With the D. O. C.
WE GO to press at a season of change in the Outing Clubchange in personnel from graduating seniors to juniors and in program from skiing to woodsmanship and cabin life. Last week new Cabin and Trail and Winter Sports officers were announced, and in the very near future the composition of the 1939 Carnival Committee is to be made public.
A few days ago Ross McKenney, woodsman adviser to the club, returned to town with plans for a full spring program of work on Mt. Moosilauke and for continuation of his popular instruction groups in forest arts for undergraduates. Already work groups have visited some of the links in the cabin and shelter chain to repair and replenish. Work has been started on replacing the Smart's Cabin roof, which a none-too-considerate winter gale gently picked up and deposited about 100 feet away from the walls. On the program for the weeks to come are faculty-student trips, a series of strawberry feeds, and of course the regular work and pleasure trips to the cabin and shelter chain. The strawberry feeds, an institution inaugurated by Doc Griggs in 1919, will be held this year at Ross' cabin at the foot of Oak Hill and will be followed by baseball games and swimming in Storr's Pond.
Ed Meservey led the Dartmouth skiers to a win over Harvard the week-end of April 16 in Tuckerman Ravine in the annual Harvard-Dartmouth slalom race. The race is unique in that the squads are made up of varsity, undergraduate, and alumni skiers. The same afternoon Dick Durrance won the Edson Memorial run over a giant slalom course. The week end's races wound up the competitive skiing for the year and with it the intercollegiate careers of Meservey, Capt. Dave Bradley, Warren Olivers, Ted Hunter, and Roy Chamberlin. The accomplishments, both in this country and abroad, of this group are far too well known to ski enthusiasts to require any tabulated review here. National and sectional titles could be attributed in great quantities to this group, but it suffices to say that they contributed much to the interest and skill in skiing both at Dartmouth and throughout the East.
At the annual Cabin and Trail election meeting and banquet Gene King of Bound Brook, N. J., was selected to head a Cabin and Trail Council consisting of Trips Director Van Lee; Cabins Director Tom Gist; Instructions Director Elmer Browne; Director of Forestry, Trails and Shelters William Halsey, Director of Fish and Game Arthur Sullivan, and Secretary and New Director Jay Weinberg. King, Brown, and Gist will represent the division on the Club's Executive Committee. King announced as a cardinal point in his policy "cooperation and joint action with other divisions of the club." One secured from the banquet the feeling that service through genuine enjoyment of their jobs is to be the key note of the division for the coming year.
John A. Rand of Andover, Mass., was appointed recently as Assistant Manager of the Outing Club. Rand, a graduating senior, has served on Cabin and Trail, as Director of Equipment, Carnival Director of Outdoor Evening, and on the Executive Committee.
Ken Mac Donald of Quincy, Mass. succeeds Joe Carpenter as chairman of the Winter Sports Council. Other officers include C. Parker Paul of Seattle, ski team manager; Henry Merrill of Newtonville, Mass., director of competitions; Scott Taylor of Londonderry, N. H., skating manager; James Kelso of Wakefield, Mass., freshman ski manager; Richard White of Portland, Me., transportation director; Keith Anderson of Phoenix, Arizona, director of safety; and Joe Dunford of Seattle, secretary and new director. Herbert Porter of San Marino, Calif., was announced as assistant chairman of the division, heading a group of 1940 men who will take office at the end of their junior year.
Farthest away from public interest at present are 1939 Carnival plans. Yet already the long months of behind-the-scenes preparation have begun. James Sampson of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., was recently appointed Carnival chairman succeeding John McLane, and is already at work forming his committee for next year.
