Ice for Arťs Sake
This gallery of center-of-campus snow statues, beginning at the beginning in 1930 and running uninterrupted - expect for the War - through 1975, serves as a pretty fair documentary of changing campus taste and possibly even Art. There is a lot of distance between 1931's demure Temple of Love and 1969's firebreather. And between 1934's bas relief, which appears faintly Marxist, and Dick Brooks' triumphant Eleazar of just five years later. Here are all of the designers (including two women) and a line catching the flavor of the year.
No more is there a long pre-Carnival break, and some would say that today's 48-hour party is overrated, like caviar and the Super Bowl. Still, aspirations run high.
1930: Ice Castle (Haile) "The Outing Club is too efficient"
1937: Wolf-Wind (Guyther) "an orderly affair"
1931: Temple of Love (Epstein) evening gowns and tailcoats
1934: Bas Relief (Metzger) MGM films a short
1938: Mr. Satyr (Guyther) the glee club in ski outfits
1935: Wodin (Funk) silver anniversary
1939: Eleazar Wheelock (Brooks) "You Can't Take It With You"
1932: Eleazar (Waldsmith) ice, not snow, sculptures
1936: Dartmouth Undying (Funk) and a new tramway
1940: Starshooter (Sample) zenith
1941: Heyderdahl (Weisker) rain, rain
1948: North Spirit (Millard) 77 Smithies
1952: Torch-Bearer (Jenkins) sophomore has seven dates
1956: ULLR (Kurts) Hanover Inn buffet: $3
1942-1945: Lonely dorm effort there was a war on
1949: Stiefelmannchen (Flemer) man-in-a-boot
1953: Skigo (Dingman) ID cards and a maze of rules
1957: Fire and Ice (Olds) B & M adds 14 extra coaches
1946: Sachem in a Jeep (Weimar) "Return of the Native"
1950: Wunderbar (Johnson) "They're all a-gog"
1954: Call to Carnival (Mrs. Johnson) only one drunk arrested
1958: The Space Age (Mrs. Morey) five months after Sputnik
1947: Schuss-Teufel (Johnson & Flemer)
1951: Alpdudler (Krehbiel) "Venuses Overrun Hanover"
1955: Nanook (Miano) "sociability"
1959: Good Old Days (Killebrew) how good?
1960: Otto and Bulko (Berneking, Baily) CBS
1964: Oscar (Evans) Bradley scores 31
1968: Gold's Fool (Peck) Klondike
1972: City of Oz (Bangs) a toboggan run, too
1961: Mr. Prohibition (Killebrew) but no shortage in Hangover
1965: Leader of the Pack (Pilling) The Beatles were big
1969: Flaming Dartmouth Animal (Lovaas) "Land of Fire and Ice"
1973: Cheshire Cat (Mason) no dates for Dartmouth women?
1962: Igluk (Greenwood) Duke Ellington played
1966: Baron von der Lust (Reed) "Once Upon a Mattress"
1970: Frosty (McKeown) the Playboy carnival
1974: Sorcerer Mickey (Ruegger) Icy fingers, Winterful World
1963: Fang (Sorensen) with Pete Seeger
1967: Greenevere (Peck) LSATs in the morning
1971: Clipper Ship (Fennessey) while Laos was clipped
1975: Norse God (Lockyear) up from the briny
1933: Old King Winter (Waldsmith) ice nudes
