New D. O. C. Head
ROBERT S. MONAHAN '29 of Palo Alto, Calif., . will return to the College this fall to fill the dual position of General Manager of the Dartmouth Outing Club and College Forester, it was announced by President Dickey on June 1. Monahan has been with the U. S. Forest Service for the past 14 years and since 1944 has been with the California Regional Office of that government service.
As general manager of the Dartmouth Outing Club he will have major policy and business responsibilities, particularly in connection with the club's outdoor enterprises, while leaving the direction and operation of the undergraduate program to John A. Rand '38, present director of the club. As college forester, he will have managerial supervision of the Dartmouth Grant, a 27,000-acre wilderness tract in northern New Hampshire.
Monahan began his government forestry work in 1931, when he took his Master's de- gree at the Yale School of Forestry and started as field assistant on the Jornada Range Reserve in New Mexico. The next year he left his post in the Sawtooth National Forest in Idaho to go to Alaska as a member of the Washburn Expedition to the Fairweather Range and then helped to organize the Mount Washington Weather Observatory and Radio Research Station in 1932-33. He returned to government service in 1933 with duties in the White Mountain National Forest, and four years later was transferred to the Office of the Chief Forester in Washington, where he served in the division of information and education. During the war he was connected with the Emergency Rubber Project. In 1944 he became assistant chief of information and education in the California Regional Office from which he resigned on June 30.
Monahan has been vice-chairman of the Northern California section of the Society of American Foresters and a member of the Dartmouth Outing Club of Northern California, the American Forestry Association, the Commonwealth Club of California, the Western Snow Conference, the New England Council of Palo Alto, and the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, He is the author of Mount Washington Reoccupied, published in 1933, and of various magazine articles on mountaineering, skiing, and forest conservation.
As a Dartmouth undergraduate, Monahan was active in the D.O.C. as chairman of the trips and cabins committee and as director of Winter Carnival publicity. He also was director of the Ledyard Canoe Club, captain of the cross-country team, and a member of the track team, winter sports team, Palaeopitus, and Gamma Delta Chi. He was married in 1933 to the former Alice D. Haynes of Phenix, R. I., and has two sons and a daughter.
