Ski Coach Drafted

WALTER PRAGER, coach of Dartmouth's ski teams for the past six years, celebrated his 31st birthday on April a by leaving Hanover with the local draft board's quota of 43 for a year's service in the army. Coach Prager, a famed Swiss skier who has not yet received his final naturalization papers, was sent to Fort Devens for his initial training period before being assigned to Battery F, 11th Coast Artillery, Fort H. G. Wright, New York.

Before leaving Hanover, Mr. Prager spent a ten-day busman's holiday skiing at Sun Valley. Although the Hanover grapevine reported that he was scouting for his Dartmouth successor, the Dartmouth Outing Club has not yet announced a substitute coach.

Other members of the Dartmouth staff who have left Hanover for army service are: Dr. Emil H. Schnap, teaching fellow in Pathology at the Medical School, who joined the Medical Corps around the first of April; John H. Cutler, instructor in Spanish and originator of the widely syndicated column, Who Is It?; Adrian N. Bouchard, staff photographer; and Donald W. McKechney, assistant optician in the Dartmouth Eye Clinic.

His DEATH MOURNED Prof. Ray V. Leffler of the Economics Department, who died in Toledo, Ohio, onApril 10 after an illness of six weeks.