THE COLLEGE
IN 1969 Dartmouth will observe the 200 th anniversary of its founding. Looking ahead to that special occasion and accepting it as a challenge to the College to strengthen itself on all fronts and be ready to move into its third century of service, the Dartmouth Trustees last month directed that a Trustee Planning Committee be created to set the goals for this broad development during the next fifteen years.
President Dickey announced that Harvey P. Hood '18 of Boston, a Life Trustee, will be chairman of this planning committee. Five others who will serve initially with Mr. Hood are Dudley W. Orr '29 of Concord, N. H., also a Life Trustee; Albert I. Dickerson '30, director of the Offices of Admission and Financial Aid, who has been granted special leave for a year to serve as executive director of the Trustee Planning Committee; Prof. John P. Amsden '20, recently named chairman of an Advisory Committee on Plant Development; John F. Meek '33, Treasurer and Vice President of the College; and Prof. Donald H. Morrison, Dean of the Faculty. The personnel of the committee will be adjusted from time to time as the work develops.
All phases of the College's desirable development between now and 1969 will be studied by Mr. Hood's committee. From time to time specific proposals will be made to the Board of Trustees after the committee has worked with existing agencies of the College administration and faculty and with various special study groups. A sub-committee under the chairmanship of Mr. Orr has already given preliminary consideration to the optimum future size of the College. Its other members are Beardsley Ruml '15 of New York, a Life Trustee; Mr. Dickerson and Dean Morrison.
Mr. Dickerson, in order to give nearly full time to his work as executive director of the Trustee Planning Committee, will be on leave from his regular administrative duties for the coming year, but will continue to have general supervision of the Offices of Admission and Financial Aid. Edward T. Chamberlain Jr. '36, executive officer of the College, has been named Acting Director of Admissions. The Office of Financial Aid will continue to be directed by Robert K. Hage '35.
Through his membership on the Trustee Planning Committee, Professor Amsden will be able to bring to the top study group the findings of the Advisory Committee on Plant Development which he heads as chairman. President Dickey, in announcing the plant committee last month, said, "The central function of the committee will be to make a study and recommendations on the future plant needs of the College over the next fifty years." Both long-range plant development and specific facilities needed for the educational work and social well-being of the College will be surveyed, taking into account the luture size of the College and the likely development of the Hanover community.
As its first task, the advisory committee has been asked by President Dickey to address itself to the Hopkins Center project, originally planned as a large auditorium and little theater, plus facilities for a student union, the Music Department and a faculty club. Also having a high priority among studies to be made by the committee is that dealing with housing for students and staff members.
"In view of the changed condition of the College since the latest plans were drawn for the Hopkins Center," Professor Amsden said, "and in view of the instructions to the committee, we plan to review the entire project with regard to size, location and activities represented."
Serving with Professor Amsden on the Advisory Committee on Plant Development are ten other members representing the College administration and faculty and the Hanover community. They are Adelbert Ames Jr., Prof. Edward S. Brown Jr. '34, James Campion Jr. '28, Ross Gamble '33h, Prof. Russell R. Larmon '19, Richard W. Morin '24, Richard W. Olmsted '32, Prof. Frank G. Ryder, Prof. John L. Stewart, and Prof. Henry B. Williams.
