Miss Gilmore Resigns

THE RESIGNATION of Miss Laura B. Gilmore, who has been House Mother at Dick Hall's House for the past 19 years, has been accepted with regret, it was announced recently by Dean Lloyd K. Neidlinger, chairman of the Council on Student Health.

Miss Gilmore, who has been in poor health for some time, retired on or about December i. She has expressed the intention of taking an extended rest before engaging in some nursing activity that does not impose such heavy responsibilities as those attached to her position at Dick's House.

Miss Gilmore came to Dartmouth in 1927 from the teaching staff of the Milford (Mass.) Hospital. She had been selected for the position of House Mother by Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Hall, the donors of the infirmary, after an extensive search for the nursing supervisor best qualified to understand and appreciate the "spirit of Dick's House" and capable of developing administrative practices consistent with that spirit. Miss Gilmore has therefore been in charge at Dick's House almost from the beginning of its operation and has been friend and "mother" to thousands of students who have come under her care.

It is anticipated that the Council on Student Health will make temporary provision for the management of the infirmary after Miss Gilmore's resignation until such time as a successor can be found by a committee working in collaboration with Mrs. E. K. Hall.