HOC Schedule Lists Skiing, Skating, Hiking for Winter

Harvard's "largest non-political organizations," the Outing Club, has plans for a broad winter program which includes weekend ski trips, skating parties, walking trips, mountain climbing, and cave exploring.

The ski program, under the direction of Oswald Holm-Hansen '50, arranges reservations and coordinates all ski activities with other organizations such as the MIT Outing Club, the American Youth Hostels, and groups from local women's colleges.

Every weekend ski trips leave Cambridge Friday night for ski resort in Putney Vermont: Plymouth, New Hampshire; and Conway, New Hampshire, Mass reservations make it possible to reduce costs for the weekend to $12.5 per head. The trips return by 10 o'clock on Sunday.

Low Cost Trips

For those who can't master the $12.50 the HOC will run low coat trips to its own cabin in Jaffrey, New Hampshire. HOC members have just put the finishing touches on this cabin and them premise ample skiing facilities nearby.

If a student can't tear himself away from Cambridge for the whole weekend but would still like to get in some skiing the HOC has answer for him too. Day trips by chartered bus will go to the nearest area that offers god skiing conditions.

Skating parties will start simultaneously with freezing weather. They will take place in nearly ponds, some by day and some under the stars. The HOC promises music for the ones at night.

White Mountain Christmas

During the Christmas vacation the most rugged men in the outing club are planning an expedition to the White mountains. There they intend to do some mountain climbing in sub-zero weather.

"Spelunking", or cave exploring to the indoor type, has turned out to be the one of the HOC's most popular activities, said president Bill Siddall last night. Expeditions will leave every Sunday for the Berkshires to accommodate those who derive pleasure from crawling on their belies through tunnels hollowed out by springs running through lime stone ledges.

Dances, Lectures in Winter

A certain amount of indoor activity is on the winter agenda. Square dances in Memorial Hall are scheduled for the Second Saturday of every month. There will be monthly lectures dealing with out door subjects.

This has been the HOC's most successful year thus far, its officers feel. For 15 year the club's membership never exceeded 70 and this year 200 have paid their dollar dues. Siddall attributes this year's especially high membership to the extensive membership campaign the HOC launched early this fall. The most successful element in this campaign, he says, was the distribution of literature about the HOC's activities.

HOC officers have ambitions plane. They want everyone in Harvard College in their membership; they think the club should be subsidized by the University to finance such a large scale program.