TV Advisers

In response to President Dickey's request that an alumni advisory committee be appointed to work with the recently named Dartmouth College Television Committee, Orton H. Hicks '21, president of the Dartmouth Alumni Council, has announced the following members of a newly formed Dartmouth Alumni Advisory Committee on Television: Harry Ackerman '35, Vice President in Hollywood for the Columbia Broadcasting System; Florimond Duke '18, former Advertising Manager of Time, Life and Fortune; Edward Lamb '24, owner of TV stations in Pennsylvania and Ohio: Thomas Lane '35, Executive Vice President of McCann-Erickson, New York; Harry Mills '24, Vice President of J. C. Penney Cos., New York, and Director of Republic Pictures; Douglas Storer '21, President of Believe-It-Or-Not, Inc., New York; and Sylvester Weaver Jr. '30, Vice President of the National Broadcasting Cos., New York. Mr. Hicks will act as chairman of the committee and Haven Falconer '39, Director of Education, Loew's International, New York, will be secretary.

An interesting recent development, which might bring local television prospects closer to realization and which was widely publicized in Vermont and New Hampshire newspapers, occurred when a New England group, headed by Horace A. Hildreth, former Governor of Maine, sought authority from the Federal Communications Commission to build and operate a new television station on top of Mount Washington. The proposed station, 6230 feet above sea level, would serve nearly 1,500,000 people in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.

The College has a double interest in this proposal, both as property owner, since the top of Mount Washington belongs to Dartmouth; and as an educational institution concerned with the development of television in the North Country. At any rate, a concrete plan sometimes has the virtue of bringing conjectures down to earth, even when they still are as far up in the air as the top of Mount Washington.