Gives Rare Books
DR. ROBERT M. STECHER '13, of the City Hospital, Cleveland, has recently been made a member of the Executive Committee of the Friends of the Dartmouth Library.
His most recent donations include a practically complete collection of the books of the famous Rowfant Club of Cleveland, Ohio. Among these are rare volumes by Kipling, Cunningham Graham, Dr. Harvey Cushing, and many, many others. (For instance the Rowfant Club once reprinted a facsimile edition of the famous New England magazine The Dial to which Emerson, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and other writers of "the golden day" contributed. These are included in the collection.) The Rowfant books are notable, too, as fine examples of printing and book making.
Dr. Stecher along with George Matthew Adams and Colonel Marston E. Drake of New York contributed most generously recently toward the purchase of eight holograph letters of Rupert Brooke written while he was in the United States and Canada, the manuscript of "Mary and Gabriel," and the manuscript of Joyce Kil- mer's poem on Rupert Brooke. These additions undoubtedly make the Dartmouth Rupert Brooke collection the best in existence.
Thomas W. Streeter '04, of Morristown, New Jersey, always a generous benefactor
to the Library, is the Chairman of the Executive Committee, and Herbert F. West '22, of Hanover, is the Secretary.
V-E DAY IN HANOVER was observed with a dignified community program on the campus. (Top) Dart- mouth V-12 trainees, dismissed from classes for the day, shown assembling in front of the speakers' platform near the flagpole. (Center) Grade-school pupils, who took part in the preliminary parade, are shepherded into place by Major Anderson of the Marines. (Bottom) The speakers of the morning, left to right, were Captain Cummings, Dean Neidlinger, Father John W. Sliney, Rev. Leslie W. Hodder, Nichol M. Sandoe Jr. '45, president of Green Key, and A/S George R. Turner, former fleet man now in the V-12 Unit.
