Joy for Jerry
An old dream of Dartmouth hockey players and fans artificial ice for the Davis Hockey Rink seems likely to become a reality by next year, according to news released by George H. Colton '35, executive secretary of the Dartmouth Development Council.
Having set a goal of 10,000, the Dartmouth Development Council is embarked upon a limited fund-raising campaign which is one-third realized already. The sum of $40,000 is in hand as a starter and those behind the campaign are optimistic that the full quota can be obtained byspring, when it is hoped that work will begin on the installation of artificial ice facilities. The Development Council has made no plans for a broadside campaign among the alumni and has ruled out large structural changes in Davis Rink, which would prove too expensive. However, it is expected that with the installation of artificial ice, the rink will be heated.
Ever since the Davis Hockey Rink was built in 1929 the whims of the thermometer have tended to make the interior either too warm for usable ice or too cold for the average spectator. In the past 15 years there has only once been good ice for the hockey team before the second week of December, and only half a dozen times after March 1. The natural ice has been difficult to keep in condition for varsity and freshman games scheduled for the same day, and sufficiently long practice sessions have been hard to arrange. Often intercollegiate contests have been cancelled or postponed, because of thaws occurring in the heart of the hockey season. It was for these, and other reasons, and because of the prominent place winter sports hold at Dartmouth, that the Trustees at their October meeting gave the green light to the proposal that money be raised now to install artificial ice. Herbert F. Darling '26 of Williamsville, N. Y.. has accepted the chairmanship of the hockey rink project.
With the installation of an artificial ice system it is expected that the rink will be usable from October through March and that a greatly expanded program of college and community skating will be possible there.
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