Seattle

The rains have come to the Northwest, and members of the Dartmouth Club of Western Washington have been coming in out of the wet periodically for the club's series of Friday Seminar talks. Part of President Russell's continuing effort to elevate the character of our cocktail parties, the Friday Seminar has offered fairly ambitious material. In October we heard two candidates in the hotly contested Seattle Council race. December brought us alumnus Slade Gorton'49, State of Washington House Majority Leader. Representative Gorton spoke on "The Washington State Budget: Sources, Surpluses, and Special Sessions." January continued our study of deficit financing with an investigation of Britain's recent currency devaluation entitled "London's Pound Is Falling Down."

The club's third annual Christmas luncheon for undergraduates, alumni, high school applicants and their fathers was held at Seattle's College Club. On hand were undergraduates Mike Kearl '71, who gave impressions of freshman life in Hanover, Bill Beretson '70, who had just returned from Germany on the Foreign Studies Program, and Bruce Noonan '67, a Med School student who spoke on the Graduate Studies program at Dartmouth.

We would like to mention that Harold Hirsch '29, from the Dartmouth Club of Portland, Ore., has already set plans in motion for the Second Dartmouth Alumni Seminar for the Northwest. The Portland Club has reserved the famous Salishan Lodge on the Oregon coast for the weekend after Labor Day, and received a commitment from the College for two additional faculty participants. Last year's Alumni Seminar, sponsored by the Seattle Club, was held at the Alderbrook Inn on Puget Sound. Alumni interested in obtaining more information about this year's session should write Mr. Hirsch care of the Portland Club.

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