San Francisco

This past fall has seen a lot of activity in our Association. The night following our celebration of Dartmouth Night, forty couples joined like numbers from Harvard, Princeton, and Yale at the Burlingame Country Club. This was the first of what we hope will be annual affairs - an Ivy League Scholarship Ball. Our President, Ben Webb '40 headed up our part of the committee ably assisted by Ron Knapp '65. Gene Elsbree '55 also had a hand in the planning.

On November 16 Professor Bob Decker of the Geology Department was our speaker at our regular weekly luncheon. He had a lot to tell us of his specialty, volcanoes, as well as earthquakes and tidal waves. And Bob also reported on the summer Alumni College and DOC activities in Hanover. Then Associate Professor John Menge was our speaker on December 28. He told us a bit about modern economic theory and how it is applied to guiding the economy of our country. It was our opinion that more than one luncheon period is needed to really understand the "new economics."

Our Alumni Councilor, Ed Drechsel '36, returned from two months in the far Pacific to give us a report at our December 14 luncheon. Ed started out with President Johnson and then stayed on to work on a report covering Australia and New Zealand. Jack Clow '52 chairmanned an enrollment luncheon for about 40 undergrads, prospects, and their dads at the University Club on December 27. As so many others know this is the ideal way to sell Dartmouth to a college senior, when he can get the word from a happy undergrad.

Our annual meeting is planned for April 7 when President Dickey, Mike McGean '49 and Cliff Jordan '45 will be our guests. Our meeting place will be the Palace Hotel in San Francisco for a dinner to which we are inviting our wives. All of us look forward to these visits from Hanover people so we can get a real first hand report on college activities and progress.

We often have visitors at our weekly luncheons. All transient Dartmouth men are welcome at the Iron Horse on Maiden Lane in San Francisco any Wednesday at noon.

Secretary, 6 Yale Circle, Berkeley, Calif. 94708