Clubs, Events, Places

Sustained Excellence

Frederick Sydney (Fritz) Geller '43, secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Southwest New Hampshire, was honored as Club Secretary of the Year at club officers weekend in Hanover this fall.

"Fritz, your club is small in total membership," his citation said, "but your yearround calendar of activities keeps you, and the other members of the club executive committee, on their toes. Whether the project is an annual holiday dinner which attracts 65 people despite a violent snowstorm, or a bus trip to Hanover for a Saturday Seminar and hockey game, or the spring meeting . . . your role as the chief communicator is all-important. In fact, it has been a good reason why for five years your club has been on an honorable mention list, certainly a tribute to sustained excellence."

Hospitable Leadership

Gustave C. Aberle Jr. '55, past president of the Western Pennsylvania and the Greater Miami Dartmouth clubs, was named Club President of the Year in recognition of his most recent leadership of the Dartmouth Club of London.

Aberle's citation pointed out that "Dartmouth students and alumni who have gone to England in recent years have discovered the Dartmouth fellowship alive and well . . . thanks in great measure to the leadership of one Gus Aberle. Gus, your club annually hosts undergraduates of two and this year three Dartmouth Foreign Study Programs; you have rolled out. the welcome mat to Dartmouth crews at the Henley Regatta; and you extend the hand of Dartmouth Fellowship to alumni."

Best of the Big and Small

The Dartmouth Club of Chicago was selected as the large club of the year in recognition of a long string of accomplishments, particularly its active executive committee; excellent communications (including a quarterly newsletter and a club directory); admissions work; book award, scholarship, and job development programs; and for sponsoring activities as various as a wine-tasting evening, a cultural meeting at the Art Institute, an Alumni Seminar, and informative speakers and films at monthly luncheon meetings.

The top small club of the year, the 151-member Dartmouth Club of Nashua, N.H., was cited for, among other successes, its popular annual December reception of alumni and applicants, an equally popular summer picnic, an extensive book award program in local high schools, a luncheon for local guidance counselors and principals, a bus trip to a Dartmouth hockey game, and for its effective executive committee and communications.

Continuing Contact

Most members of the College's newest alumni association never attended Dartmouth as undergraduates. Most of the 259 graduates of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program had been out of college for years and well established in careers before coming to Dartmouth to begin a three- or four-year summer program of multi-disciplinary study leading to a master's degree.

Assistant Director Bonnie Newman explained recently that the M.A.L.S. Program was instituted at Dartmouth in 1970 to provide an opportunity for continuing education to mature students. (Similar programs are now offered by more than 20 universities.) Because the program was set up to utilize College facilities during the summer, it continues to be particularly attractive to teachers, but increasing numbers of students represent a variety of professions. Last summer, there were 110 enrolled, and they ranged in age from their early twenties to their late sixties. About half the students reside close enough to the College to commute to classes, the rest move to the Hanover area for the summer. Newman also pointed out that a number of the participants already have some connection with Dartmouth - as College employees, faculty spouses, or alumni, or as children and spouses of alumni who want to study at Dartmouth.

Dick Reddington '64, a M.A.L.S. graduate in 1976, was first responsible for involving alumni in supporting the program. The assoeiation that grew out of those efforts was founded to "foster continuing education and strong communication among alumni." Under Presidents Bob Williams, M.A.L.S. '79, and Herb Roland, M.A.L.S. '78, the group has been involved in organizing summer reunions, sponsoring graduation receptions, raising money for scholarships, updating alumni files, providing subscriptions to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, and publishing a newsletter, handbook, and directory.

Coining Events

The Eastern Massachusetts Alumni Association is planning an alumni seminar in February, its annual dinner on April 9, and a "Night at the Pops" in May to support the scholarship fund. Shortly after its annual Christmas party, the Phoenix club is looking forward to a "Dartmouth Day at the Races" at the Turf Paradise track. The club in Sarasota is planning a dance in December or January, a luncheon meeting featuring President Kemeny on February 11, and its annual meeting in March. The Dartmouth Women's Club ofBoston, celebrating its 50th anniversary during 1980, has published a cookbook of Dartmouth families' favorite recipes, available for five dollars (plus one dollar postage and handling) from Shirley Robinson, 22 Sunset Rd., Wellesley, Mass. 02181, or from Barbara Parish, .53 Hopkins St., Wakefield, Mass. 01880 Proceeds from the book benefit the club's fund.