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Stinson Keg Transport Tradition

Title: Stinson Keg Transport Tradition

Informant info: Jack Stinson was born and raised in Hanover, NH. He runs his family’s beer store Stinson’s Village.

Type of lore: Customary, tradition

Language: English

Country of Origin: United States

Social / Cultural Context: Jack Stinson was interviewed inside his store. He has experienced the revelries associated with Homecoming for the last few decades.

Item: There used to be a tradition of hiring football and hockey players to transport kegs for Jack during homecoming weekend. Jack would pay these athletes, and they would bring the heavy kegs to the Greek houses for their parties during homecoming. This tradition ended with new college restrictions on kegs.

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Transcript (if verbal lore): N/A

Informant’s comments: Jack also recounted how the evolution of kegs to cans has occurred at Dartmouth. He told us about how the rate of alcohol consumption on campus has dropped with the evolution of cans.

Collector’s comments: The informant seems to remember the story very fondly.

Tags/Keywords: homecoming, kegs, drinking, stinsons

Drinking Ritual

Drinking Ritual
Informant Data: Ayana Whitmal is a 20-year-old, female, sophomore (’18) who attends Dartmouth College. She was born in Amherst, Massachusetts and now resides in Hanover, New Hampshire during the school year.
Type of lore: Customary; Genre: ritual
Language: English
Country of Origin: US
Contextual Data: Ayana Whitmal attends Dartmouth College and has been present for homecoming for two years.
Item: Every year during homecoming, some students drink excessively so much so that drinking has become a ritual. The Greek system have all sorts of drinking games that students can partake in if they so choose.
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Informant’s comments: The drinking rituals hold a specific meaning for Dartmouth students, and they want to induce this atmosphere.
Collector’s comments: Homecoming is fun, and to Dartmouth, fun or having a good time involves drinking. This is a way for the student body to bond; to show friendship and so on. Drinking is encompassed in homecoming, and if it is not, homecoming is not truly homecoming in the students’ eyes.
Ritual, Drinking

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Title: Bells for S&S

Genre: Customary Folklore

Informant info: Daniel C. Reitsch, from Rockford, IL, VP at Chi Heorot Fraternity and Dartmouth class of 2016 President

Type of lore: Customary

Language: English

Country of Origin: U.S.A

Social / Cultural Context: Greek Houses tend to be lenient in regards to serving minors alcohol; therefore, they can find themselves in trouble if campus security discovers that they are doing such an act. Accordingly, campus security performs “walkthroughs” in which they knock on the fraternity door and then do a walkthrough to make sure that all college rules are being followed. Greek houses have rituals that they perform in order to make sure they pass walkthroughs.

Transcript: “At some greek houses, when someone believes that S & S is at their door, they initiate a buzzer or bell system to warn everyone in the house in case they are doing something that would get them in trouble.”

Collector’s comments: The informant was very matter of fact about the rituals, he did acknowledge that he had never seen the bell system in use, but that it was a system that he had heard was used in the past very often.

Collected by Robert Moffitt, Class of 2016.

May 18th, 2016