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Some Highlights of the 37th Winter Carnival

March 1947
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Some Highlights of the 37th Winter Carnival
March 1947

QUEEN OF THE SNOWS. Miss Gwendolyn Latour. of Bronxville, N. Y., 20- year-old physical education and zoology teacher at Finch Junior College, was chosen to reign over Dartmouth's 37th annual Carnival. She was the date of Harry R. Davis '44, also of Bronxville, a member of Kappa Sigma and a first-year Tuck School student who saw war service with the AAF.

PRIZE-WINNING SNOW SCULPTURE in the dormitory contest was this entry of Butterfield Hall, entitled "Sculpture of a Snow Sculptor Sculping a Snow Sculpture/7 No set theme was required for this year's snow sculpture and the dormitory and fraternity contests were marked by unusual variety and imagination. Wigwam Circle, with its stork, and Sachem Village, with its Indian pushing a baby carriage, came closest to having a central theme. The DOC provided one of the cleverest pieces of the Carnival display with its camping scene in front of Robinson Hall. From day to day the rabbit family gathering warmth from the camper's fire added steadily to its number of little ones.

"SCHUSS-TEUFEL" or "Speed Devil" was the DOC's central piece of snow sculpture. The cubist skier towered 30 feet in the middle of campus and during the building had so much "vorlage" that he started to move forward.

THE CLIMAX OF OUTDOOR EVENING, revived for the first time since 1941, was the crowning of the Queen amidst flares and fireworks. The show, en- tirely student-written and run, was staged at the south end of Occom Pond.

COLORFUL VISITORS FROM ABROAD were the men and women skiers from Switzerland, who made Carnival the first stop of their American tour. The team, whose skiing was sensational, included (I. to r.) Edi Rominger, Olivia Ansoni, Arnold Glatthard, Antoinette Meyer, Karl Molitor, Rosemarie Pleuer, Paul Valaer and Manager Grob. From Hanover they invaded the west.