"Red" Hoehn Ends Coaching

For the first time in 25 years Dartmouth is looking for a new head coach of tennis and squash. Edward G. (Red) Hoehn, one of the College's most respected mentors, has stepped down to seek a career in business. His decision came early in June and was typical of the well-liked redhead. He had decided he could no longer coach Dartmouth teams in the manner to which they'd become accustomed.

Coach Hoehn explained that "we get many neophytes out for the racquet sports, so a coach necessarily has to spend long hours on the courts with the players. I began to slow down and decided to switch jobs." Red has been a strong advocate of tennis and squash instruction by illustration and example. He felt he could not coach "from the office."

Over the 25-year span Coach Hoehn's tennis teams have won 162 matches and lost 151. During a recent five-year span (1958-1962) his squads won 69 and lost only 21, compiling the best spring records of any Dartmouth team in those years.

One of Hoehn's great delights has been his family. His son Dick, Class of 1959, was a mainstay of the Green tennis team in the late '50's. He was graduated Phi Beta Kappa, has served with the Marines in Okinawa, and will enter Harvard Law School this fall.

His younger son Ted holds a record of competing seven times in the national boys' tennis championship and currently is co-captain of tennis at the University of North Carolina. His daughter Nancy, though only 13, is already ranked in New England tennis and is junior doubles champion of Canada.

Red is unsure of what the future may hold, but he feels he has made the right decision. This summer he is serving as tennis pro at the York Golf and Tennis Club in Maine. Next fall he will look toward a career in business. A graduate of the University of Rochester with a degree in mechanical engineering, he was a sales engineer for eight years before coming to Dartmouth in 1938. His resignation creates a big gap in the Dartmouth athletic organization and in the Hanover community.