The Ice Rink Cometh
Dartmouth will definitely have its artificial ice hockey rink by next winter. The latest report (as of April 16) on the campaign to raise $ 110,000 for modernizing the Davis Rink shows a total of $91,000 realized in gifts and pledges from 335 persons. The campaign has been halted for the duration of the 1953 Alumni Fund, but it is confidently expected that the balance of the money needed to install the artificial ice system will eventually be raised.
Last month workmen began to dig into the dirt surface of the enclosed rink and quickly learned that they have a mansized drainage problem to clear up before the pipes for the new rink can be installed this summer. The sub-soil in the rink is all clay, well soaked over the years and cut off from the sun.
On the financial side, it is interesting to note that of the $91,000 raised, $32,500 has come from the New York City area, including approximately $2,400 raised through the good work of the Dartmouth Club of Westchester in planning and promoting the benefit Dartmouth-Yale hockey game played at the Playland Arena in Rye. Dartmouth men responsible for this benefit contest included Roald A. Morton '34, Arthur E. "Allen '32, Paul L. Guibord '36, William H. Scherman '34, Wilfred Maynard '34, and Henry R. Bankart '35.
The other area that has produced the most for the hockey rink fund is Buffalo, N.Y., with a total of about $26,000. Herbert F. Darling '26 has headed the campaign in the Buffalo area, "with effective help from Chester O. Gale '19 and Hugh Johnson '30.
George H. Colton '35, executive secretary of the Dartmouth Development Council, who has directed the hockey rink campaign in Hanover, lists more than twenty other alumni who have had an important part in bringing the fund to its present level. These men in the various cities are:
New York-Robert J. Paisley '19, Joshua A. Davis '27, Leon C. Greenebaum '27, John H. Davis Jr. '25, Harold M. Sherman '29, Sumner D. Kilmarx '22, John H. Hubbell '21, and Clarence L. Wanamaker '15.
Chicago Charles L. Hardy '27, Robert E. Maxwell '23 and Eugene Hotchkiss '22.
Boston - William H. Perry '22, Edward H. Learnard '24, Richard Parkhurst '16, Harold E. Booma '30, Roland C. Booma '30, Robert Proctor '19, Edward B. Luitweiler '12 and Charles J. Fay 10.
Cleveland James M. Osborne 23. Minneapolis-St. Paul - Ryland J. Rothschild '21, Paul W. Loudon '14 and DeWalt H. Ankeny '21.
Denver Edwin H. Grant '30. Duluth - Robert M. Fryberger '29. Pittsburgh William C. Eaton 17 and Nathan K. Parker '26.
Pushing the campaign here, there and everywhere has been Hockey Coach Eddie Jeremiah '30, who, in his own words, once had natural hockey players on natural ice, recently has had to contend with artificial players on natural ice, and now has nightmares that starting next season he will have artificial players on artificial ice.
