With the D.O.C.

THE Dartmouth Outing Club, which is devoted to a serious study of the North as well as to the fun of skiing down New Hampshire's trails, is contributing to the College's Northern Frontier Studies Program.

A series of "Cold Weather Problems" are being discussed and demonstrated each week throughout the winter. Each session calls upon leading experts to give their advice and to recount from their own experiences how they have met various problems encountered in living and working in intensely cold weather.

"As the polar regions grow in strategic importance, man, out of necessity, is learning how to survive under severe weather conditions," says John A. Rand '38, executive director of the D.O.C.

In addition to lectures and discussions, on a weekly basis, the program calls for actual field work, conducted both as primary scientific investigation and as a part of the usual "outing" activities of the club.

"Hanover may seem far from the Arctic regions, but here in the White Mountains there are areas like Mount Moosilauke and Mount Washington which in winter can be our Arctic laboratory. Paralleling this program, actual field work is planned which will experiment with clothing, food, tents, stoves, and snow houses under cold weather conditions in these areas."

Every Tuesday afternoon a group of young men who realize the growing importance of the North Polar Region to this country and the other nations in the hemisphere, gather in McNutt Hall to gain knowledge which may some day have a great effect on the course of their lives.

It could be argued fairly effectively that these men are the explorers of tomorrow. Already the search for natural resources has extended far beyond the Arctic Circle, and already mineral deposits in remote Arctic areas are being successfully exploited.

Man needs special skills, and knowledge and equipment to live and work in the Arctic, and it is the purpose of this program to provide some of these for men who may go on to do graduate work in engineering, mining, geology and other fields necessary to the development of Arctic lands.

Already the program has covered such subjects as "Man and Cold," "Cold Weather Clothing," "The Northwest Arctic," and "Winter Equipment." Coming in the future are "Arctic Glaciers and Ice Islands," "Expedition Planning," "Arctic Vegetation," "Forest Camping," "The Snow House," "Air Operations," "Moosilauke, Washington and the College Grant ... Arctic Laboratories," and "Winter Mountaineering."