DOC of New York
THE DARTMOUTH OUTING CLUB will function this winter in the same semicoflscious condition as last season. We have continued our membership in the U. S. Eastern Amateur Ski Association. This permits those who join us for $1.00 to join the "Eastern" for $1.50. Otherwise the Eastern membership (which includes a subscription to Ski News and a copy of the Ski Annual) costs you $2.50. In other words you can join the DOCNY for nothing! Just send the buck to Jim White at 70 Fifth Ave.
We won't plead for members, as there is little financial need (with $56.14 in the bank and nothing to spend it for). We do want to hold the semblance of a club together until everyone gets back; that is what the men in the service all ask. If you agree, then send Jim your dollar and we'll count you in.
The N. Y. Ski Club is presenting John Roberts' "Singing Skis." a highly recommended ski movie in color at 158 East 85th St. on Dec. 9 at 8:30 P.M. I hope some of us can get together then.
Of the old reliables, last reports had Rip Ripsom still in glider training at Lubbock, Texas, Lt. (jg) Morg Hobart with the Bureau of Ships in Washington, Dick Rocker with the ski troops in a much colder clime, Dick Clarke, now a full Lt. in the Navy, in California with his nose pointed west, and Brown Dickinson about to leave Procter and Gamble for a Navy commission.
If some more of you from the club in the service will drop me a line, I'll try to report to the rest of us now and then on your doings.
One other matter needs more than passing attention. The November issue carried the notice of Erik Sand's death. We understand that he died in action while piloting a fighter plane over France. For those of us who knew him and skied with him, it is a blow that is hard to believe and hard to take. The qualities that made him a great skier we knew would make a great pilot. His love of speed, his ease and grace in attaining it, his instant reflexes brought him the championship of our club, led us to our first victory over all the New York City clubs and once saw him as runner-up for the Massachusetts state title on the Thunderbolt. There he conceded nothing to the cream of the Dartmouth team despite his lack of opportunity for training or practice. None of us were surprised when he enlisted in the Royal Norwegian Air Force after his country's fall, but his early death is a shock. We will miss him after the warhis sportsmanship, his keen competitive spirit, his affability and good sense of humor when the race was over. Now his last race is over. As always, he gave it all he had.
Chairman for the Duration.
