Word: selkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Navy Lieut. William Frederick Halsey III, 28, son of the Third Fleet's famed Admiral Halsey; and Mary Jane Selkirk, 22, daughter of famed St. Louis Auctioneer Benjamin J. Selkirk; in Greenville...
Harvard's Mountaineering Club, ready to launch a full program of fall climbing, has a definite martial tinge in its activities. Last June, for example, in the Selkirk expedition, the Club tested special rations for the Air Corps. During the summer, special equipment was tested for the mountain troops and new types of field rations were studied under rigorous conditions...
Tonight at 7:30 in the Lowell House Common Room, the club has invited everyone interested in the more rugged aspects of mountaineering to come and see the slides of the recent Selkirk Expedition. Freshmen particularly are invited, but any interested Summer School students are welcome...
Tanned and wind-burned by the wintry storms of the British Columbia Mountain ranges, eight members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club have returned from a two week expedition into the heights of the Selkirk Mountains...
...Selkirk Range, some 80 or 100 miles southwest of Lake Louise and Bauff, offers some of the best rockclimbing in North America. Unlike the Rockies in this country, the Selkirks are hard rock, not shale, and will not crumble under a pick. Mt. Sir Donald, which the party hopes to climb, towers nearly 11,000 feet and is the highest peak of the range, though there are many nearly as high...