LEDYARD CANOE CLUB
Two months from now a team of canoers and kayakers will leave the United States for a swirling river in Lipno, Czechoslovakia. They will be competing in the 1967 Whitewater world championships, representing America after having been selected by the National Slalom Committee of the American Canoe Association.
Chances are good that at least one of the members of the American team will be a Dartmouth man, Dwight "Sandy" Campbell '67, an English major from East Aurora, N. Y.
Campbell won the American Canoe Association Eastern Kayak Championship April 15 on the Mascoma River near Lebanon. He topped a field of more than 30 competitors to bring the championship to the Ledyard Canoe Club for the first time.
This feat came on the heels of a midMarch triumph for Campbell over 25 competitors in the fourth annual Indoor Kayak Slalom held in the new swimming pool in Dartmouth's Alumni Gymnasium.
These victories have come to a young man who, according to club adviser Jay Evans '49, had no experience in kayak racing before coming to Dartmouth. "I can remember very clearly Sandy's first attempts at Whitewater kayak racing," said Evans, himself a former North American kayak champion.
"Although he always had the necessary nerve and guts," Evans said, "Sandy never impressed anybody at the start. But he kept working, and now I wouldn't be surprised to see him not only make the U.S. team, but also to place in the top ten in the world competition."
BIG GREEN BITS.... The Dartmouth Rugby Club trounced Princeton and lost a squeaker to Holy Cross during a spring vacation stay in Nassau. The Green team is held in high regard by its competitors around the East this year, and the coming of warm weather to Hanover was expected to provide the stage for some exciting rugby competition before the school year ends.
The Corinthian Yacht Club, meanwhile, also was holding its own in early competitions. The sailing team took a respectable sixth place among 13 schools in competition for the Boston Dinghy Club Cup at the Coast Guard Academy on April 15, and as this was written the team prepared for the 13-team field entered in the Eastern "Old Guard" Championship at M.I.T.
Wilbur E. Volz, a Dartmouth coaching figure since 1955, will become the College's director of physical education and intramural athletics July 1. Volz, 43, is a former University of Missouri football great. He came to Dartmouth from the University of Denver staff with head football coach Bob Blackman. Since 1963 he has been assisting athletic director-elect Seaver Peters in the intramural program.
Avery H. "Red" Gould '30 has been elected to the Lacrosse Hall of Fame at Homewood, Md. Gould, considered one of the greatest players in Dartmouth history, was an All-America attackman with Dartmouth from 1928 to 1930 and was captain his senior year.
Gould lives in Stamford, Conn., and still maintains a lively interest in the sport.
Joe Colgan '68 of Larchmont, N. Y., will be captain of the 1967-68 Dartmouth basketball team. He plays forward, stands 6-3 and weighs 186 pounds. He is a physics major.
