Philadelphia

The fall program of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Philadelphia will be well under way by the time this article hits print. On Tuesday, September 14, we will have sponsored a luncheon for all members of the entering freshman class and their fathers at the University Club. We expect to have some 25 members of the class of '52, their fathers and about fifty alumni members to be present.

On Friday evening, October 1, we will hold a pre-Penn football dinner and smoker at the Princeton Club with Director of Athletics, Bill McCarter, and Coach Tuss McLaughry as speakers. A luncheon sponsored by the General Alumni Society of the University of Pennsylvania will take place before the game on Saturday, October 2, at Houston Hall. As in the past, Sid Hayward is sending down a large Dartmouth banner to hang on the wall of the luncheon room and probably several hundred Dartmouth men and their families will attend. This arrangement has a dual advantage of enabling those who drive to the game to find a parking space early and also get together well before the rush to the stadium.

All alumni are invited to the Dartmouth Night party on Friday evening, October 15, at the Princeton Club where we hold our informal luncheons every Tuesday. Those of you who attend these luncheons, and by the way we have about twenty who show up every week, are well aware of the bridge discussion and playing. Pete Pray brought out the fact last Tuesday that among the new rules (worldwide) to be inaugurated this year, one concerns the fact that the dummy will be allowed to talk! Wait until Steve Rutherford hears that one—although for all we know he may have had something to do with formulating it.

Another football dinner and smoker will be held on Friday evening, November 19, before the Princeton game. This will wind up activities until the annual undergraduate father and son luncheon scheduled for Christmas vacation. However, your secretary and his very capable assistant, Joe Flounders, expect to have a complete directory listing all alumni in this area in the mail before snow flies. Considering we have over four hundred names on our mailing list to be checked and crossreferenced, and considering that our Treasurer Herm Trefethen will release no funds for the project at this writing, we have decided to issue the directory without advertising (Don Rogers got his check for $12.00 worth of advertising back after a year or so I am glad to report!) or fancy layout. However names, addresses, and phone numbers of all alumni will appear alphabetically and by classes which is the main purpose of a directory anyway. If you want to know who can take care of your investments, sell you insurance or real estate, deliver your baby, etc., just rest assured that there is a Dartmouth alumnus in the area who can do just that and contact some officer of the Association for full details.

The glee club will probably be in Philadelphia this spring but more about that later.

DENVER PICNICKERS: The annual summer picnic of the Great Divide alumni association, at Ned Grant's farm, produced this pose by Dave Main 'O6, Norrie Williamson '26, and Wilber Bradford '33.

Secretary, 240 Conestoga Rd., Wayne, Pa.