Honorary

JOSEPH B. DODGE honorary member of the Class of 1955 and known to untold numbers of Dartmouth men during his 33 years as manager of the Appalachian Mountain Club, died October 29 at the age of 74 in his North Conway (N.H.) home.

A founder of the Mt. Washington Weather Observatory in 1932, he was known affectionately to skiiers, hikers, mountain-climbers, and out-doorsmen as the "Mayor of Porky Gulch." Although he retired from the Appalachian Club in 1959, he kept an active interest in the area and in recent years broadcast his weather reports and observations over WBNC in Conway, and at the time of his death was a director and treasurer of the Mt. Washington Observatory.

Few men knew Pinkham Notch and the Presidential Mountain Range better than Porky Gulch's mayor and he took part in many rescues, one of his most famous occurring on New Years day in 1933 when two moun- taineers plunged about 500 feet down an ice-glazed gully in Huntington Ravine. He headed the rescue party which reached the climbers only after several hours' struggle through deep snow, howling winds, and subzero temperatures.

Mr. Dodge was one of the first to ski in Tuckerman Ravine, and he had been an official and timer at international and Olympic ski races. During World War I he served as a submarine radioman and after the war he worked as a radio operator on tankers. Surviving are a son, Joseph Brooks Dodge '51 of Jackson, and a daughter, Mrs. Ann Middleton of Bedford.