With the Outing Club
WITH THE SKI team following its customary practice of cornering the silver supply and with the 28th annual Winter Carnival taking place or finished as you read this, the big news is the Alumni Carnival, which this year promises to be bigger and better than ever.
Fordie Sayre of the Hanover Inn has worked with the D. O. C. to outline an attractive program for a five-day week-end in the hills, starting Friday, February 18, and continuing through Tuesday, February 22. With the increased interest in skiing and the opportunity to renew ties with the College through its most typical activity, about 300 alumni are expected for the gala week-end.
Next to Carnival, Alumni Carnival is the most important event of the winter season in Hanover, and this year it will be the occasion of the College championships in downhill, slalom, and jumping. These competitions will be open to undergraduates not on the ski team and to all alumni, with the coveted Schniebs-McCrillis Trophy as the reward. The events in this group will take place on Saturday and Sunday.
Another special feature is the Eastern Championship Women's Slalom, which will be held Sunday afternoon on Oak Hill. The Ski Club Carcajou is sponsoring the race. Ben Ames Williams Jr. '38, of Chestnut Hill, Mass., is president of Carcajou, and John McLane Jr. '38, of Manchester, N. H., chairman of Winter Carnival, is running the championship.
The third main feature will be the annual Children's Carnival on Washington's Birthday. This meet, which has developed so many famous Dartmouth skiers in the past, and which will be the place to watch for the famous Dartmouth skiers of the future, is sponsored and managed by the D. O. C. Competitions Department.
Ford Sayre says that there will be all manner of informal races for alumni not competing in the Schniebs-McCrillis events, and lots of opportunity to ski without any formal competition if that is desired. There will be novelty events particularly suited to wives and children of alumni, as well. On Saturday night a dance for all alumni will be held at the Inn.
As this issue of the MAGAZINE goes into the mails, guests are already beginning to bulge Hanover slightly at the sides as they pour in for Carnival. There are whispers of great things on the golf links for Outdoor Evening on Friday, February 11—the very name of the production is "Frost Fire." The ski team, thinking back on its phenomenal Christmas-vacation sweeps at Sun Valley and Lake Placid, nevertheless is anxiously watching the ace crop of international skiers practicing for the big downhill, slalom, langlauf, and jumping events. The skating team is looking forward to stiff competition from a group of invited skaters from other colleges. The hockey and basketball squads are on their toes; The Players are rehearsing long hours for The Gondoliers-, tails and tuxedoes are returning from the tailors'; fraternity-house living rooms are having their floors polished; everyone is scurrying madly here and there; the D. O. C. offices in Robinson have gone berserk—Carnival's on its way!
Carnival takes on increased international significance this winter through the competition of representatives from Bavaria and Norway, as well as the large Canadian contingent from McGill and Montreal. The leading Eastern winter sports colleges will be here as usual—New Hampshire, Norwich, Amherst, Williams, Harvard, Yale, Middlebury, etc.
Probably the greatest threat to the supremacy of our Mr. Dick Durrance and his teammates, Dave and Steve Bradley, Howard and Warren Chivers, John Litchfield, Ed Wells (called by Otto Schniebs "potentially America's greatest skier"), Ted Hunter, Tiger Chamberlain, Percy Rideout, Everett Wood, el als, comes from one of the Norwegian boys, Nils Eie, 1937 world's intercollegiate champion in crosscountry, downhill, and jumping.
Carnival this year has the benefit of an especially active committee, headed by John R. McLane Jr. '38. With him as department heads are nine seniors, Graduate Manager Will Brown '37, four membersat-large, and Prof. Charles L. Stone as faculty adviser. Robert Southworth of Little Boars Head, N. H., heads publicity; James Cooney of Chicago is director of competitions, in charge of ail races; Will Brown is director of finances; snow sculpture and Carnival Queen arrangements are under the features department and Charles E. Ervin of Webster Groves, Mo.
Police chief for the occasion is Robert Manegold of Milwaukee. The entertainment committee is headed by William Ganter of Jamaica Plain, Mass. Outdoor Evening has been worked out by John Rand of Andover, Mass.; all Carnival equipment is in charge of Robert Stix of Scarsdale, N. Y.; Harold Streater of Winona, Minn., is chairman of the personnel division; T. Bleecker Ripsom '37 of Hempstead, N. Y., is in charge of officials. The members-at-large are Walter Averill '3B of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., chairman of the D. O. C. executive committee, James Carpenter '38 of Hartford, Conn., chairman of the winter sports council, Whitey Fuller '37, director of publicity for the D. C. A. C. and D. O. C., and C. Dean Chamberlin '26 of Hanover.
Outdoor Evening is scheduled to furnish a modernized version of the traditional skating and skiing show, with more emphasis on the latter. Wayne Guyther '38, who designed the leering Satyr which is to be the prominent piece of snow sculpture in mid-campus, has worked out an effective setting from an original idea of Dick Durrance's—a setting in three parts, with a raised dais in the center for the Queen of the Snows, intricate steps, pylons, complicated lighting systems, arches, and all the manifestations of modern stagecraft.
Two effective posters have publicized Carnival, one depicting a jumping skier,
the other more or less emphasizing the social side of Carnival, with a boy and girl on skis, both posters done in the eye-catching impressionistic school. These and the Carnival program may be had at the D. O. C. at Robinson Hall for 50 cents.
An outstanding occurrence in the world of ski at Hanover this month was the brilliant slalom exhibition given by the entire ski team January 12 at Oak Hill for the benefit of the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital Auxiliary fund. With Coach Walter Prager laying out a course on the steep hill and starting the proceedings with a run himself, and Durrance, the Bradleys, the Chiverses, Wells, Hunter, Litchfield, Meservey, Chamberlin, and all the others following, it was an afternoon of extraordinary opportunity to see the team all together on home territory, something which occurs but rarely. Great interest was shown by the College and town, an added attraction being provided by the willingness of the skiers to answer any questions.
THE SLALOM RACE DURING CARNIVAL WILL BE HELD ON OAK HILL The scene pictured above shows the slalom race of last year's Carnival competition onOak Hill, which a correspondent to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE last month suggested mightwell be named Hovey Hill in honor of one of the College's most distinguished alumni,,Richard Hovey '85. Dean Strong's home is shown at the left side of the picture and abovehis home, at the upper left, is the village of Hanover.
