Dartmouth Airways

PLANS WHICH HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED for some years on the formation of an airline to handle passengers and freight for the Hanover-Lebanon area were crystallized last month with an announcement by Robert R. Leske Jr. '41 that a regular non-scheduled air service, inaugurated April 1, will run between Lebanon and New York City. An application to run regular scheduled service is now on file.

The organization promoting this service is known as "Dartmouth Airways" and is composed of recently released veteran pilots and mechanics working in cooperation with business men of Hanover and Lebanon. Leske is a pilot, Archie B. Gile '17, insurance executive, is a director; and Swift C. Barnes '42 acts in an administrative capacity. Richard W. Putnam of Hanover, while a pilot in the navigator training program for the USAAF, conceived the idea of an organization to provide air transportation between Northern New England and New York City, and upon his discharge he interested several local business men and veterans in this enterprise.

At present Dartmouth Airways is headed by Robert J. Putnam, a Hanover businessman, with David C. Rennie, cashier of the Dartmouth National Bank, as treasurer. The veterans are represented on the Board of Directors. An airport committee of Lebanon, headed by Floyd Eastman, is working toward the completion of a firstclass terminal for the Lebanon-Hanover area.

Leske was recently released as a veteran Army pilot. He served first as a pursuit pilot, then as a test pilot with the Proving Ground Command, and finally as a C-54 pilot in the Pacific Theatre link of the Air Transport Command's Global Airline.

A STRIKING CHANGE IN TEMPO has taken place in the former Faculty Room in Parkhurst which now houses the Veterans Office and the Freshman and Admissions Office. Admiring colleagues in the Ad Building on opening day have since given way to a steady stream of veterans seeking fali admission.