With the Outing Club

Boys' Summer Camp Venture by D.O.C. Turns Out To Be Definite Success and Fun for All Involved

ON JULY 27, 1940, several of us D.O.C. professionals were running slight temperatures, or at least our pulse was going a little fast. It was the opening day of Camp Jobildunc, the D.O.C.'s woodcraft camp for boys, and twenty-one youngsters between the ages of 10 and 15 were arriving from all over New England, New York, and places as far off as Cleveland, Ohio, and Washington, D. C. One, an English refugee boy, twelve years old, had reached the United States from England only two weeks before.

The plan of conducting a boys' camp in connection with the Dartmouth-at- Moosilauke development goes back a number of years; but only this year, with the Ravine Camp facilities, good drinking water, an adequate swimming hole and first-class sanitary facilities completed, were we able to carry out the project.

Ross McKenney, our woodcraft adviser, or "Emily Post of the forest" as one of the students has recently tried to name him, was the guiding spirit and director of the camp. Through many years of boyscamp work, Ross was eminently qualified for this position. With him were a fine staff of" counselors, balancing and supplementing each other in their special aptitudes for different camp activities. These counselors had been carefully picked through the winter and spring months from the students active in the D.O.C.

GUIDING SPIRIT AT WORKRoss McKenney, director of the summercamp, shows his youthful charges howHiaivatha did it.