Trustee Scholarships

TWELVE NEW TRUSTEE SCHOLARSHIPS on the Cohen Foundation, valued at from $500 to $700 each, to be awarded annually to men from any section of the country under the same general terms as the College's Regional Scholarships, were established at Dartmouth during the summer and were granted for the first time to nine men. When fully in operation they will be awarded to three freshmen each year and continued throughout the four-year course.

At the same time it was announced that five new Verson Woodman Gooch Scholar- ships of $5OO each had been awarded this year for the first time, and that the recently received William N. Cohen Endowment Fund had made it possible to grant an annual stipend covering the remaining cost of full board for all students now earning two-thirds of their meals in the College-operated dining halls.

In awarding the Trustee Scholarships on the Cohen Foundation for the first time, Dartmouth named as recipients three seniors, three juniors, one sophomore, and two freshmen. They are Waldemar Meckes Jr. '42, Lakewood, Ohio; Philip G. Moon '42, Detroit, Mich.; Warner C. Wilson Jr. '42, Fort Thomas, Ky.; Albert J. Holzhauer Jr. '43, Dayton, Ohio; John W. Reps '43, Springfield, Mo.; John H. Shaw '43, Brookline, Mass.; Philip R. Sholl '44, South Hadley, Mass.; John P. Halstead Jr. '45, Buffalo, N. Y.; and John F. Scholer '45, Manhattan, Kan.

Recipients of the first Verson Woodman Gooch Scholarships are James W. Robinson '42, Auburndale, Mass.; Fred E. Wood- ward '43, Framingham, Mass.; Robert H. Kaatz '44, Minneapolis, Minn.; Clark MacGregor '44, Minneapolis, Minn.; and Charles M. Wilder '44, Washington, D. C.

Dartmouth's new Trustee Scholarships are based on a special fund set aside for that purpose from the $1,208,691 received this past year by bequest of Justice William N. Cohen '79 of New York City, who left the College one-half of his estate with- out condition but expressed the preference that part, at least, be used for scholarship aid. The Gooch Scholarships are based on a fund of $57,382 given by bequest of Verson W. Gooch '01 of Wakefield, Mass., former official of the United Fruit Company, who checked out from the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York in November, 1932, and was not heard of thereafter. Mr. Gooch directed that consideration be given to students from foreign countries, particularly Latin America, in the award of the scholarships.

Enrollment Drop Slight Nearly complete enrollment figures on September 19 gave a total of 2,377 men, a drop of 64 or 2.5% from last year's total. Undergraduate enrollment was 2,308, down 47; and graduate and other enrollment was 69, down 17. The greatest shrinkage occurred in the senior class, which numbered 453 compared with 530 last year. The freshman class of 732 men was the largest in the history of the College, but was not greatly above the previous high of 707 in the Class of 1938. Tuck School enrollment of 105 was down 29, while Thayer School jumped from 21 to 30, and the Medical School from 41 to 45. Thirteen enrolled in the joint Tuck-Thayer course, compared with two last year.