D.O.C. Reorganized
ONE report President Dickey made to the Trustees was that steps had been taken to put into effect, in connection with the Dartmouth Outing Club, recommendations made by a special survey committee and approved by the Board at its June meeting. The chief objective of the committee's proposal is to retain within the jurisdiction of the D.O.C. the activities and responsibilities which are essentially of an undergraduate character and to shift to direct Collect management those business enterprises patronized by the general public—namely, the Outing Club House, the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge, the Oak Hill Ski Lift, and the clearing of Occom Pond for skating and hockey.
Robert S. Monahan '29, formerly General Manager of the D.0.C., has been named Manager of College Outing Properties and will continue to supervise these four public operations. He will also act as President Dickey's executive representative in relation to Outing Club matters. Mr. Monahan's position as College Forester has not been affected by this shift in his other duties. To carry on his work, now more directly related to the College administration, Mr. Monahan has transferred his office from Robinson Hall to Parkhurst. There he occupies one of the top-floor offices still showing the thumbtack holes and other traces of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE, now happily ensconced in its crystal palace (it seems like one) in Crosby Hall.
A second major proposal by the survey committee is that the predominantly graduate D.O.C. Board of Trustees and the predominantly undergraduate Executive Committee be merged into a single controlling body, designated as the Board of Directors of the Dartmouth Outing Club. The new Board of eight men is evenly divided between undergraduate and faculty-administration members. It has the authority to appoint an Executive Director of the D.0.C., and this post is now held by John A. Rand '38, who as Director has been in charge of the undergraduate activities of the Club. The student leader for the year is David A. White '50 of Washington, D. C.
Since the reopening of college the D.O.C. has been working out a new constitution embodying the reorganization accepted by both the Club and the College Trustees. It was the feeling of the survey committee that the organization structure at the undergraduate level is essentially sound, and the new constitution will not in any significant degree alter the existing divisional councils for Cabin and Trail, Winter Sports, and Carnival.
The extremely valuable study of D.O.C. objectives, activities and organization was made by a committee headed by H. R. Lane '07 of Boston, a leader in Dartmouth alumni affairs for many years. Other members of the committee named by President Dickey in May 1948 were Charles A. Proctor '00, John R. McLane '07, Rolf C. Syvertsen '18, Virgil Poling, Robert D. Funkhouser Jr. '27, and Roger S. Brown '45. The committee held numerous sessions and brought forth a report for which it has received the warm thanks of the President and Trustees of the College.
A NEW TRADITION: As a substitute for the annual freshman-sophomore rush, which had become unwieldy and also dangerous with a thousand men shoving and hauling in a mass, the Undergraduate Council this year substituted a tug-of-war. The freshmen won easily by pulling the center log the required ten yards, and thereby subjected the sophs to a firehose dousing and lifted freshman restrictions. Four 150-foot lengths of rope were attached to each side of the log, on which the numerals of winning classes will be cut over the years.
