New Sailing Trophy Honors Larry Conover '53

AT the 31st annual dinner of the Dartmouth Corinthian Yacht Club announcement was made of the donation of a perpetual trophy by Donald C. Goss '53 of Westport, Conn., in memory of his former roommate, Lawrence Conover '53 who was lost at sea in 1958.

The trophy is to be given "to that member of the Dartmouth Corinthian Yacht Club who best exemplifies the Dartmouth spirit of good sportsmanship, good fellowship, competitive excellence, and interest in sailing as a means of recreational enjoyment."

Larry Conover and his father, with their wives and a friend, William Fluegelman, all experienced ocean sailors, set out from Key West, Fla., on January 1, 1958 aboard the Conovers' 43-foot yawl Revonoc. The next day a 70-mile gale from the north-northeast struck the area without warning. The yawl never made Miami, and in spite of an intensive two-week air and sea search, no trace of her was ever found, except for her dinghy which was washed ashore north of Miami.

Larry Conover while at Andover founded the academy's sailing team. At Dartmouth he was Commodore of the Yacht Club, president of the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association, and a skipper on the Dartmouth sailing team.