CROSBY

New Alumni Center

CROSBY HALL, eye-catching with its pillared Colonial whiteness and newly remodeled into administrative offices, is for the time being Dartmouth's Alumni House. Its first-floor unit includes the Alumni Records Office, the Alumni Fund and the joint office of the Alumni Magazine and News Service, all of which are shown in the accompanying photographs by Adrian Bouchard. The recently established Dartmouth Development Council has its headquarters in the north wing of the second floor, and a sea-change then takes places on the second and third "decks" where the NROTC offices are located.

One o£ the oldest buildings on campus, Crosby Hall dates from 1810, the year it was built by Prof. Zephaniah Swift Moore, later president successively of Williams and Amherst. It was next owned by Dr. Reuben D. Muzzy, Professor of Surgery, and was purchased from him in 1838 by Dr. Dixi Crosby, Medical School professor and one of New Hampshire's leading doctors. The house was bought by the College in 1884 and for a time was used for faculty apartments. In 1896 it was converted to a dormitory, enlarged to accommodate 64 men, and named Crosby Hall in honor of the family which produced so many distinguished teachers and physicians.

Crosby's large, comfortable old rooms, with fireplaces (and low rents), endeared the dorm to the students who roomed there; and so far as can be figured out from the alumni who have dropped in to see the new offices, the number of Dartmouth men who roomed in Crosby is roughly equivalent to the number of living graduates.

Now that Crosby houses administrative offices, the distinction of being the oldest dormitory on campus goes to Richardson Hall, built in 1897.

THE NEW AND ATTRACTIVE HEADQUARTERS OF THE DARTMOUTH ALUMNI FUND

LEFT, THE MAIN ALUMNI RECORDS OFFICE AND, RIGHT, THE ADJOINING ADDRESSOGRAPH ROOM, BOTH BRIGHT AND AMPLE IN SIZE

THE JOINT ALUMNI MAGAZINE AND NEWS SERVICE OFFICE HAS MODERN LIGHTING, THREE PRIVATE CUBICLES AND UNCONGESTED WORK SPACE