Travelers

One needn't be a demographer to realize that the middle' of October saw an unusually large migration among Dartmouth alumni. On Columbus Day weekend some 2,000 fans joined the gridders in Williamsburg to watch Dartmouth take on William and Mary the first time that Dartmouth has played football south of the Mason-Dixon line since 1953, when the Green battled the Middies in Annapolis. In Williamsburg, the Dartmouth Club of Virginia fed box lunches to 700 alumni and visitors in a green and white tent, the College arranged dinner at the Williamsburg Lodge for an overflow crowd of 670, and several College administrators and trustees helped them feel at home with after-dinner remarks. History professor Jere Daniell '55 and a William and Mary counterpart offered lectures on colonial times and Williamsburg and then led approximately 200 Dartmouth guests around the well-preserved historic area. Despite the score of the game, the Dartmouth alumni had such a good time the temperature was a record-setting 85 degrees that the team and its followers already have plans to do it again in 1982.

The following weekend in Hanover began with a spectacular seven-band long, torchlight Dartmouth Night parade. The crowd including members of six undefeated football teams, 50 alumni classes, and marching bands of 45 years past covered the lawn of Dartmouth Hall, and the entire Green as well, as it listened to the traditional well-wishing telegrams and good-luck speeches. After the speeches and a medley of College songs and cheers, members of the class of 1984 ignited their 84-tier bonfire. Never in the history of Dartmouth celebrations had so many alumni come from so far to indulge in so much hoopla.