National Scholarships

Last month, when letters of acceptance i for the Class of 1957 were sent out by the Admissions Office, announcement was also made of the first recipients of the Daniel Webster National Scholarships. These top scholarship grants have been given to twenty entering freshmen from sixteen different states and the District of Columbia. Four of the awards are honors for men not requiring aid and provide only nominal stipends; the other sixteen range in amount up to $1600 a year.

Granted on a four-year basis, the Daniel Webster National Scholarships were first announced by President Dickey on Dartmouth Night last October. At that time he also announced an anonymous gift of one million dollars to support this major development in Dartmouth's program of scholarship aid. Some 250 boys from 35 states and two foreign countries made direct application for the Webster Scholarships and the committee considered other outstanding boys from among the applicants for next fall's entering class.

Members of the Class of 1957 who will be the first Daniel Webster Scholars at Dartmouth are:

Jay D. Arbeiter, Brooklyn, N. Y. Edward C. Bessey, Hanson, Mass. Gordon C. Bjork, Seattle, Wash. Russell Brignano, West Hartford, Conn. Malcolm G. Brown, Moosup, Conn. Walter Burgin, New Cumberland, Pa. H. Donald Cowlbeck, Trenton, N. J. Jerry R. Craddock, Pueblo, Colo. Ronald D. Fraser, River Forest, Ill. Thomas C. Jackson, Amarillo, Texas Richard B. Leavitt, Washington, D. C. Malcolm I. Lindsay, Minneapolis, Minn. James W. McDowell, Providence, R. I. Robert W. O'Neill, West Allis, Wise. Walter K. Prindle, San Carlos, Calif. David P. Robinson, Glendale, Ohio Herbert N. Schneidau, New Orleans, La John G. Schroeder, McGill, Nevada James J. Ventura, Syracuse, N. Y. Thomas L. Trueman, Media, Pa.

While greatest attention centered in the winners of the new national scholarships, evidence of other gains in Dartmouth's present effort to expand its financial aid program was provided by the award of eight other freshman scholarships for the first time. Among these is the Dartmouth-Andover Scholarship to be awarded to an applicant from Phillips Academy at Andover, Mass. Established by the gift of. $25,000 from an anonymous alumnus, it goes'for the first time to Thomas D. Young of Norfolk, Va.

A new scholarship financed by the Edwin Gould Foundation of New York has been awarded to Polius Raslavicius of Lake Forest, Ill., who came to this country from Lithuania in 1949 as a displaced person. Also newly established are two Gilman Foundation Scholarships of $1,000 a year for four years, to be awarded, first, to residents of Gilman, Vt., who are employees or sons of employees of the Gilman Paper Company and other specified firms, or, secondly, to such employees or sons of employees regardless of residence. Charles A. Bauknecht of St. Johnsbury, Vt., is the first recipient of a Gilman Foundation Scholarship.

Three entering freshmen from Woodsville, N. H., will be recipients of the new Bartlett Memorial Scholarships, made possible through the Russell T. and Olive V. Bartlett Memorial Fund, which has been established for some time with the First National Bank of Concord, N. H., as trustee and which has now become available to aid worthy young men from Haverhill, N. H., and Bath, N. H. The three young men from Woodsville, which is within the township of Haverhill, are Charles H. Ashley, George S. Batjiaka, and Gerald W. Davidson.

Two other scholarships that become effective with the Class of 1957 are the $1500 Dartmouth-Westchester Scholarship, awarded to Frank Bruni of White Plains, N. Y., and the George Welsh 3rd '30 Memorial morial Scholarship, awarded to Frank B. Sherman Jr. of Coeymans, N. Y.

The College also announced last month the gift of an additional $10,000 from Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Van Dusen of Detroit for the Michigan Regional Scholarship. The donors, parents of William B. Van Dusen '32, made in 1950 an initial endowment gift of $10,000 which has been used to aid a student from Michigan.