Fellowships
Upon recommendation of the faculty committee of graduate instruction and fellowships, President Hopkins has approved and announced the award of fellowships to the following Dartmouth alumni and seniors for the academic year 1930-1931: Alberto Frederic Thompson '28, Robert Kenneth Carr '29, Austin Laroy Starrett '29, Shepard Arthur Stone '29, Albert McHarg Hayes '30, Henry Sebastian Odbert '30, John Martin Toland '30, Charles Gordon Zey '30.
The recipient of the William Jewett Tucker Fellowship for the coming year as designated by President Hopkins will be Austin Laroy Starrett '29 of Athol, Mass., who is at the present time enrolled as a student in the Harvard Graduate School, specializing in mathematics. This award is based on an annual fund of S1000, which is raised through the medium of the Dartmouth College Alumni Fund on the Tucker Foundation, and is awarded to a man of outstanding excellence with the expectation that he will hold himself ready to serve as a teacher on the Dartmouth faculty if in the future his services shall be desired. Starrett is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Henry Sebastian Odbert '3O of Lakewood, Ohio, has been awarded the Henry Elijah Parker Fellowship of $1000, which is based on a fund bequeathed to Dartmouth by Henry Elijah Parker, professor of Latin and Literature in Dartmouth College from 1866 to 1896. Odbert is a member of Kappa Sigma and of Phi Beta Kappa and has been for two years a member of the gym team.
The George E. Chamberlin Fellowship of $1000 has been awarded to John Martin Toland '30 of Jamaica Plain, Mass. This fund is based upon the bequest of Mrs. Adelia D. McAlpine of New York City in commemoration of the life and service of George E. Chamberlin of the class of 1860, lieutenant-colonel, 11th Regiment of Vermont Volunteers in the Civil War, who lost his life in battle near Charleston, Virginia, August 23, 1865. Toland is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and of The Arts. Last June he was appointed a Senior Fellow, one of five men so designated for special privileges by the trustees in establishing the Senior Fellowship plan.
Albert McHarg Hayes '30 of Albany, N. Y., has been awarded the Richard Crawford Campbell, Jr., Fellowship of $1000, which is provided each year out of a fund established by the late Richard C. Campbell of the class of 1866, and Mrs. Campbell, of Denver, Colo., as a memorial to their son, Richard Crawford Campbell, Jr., of the class of 1921. The donors designated that this fellowship should be used by men interested in continuing their study in the field of English literature. Hayes is a member of Alpha Sigma Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, Cercle Francais, The Arts, is vice-president of the Round Table and was editor-in-chief of the Tomahawk.
The Charles O. Miller, Jr., Memorial Fellowship has been awarded this year jointly to Alberto Frederic Thompson '28 of Waltham, Mass., and Shepard Arthur Stone '29 of Nashua. This fellowship is based on a fund given by Mrs. Mary Elizabeth White Miller of Stamford, Conn., in memory of her husband, Charles 0. Miller, Jr., of the class of 1899, and carries an award of $1000. Thompson is at the present time an instructor in the Department of Chemistry at Dartmouth and will be a candidate for the degree of Master of Science in Chemistry in June, 1930. While an undergraduate he was active in Cercle Francais. Stone is at the present time doing graduate work at the University of Berlin, Germany. He is a member of Pi Lambda Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, and while an undergraduate was active in the band and the Players orchestra.
Charles Gordon Zey '30 of Butler, Mo., has been awarded the James B. Richardson Fellowship. A fund for this fellowship was established by James B. Richardon of the class of 1857, and was supplemented by a bequest of Miss Catherine Richardson so that at the present time the income of the fund provides $1000 a year. Zey is a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Beta Kappa, Round Table, The Arts, and has for three years been a member of the gym team, last year gaining the distinction of being high point scorer in the Eastern Intercollegiate League.
Robert Kenneth Carr '29 of Cleveland, Ohio, has been re-appointed to the Fred DeMerritte Barker Fellowship, which he holds at the present time. The annual award of $1000 for this fellowship is based on a fund given by Augustine V. Barker of the class of 1872, in memory of his son. Lieutenant Fred DeMerritte Barker, A. R. C., who was killed at Fleuville, October 4,1918. Carr is enrolled in the Graduate School of Harvard University at the present time and will be a candidate for the degree of Master of Arts in the field of government in June, 1930. While an undergraduate he was a member of Chi Phi and of Phi Beta Kappa.
