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Club Officers' Annual Meeting

NOVEMBER 1967
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Club Officers' Annual Meeting
NOVEMBER 1967

A record total of 74 presidents and secretaries of Dartmouth alumni clubs and ten district enrollment directors came back to the colorful autumn campus October 5-7 for the annual Club Officers Weekend. Sixty- five wives were also guests for the weekend which this year combined business with a special Dartmouth Horizons program.

The schedule included an officers' panel entitled "Planning Ahead," an address by President Dickey, talks by members of the College staff and faculty, a session with undergraduates, and the Holy Cross game.

The weekend began Thursday evening with introductions by George H. Colton '35, Vice President of the College, and a talk by Associate Dean of Faculty James F. Hornig on "Today's Dartmouth in Prospective."

Friday morning opened with an explanation of the Kiewit Computation Center's time-sharing system by Donald L. Kreider, chairman of the Department of Mathemat- ics, and continued with explanations of "Today's College Library" by Edward C. Lathem '51, associate librarian of the College; "Students, Teachers and the Computer" by Victor E. McGee, Assistant Professor of Psychology; and "The New Dartmouth Medical School" by S. Marsh Tenney '44, chairman of the Department of Physiology and former Dean of the School.

John W. Hennessey Jr., Associate Dean of Tuck School, and Dean Myron Tribus of Thayer School spoke at a DOC House luncheon after which participants adjourned to the Top of the Hop for an explanation of the Tucker Foundation's role by Dean Charles F. Dey '52. The afternoon continued with H. Allan Dingwall Jr. '42, executive secretary of the Dartmouth Arts Council, speaking in Studio Theater.

Henry H. Williams '49, president of the Club Officers' Association, presided at the annual dinner that evening at which greetings were given by J. Michael McGean '49, Secretary of the College. At the dinner, Robert M. Burrill '5O of the Cape Cod Club was honored as Club Secretary of the Year; and in a long-distance telephone dialogue, amplified so the entire audience could hear it, Thomas B. Russell '6l of Seattle and the Western Washington Club, was saluted as Club President of the Year. (Citations appear with their class columns in this issue.) The dinner preceded a panel moderated by Dean Thaddeus Seymour with undergraduate participants Forrester A. Lee Jr. '68, Alan M. Lake '69, John H. Fitzhugh '70, and John M. Isaacson '68.

A stag buffet breakfast started Saturday's session with Prof. Frank Smallwood '51, chairman of the Bicentennial Steering Committee, and Mr. Colton as speakers.

Attending wives heard Wafu Teshigahara, internationally famous lecturer on Japanese floral arrangement, while the officers gathered for a workshop session. Edmund R. Senghas '47, president of the Bergen County Club, moderated a discussion of club-enrollment liaison by Edward T. Chamberlain Jr. '36, Director of Admissions; F. Warren Miller Jr. '4O, chairman of the Alumni Council Committee on Enrollment and Admissions, and William Breed Jr. '52, president of the North Shore Club.

A second planning panel was moderated by Richard A. Watson '59, Association vice president and included Robert M. Burrill '5O, president of the Cape Cod Club; George M. Kingsley '54, president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Cleveland, and Peter M. Stern '63, secretary of the Philadelphia Club.

New Association officers elected were: President, Richard A. Watson '59, Hartford, Conn.; Vice President, Edmund R. Senghas '47, Bergen County, N. J.; Secretary, David E. Orr '57, Hanover. The three-member executive committee includes: Roger A. Antaya '44, Baltimore, Md.; William J. Breed Jr. '52, North Shore, Mass., and Thomas H. Schwarz '57, Westchester, N. Y.

Elected at the October weekend to guide the Club Officers Association were (fromleft): Thomas H. Schwarz '57 (Westchester County), executive committee; Edmund R.Senghas '47 (Bergen County, N.J.), vice president; Richard A. Watson 59 (Hartford,Conn.), president; Roger A. Antaya '44 (Baltimore), executive committee, and DavidE. Orr 57 (Hanover), secretary.