New York City
In these days of topless waitresses even the best run bars can use a gimmick now and then. That includes the Dartmouth Bar with its mural featuring topless Indian serving maidens. So what did membership Chairman Paul Paganucci '53 suggest but first drinks free for ladies. To a querulous Board of Governors, Paul observed that ladies in the Dartmouth Club are accompa- nied by gentlemen who seldom stop with one drink, and would have to pay for their own in any case. The results of a one-month test validated Paul's premise and the statistics are here recorded for whatever sociological conclusion one may care to make-during a one month test there were 57 free drinks served to ladies (including 8 Brandy Alexanders, to the disgust of the bartenders) and 205 "paid for" drinks on the same bar tabs.
Some highly unscientific calculation shows that, if the ladies tended to have a second drink to wash down the first, somebody at the table was quaffing another ½ drink on average; or else the men drank 3.6 times as much as their ladies. In any event, the research can probably be continued at a future date since the experiment may be repeated because of the popularity.
Professor Harold Bond '42, luminary of the Alumni College, entertained and enlightened an enthusiastic gathering on February 15, and at press time a February Gala was in the planning stages.
Prexy Farrand '33 entered the field of art connoisseurship in January by selecting five paintings from the college vaults in return for two portraits reclaimed from our walls by the Administration. It was a good trade, and nobody really knew who the portraits were of anyway.
A new Dartmouth flag flies over the ramp entrance to the Commodore. At least one member (the writer) found it a reminder to visit the Club after debarking from the Pan Am Heliport down the street, and was nearly killed since there's no sidewalk.
Members of the informal Dartmouth Clubof Guayaquil, Ecuador, gathered to seeJose Moral '70 off to Hanover. (l to r)Joaquin Aguirre Lavayen '44, HonoraryBolivian Consul there; Mrs. Aguirre;Jose; Mrs. High; George High '53, American Consul and Deputy Principal Officer.
Secretary, Commodore Hotel,. 109 East 42nd Street New York, N. Y. 10017
