Mrs. N. A. Frost Leaves $196,960 to the College

ELEANOR LOUISE FROST, a long-time resident of Hanover who died last year at the age of 101, told Dartmouth officials on several occasions that she wanted to remember the College in her will. At the annual June meeting of the Board of Trustees, President Dickey announced that Mrs. Frost had made good her promise with a bequest totaling 1196,960. This is in addition to $74,000 that Mrs. Frost had given Dartmouth during her lifetime, making a total of $270,960.

The bequest, the largest ever made to Dartmouth by a Hanover resident, allotted $24,000 to establish four scholarships honoring members of the Frost family.

Mrs. Frost died on December 24, 1950. Her long interest in the College started in 1874, shortly after her marriage to Newton A. Frost. Mr. Frost conducted a jewelry business and insurance agency in Hanover for many years and, at the time of his death, was the president of the Dartmouth Savings Bank.

Mrs. Frost's large circle of friends of all ages began in those first days when she waited on. customers in the jewelry store and grew throughout her 76 years in Hanover. She and her husband had many friends in the student body, and often helped young men financially by making generous loans.

Always an enthusiastic follower of undergraduate activities at the College, Mrs. Frost took special interest in student dramatics. In 1950, only two days before her death, she made arrangements to per- petuate the annual Eleanor L. Frost prize of $1OO for the best original play written by a Dartmouth student.

Mrs. Frost's only child, Walter Alvin Frost, died while preparing for Dartmouth at the Holderness School.