Title: Dartmouth Review Gala
Informant Info: Brandon Gill is a President Emeritus of The Dartmouth Review. He is a ’16 from West Texas. He was interviewed on May 24, 2016 at the Review office in Hanover, NH.
Mene Ukueberuwa is an Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of The Dartmouth Review. He is a ’16 (formerly ’14) from Princeton, NJ. He was interviewed on May 12, 2016 at the Collis Center in Hanover, NH.
Type of Lore: Customary, Tradition
Language: English
Country of Origin: United States
Social / Cultural Context: The Review Gala is a formal, black tie event that takes place in New York City every five years. It has been a tradition of the Review since its founding and brings together alumni, donors, and current staffers to celebrate the continuation of the paper.
Transcript:
Mene:
Yeah, we’re about to celebrate our 35th Anniversary Gala, these are celebrations that we have every 5 years, in New York City at the Union League Club down there. So, very similar to our changeover dinner in a sense, it’s kind of a formal gathering of current staffers and our advisory board, but we also like to invite the broader Dartmouth Review family, so lots of our subscribers and supporters are going to be around. The keynote address at the event is given by one of our most famous alumni, that’s Laura Ingraham from the Class of ‘85. We are going to be honoring our founder, Jeffrey Hart, and the contributions that he’s made to the paper. He was an English professor here at Dartmouth who was in instrumental in getting the Review off the ground. And again, it’s just going to be a kind of festive, lively environment, to celebrate the culture of the paper, so we’re all looking forward to that.
Brandon:
Yes, so the last Gala was the 30th Anniversary Gala. We have a Gala every 5 years, to bring back Dartmouth Review alumni we met in NYC for the 30th Anniversary Gala, we had Mr. Andrew Breitbart give a keynote address, and it was full of staff members and lots of alumni, and afterwards a significant portion of the staff went out with Mr. Breitbart and barhopped throughout Manhattan until about 4:00 AM and had a really, really good time, and there’s a lot of memories that maybe I shouldn’t repeat here.
So that’s the 35th Anniversary Gala that we had last weekend [May 14, 2016]. We had Ms. Laura Ingraham who is a Dartmouth ‘84, she gave the keynote address. We had a really high turnout, over about 130 people there, including about 100 alums from the Dartmouth Review and students and a few other people who were just big fans of the Review and the influence it’s had on the nation and on the conservative, intellectual movement across college campuses.
Collector’s Comments: The sequence of events for each Gala is published in an anniversary issue of the Review. As Brandon mentioned, the details of the occurrences at each Gala are not privy to the public and cannot be revealed.