General Information about Item:

• Genre and Sub Genre
  • Customary Folklore: Tradition

• Language: English

• Country where Item is from: USA

Informant Data:

Anna is a ’19 on the Dartmouth Figure Skating Club. She is from New Jersey. Anna started skating in middle school. On campus, she writes for the Mirror, and is a English major. Anna is also one of three social chairs for the DFSC.

Contextual Data:

Anna learned of this entering her freshman year in the spring where members of the team meet up and share stories with one another.  This also includes several different team functions, including handing out of ‘paper plate’ awards, voting for team representatives, and a new member skit, where the new members dress up in flair.

Item:

The Team Banquet  is a yearly tradition for the Dartmouth Figure Skating Club. After its nationals competition, the team no longer has organized practice. As a result, the team is not able to spend as much time together. During this time the team has a dinner where they gather together and tell stories to recap the year that the team had.

New Member Skit at Banquet

Associated audio file:

Transcript:

“Tradition for the freshman to present a song and dance making fun of the team.  This is a yearly thing that happens every year. There are speeches for captainship”

Collector’s Comments:

This was collected in Baker Lobby.  This tradition fits under the categories of folklore because it has been going on for many years and is recurring and also has specific practices.

Tags/Keywords:

• Figure Skating, Team Banquet , Tradition, Customary

Collector:

Graydon Peterson