With the D.O.C.

NAVY ORDERS DEPLETE MEMBERSHIP; OVER ONE-FOURTH ARE TRANSFERRED

FALL IN HANOVER probably means more to DOC men—both present and past— than to most other students, especially in these times when the average trainee has to journey to Boston or New York for his week ends. Outing-Clubbers, on the other hand, have come to realize that there is something large and vast in the great out- of-doors, a something which we have come to know as a good healthy feeling—a something which is mysterious even baffling when we try to explain it but thoroughly enjoyable in a good and different kind of way. The trees have turned—some of the leaves have already fallen—and from Velvet Rocks, Balch Hill, or even Bartlett Tower one can see a panorama of browns, reds, and yellows which blend into a beautiful fall pattern.

But with the coming of fall and the end of the semester, we find it regretfully necessary to bid farewell to a number of our members. Over 25% of our present membership leave Dartmouth for either Midshipmen's Schools, Parris Island, or other V-12 units. Among that group are ten leaders, some of them having been here since the V-12's inception a year ago last July. The personnel of both Cabin & Trail and Winter Sports has been depleted by the Navy transfers at the end of October.

Al Gustafson, USMCR, who has been the chairman of C & T this past semester leaves for "P. I." as does Ralph Chadbourne, USMCR, cabins chairman, and Charlie Kaufman, USMCR, secretary for the council. Bluejacket department heads to leave include Hugh Chapin, trails department, Bob Tracy, canoe chairman, and Townes Harris, director of membership on the executive committee, who report to the Pre-Midshipmen's School at Asbury Park. Foxhall Parker, winter sports director and head of the trips department, reports to Chapel Hill; Jim, Vanderbeek, fish and game chairman, to the M. I. T. V-12 Unit; and Pete Owen to the NROTC Unit at Harvard. The Winter Sports Division also lost a valuable man to the Selective Service in the person of Charlie Duncan '46, who was slated to assist in coaching the Varsity Ski Team and was also the only returning four-event man from last year's team. Your reporter, who has endeavored to handle the publicity for the club this past year and was elected to the presidency at the beginning of the fall term, also reports to the Pre-Midshipmen's School at Asbury Park.

ED HOWARD '47 NEW PRESIDENT

Ed Howard '47 of Washington, D. C., was elected as the new president of the DOC at the final executive committee meeting on October 12. Howard has been in the club since he entered college in July of last year but has concentrated his efforts, until this past summer, in the Winter Sports division. Only recently he was elected as Director of Safety in that department.

At the same meeting, Vern Lamb, USNR, of Lake Placid, N. Y., was elected Director of Membership, and Don Wall, USNR (a former fleet man) of Cleveland, Ohio, received the publicity position.

C & T ELECTIONS

C & T elections for the new term were held just before the final-exam period and Henry "Hanque" Parker '46, USMCR, was elected chairman of the Council, which also lists the following men: Bill Marshall, USNR, trips chairman; Dave Miller '48, chairman of both the cabins and instruction departments; Vern Lamb, USNR, trails; Baird Story '48, fish and game; "Rod" Susen '48, canoe department; and Jim Brod '46, secretary.

WASHINGTON AND MOOSILAUKE TRIPS

The week end of the Fall Quarterdeck Hop fifteen men journeyed by truck to the Base Station of the Cog Railway on the west side of Mt. Washington, climbing to the summit before sundown on Saturday and returning late the following day. The final trip of the term was held at Moosilauke where some thirty men sang and told stories around a half keg on Saturday night and then spent five hours Sunday clearing out the Snapper Ski Trail. Lt. Roger Brown '45, USMCR,—in Hanover on leave—was a welcome addition to the trip.

We who are leaving do so only because the Navy Department has so ordered. Someone said the other day that those fellows who really enjoyed Dartmouth the most and will undoubtedly miss Hanover, the College and the surrounding hillsides, are the DOC men who took an interest in the club and what it had to offer. Perhaps more DOC men than any other single group are making plans to return after the war. And so, with these plans in mind we say, "Au Revoir"—not Good-Bye!