The past year is one for the history books. Speaking of history, fellow class secretary Val Armento ’73 shared pages of David Hooke’s ’84 Reaching That Peak: 75 Years of the Dartmouth Outing Club with stories of ’45s. In your freshman year the DOC-sponsored Winter Carnival was canceled. Hooke wrote that a smaller winter weekend was held instead, featuring a ski meet, informal social events, and fraternity snow sculptures. The grandiose plans of the outdoor evening, the center of campus snow sculpture, and queen coronation had to wait until many of you returned to campus after the war. In the summer of 1943 the DOC had new responsibilities. Dave Kendall was quoted in the book saying that he and the club were asked by the Navy to provide recreation for the 2,000 V-12 Navy trainees who were on campus. This challenge helped to revive the vitality of the DOC lessened by the war. In 1946 the DOC Trailblazer was back to its weekly schedule, thanks to editor Ned Miller. The first Woodsmen’s Weekend was held in 1947, and Burt Hicock provided an amusing mishap. He capsized while canoeing a Cub Scout around Storrs Pond! In 1944 Bill Ashley coached skiing and Pete Brundage finished his V-12 Marine tour of duty and did his best to pack snow on the ski jump. He worked with Al Hall ’47 using two shovels, a couple of pack baskets, and an old tin bathtub with long ropes attached to the handles! Also in 1944, Roger Brown, assistant hutmaster, led a party up Moosilauke to provide the conclusive report that the Summit House’s heartbreaking demise was due to a lightning strike. Hats off to our former DOC leaders! I am saddened to share that I was notified of the deaths of Hugh “Bud” Morris and Henry “Hank” Moore, as well as the passing of Allon Pierce, wife of George Pierce. Stay well. Send me your silver linings of 2020, news, and updates.

—Martha J. Beattie, 6 North Balch St., Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 667-7611; mbeattie76@gmail.com