D. O. C. of New York
As THIS is written a few die-hards are preparing to head north for the last time this winter and spend a few days at Tuckerman's over the Easter holidays, but the rest of us are simply waiting around for the fairways to dry out or for a good warm Sunday to get out the scrapers, red lead and varnish and spend a lovely day on our backs acquiring blisters and wiping the dead barnacles out of our eyebrows.
Of course there are some exceptions to this, like Os Skinner, who is practicing in the Horace Mann pool with his Foldboat (or Faltboat, if you insist) trying to learn how to roll it over like a Kayak without spilling a drop or losing his pint, all in anticipation of a big season on the Housatonic after the ice, logs, and "Chick Sales" are out.
While we are on the subject, this Foldboating seems to be something which has a rather steady following in New York. Last year the New Haven ran a series of trains to points in New England right through the end of June when the water got too low and the rocks appeared, rending the bottom of the boats and the passengers and forcing most of the voyageurs to spend entirely too much time on the banks bailing out and putting rubber patches on the hull, etc. The svstem is similar to the snow trains
in that the railroad provides inexpensive transportation to some point in Connecticut and the concessionaire, a Brooklyn manufacturer of Foldboats, rents the equipment for a nominal sum. Great numbers of them are used in Europe and in New York they seem to have considerable vogue among the Germans, many of whom own their own boats and tote them around in their cars.
Speaking of skiing, the season closed with a final trip to Stowe on March 23 where the Green again bowed to the Amateur Ski Club in the second dual meet of the season, notwithstanding Chandler's first in the downhill. Anyway, they had very good snow (a foot of new powder) and the Club's film library was enriched by 100 feet of excellent movies taken on the "Nosedive." There are good, clear shots of Chandler, John French, Hube, Rocher, Hadlock (who took some of the pictures upside-down), Collins, Cartwright and "Nose Dive Annie." Captions are being written now and the film will be ready for release before long.
The membership has at last swelled to
the 100 mark although it took a lot of high pressure salesmanship at the opening night of the new Dartmouth Club to do it. The writer began by nailing Nelson Galbraith '30, and Gal was so mad about it that he immediately signed up Bud Weser '20, who, when he came out of the anesthetic, teamed up with Gal and signed up Chuck Graydon '24, Guy Bostwick '27 and Al Mc Grath '30. It must have been a night for "Joiners."
