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WE ARE WILLING to bet that very few of our alumni readers are aware of the essential part Dartmouth played in the beginnings of America's giant petroleum industry. It is an interesting story, and no one can tell it better than Ford Whelden '25, who has made a sort of hobby of digging out the facts and reading just about everything ever printed on the subject. His article, It AllBegan in Hanover, will be found on Page 13. Titusville, Pennsylvania, is incontrovertibly the birthplace of the petroleum industry, but what happened there was the direct result of events in which Dartmouth men, notably George H. Bissell, took all the leading parts.
Another article this month deals with the 1951 Hanover Holiday (Page 18) which has chosen "The Defense of Freedom" for its central theme. Prof. Arthur E. Jensen, who is serving as director during the leave of Prof. Herbert W. Hill, announces the program and speakers for the four-day Alumni College.
April marks the start of the 37th annual Alumni Fund campaign, and George H. Colton '35, executive secretary, explains (on Page 21) why this 1951 effort is the most important as well as the biggest ever undertaken by Dartmouth men.
Other April contents:
Books 5
The College 9
Hanover Browsing 11
Prescott Orde Skinner 19
The Undergraduate Chair 20
Dr. Tucker Speaking 23
With Big Green Teams 25
News from Clubs and Classes 29
In Memoriam 78
The Cover Adrian Bouchard's cover picture of a zoology lab in Silsby Hall has a nice touch of bi-monthly symbolism. For a photograph taken in March, what could be more appropriate than a lion, wasted away to a skeleton and therefore perfect for April?
