Green Jottings

Dartmouth alumni in the Midwest and Far West will have an opportunity to see the Dartmouth varsity basketball team in action next winter. The Big Green will travel to the West Coast during Christmas vacation to meet Southern California in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and then play single games with Stanford and California at San Francisco. From there Dartmouth moves into the Chicago area to play Northwestern at Evanston and Bradley in Peoria. And the Dartmouth basketball team should be the strongest team fielded by Coach Doggie Julian since his arrival in Hanover in 1950.

The' Dartmouth Outing Club's woodsmen's team, coached by Ross McKenney and captained by Roy Dixon '56, won the ninth annual Woodsmen's Weekend held this year at Kimball Union Academy. The Big Green piled up 1471 points out of a possible 1600 to dominate the field of nine competing teams. The University of Maine, winner in 1954, was second with 1281 points.

Frederic R. Hildebrandt of Medford, Mass., was elected captain of the Dartmouth freshman baseball team. Hildebrandt, who also captained the Medford High School baseball nine, has been the regular freshman catcher and one of the top hitters on the undefeated frosh squad, batting currently at a .461 clip.

Speaking of Medford, Joe Sullivan '49, former Dartmouth freshman backfield coach, is now assisting former Dartmouth line coach John Dell Isola at Medford High in football coaching.

And speaking of football, Dartmouth's 1954 football captain Lou Turner and end Dick Flagg were honored recently by being selected to the All-Scholastic Football Team of The American People's Encyclopedia. Turner and Flagg received citations and 20-volume sets of the encyclopedia for their playing ability and high scholastic achievement.

Although he was not a Dartmouth alumnus, the death of Carl Rood here on May 16 will be mourned by a good many members of the Dartmouth family. Some will remember Carl from his association with his mother in the Rood Eating Club. Others will recall his intense devotion to Dartmouth athletics, for he was a keen follower of all Dartmouth sports, with particular interest in hockey and baseball. During a span of more than 20 years Carl came to know personally a good many Dartmouth athletes and followed their careers both in Hanover and afterwards with great interest. A few months ago Carl remarked one day, "Sometime I'd like to sit down with you and tell you about some of the great boys I've come to know at Dartmouth and about some of the teams and the games I've seen." Unfortunately, we never did get the chance to sit down with Carl and now it's too late. But we know that Carl is still rooting for the Big Green teams he loved.