Bascom Hill Society Flipbook | University of Wisconsin Foundation

The Pail and Shovel party holds a “funeral” for the Statue of Liberty on Lake Mendota. To the right of the monument, by the wreath, are Pail and Shovel vice president Jim Mallon ’79 (left) and president Leon Varjian x’83 (right). The original statue was torched by an unknown arsonist 10 days after it had been constructed. A new, fireproof statue was erected in February of 1980. That statue was rescued from a barn near Barneveld in the mid 1990s, and with the help of a generous donor, Hoofers restored it. On February 14, 2009, it was reassembled in honor of the 30-year anniversary of its first appearance. An inflatable replica was created in 2019 and returns to the ice of Lake Mendota each year during Hoofers’ Winter Carnival. February 1979