Outing Club Marks Its 40th Anniversary
To commemorate the 40th anniversary o£ its founding, the Dartmouth Outing Club held a banquet at the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge on January 6, attended by 38 friends and members. A featured guest of the evening was Fred H. Harris '11, who in 1909 called together the first meeting of charter members of the Club.
W. Lee White 'ia, one of the early D.O.C. presidents, and John P. Carleton '23, former Dartmouth ski captain, were also speakers on the program, along with President Dickey, John A. Rand '38, executive director of the D.0.C., and Dean Rolf C. Syvertsen '18, chairman of the D.O.C. Board of Directors. David A. White '50, undergraduate president of the Club, presided over the Moosilauke gathering.
Ross McKenney, woodcraft adviser of the D.0.C., showed his colored films of Club activities and Winter Carnivals. John Carleton, with some attempt at ceremony partially cancelled by the high spirits of his audience, returned to Fred Harris the skis designed for him in 1917 by the Outing Club's founder.
Recalling the days when "Dartmouth students hugged the radiators and prayed for spring," Harris quoted the statement of President Emeritus Hopkins: "The Outing Club has turned Dartmouth's greatest liability (winter) into its greatest asset."
