MTU - Winter Carnival

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Title: MTU - Winter Carnival
Photographer: Unknown
Subject Headings: Seasons - Winter, Contests, Manners and Customs - Festivals
Condition: Good
Description: Winter Carnival statue built by students of Douglass Houghton Hall. [A snow statue of what appears to be Goldylocks and the Three Bears. (Michigan Tech Centennial Page 236)]
Source of Description: Back of photo [cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Raymond Smith
Date of Photo: undated
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 11.6 cm x 16.9 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: Book LD3328H3-236-1
Collection Name: Centennial
Terms of Use: Rights to reproduce and distribute this image may be restricted. Contact the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections for further information.
User Comments:
• I don't wan't to take anything away from the 1973 DHH Statue. It was a wonderful piece of artwork and engineering, but their suspended figure was not a first. Unfortunately, I don't have a picture but one does exist in the Lode Pictorial for I believe 1970. St. Albert the Great suspended snow and ice in the form of a dolphin and shark with structure designed by Christopher Zoppa, a civil engineering student. It was all fabricated on site with essentially scrap lumber and steel cable. Others may remember better than I, but I seem to recall a figure of nearly 40 tons of suspended ice in that sculpture. I also remember rules limiting the amount of structure in a statue at that time, and we were pushing the limit.Winter Carnival was a great one for us that year, and I often think of how much better we could have done in the classroom if we'd put the same kind of effort into studies. However, we all need fun too.--Gregory Switek
7/3/2012 12:26:52 PM by Anonymous