"Dartmouth Ski way" Wins Name Contest for Ski Area

THE name "Dartmouth Skiway" won first prize for Miss Pauline L. Case of Hanover, assistant to the Secretary of the College, in the contest to name the new Dartmouth College ski area being developed at Holt's Ledge in Lyme, N.H.

Miss Case, whose winning entry was selected from more than 200 proposed names, will receive a lifetime pass for the Poma lift at the new area. She is an expert and enthusiastic skier.

Three Dartmouth alumni and a friend of the College shared second-place honors for the name "Indian Hill." These winners of two-year passes are: Selwyn I. Atherton '51 of New York City; H. Allen Brooks Jr. '49 of Evanston, Ill.; Dekkers H. Davidson '52 of Pleasantville, N.Y.; and David Todd of Shrewsbury, Mass.

Third prize, a one-year pass, went to George A. Lord, 11-year-old son of Dr. George W. Lord 'go of Norwich, Vt., for the name "Wheelock Winterland."

The winning names, as previously announced, will be submitted by the six judges to the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College, who will have the final decision as to what name will be given to the new area. The name of the mountain will remain Holt's Ledge.

Judges for the contest were PresidentEmeritus Ernest M. Hopkins '01, chairman; Dean Stearns Morse of Dartmouth; Mrs. Florimond Duke ('18) of Hanover Center, N.H.; William X. Eldred, editor of Ski Magazine in Hanover; Charles M. Sears Jr. '19 of Lyme, N.H.; and Roberts W. French '56, president of the Dartmouth Outing Club.

The campaign to raise $125,000 to defray the initial development and installation costs of the new ski area had secured slightly more than $120,000 by the middle of April. Of this total, nearly a fourth, or $36,800, was raised in the Upper Valley towns of Hanover, Norwich, White River Junction, Lyme and Orford.

The new ski area will be in operation next winter, with six trails, from novice to expert, served by a Pomagalski lift. There will also be a base-station lounge and snack bar and a summit station. Development of the site, thirteen miles from the campus, began in the late fall with general clearing and the cutting of one trail (shown in the accompanying photograph) to permit study of snowfall and wind and trail conditions. Work is now going ahead on the other trails, the parking lot and preparing the site of the base station. The lift, being manufactured in France, will be installed this summer.

"Dartmouth Skiway" is planned as a skiing center for Upper Valley residents as well as for students, faculty, alumni, and others from the College.

This aerial view of Holt's Ledge in Lyme, N.H., taken in February, shows the main downnill racing trail for Dartmouth's new ski development, 13 miles from the campus.