Green Jottings

Dartmouth's Ledyard Canoe Club sponsored a 218-mile race down the Connecticut River in mid-April with nineteen two-man canoes racing from Hanover to Old Saybrook Point, Connecticut. Competing were teams from Amherst, Yale, Windham College and Dartmouth. Dartmouth entries finished first, second and third in the race, with the team of John Fairbanks and Peter Knight winning in a record time of 33 hours and 50 minutes against the old record of 37 hours and 45 minutes. The swollen and rapid Connecticut River gave a lot of contestants trouble and only six of the nineteen canoes finished the race.

In the late March National Championship (NCAA) Ski Meet held in Montana the Dartmouth ski team finished a strong third behind Colorado University and Denver. A recalculation of the Carnival meets in early March showed Dartmouth and Middlebury tied for first place in Eastern competition. Leading the Big Green ,at the championships was fourevent ace, Art Bookstrom, who finished third in the slalom, fourth in jumping, fifth in the downhill and tenth in crosscountry. A spill in the slalom cost Bookstrom first place and a chance for Skimeister honors. Jim DeLong took sixth in the jump and ninth in slalom, while Rog Hackley finished seventh in the slalom and Bob Bigelow and Skip Bean fifth and eight respectively in the crosscountry. After just a fair season in Eastern competition, the Big Green skiers did tremendously well at the Nationals.

Al Merrill, Dartmouth varsity ski coach, is ready to stay home and take it easy for a while. Merrill traveled about 16,000 miles this past winter including a trip to the Olympic games at Squaw Valley, back East for the International Races at Stowe, back out West again for the N.C.A.A. Championships at Bozeman, Montana, and some 3,500 miles logged in western traveling to talk with prospective students.

Randy Malin '59, now a graduate student at Tuck School and former All-American lacrosse goalie at Dartmouth, became a coach here for one week when he took over the lacrosse coaching reins in mid-April from Tom Dent who was sidelined with bursitis. From all reports Malin did an effective job.

WCBS Radio will again broadcast the Ivy League Football Game of the Week next fall, sponsored by Time magazine. WCBS will select the outstanding Ivy League game each Saturday and at least one or two of the Dartmouth games will be included.