With the Outing Club
With many a "caoo—wah" and a would-be yodel, with the same packs and dungarees slightly the worse for wear, the D. O. C. forces reassembled on their Hanover stamping ground.
The usual early season post-mortems yielded a varied crop. From Alaska came Dick Goldthwait '33, base camp manager and geologist for Bradford Washburn on his Mt. Crillon expedition, with tales of glaciers, airplane flights, Utopian ski slopes, and bears. Vying with him for attention was Pete Knight '32 whose repertoire based on his 1700-mile kayak trip from Burlington to New York via the St. Lawrence and the Atlantic, featured struggles with Fundy tides, Long Island storms, and miscellaneous whales.
More immediately in the minds of many Outing Clubbers was the second College Week, sponsored by the Intercollegiate Outing Club Association the week preceding the opening of College. Over forty undergraduate hikers from nine collegesAnnapolis, Cornell, Dartmouth, New Hampshire, Skidmore, Smith, Swarthmore, Vassar, and Yale—gathered at the shelters at the foot of Lake Colden in the heart of the Adirondacks for a week of hiking. So enthusiastic was the" response to this second-birthday institution, inspired last spring by Elly Jump '32, that its success was assured from the start. Not a day passed without all three of the near-by summits—Colden, Maclntyre, and Marcybeing visited by different sections of the main group. As one rather amazed native phrased it "The woods were full of 'em".
Outstanding in the Outing Club news of the fall was the donation of $300 to Admiral Byrd for the ski equipment of his second antarctic expedition. As a souvenir Byrd promised the Club a pair of the skis that were used on the trip.
But to return to more essential if more prosaic matters. Every fall sees the effort to introduce the varied activities of the Outing Club to members of the freshman class in the most effective manner. For D. O. C. Night a crowd of 300 filled 103 Dartmouth to very respectable capacity. Featured in the program were Jack Shea '34, Dartmouth's winter sports captain and Olympic champion, and Don Allen '34, D. O. C. chairman, to say nothing of the winter sports movies where Olympic jumpers soaring across the screen at all angles, and Moosilauke skiiers displaying every known carriage road technique, drew all manner of comment from the disbelieving audience. Moose Cabins took on all the atmosphere of a C. C. C. camp the following Sunday when 170 members of the class of '37 milled around the region. With Ruff Miller '23 and Ro Burbank '33, directorsgeneral of the kitchen, striving manfully to keep up with the mass of overdeveloped appetites, the new record for cabin use was vociferously set.
Cabin usage-and official trip registration are showing no signs of the depression. Over the week-end of October 7-8, 13 official trips taking in 80 students were on the trail, while the chain of 18 cabins was used to capacity. So popular did the fall Mt. Washington trip prove to be, that it had to be organized in three sections. The scandal of the season, however, has to do with the trip organized specifically for loafing, which decided it was such a fine day that they might as well climb Moosilauke anyway—and they did.
Promotion for '30 Secretary A. I. Dickerson '30 succeeded R. C. Strong '24 in the position of executive assistant to the President, upon the latter's election as Director of Admissions. Mr. Dickerson is secretary of the class of 1930 and secretary of the Alumni Fund committee.
