FINE ARTS BUILDING GIVEN

The gift of a Fine Arts Building to cost approximately $300,000 was announced at the Manchester Alumni dinner January 9 by President Hopkins. Frank P. Carpenter of Manchester is the generous donor who will provide a long-needed arts center for Dartmouth to house lecture and recitation rooms for the Department of Modern Art, as well as galleries, studios, display rooms, seminar rooms and facilities for providing for club and social rooms.

Mr. Carpenter is one of the foremost citizens of the state and has long been noted for his interest in civic enterprises for the public good. A few years ago he was given a special medal by the Kiwanis Club for his distinguished service to the city. He planned and built the modern hotel which Manchester boasts, and which bears his name. He was the donor of the Carpenter Memorial Library of Manchester, given in memory of his wife, and he is an active member of the Board of Trustees of the Balch Children's Hospital and of the Currier Fund, from which is being built, under his direction, the beautiful Currier Museum of Fine Arts.

Mr. Carpenter came to Manchester as a boy in 1864, where he entered the flour and grain business. In 1885, he bought the Amoskeag Paper Mills. He has been prominent in the banking business of the city, a Director of the Boston and Maine Railroad, and is large owner and director in many industrial enterprises, both within and without the state.

He is a grandson of Josiah Carpenter, who graduated from Dartmouth in 1787, and has been a life-long associate and friend of Dartmouth men. In 1915, in recognition of his distinguished civic contributions to the welfare of the state, Dartmouth conferred upon him the honorary degree of Master of Arts.

The approximate cost of the new Fine Arts Building at Dartmouth will be $300,000 and it will be one of the colony of structures to be erected around the new million-dollar Baker Memorial Library, this projected building being placed cn the lot at the northwest corner of the Library, and connected with the Library by a subway.

The Carpenter Fine Arts Building will contain public galleries, lecture and recitation rooms for the department, seminar rooms, a club room as social center, display rooms for prints and photographs, several private studios and quarters for the entertainment of visiting artists.

Mr. Carpenter's generous gift meets perhaps the most vital need which the College has, and will make possible the further enrichment of the college curriculum and influence at a point where it was impossible to do this before because of lack of facilities.

Frank P. Carpenter