Keene

The fifty-seventh annual meeting of the Cheshire County Dartmouth Alumni Association was held Thursday evening, December 26, 1968. Although the ranks were somewhat decimated by the zero weather and that bug from Hong Kong sixty hardy members and guests attended.

In the business meeting the following officers were elected for the year 1969 President, Donald Sutherland '36, vice pres- ident, C. Wellington Clark '37, secretarytreasurer, Russell G. Putney '22.

The Secretary reported on the Club Officers meeting held in Hanover November 8 and 9, the highlights being the fine talk by Edward Chamberlain '36, Dean of Admissions, and the startling pronouncement that students are now given credit for Drama which was formerly a non-athletic activity and the fact that the opening wedge toward co-education at Dartmouth has been driven by giving credits in the Drama Department to eight girls from various women's colleges. The girls of course are supposed to improve the productions in the Hopkins Center.

Undergraduates Tommy Hanna '71 and Earle Staples '72 spoke briefly on the college scene and informed the group that the recent attack on Army recruiters was arranged by outsiders and not by any Dartmouth students.

Tony Lupien, veteran baseball coach, was the principal speaker of the evening and gave a very stirring talk on the changing times at Dartmouth. His baseball teams have always comported themselves well on the spring southern tripsthere have been no incidents and no shaggy dog appearances. Although a Harvard graduate he has always admired the bond of loyalty that Dartmouth alumni seem to have. Put any three of them on the Mohave desert and there is a regular class reunion. He cannot understand an individual striving to be one of the 700 out of 5,000 to be admitted into Dartmouth and then after being there for a couple of months tries to change the traditions and activities of the College. Tony feels they should be proud to accept what Dartmouth has to offer.

The film in color, "Football Highlights of 1968," concluded the evening's program.

Secretary, Keene National Bank, Keene, N. H. 03431