OUTING CLUB

To enable the Dartmouth Outing Club to play a more vital role in the total educational experience of the students the Trustees have approved the new position of DOC educational officer. The position, made possible for an experimental period of three years through a grant from Henry J. McCarthy '31 of Marblehead, Mass., will be filled by James E. Schwedland '48.

Schwedland, who received a master's degree in forest management from Yale, has been working with the DOC on a temporary basis for several months. He will teach natural history and the enjoyment and conversation of natural resources, both as an extracurricular activity of the DOC and as a service to several academic departments. Last spring he led students from a beginning biological sciences class on a twelve-day field trip through the Southeastern United States. He will also promote the use of the College's outdoor resources on Mt. Washington and Mt. Moosilauke, the Gile Forest, the College Grant, and the DOC's chain of cabins and trails. Schwedland's past twelve years have been spent in work as a district and research forester.

Henry McCarthy, whose gift made the new position possible, is President of Bomac Laboratories in Beverly, Mass., and a member of the Board of Overseers of Thayer School of Engineering. An outdoorsman himself, he provided funds in 1960 to build and equip a three-room camp near the center of the College Grant.