Brattleboro Union High School - Colonel Yearbook (Brattleboro, VT)

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r ' 1 I l l I VOL. XXXII DECEMBER, 1956 NO. 2 LSUQBJ . .Slat 4- Tbe Dial Board ll M0 PAGE f Editor-in-Chief C I LESLIE WARREN over ...... . . .Cut by Betty Fowler Asst- Edif0 in'Chief Frontispiece .......... Cut by Ellen Dines MURIEL INGALLS Business Manager B1'affl6bO1'O Jump ....... 3 EDWARD Com' l . Asst. Business Manage, The Brattleboro Outing Club .... 5 JAMES MANLEY P t 6 Circulation Manager oe ry . . . ................ . . , 8 FRANK TAYLOR Brattleboro-Winter Playland. . . 7 Asst. Cir. Manager ALBERT HALL Ski jumping Technique ...... 9 Art Editor t . BETTY FOWLER Edltoflals . . . . . . Athletics ...... . 11 ASSOCIATE EDITORS l Eleangf Weaver ..........-............. Ruth Helyar B Ex . . 1 Bitstii ciffif Alumni Letter-Why Not a High School John Broutsas . I Charles Murdough Ski Team? ........................ Dorothy Dunklee B I B' 1 .. ,, - . iiiigoiyrfgiiiefw Book Chat- Schtem Along! --Ski Heill. 15 A George Mason , Exchange-Winter Sports Activities ...... 17 FACULTY Anvlson HuIT1OrCSquC .............. ..... . 21 Mr. Chaliey I I Published live times a year, October, December, February, April, and june, by 4-L the students of the High School at Brattleboro, Vermont. Subscription, 51.50 a gi,-R., year in advanceg single COPY, 35c. Entered at Brattleboro, Vt., Post Office as second-class matter. All business communications should be addressed to the Business Manager, The Su turd' Dial, Brattleboro, Vt. All other communications to the Editor-in-Chief. Il, SU? fi it lla. EE ' xx.: :Ji lj

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y '1 BRATTLEBORO SKI JUMP LORRAINE DOUGLASS '58 MARION DUNHAM '38 ITH a setting of snow-laden , trees on a crusted hill against an azure sky-a typ- ical Vermont winter day- a ski meet at the Brattleboro jump produces colored sil- houettes pinned against the blue heavens. Look now! A red-clad figure on skis swishes down thetrestle and swoops over the jump, gracefully spreading his arms, an eagle soaring in the air. Below, an eager crowd of thousands, not only from Brat- tleboro but from other places as well--thousands of eyes thrilling at the daring jump. As the flashy figure glides like an airplane down to the ground in triumph, the appre- ciative spectators submit ejaculations of ahs and ohs. Yes, they're echoing the score from the judge's stand. What a jump! Indeed, the Brattleboro ski-jump is the best in the east! Ski-riders from everywhere come here to try their skill on our excellent hill. So, natural inquiries are: When was this jump built? How much did it cost? Who first con- ceived it? . The possibility of constructing a ski-jump was con- sidered at a meeting of the members of the Brattleboro Community Service, on December 16, 1921. After con- siderable discussion, a special committee, composed of George L. Dunham, jacob P. Estey, Charles F. Mann, Fred H. Harris and Robert L. Fitts, was appointed to in- vestigate the proposed project. In january, a ski jump which, from all indications and engineers' figures prom- ised to be one of the best in this part of the country, and one on which it would be possible to far outstrip the jump records made at Dartmouth College or at Lake Placid, New York, was assured to Brattleboro through the underwrit- ing of the construction expense by several citizens in- terested in the project. Work was immediately begun. The contract for the construction of the jump was let to D. W. Overocker, manager of the Falkill Construction Company. R. E. Coombs, district highway commissioner, made his con- tribution to the work in the services of general supervisor, representing the underwriters, to protect their interests. Jams E. Helyar, a member of the winter sports committee of the Community Service by whom the project was fos- tered, acted as engineer. The site of the jump is a naturally excellent one. It was discovered by Fred Harris, on land owned by the George E. Crowell estate, on the big hill just west of the old golf links clubhouse. A ten-year lease of the land, with privi- lege of buying at any time, was granted by Christie B. Crowell, administrator of the estate. The Brattleboro Re- treat, through Dr. S. E. Lawton, secretary of the trustees, also granted the right to use a part of its land and a right of way, also permission to cut a number of trees and re- move a high wire fence. The large field at the foot gives ample space for the accommodation of about 10,000 spectators. The hill is especially well adapted for use as a jump because it faces from the sun, a situation which pre- vents melting of snow, and it is so situated that the jump- ers are sheltered from the wind. It is easily accessible, be- ing only a fifteen minute walk from Main Street. 'l HIS new ski-jump, built at a cost of about 32500, larg- est in the east, was opened by Lieutenant-Governor Abram W. Foote, on Saturday, February 4, 1922, a day long to be remembered. john P. Carleton, of the Dart- mouth Outing Club, leaped 150 feet, breaking the eastern United States record of 118 feet. At the inter-club contest on February 28, a new record was set up by Ingvalli Bing Anderson of the Nansen Ski Club of Berlin, New Hampshire, who made a perfect jump of 1585 feet. The distance was SIM feet more than that made by john Carleton of the Dartmouth Outing Club February 4, when he established a new eastern amateur record. Carleton, because of a sprained ankle, was unable to be here to defend his title. The final scoring gave the Nansen Club twenty points and won for it the D. W. Overocker club cup offered to the club whose members scored the highest number of points. Mr. Overocker was the contractor in charge of the construction of the jump. The cup offered to the best individual contestant was won by Bing Anderson of the same club, who had the nearly perfect score of 1.033, while the cup offered to the second best individual jumper went to Rolf Munson of the Norsemen club, whose score was 2463. Anderson also was awarded the Brooks House cup offered to the partici- pant making the longest jump without a spill. Two years later a crowd of about 5000, the largest ever assembled in the East, saw the events of the 1924 National Ski Tournament on the Brattleboro hill. It was, in every sense, a national gathering, with the cream of the country's ski riders present from as far west as Steamboat Springs, Colorado. ...J