Objective: $4,000,000

ALTHOUGH SOME REFINEMENTS remain to be made before the builders actually unroll their blueprints, the Hopkins Center Project has virtually completed its planning phase and has now turned to the job of raising the $4,000,000 that will make possible the construction of the new auditorium building and the new addition to the Wilder Hall physics laboratories.

The Hopkins Center, which will require $3,500,000 of the total fund, naturally dominates most thinking about the combined Project. Some idea of what the Center will mean to the Dartmouth campus physically has already been obtained from the architect's drawings and from a scale model of the exterior. What it will mean to Dartmouth educationally, socially and spiritually is a more challenging and a more exciting idea—and it is the idea that the Trustees and the Alumni Council plan to keep at the heart of the campaign now under way. For in looking beyond the alumni ranks for a large part of the financial backing necessary to see this Project through, the College's justification lies in the certainty that its obligations as a national college and as a source of public leadership will be more fully met when it improves the physical means for doing its job.

There is, in fact, sound basis for thinking that the stimulus which the Hopkins Center will bring to Dartmouth life will be comparable to that which the College experienced when Baker Library was added to the plant nearly ten years ago. The Center, with its unlimited possibilities for daily usefulness, will be a focal point in far more than the physical sense; and for that reason, it is a great satisfaction to Dartmouth men to have it bear the name of Ernest Martin Hopkins, during whose administration the plans for this vital addition were initiated.

The willingness of a large number of Dartmouth men to undertake the hard work of the present fund campaign is tremendously increased by the knowledge that the new Center will be a tribute to Mr. Hopkins. It is for the greatness of his leadership that most of the special alumni gifts and many of the non-alumni gifts will be made.

In working for the realization of the Hopkins Center Project, the national committee, headed by John W. Hubbell 'si, and the regional chairman and committeemen are acting on behalf of the entire Dartmouth alumni body to express their indebtedness to a great man and their deep affection for him. For the unselfish representation which they give to all of us and for the big job which they are shouldering, the Hopkins Center Project workeis deserve a rousing vote of thanks from all Dartmouth men.

A WAH HOO WAH!

FOR JAMES T. HEENEHAN '14, elected a Trustee of Iona College, New Rochelle, N. Y.

FOR ROBERT FISH ' 18, appointed by Governor Osborn of Arizona as a Member of the Arizona Power Authority.

FOR H. WARREN WILSON ' 18, named to assist the World Bank with the distribution of securities.

FOR DR. ROBERT M. STECHER '19, elected President of the American Rheumatism Association; also chosen official delegate to the First European Rheumatology Congress, in Copenhagen.

FOR STANLEY j. LONSDALE '24, elected President of the Connecticut State Association of Life Underwriters.

FOR FRANCIS H. HORN '30, named Dean of McCoy College, John Hopkins University.

FOR PAUL s. CLEAVELAND '36, who tied for top honors in the bar examinations given by the Maryland State Board of Law Examiners.