Seattle

A by-product of our summer and Friday Seminars has been a new inquisitiveness on many matters on the part of all alumni and nowhere was this more evident than in the Club's annual dinner held at the Sand Point Naval Air Station on April 24. After a delightful hour of sociability including cocktails and porterhouse steak dinner, the result of the typically excellent behindthe-scenes coordination of Dr. (also, Lt. Commander) Eric Jensen '56, the alumni of the Seattle-Tacoma area were informed by DeanCharles Dey '52 of the Tucker Foundation, about the role of the College in the guidance and discipline of its students and its functions in providing a realistic learning experience in terms of city problems and their attendant underprivileged residents. These topics coming at the precise moment when the Trinity College trustees were held prisoner by dissident students and Columbia University classes were in suspension, provoked a lively discussion period with viewpoints being expressed by the audience as well as the speaker and questions being asked by the speaker as well as the audience. All in all a provocative evening on an excellent topic. Privileged to sit in on this enlightenment by their attendance were John W. Crowley '56, Paul Drenkow '64, Peter Jarvis '59, John McFalls '48, Mike Molvar '64, Blair Osborne '60, Jerry Palm '64, Bob Rudolph '58, Dr. Joseph Scardapane '59, Fred Shanaman Jr. '57, Wilbur Springer '57, William Stimson '36, and Richard Woodson, not to mention a lovely assortment of wives and dates.

Prior to the above-mentioned program, the diners heard an enthusiastic announcement by Alumni Seminar graduate William Holman '40 about the Second Annual Dartmouth Alumni Seminar for the Pacific Northwest to be held at Salishan Lodge on the Oregon Coast, September 6, 7 and 8.

The membership also unanimously approved the suggestions of Nominating Committee Chairman Brad Gerrish '65M and entrusted the Club's direction to Malvern Hill '56, president; Reed Langenbach '64, vice-president; Jim Jones '50, treasurer; and Tom Russell '61, secretary.

Recently, the officers and many members were saddened to learn of the passing of an ardent admirer of and supporter of Dartmouth College, Judge James W. Hodson '29 who in his many efforts in behalf of the College as Club Officer, enrollment worker and Barnes Scholarship founder, truly earned the accolade under which I first had the privilege to meet him, "The Mr. Dartmouth of Western Washington."

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