Carnival Mouse

“The Winterful World of Disney" was the theme, and the Men and Women of Dartmouth returned to the childhood role of would-be Mouseketeers to pick the winning Winter Carnival poster and the snow Sculpture for the Green.

Mickey Mouse dominated the poster competition, and the winner, shown at right, shows the irrepressible rodent putting the final strokes on a frosty painting of Baker Library tower.

The curricular world of John Danforth of Andover, Mass., the artist, is about as far from "Mickey Mouse" - in the students' colloquial sense - as the imagination could stretch. A Senior Fellow and a pre-med, he is investigating the Automatic Regulation of Cardio- vascular- Renal Function in the 'Diving' Mammal" during his year of independent study. He is also a computer expert and art editor of Parole, an undergraduate literary magazine which appears from time to time.

The second-place poster, designed by sophomore Thomas Ruegger of Metuchen, N.J., son of Phillip T. Ruegger '48, depicted Mickey as the Sorcerer's Apprentice in the late Walt Disney's Fantasia, pointing an icy finger toward Baker tower. The design so impressed the judges that it was chosen for the theme sculpture.

Still undecided about majoring in English or Film Studies - or both - Ruegger is a long-time Disney fan and a cartoonist. He has already made one cartoon film as a course project and draws for The Dartmouth.

A bursting bill of sports events, music, and entertainment was scheduled for the February 8-10 Carnival weekend. Singers Bonnie Raitt and Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup were to open the program Thursday evening, and the Modern Jazz Quartet was set to play in Spaulding Friday evening. Guitarist Leo Kottke was booked for a Saturday matinee, and the Men's and Women's Glee Clubs, the Dartmouth Aires and their female counterparts, the Distractions, planned a Saturday night concert.

The Dartmouth Players scheduled four Performances of the Broadway hit musical "Purlie."

A crucial Ivy-League hockey confrontation was set for Saturday morning, with Dartmouth, the current league leader, to Cornell, the title-holder.

A first among the traditional outdoor events scheduled for Carnival weekend: as many women's ski teams as men's were to compete.

At press-time, mighty exhortations for a break in the January thaw reverberated across the northland.