D. O. C. of New York
THE DARTMOUTH OUTING CLUB of New York is going as strong as ever. War has trimmed the membership below the range of past years and plucked some of our most active and able skiers. Erik Sand, former club and New York City king, is schussing a plane in Canada with the Royal Norwegian Air Force. Al Conklin, relfable team man, is still in town but hasn't yet been able to convince the Navy that skiing is an essential activity. In midseason Directors Alex Jones and Larry Lougee departed for the Army's ski troop training center in Washington. With indications that other dependable bachelors will be heeding their country's call soon, we will probably be reduced to tottering family men by next winter. We have created an Associate Membership open to the ladies.
The first outing in January saw a dozen members joining with the Garden City Ski Club (predominantly feminine) at Jug End Barn. The trail-cutting, skating, bicycling, ping-ponging, hay-riding, barn dancing, and vocalizing were of a high calibre.
The February trip over Washington's Birthday was a good repeat of last year's successful jaunt to Rutland and Pico Peak. The sixth annual New York City InterClub Races were the occasion and the DOCNY, as the defending champion for a second time, could muster only one of its talented team of 1941. Despite the fine run of Jim Anderson in the downhill, who placed fifth after a three-year layoff from competition, we were in third place behind the Amateurs and, alas, the German Ski Clubs after the first day's competition.
Apparently we kept training better than our principal rival, however, because the next day we skied the Germans right off the hill in the slalom. 'That moved us up to the runner-up position. ahead of six other clubs and beaten only by a top-notch amateur team. Placing fifth in the combined, Jim Anderson led the rest of the DOCNY's and thus copped the club championship held by Ed Meservey in. 1941. The rest of the team comprised Marv Chandler '32 in tenth place, Prexy Bleecker Ripsom '37 eleventh, Dick Rocker '33 twenty-third and Morgan Hobart '32 thirty-third out of a field of over forty. The less competitive- minded, who had good skiing on Pico slopes and Sunset Schuss were Browne Dickinson, Howie Kaiser, Dave Leake, Duke Dumont, Dick Sawyer, Dick Hirschland, Bob Carson, Sid Hogerton, Walt Lippman, Dick Knight, Colin Soule, and numerous wives and friends.
The DOCNY in addition had its usual monthly meetings at the Dartmouth Club, with Morg Hobart invariably providing movies of high quality. Several members participate in the organizational side of the sport in the city. Dick Rocker leads the ski patrol, which includes half a dozen DOCNY's. Rip Ripsom as well as Rocker and Chandler are proficiency test judges and Rip also serves on the City Ski Council and its classification committee.
Officers for the current season are President Ripsom, Secretary Rocker, Treasurer Dickinson and a formidable list of eighteen other directors, including the greater part of the active membership. Still on the schedule are a trip to Stowe late in April for the famous Sugar Slalom and, we hope, a repetition of last year's summer steak broil at Jim White's lakeside house in the Jersey wilds.
