Dartmouth's Passion for Snow-Clip

Dartmouth's Passion for Snow will be highlighted towards the end of 2012 in a full length documentary film, produced by Lisa Densmore '83 with support from leading movie makers Rick Moulton, Roger Cotton Brown '57, Jim Butterworth T'91 and many others. This short teaser clip illustrates a portion of the final film that will be premiered in the East (Hanover, NH; October 2012) and the West (Vail, CO; December 2012) with expected play at selected film festivals and on PBS/other cable channels. The story to be told will highlight one of Dartmouth's greatest achievements as an institution. It will show how Dartmouth College, its 3 graduate schools and the local community in the Hanover NH area have made many snow related contributions to the world we live in today, including being the preeminent force in the development of the modern skiing industry which is over twice the size of a business giant like Microsoft. The elements to be covered range from the snow related tales of Ted Geisel '25 (aka Dr. Seuss) and Bob May '26 (creator of the Christmas story involving Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer) to the initiation of college ski racing/ski teams/race techniques and the creation of the first ski lifts to the leadership of the first US Mountain troops (the 10th Mt. Division in WW II) to the founding and management of most major US Ski Areas such as Sun Valley, Aspen, Vail, Keystone, Telluride, Copper Mountain, Sunday River, Wildcat, Shawnee Peak, Sugarloaf, Killington, Waterville Valley, Alta, Alyeska and much more.
The story will point out the impact of Dartmouth's founding in the snow-filled hills of New Hampshire by Eleazar Wheelock in 1769, the saving legal effort of Daniel Webster in 1818-19, and the initiation of the very first graduate engineering and business schools in the US as well as the 4th medical school by 1900. It will show how graduates from Dartmouth have had the unique mix of skills to not only develop skiing activities, but also generate all the related support activities from ski clothing and equipment companies to ski movies to ski area real estate developments, medical centers/clinics, restaurants/hotels/retail stores and every other aspect of contemporary ski town operations. The film will include interviews with some 35 individuals including legends like former US Surgeon General, Dr. C. Everett Koop, world renowned ski historian John Allen, several of Dartmouth's dominant group of National Ski Hall of Famers, and recent Winter Olympic medal winners, Andrew Weibrecht '09 and Hannah Kearney '15. The film is based on the award winning book, Passion for Skiing (2010, 440 pages, www.PassionforS...) by Stephen Waterhouse '65 T'67 and many other writers.
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[@castleclouds4274]

Wonderful to see this and see many of my classmates as they were! Brought tears to my eyes.
Kent Mitchel

[@RichardHoeg]

As a Dartmouth grad who just completed on Saturday my 1,000 kilometers of cross-country skiing for this Winter, I love this video. Is it surprising?!

[@speyrod59]

Lisa,
Great trailer. I can't wait to see the complete movie.
Fran Noel '59

[@CBirch1000]

I thought it said, "Darthmoul passion for snow". Kind of disappointed now,,,