In Brief . . .

PRESIDENT DICKEY is serving as a member of the board of directors of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, established recently with initial grants of $30,000,000 from the Ford Foundation and 1500,000 from the Carnegie Corporation. The program, to which business and industry have been invited to contribute, is the largest college scholarship undertaking in the history of American education. On the basis of a nation-wide competition open to all, it annually will send to college hundreds of gifted boys and girls who otherwise would not be able to afford a higher education. Some 25,000 high schools will be asked to help in the search for students of special merit.

President Dickey also has been elected again to the Board of Governors of the New York Stock Exchange, and has agreed to serve on the National Citizens Committee, under the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, in connection with the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Wilson's birth.

. The William S. Churchill Prize, awarded at the end of the college year to the freshman whom the Dean of Freshmen selects as the outstanding member of his class, was awarded to Kwanha Yim '58 of Taegu, Korea. The prize consists of $125 worth of books.

David H. Edson '52 of Syracuse, N. Y„ has joined the Dartmouth administrative staff as Assistant to the Dean of the College. After graduation he spent two years at Colgate, where he took his Master's degree and was co-director of the remedial laboratory. This past year he was assistant to the director of admissions at Hobart College.

The first Korean family to come to America under the U. S. Refugee Relief Act of 1953 has settled in Hanover, under the personal sponsorship of Sidney C. Hayward '26, Secretary of the College, and with the help of the College, which provided a carpentry job for Sung-kook Chung, 35, who arrived September 16 with his wife and three small children. Pictures of the Chungs in Hanover and the story behind their arriving here will appear in next month's issue.

At the annual national meeting of the American Alumni Council, at Bretton Woods, N. H., in June, the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE was cited as one of the top ten alumni magazines of the year.