About the Author:

Richard J. Lougee '27 is Professor of Geomorphology at the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University, Worcester, Mass. He has specialized in that phase of Geology dealing with the study of land forms, and is an authority on the Ice Age. The son, grandson, nephew, and brother of other Dartmouth Lougees, he has made extensive studies of the Granite State, and in this article brings up to date the history of researches that he first recorded for the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE in "Hanover Submerged" in May 1935.

Dick will be remembered as the originator of senior class Mt. Washington trips; a successful repeater of John Ledyard's experiment of sleeping in the snow on Ledyard Site (ALUMNI MAGAZINE, February 1928), and the first son of Dartmouth to reach the North Pole. He has traveled widely in Alaska, northern Europe, and Russia, and is an honorary member of the Geological Society of Finland.