Post-Graduate Awards
THIS is the time of year when seniors divide their thoughts between their dwindling store of undergraduate days and what comes after graduation - jobs, military service, graduate study, travel for some. Among those who will be crossing the Atlantic not too many months hence is a select group of '54 men who, in national competition, have won academic awards that will enable them to study abroad. In this sort of competition, Dartmouth men in recent years have done extremely well - better, it seems to us, than at any previous period in the College's history. And the Class of 1954 has played its full part in this growing tribute to the academic stature of the College and to the quality of the present-day Dartmouth undergraduate.
Additions to the small colony of Dart- mouth men at Oxford next fall will be Milton S. Kramer '54 of New York City and Brock H. Brower '53 of Westfield, N. J., both of whom were honored with Rhodes Scholarships for the next two years. Their awards also constitute a tribute to the editorial direction enjoyed by The Dartmouth these past two years, for both men served as editor-in-chief. Kramer last month was chosen Valedictorian of this year's graduating class. He will deliver the farewell address for the Class of 1954 at the Commencement exercises on Sunday, June 13.
Robert O. Collins '54, of Waukegan, Ill., is one of the first group of twelve American college students to receive Marshall Scholarships (named for General George C. Marshall) for two years of study in England. He plans to study English history at Balliol College, Oxford. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Collins won the scholarship as an outstanding American student qualified to represent this country at an English institution, in a program to further understanding between the two countries.
Another distinguished award was that won by Peter Robinson '54, son of Prof. Robin Robinson '24 of the Mathematics Department. A geology major, honor student and president of the Dartmouth Mountaineering Club, Robinson is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship for work next year at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, where he will study structural geology on South Island.
Lawrence S. Martz jr. '54 of Pontiac, Mich., was successful in national competition when he won a Rotary International Fellowship. One of the country's 59 recipients of Rotary grants, Martz will study communications next year at Oxford University in England. Matthew W. Cooney Jr. '50, of Rockport, Mass., also a Rotary International Fellowship winner, will continue studies in English Literature, at the University of New Zealand.
Among those to whom Dartmouth has granted James B. Reynolds Scholarships for Foreign Study, Richard M. Rogin '54, of New York City, will go to England to study Shakespeare at Cambridge University. Other recipients are: Richard W. Nunley '53, of Marshfield, Mass., who will continue a study of English Literature at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. England; George F. Sherman Jr. '52, of North Haven, Conn., who will take graduate work in Soviet-German relations in London at the School of Economic and Political Science, and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies; and Nathaniel C. Merrill '48, Newtonville, Mass., who plans to pursue the study of operatic production in England and Germany.
In Iceland William G. Mattox '52, of Elkins Park, Pa., will undertake a study of climatic change in that island country located between the Arctic and the North Temperate Zone. Awarded a Dartmouth-Iceland Exchange Scholarship for 1954-55, Mattox's expenses will be partly covered by a Reynolds Scholarship for Foreign Study and partly by the Government of Iceland.
Graduate study in this country has been made possible for John D. Musa '54 of Farmingdale, N. Y., by the National Science Foundation, which has awarded him one of its pre-doctoral fellowships in science. One of those selected from hundreds of applicants from all parts of the United States, Musa, a Phi Beta Kappa member and first-year student at Thayer School, will be on a pre-doctoral program which may last for as long as three years. A stipend of at least $1400, with provision for additional expenses, is granted each year.
Closer to the College, Bernard E. Segal '55 of Boston, granted an undergraduate research stipend from the Social Science Research Council, will undertake a study this summer of the Jewish community in Claremont, N. H. He has also been "named a Senior Fellow for next year. The $600 award from the Social Science Research Council will cover a period of research lasting ten weeks.
