30TH CARNIVAL TO BE A BIG BIRTHDAY PARTY
ONE OF THE MOST spectacular birthday parties the Dartmouth campus can ever hope to see will be thrown on Febru ary 9th and 10th—a birthday party, honoring the Dartmouth Winter Carnival's 30th anniversary, that will be featured by skiing of every variety, figure-skating by four of Canada's most renowned stars, skating competitions, fireworks, snow sculpture, a glee club concert, Players' show, and basketball, hockey and swimming contests.
Since the 17 th of October, Chairman Elmer Browne '40 has been working with his 16 committeemen and their various assistants in the working out of plans, policies, and programs. The wealth of ideas bantered back and forth guarantees that a Carnival will be put on even though some of the feared problems should actually materialize—the possibilities of a shortage of student labor now that there is a college holiday between semesters, of there being a lack of snow, and of the depleted Hanover reservoir's not being able to stand the loss of the water necessary to construct the ice pond on the golf course. But everyone is optimistic about the whole situation.
OUTDOOR EVENTS EMPHASIZED
One of the chief aims of this year's Carnival Committee is to emphasize the Saturday afternoon program of jumping and the other skiing events more than ever before. In recent years almost undivided attention has been given to the Outdoor Evening. Ed Schecter '40, director of competitions, has planned a skiing program which will involve one of the greatest arrays of competitors and guest stars ever assembled for a single meet. The roster of the participating colleges and skiing clubs hasn't yet been released, but as in previous years the Dartmouth skiers can expect the stiffest competition from McGill, Middlebury, New Hampshire, Harvard, and Yale.
John English '4O, chairman of Outdoor Evening, together with his nucleus committee, has been working out a Birthday Party program for the Friday night ice show—something that will give a reminiscent glimpse of past Carnivals by the decades. A well-known amateur skating group from Toronto will be the featured event of the evening, the performers being Eleanor O'Meara, the Caley Sisters, and Eleanor Wilson, all of whom have appeared in numerous ice shows throughout the United States and Canada. There is to be a skit combining skiing and skating acts, climaxed with the presentation of the 1940 Carnival Queen. Charles Weinberg '42, creator of last year's Keg o' Rum set, has for this year designed a tremendous four-jayer cake, to be made in layers of snow and ice topped by the crown of 1940. Lighted numerals will be set in the ice, while thirty burning candlesticks will serve as the only decorations on the cake itself. A total of 75,000 watts are to be employed in the lighting, according to Richard Seidnian '40, director of that department.
Nat Sample '40, whose rendition of Eleazar Wheelock astride an oxen-hauled keg of rum won last year's interfraternity snow-sculpture award for Delta Tau Delta, will have charge of constructing the Center of Campus statue. His statue, chosen from models submitted by three contestants, depicts a muscular Indian warrior poised in the act of shooting an arrow into the air. It will stand thirty feet overall, falling six and one half feet short of Dick Brooks' Eleazar, erected last year. Jay Weinberg '4O, director of features, has announced that the theme of the interfraternity and interdormitory snow-sculpture contest will center around the Thirtieth Anniversary idea along with the theme of the Indian.
Norman Rockwell, artist renowned for his covers on The Saturday Evening Post, has been secured to act as one of the Queen judges. Paul Sample, artist in residence on the Dartmouth campus, will also serve with Rockwell, together with one other judge not yet named. This committee of three will also judge the snow sculpture.
Two Pratt Institute students, Ryland Scotford Jr. '38 and R. Williams, designed the winning Carnival posters this year.
