currently of interest to prospective Dartmouth students, undergraduates, and alumni. Such subjects as the tri-semester program, our 1962 Ivy League Champion football team, and the dedication of the Hopkins Center were discussed. Peter Wells painted a vivid and inspired verbal picture of the College as it exists today seen through the eyes of the senior student, the freshmen, and the alumnus who might be viewing college life as a series of living murals.

The Saturday evening Christmas party was held at the 26 Club and the conviviality of the holiday season permeated the atmosphere. So, in spite of the cold which brought the first white Christmas to Denver in fourteen years, the season has been a success and the winter may do as it will.

Secretary, 801 Detroit St., Denver 6, Colo.