Sarasota

On Saturday, March 2, the largest Dartmouth group in the history of Florida turned out to honor President John Dickey. The affair was held at the Sarasota Bay Country Club and 192 alumni, wives, and friends of Dartmouth gathered for a luncheon at one o'clock. President Bob Hardy '25 of the Sarasota Club presided and the Rev. ArthurWheelock '14 gave the thanksgiving.

such Dartmouth workers as John Vande-grift Jr. '44, President, and Frank Tepper'55, Secretary of the Orlando-Winter Park group made the long trek along with Phil Pendleton '54, Don Cheney and others. Roger Stephenson '25, President, and BobAtwood '42, Secretary, of the St. Petersburg Club, John O Connell '36 and many more members of that club drove down.

The Sarasota contingent included such old timers as Roger Brown '05, Warren Kendall '99, Bob Kenyon '07, Sumner Emerson '17, Dave Rice '40, Bill Garland '54, George Collins '35 and Gil Swett '17, who was in charge of publicity. Space prohibits telling of all the people who worked to make this meeting a success and, of course to list everyone who attended would be impossible.

President Dickey gave one of the finest talks the writer has ever been privileged to hear. I will not attempt to summarize it here but he spoke of the privately endowed independent colleges and universities and of Dartmouth's place among them. It was a great honor, privilege, and pleasure to have John Dickey in Sarasota and to hear his inspiring address. The whole occasion, John Dickey and John Dickey's talk can best be described in the one sentence uttered by the writer's wife as we drove away from Country Club: "It makes me feel proud to be married to a Dartmouth man."

Secretary, 1357 Harbor Drive, Sarasota, Fla.