Dickeys Visit College

-PV RESIDENT-ELECT AND Mrs. John Sloan X Dickey made a three-day visit to the College on October 11-13 as guests of President and Mrs. Hopkins and during that time met members of the faculty and staff and also many of the Dartmouth alumni residing in Hanover and nearby towns. The visit was not only their first to Hanover since the announcement of Mr. Dickey's election as 12 th President of the College but also their first since before the war.

The major event of their three-day stay was the large reception given by President and Mrs. Hopkins in Baker Library to introduce Mr. and Mrs. Dickey to the College community. Nearly a thousand persons attended the reception despite a rainy night, making it one of the most successful social occasions Hanover could remember. The entire main floor of the library was used, and it proved none too large for the throng desiring to pay their respects to Dartmouth's retiring president and newly elected leader. Green Key represented the undergraduates at the reception and also served as ushers for the occasion.

Also on October 12, in the late afternoon, President Hopkins and Presidentelect Dickey received the salute of the Dartmouth Navy V-13 Unit which formed in front of Parkhurst Hall and passed in review before them and the Navy staff officers. It was the Unit's last parade of the term, in fact its last parade as the V-12 Unit which gives way to the NROTC in November, and it marked the last time that the officer candidates paid tribute to Mr. Hopkins in his official role as President of Dartmouth College. The event had been specially postponed to coincide with Mr. Dickey's visit to Hanover, and rain failed to halt the carrying out of the review on schedule.

In addition to these events, Presidentelect Dickey met informally with various college officers and began the job of getting acclimated to the new responsibilities which will soon be his. He spent a good deal of his time with President Hopkins both at the office and at the President's House, and while they were immersed in Dartmouth matters Mrs. Hopkins and Mrs. Dickey had an opportunity to go over the questions needing to be settled before the change of families in the President's House. Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins plan to move out of the Tuck Drive residence before November 1 and Will make their new Hanover home at 29 Rope Ferry Road, the residence of 'he late Sydney E. Junkins '87.

It had originally been planned for Mr. lckey to attend the fall meeting of the oard of Trustees in Hanover on October but this session was postponed until ctober 31 so that the Trustees might be present when Mr. Dickey formally took office on the following morning, November 1.

THE PRESIDENT'S RECEPTION introducing President-elect and Mrs. John Sloan Dickey to the faculty, staff and resident alumni of the College was one of the largest and most successful social events in Hanover's memory. Shown in the receiving line (top) are, left to right, President-elect Dickey, Mrs. Dickey, Mrs. Hopkins and President Hopkins, with Green Key members serving as ushers. Center, a view of the line of nearly a thousand guests which stretched down the main lobby of Baker Library and which kept Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins and Mr. and Mrs. Dickey busy shaking hands and exchanging greetings for two hours. Bottom, the other end of Baker's main lobby where refreshments were served and where guests gathered for a while to talk with friends and exchange impressions of Dartmouth's new leader.