Tuck Buildings Named

The names of the buildings of the new Tuck School group, which is now approaching completion, were announced recently by President Hopkins. The central building will be named for Edward Tuck; the refectory will be called Stell Hall; and the two dormitories will be known as Levi Woodbury House and Salmon P. Chase House. The new Tuck School plant will be opened next fall.

The main building of the new group is being named for Edward Tuck, the donor, who is the greatest single benefactor that the College has had. The family name of the late Mrs. Tuck is being attached to the new refectory, Stell Hall.

The two dormitories were named in honor of two Dartmouth graduates who were Secretaries of the Treasury. Woodbury House is named in honor of Levi Woodbury of the class of 1809, who held perhaps more important offices than any other Dartmouth man ever did and who almost certainly would have been nominated for the presidency of the United States except for his unexpected death in 1851. He was judge of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire 1816-23 and governor of New Hampshire 1823-24. He was later a member of the United States Senate, Secretary of the Navy, and Secretary of the Treasury from 1834 to 1841, serving under two presidents. He was later a judge of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Chase House was given its name in honor of Salmon P. Chase of the class of 1826. This distinguished Dartmouth graduate was successively United States Senator, Governor of Ohio, Secretary of the Treasury under President Lincoln, and Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1865 to 1873.