"Making Democracy Work"

SIXTY-THREE STUDENT delegates from Cornell, Pennsylvania and Dartmouth, and eleven prominent guest consultants met in Hanover on the week-end of April 17-18 for the fifth annual Tri-College Conference on "Making Democracy Work." This year the conference theme added the words And Win."

Guest consultants who participated in the round-table discussions included Bruce Bliven, editor of the New Republic-, President Stringfellow Barr of St. John's College, Annapolis; Irwin Edman, author and philosophy professor at Columbia; Prof. Pendleton Herring of the Graduate School of Public Administration at Harvard; President Constance Warren of Sarah Lawrence College; Rabbi Morris Lazaron of Baltimore, who gave the address at the opening banquet; Ralph E. Flanders, president of the Jones and Lamson machine tool company; Edgar P. Dean of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York City; Prof. E. J. Knapton of the Wheaton College history department; and Prof. Phillips Bradley, chairman of the Queens College political science department.

Four main round-table sessions dealt with Industrial and Financial Mobilization for War, Democratic Controls of Governmental Processes in War Time, Postwar Institutional Reconstruction, and the Role of Education in the Struggle to Preserve Democracy. A general panel discussion, open to the public, closed the conference. John M. Keefe '43 of Bronxville, N. Y., was student chairman of the meetings and Prof. Robert K. Carr '29 headed the faculty committee.

DARTMOUTH'S OLDEST GRADUATE, 101 On May 13, Dr. Zeeb Gilman of the class of 1863 of Redlands, Calif., will celebrate his101 st birthday. He is shown above with California State Senator Ralph E. Swing, left, Mrs.Gilman and N. L. Levering of Redlands when the State Senate honored Dr. Gilman bypresenting him a decorated resolution of congratulations. Dr. Gilman has frequently entertained Dartmouth alumni visitors at his home. His health continues good and he willbe congratulated this month on entering his 102 nd year which qualifies him, so far as weknow, as not only Dartmouth's eldest alumnus but the oldest graduate of any college inthe country.