WINTER CARNIVAL'S HAPPY DAYS
The Twenty-Third, Edition by D. 0. C.
IT was as if all elements got together in a surprise burst of cooperation for the brilliant success of the 1933 Carnival. A record breaking number of guests gathered for Hanover's winter high spot; winter sports, hockey, swimming, and basketball were all too closely contested; the Schweizer- Schutzenfest lived up to every latent possibility in its name; even Old Man Winter relented at the last moment and for the twenty-third time provided Carnival its background of snow.
Record Carnival attendance had been set in 1931 at 615 guests, followed last year by a drop of 60. Nobody expected great things of the 1933 affair; depression had struck home in too many places. Yet to the amazement of all, the official guest list rose to the unprecedented high of '732. Everybody tried to explain it and nobody succeeded. To be sure the program had been cut to two days with the ball omitted; but that was done last year too. The fact remains that the hopes of the Carnival Committee once again were high, fraternity houses were filled to overflowing, and the social success of-the weekend was assured. Hanover—a winter background— the Carnival spirit—over 700 feminine guests—what more could one ask?
Schweizer Schutzenfest, such was the unpronounceable mystery name applied to the opening night pageant. Not a word concerning the exact nature of the program was let out beforehand, perhaps because few were quite sure. When the time came the carefully worked over balance of skiing, skating and spectacle touched the keynote of Carnival winter frolic and drew gasps of admiration from the spectators. On the golf course site of the last two similar projects, was erected a gaily colored Swiss village—inn, steepled church, and eaved chalets. With this, the ice rink in the foreground, the lighting and the fireworks, contrasting with the snow, combined to provide a brilliant background for the evening's carryings-on. The freshman glee club furnished appropriate musical setting ranging from the "Hanover Winter Song" to German drinking- songs and "Pink Elephants." Joe d'Esopo of local fame, careened about the set, first with Professor McCallum's dog and sled, then with skis big enough to be toboggans. Hunters on skis swooped about the hill in breathtaking ski manoeuvres. If you have never seen a horse and sleigh and a line of skiers at top speed contest the possession of a ten foot gateway, you should have been there. Score: tie game with no casualties. In the climax to the program Miss Louise Weigel of Buffalo, N. Y., a Carnival guest who holds the National Junior Women's Figure Skating title and Lyman Wakefield '33 of Minneapolis, Minn., Dartmouth's intercollegiate champion, presented an exhibition of single and paired figure skating that held the crowd to the last moment.
But what is the point of the whole first night show without the Queen of the Snows? This year the task of selecting the winner was entrusted to the trio of veteran newspapermen who have been covering Carnival for the past ten years. From the throng of aspiring Carnival beauties they joined unanimously in selecting Miss Virginia Helm, a Smith College freshman from Minneapolis. About her as attending court were gathered the 17 runners-up: Emily Beckers, St. Louis; Nancy Boothby, Brook- line, Mass.; Barbara Bradford, Milwaukee; Elizabeth Burton, Providence; Caroline Day, Bronxville, N. Y.; Sara Ervin, St. Louis; Harriet Gilbert, Hanover; Peggy Gillette, Minneapolis; Marion Goff, Pawtucket, R. I.; Mary Johnson, Cincinnati; Willy Leach, Cincinnati; Dorothae Losee, New York; Helaine Matile, Plainfield, N. J.; Cynthia Nichols, Andover, Mass.; Ruth Schauweker, Spring- field, Mass.; Jane Wood, Pelham, New York; Virginia Wyman, Boston.
With the basketball team losing to Yale by one point in the last seconds of play, the hockey team forced to see Harvard put over the winning point in the final seconds, and the swimming squad losing to a strong Yale team the athletic program furnished plenty of thrills if not entirely satisfactory outcomes.
But in the winter sports field Dartmouth came into its own, piling up a total of 52½ points to New Hampshire's 39 with the remaining 7½ points divided among Maine, Williams, and Bowdoin. Dartmouth took five first places, the three skating events, the downhill, and the cross country ski race. In the skating events the team of Jack Shea '34 of Lake Placid, N. Y. and Lawrence Goldthwait '36 of Hanover placed first and second in both the 440 and two mile races accounting for 16 points, while Lyman Wakefield '33 won his fourth Carnival title in the figure skating. Dick Emerson '34 of Manchester, N. H., duplicated his last year's Carnival stunt of winning the downhill and placing second in the slalom. Seldon Hannah '35 of Berlin, N. H., won 7 points for Dartmouth with seconds in the ski cross country and the combined event (cross country and jumping), and a fourth in the jumping. R. S. Dodge '36 of Bradford, Vt., took the remaining Dartmouth first place in the ski cross country race, while H. S. Woods '36 of Hanover outjumped New Hampshire's Ed Blood in both his leaps only to lose out to Blood on form by a matter of four points in 220.
At Lucerne in Quebec at the I. W. S. U. Championship Meet the following week, the Dartmouth winter sports squad again won the title with 30 points to McGill's 26. The team's strength in the skating events showed in the 22 points won in those three events, while their well rounded ability came out in the fact that Dartmouth was the only team to place in all of the nine events. Shea, L. Gold- thwait, and Wakefield again led in the scoring.
One Carnival is over but still they come. This time the energy of the Outing Club organization is being turned to providing every attraction for the annual Alumni Carnival February 24, 25, and 26. The College winter sports championships are to give the alumni an opportunity to see the best men in action, while at the Moose feed and ski gymkana there will be every opportunity for individual participation with prizes for all classes.
The Carnival Queen and Her Court As photographed at the SCHWEIZER SCHUTZENFEST February 10 when Miss Virginia Helm was crowned Queen of Dartmouth Snows.
Winning Snow Sculpture With Carnival's Queen, Miss Virginia Helm of Minneapolis, presenting cap to Chi Phi, represented by George R. Metzger '33 of Buffalo.
Old King Winter And his icy maidens, as sculptured on the campus by M. O. Waldsmith '33 of St. Louis.
