Nearly 200 people participated in the Dartmouth Outing Club's Fall Weekend, the DOC's largest fall event. Among the weekend's events were beginner trailwork, climbing, whitewater kayaking and organic farming trips. The weekend featured a 50-mile hike from Hanover to Mount Moosilauke Ravine Lodge. Thirty-one "psycho-hikers" departed Hanover on Friday afternoon and hiked through the night and into the next day. "The fifty went amazingly well this year," Scott Limbird '09, a member of the Lodge support team for the hikers, said. "The first group to the lodge finished in under 24 hours." The weekend culminated in a dinner Saturday night at Moosilauke Lodge that featured a band for entertainment.
Fire suddenly engulfed the home of prominent Dartmouth attorney Ellen Arnold in Plainfield, N.H., at 10 a.m. Friday. A powerful explosion sparked flames that swallowed Arnold's home. Though Arnold was not at home when the explosion occurred, her family pet perished in the blaze. Responding to the scene were fire fighting crews from seven departments in addition to the state and local police. No fire fighters were injured while fighting the fire. The fire marshal said on Friday that he is conducting an investigation to find "the origin and cause of the fire."
The Vermont Bar Association recently appointed Samuel Hoar Jr. '77 as its new president. In his first presidential address, Hoar confronted the notion that the legal profession is not for problem solving, but a necessary "drain on budgets and on our economy in general." This, he declared, is "our profession under attack." Hoar plans to stave off this attack on the law profession through discussion panels that "identify challenges and threats to the profession and the legal system." Chiefly, Hoar emphasized the importance of kinship and professionalism among his colleagues: "We need to take care of each other, and work together to take care of our clients, our profession, and our legal system." By enhancing community and increasing discussion within his profession, Hoar believes that the legal system can continue to be "the vital guarantor or all of the liberties and blessings of a free and democratic society."
