OLYMPIC TRIALS
The entrance of a Dartmouth ski team in the Olympic downhill and slalom tryouts at Mt. Rainier, Washington, was assured by the contributions of some 1,200 students and faculty members at the Olympic Ski Night held in Webster Hall on March 15 by the Dartmouth Outing Club. The collection of the evening totaled $244 and swelled the fund from Pacific Coast alumni and Hanover merchants to $728. Fraternity contributions are expected to make up the necessary balance.
Prof. Charles A. Proctor 'oo and Otto Schniebs, coach of the Dartmouth ski team, were the principal speakers at the Webster Hall program. Members of the Green ski team were introduced and roundly cheered for their achievements this winter, and movies of skiing on Mt. Rainier and New England trails were shown. The rally closed with St. Peter's prayer for good skiing and good skiing weather.
Professor Proctor sounded the keynote of the evening when he declared,
"There is a Dartmouth and a Hanover tradition in Olympic winter sports. Whatever happens, a Dartmouth team must go to Mt. Rainier and some member of that team must make the Olympic squad." Ever since 1934, when John P. Carleton '22 represented the United States in Olympic skiing, some Dartmouth man has been a member of the American Olympic winter sports team.
The Dartmouth skiers likely to go to Mt. Rainier for the tryouts on April 13 and 14 are Dick Durrance, Ted Hunter, Bern Woods, Warren Chivers and Link Washburn. Coach Schniebs and Nathaniel L. Goodrich, College librarian and editor of the Eastern Ski Annual will also be present at the competition. While on the Pacific coast, Mr. Goodrich will speak at an alumni luncheon in Los Angeles on April 1.
Woods, Chivers, Hunter and Washburn are all Hanover boys, and are the sons, respectively, of Prof. Erville B. Woods, Prof. Arthur H. Chivers '02, Edgar H. Hunter '0l, and the late Prof. Albert H. Washburn. Durrance, a native of Florida, learned to ski in Germany, where he won the junior championship. Washburn, who is going to Mt. Rainier on his own, learned most of his skiing while at school in Switzerland.
