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Secretary, 6 Yale Circle, Berkeley, Calif. 94708

Our Association was honored to be one of the clubs chosen for our new President's first swing of alumni clubs. We had the biggest group together at the Marines Memorial Club ever gathered in San Francisco. Since it was also our annual meeting the turnout of 235 is more notable. The President's message touched on many subjects, but the parts on campus unrest and his plans to meet it as well as the comments on coeds at Hanover evoked the most interest. To some of us the idea of going to college with women is a bit disturbing and we welcome the promise of a survey of alumni opinion on that matter.

New officers for the coming year for our Club are; Tom Hannan '60, president; MikeBiggs '54, Don Black '60 and Derek Knudsen '65, vice-presidents; Carl Ward '32, secretary-treasurer; Bob Allen '33, assistant secretary-treasurer; Dick Gale '60, director of outrageous events. The last can be explained as making use of Dick's unusual talents in finding different and entertaining things to do in the spare time we all seem to have. Our new Alumni Councilor, as announced in the April issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, is Jack Shuman '52. Jack Clow '52 continues on in his enrollment work and is a member of the executive committee as Enrollment Liaison. Plans for the new year are shaping up and will be publicized shortly by our own mailer: "Squeaks."

The Dartmouth Glee Club put on a superlative performance at the Stanford Memorial Auditorium before over 600 members of the Club and their friends on March 27. While it is a lot of work to make such an affair work out, Tom Hannan, as chairman of the event, did a fine job. We hear the members of the Glee Club enjoyed their extra day in San Francisco, even though Paul Zeller had a bit of a worry about getting all under way on Sunday for the next concert.

It is with regret that we note the passing of Larry Eager '23, past president of this Club and long time active participant in our many activities. The Club was represented at the funeral by Guy Carpenter '10,John Allen '23 and Carl Ward '32.

Since our last writing for this column we've had many well attended Wednesday luncheons at the Iron Horse. Pete Minkowski '33 and his wife were with us early in February, down from Jenner, where he has retired from teaching school in the midwest. Pete now is interested in a real estate development on the coast just above his home. Our outgoing Alumni Councilor, Ed Drechsel '35, gave a full report to about thirty of us on the December Council meeting at our luncheon at the end of January. Ed has done an outstanding job in representing our interests and, as a token of our appreciation, a desk set was presented to him at the annual meeting. A crowd of nearly fifty showed up at the end of February to review the football season with the movie on the highlights. We were pleased to have Jim Chasey, father of the number one quarterback, and Larry Brunk, father of one of the defensive tackles, with us that noon.

Jim Adams '43 presented President Kemeny with a large print of the Witch Cypress, which stood for many years on the coast, near Carmel. This picture, we hope, will be a noted memento of the Kemenys' first trip to California after his choice as the 13th President in the Wheelock succession.