In Brief...

President Dickey, after spending the first part of the summer at his cottage on Lake Champlain, went to Colorado for a week in August to be consultant in the annual program of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. The topic for this year's panel was "The Promise of American Life." On October 22 President Dickey will participate in another panel discussion, to be held in Boston as part of the 38th annual meeting of Associated Industries of Massachusetts, and dealing with "Industry Asks the Educators."

Something new for Dartmouth undergraduates this year is the identification card that every student will be required to carry. Similar to those used in other colleges, the card will be wallet-size, laminated in plastic, and will bear the picture, name, age, address and general description of the student. To get the new system started, Adrian Bouchard, the College photographer, took pictures of some 700 freshmen during matriculation and was scheduled to photograph the rest of the student body shonly after the opening of the college year. He is doing the job with a special camera that uses 100-foot rolls of 35 mm. film and can take 500 pictures on each roll.

Dartmouth Nisiht this year will be held on October 16. This will be the night before the Colgate game and in Hanover the traditional observance will wind up with a football rally.

Two regional conferences of Dartmouth alumni officers, similar to that held a few years ago in Denver, will take place this fall in the South and Southwest, the first in Atlanta, November 6-7, and the second in Dallas, November 13-14. Alumni club delegates from these two areas, where the influx of Dartmouth alumni has been heavy in recent years, will meet with College officers to discuss the strengthening of alumni organization and enrollment work, and the topics of admissions and scholarship aid. Sidney C. Hayward '26, Secretary of the College; Albert I. Dickerson '30, director of admissions; and Edward T. Chamberlain, executive officer of the College, will represent the College at both conferences; and in Atlanta they will be joined by Robert K. Hage '35, assistant director of admissions and executive head of the financial aid program. In addition to the working sessions on both days, the College officers will attend a Friday luncheon to meet superintendents, principals and headmasters of the schools in each area, and will speak Saturday night at dinners given by the clubs for all alumni and their wives.

Baker Library this summer received a special John Cotton Dana Award for "introducing the library into the College's national publicity." The award was made jointly by the Wilson Library Bulletin and the public relations committee of the American Library Association. It is named for John Cotton Dana, Dartmouth 1878, for many years librarian of the Newark Public Library.

From the American Alumni Council, in July, the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE received first award for alumni news, first for coverage of student affairs, second for intellectual stimulation, and honorable mention for appearance, in the competition for magazines of colleges having 20,000 to 30,000 alumni.