COLLEGE BOYS' CRUISE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24460, 20 November 1940, Page 11

COLLEGE BOYS' CRUISE

AMERICANS IN SCHOONER COLLECTING SCIENTIFIC DATA (From Our Own Correspondent) SYDNEY, Oct. 17. After cruising ILOOO miles, 17 Americans saw a city again for the first time in eight months when the threemasted auxiliary schooner Director II arrived in Brisbane. Since leaving New York in February the party has called only at islands in the Pacific to collect scientific data for the American Museum of Natural History. New York. As scon as the Director II berthed there was a rush by seven college boys aboard to " turn Brisbane upside down." One said he had not felt more like action since he stripped for Yale in last year's football.series. Among the schooner's complement are students from Yale, Princeton. Harvard and Chicago Universities, one from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, two New Yorkers —selfstyled " hard-boiled " —a Siamese cat. a Manchurian spaniel, a Galapagos turtle, and an Indian cook. Headed by Sheridan Fahnestock and his mother, Mrs Bruce Fahnestock. the expedition is gathering materia), to complete exhibits in the Whitney Memorial Hall of Pacific bird life at the museum. The expedition has also recorded primitive native music for the Helen Fahnestock-Hubbard Foundation in New York. After a few days in a Brisbane dry dock the schooner will cruise up the Queensland coast fcr six weeks through the Barrier Reef. The party will return to the United States at the end of the year.