Fund Honors Him

IN HONOR OF Capt. John A. Titcomb '32, USMCR, who died March 1 of wounds received in action on Luzon, the John Abbot Titcomb Memorial Fund has been established with the College to foster outdoor activities at Dartmouth. Started with a gift of $3,000 from his parents, wife, and other members of the Titcomb family, the fund in Jack's memory has been enlarged by a number of contributions from classmates and friends and now totals $4,690. It will continue to be open to his friends and all others who may desire to encourage and perpetuate "the Moosilauke spirit and way of life" which Captain Titcomb once was his reason for enlisting in the Marine Corps.

The purpose of the Titcomb Memorial Fund will be to provide annual income to aid Dartmouth's outdoor organizations, such as the Outing Club and the Canoe Club, to purchase equipment which, if lacking, would deny their members full opportunity to enjoy outdoor life. Fund income may facilitate the purchase of specialized equipment too costly for individual ownership or may quietly help worthy individual students who deserve aid. Application of the fund will be made by a committee composed of a faculty adviser of the D.O.C. appointed by the President of the College, a faculty adviser of the Ledyard Canoe Club similarly appointed, and the chairman of the undergraduate directors of the D.O.C.

According to its official wording, the fund has been set up "to foster outdoor activities in contact with nature at Dartmouth College, in such activities as mountaineering, hiking, camping, woodcraft, winter sports connected with the foregoing, canoeing, sailing, hunting, fishing and riding." Since Jack Titcomb was a keen and active member of both the D.O.C. and the Ledyard Canoe Club, the fund in his memory will be particularly appropriate, and use of the income for equipment that might otherwise be lacking will be too, for while he lived he took delight in purchasing up-to-date ski equipment for small boys and teaching them the rudiments of the sport.

Captain Titcomb, who held degrees from both Dartmouth and Thayer School, was a mining engineer before he enlisted in the Marines. On Luzon he worked with the mountain guerrillas ahead of our advancing forces, directing air attacks. He was shot when a Jap sniper spotted his radio antennas. Besides his parents and a brother, Andrew '36, he left a wife, Janet, and a young son and daughter.

CAPT. JOHN A. TITCOMB '32, USMCR