Start Boathouse

The Dartmouth Rowing Club took further steps in its expanded program when it let the contract for its new Connecticut River boathouse to the W. H. Trumbull Company of Hanover on February 10. Construction will begin at once on the new crew headquarters, to be known as Fuller Boathouse in honor of Former Governor Alvin T. Fuller of Massachusetts, who advanced the funds necessary for the current development of rowing at Dartmouth. The building is expected to be ready for use early in April

The boathouse will be of frame con-struction with cement flooring and, will rest on College property several hundred feet north of the Ledyard Bridge. The 70- foot structure will easily store six shells and other crew equipment and is so designed that future addition of dressing rooms and club rooms will be possible- When finished it will be painted white with green trim, matching the Ledyard Canoe Club headquarters nearby.

A wide ramp will lead from the boat- house to the river and a floating raft will extend out into the water for the launching and landing of shells. It is just below the boathouse that the Dartmouth-Williams crew race will finish on Green Key week-end, May 1. Members of the Rowing Club, which is headed by James A. Carpenter '38 of Hartford, Conn., will be assisted by Thayer School students in laying out the mile-and-five-sixteenths course for the race.

To MAKE HANOVER DEBUT AT NORTH COUNTRY FAIR The Gashouse Gang, football-flavored basketball team, whose struggle with the LebanonMaroons will be a feature of the opening night of the hospital benefit on March 5 and 6. Left to right: reclining, McCray, Ray, Camerer; kneeling, Kiernan, Williams, Merrill,Handrahan; standing, Manager Cohen, Conti.