Miscellany
A FEW days before Christmas, President Dickey was confined to Dick's House with phlebitis in one leg, a condition which kept him away from his office until January 13. In order for President Dickey to preside over the annual winter meetings of the Trustees of the College, January 8 and 9, business was transacted in the Board of Directors' room at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital. Because of the need to favor his leg for some weeks, the President was unable to keep several alumni speaking dates which had been scheduled for him last month.
Sixteen Alumni Fund class agents, representing classes from 1910 through 1953, met in Hanover the weekend of January 15 for a Class Agents Clinic. The primary purpose was to acquaint the newly appointed agents with their duties for the 1954 campaign. On Friday they gathered, with their wives, at a reception at the Hanover Inn; then attended a dinner at which Marvin L. Frederick '15, president of the Class Agents Association, presided. Afterwards the class agents met for a panel discussion in the Hanover Inn Ski Hut, where Roger C. Wilde '21, chairman of the 1954 Alumni Fund, presided.
On Saturday morning, discussions on class agents' work were continued in Sanborn House. That evening the Fund leaders were guests of the College at hockey and basketball games.
The first full-time Catholic chaplain for Dartmouth students was recently appointed. Reverend William L. Nolan, curate at St. Denis Church for the past three years, has given up his former duties to serve as chaplain to the 350 Catholic students now enrolled at the College, it was announced by Bishop Matthew F. Brady, of Manchester, N. H.
Father Nolan was graduated from Boston Latin School and St. Mary's College, North East, Pa., and from the Preacher's Institute of the Catholic University of America. Ordained in 1943, he taught Latin at St. Mary's College and has preached at missions and retreats throughout the East.
A house at Choate Road has been purchased by the diocese and will be the headquarters of the Catholic youth group on the campus.
Speaking on "The Need for a Positive Faith," Dean Liston Pope of the Yale Divinity School was guest preacher at the Union Service in Rollins Chapel on Sunday, January 17. The Rev. Roy B. Chamberlin, Director of Chapel, was in charge of the service, with music provided by the 1957 Glee Club and Prof. Maurice F. Longhurst, organist.
Dr. Pope, who became Dean of the Yale Divinity School in 1949, is the recipient of numerous awards, among them a Julius Rosenwald Fellowship for work in Africa. A graduate of Duke University in 1929, he was ordained in the Congregational Church in 1935.
A second-year Medical School student, John J. Dailey '53, of Baltimore, Md., disappeared from College some time over the weekend of January 9, leaving his financial and property affairs in order, and a note which stated, "If I am not back by Tuesday, January 12, the letter in my desk can be mailed." This note revealed only that the money which he had withdrawn from the bank on the preceding Thursday, thus closing out his account, be transferred to his mother, and that his personal effects be sent on to her; and that his radio equipment be given to a fellow student. Dailey took pains to leave behind him all personal identification.
The Medical School student was described by Dean Rolf Syvertsen as "quiet, steady and serious-minded." Local police and officers in the State Police in several states were unable to find clues leading to any likely answer concerning the fate or whereabouts of Dailey, a Hopkins Scholar and the son of the late Col. Michael A. Dailey '04, who died in 1941 while serving with the Army Medical Corps.
