UNH Holiday Skating Party

Each year, students enrolled in the Whittemore School’s Meeting Planning Management class undertake the challenge – and fun – of planning and running the University’s annual Holiday Skating Party. Now in its 25th year, the skating party features a different theme annually to educate and entertain guests who also take part in perennially favorite activities such as cookie making, a silent auction, and of course, lacing up the Bauers.

The presence of both the men’s and women’s ice hockey teams brings excitement– and lots of autograph requests – to this community event.
The Whittemore Center is renowned for its highly negotiable “soft” ice. Just tell that to skaters such as this one who met the ice in rather abrupt ways!
Kristin Houle of Durham assists her daughter, Sadie, in skating at the annual Holiday Skating Party.
This year’s Holiday Skating Party theme was "A New England Tradition." Guess what state this big fella represented to enthusiastic visitors?
Two-year-old Harlan Cooper of Dover, N.H., uses a straw to fill his sails with sturdy gusts during a “boat race” on Boston’s Charles River at the annual Holiday Skating Party.
A future Wildcat? Logan Lemieux, 6, of Dover, N.H., visits with Santa at the annual Holiday Skating Party.
Pin-the-face-on-the-Old Man of the Mountain was a popular attraction at the annual Holiday Skating Party.

Photography by Mike Ross, UNH Photographic Services