D.O.C.NEWS

CABIN AND TRAIL

TRIPS .... TRIPS .... TRIPS .... TRIPS to Moosilauke and Katahdin, trips to Washington and Velvet Rocks, trips to Sunapee Mountain and the Bottomless Bog, all were run by C&T this year. The principal function of this unit of the DOC is the instigation and leadership of these trips. Not a week went by but there was at least one trip posted on the C&T bulletin board. Trips went out to maintain the seventeen cabins the Club administers as well as the seventy miles of trail the Outing Club maintains.

In addition to this routine work another cabin was added to the chain. This is the old fire-watchman's cabin on Smart's Mountain. Still another cabin is in the making. C&T is about to start work on a new Moose Cabin to replace old Bull Moose which collapsed under the weight of 1947's spring snows. The new cabin will be about fifty yards south of the site of the old cabin and on the opposite side of the brook. It will be a feed cabin with a capacity of between sixty and seventy persons. There will be provision for accommodating a smaller group which does not want to heat or use the whole cabin. Under present plans the cabin will be built by undergraduates under the guidance of Ross McKenney and should be finished late next fall.

George M. Woodwell '50 of West Roxbury, Mass. was elected Chairman of the Cabin and Trail. George was Cabin Director of C&T this past year, and now as chairman is selecting his departmental directors.

WINTER SPORTS

On April 11, H. Newcomb Eldredge '5O0 of Pittsford, N. Y., was elected to direct Winter Sports for the coming year, replacing John R. Zillmer '49, of Wauwatosa, Wis.

CARNIVAL

Theodore E. Bamberger, a junior from Shaker Heights, Ohio, has been elected Chairman of the 1950 Winter Carnival Committee by the past Carnival Committee. He started working on Carnival as a freshman and this year was in charge of constructing "Stiefelmannchen" the highly successful center of campus statue. Bamberger is a member of Green Key, Pi Lamda Phi fraternity, and has just been elected to Casque and Gauntlet.

As soon as the other members of the Carnival Committee are appointed Bamberger will start formulating plans for the '50 Carnival. One objective is to expand the Carnival department.

LEDYARD CANOE CLUB

Springtime is white-water canoeing time for the 42 members of the Ledyard Canoe Club. With the ice broken up in the White River and the Connecticut, and the waters high enough for the paddlers to really enjoy the sport at its finest, trips are setting out every weekend. Sunday, April 10, there was an exodus of 16 canoeists to test their skills on the dashing White River. The few who had the misfortune of tipping over found that the river wasn't quite as warm as the sunshine. However, these fellows will have a chance to redeem themselves, as the club plans similar one-day outings on April 17 and 24.

The weekend of April 30-May 1 will find several green canoes battling the rapids of the upper Connecticut River in the vicinity of Lancaster, N. H. The only other certain events at this writing are the annual Johnny Johnson race, five miles upstream to Johnny Johnson Island, on May 19, and the reactivation of a great sporting event—the regatta, at Storrs Pond on Sunday, May 22.

Besides trips, and outings on the Connecticut, the club has been having weekly feeds in its redecorated clubhouse on the Connecticut, as well as instruction meetings on canoe repair and trips. The Chase Island cabin is being readied for use for overnight campers and for Green Key picnics. It all adds up to a lively spring season for the Ledyard Canoe Club.