Some Moments Caught by the Camera

The Wheelock Bowl, symbol of the Dartmouth Presidency, passed from President Hopkins to President Dickey on November 1, 1945. Trustee John R. McLane '07 is in center.

In June 1946 President Dickey accepted the 1921 Memorial Fund from J. Lee Bausher, the first of ten such gifts totaling over $900,000 during his administration.

As a Hanover citizen the President turned out to help remove an unusually heavy snowfall on Main Street in January 1947.

John Dickey with President Hopkins at Manset, Maine, where they conferred on College affairs in September 1945, before the inauguration.

Presiding over his first Commencement in June 1946, Mr. Dickey awards the honorary LL.D. degree to Senator Warren R. Austin of Vermont.

Three photographs of President Dickey in his office which span the ten years of his administration. They show him (left) in his first year as President, (above) at the five-year mark in 1950, and (right) as he appeared in September of this year.

Three photographs of President Dickey in his office which span the ten years of his administration. They show him (left) in his first year as President, (above) at the five-year mark in 1950, and (right) as he appeared in September of this year.

Three photographs of President Dickey in his office which span the ten years of his administration. They show him (left) in his first year as President, (above) at the five-year mark in 1950, and (right) as he appeared in September of this year.

After receiving an honorary LL.D. from Middlebury in 1946, Mr. Dickey posed with William R. Brewster '18 and Rev. Earle H. Ballon. He also holds honorary degrees from Tufts, Brown, Amherst, Wesleyan, New Hampshire and Columbia.

Matriculating the Class of 1950, the first regular class to enter in the Dickey administration. Harold M. Fitkin '50 is at the table. Thomas E. O'Connell '50, extreme right in the front row, is now Mr. Dickey's executive assistant.

At the 1948 Dartmouth Winter Carnival, President Dickey played host to Secretary of State Dean Acheson, his friend from Washington days, who lectured to seniors in the Great Issues Course during his Hanover visit.

The President and Rusty, in the fall of 1949, indulging in their annual and favorite outdoor sport of duck hunting along the river.

Mr. Dickey, at the Ravine Lodge in 1950, speaks to men taking in the annual Freshman Trip.

A new Rowing Club shell, named for Mr. Dickey, is christened in May 1951.

Fishing with Sid Hayward at Newfound Lake, April 1951

Mr. and Mrs. Dickey receive in Baker Library, June 1951

The President addresses Hanover Holiday, 1952

Some administrative colleagues seeing Mr. and Mrs. Dickey off to Mexico in the spring of 1953.

At the unveiling of a Crosby Hall tablet in June 1953, 100 years after first analysis of crude oil, President Dickey posed with Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay (r) and James Donnell, president of the Ohio Oil Company.

An embrace from a classmate at the 25th reunion dinner indicates 1929's affectionate pride in President Dickey.

President Eisenhower was the luncheon guest of Mr. Dickey at the Dartmouth Grant during his New England tour last June.

The first joint honorary degree in Dartmouth's history was conferred by President Dickey at the 1954 Commencement when the noted acting team of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Forftanne received Doctorates of Humane Letters.

At a student conference on politics, held in Hanover in February 1955, Mr. Dickey attended a session at which Senator Case of New Jersey (r) was the consultant.

President Dickey in September matriculated his tenth entering class. The member of '59 with him is Peter Bulkley.

A picture taken just last month shows Mr. Dickey with Wilfiam R. Abbott '27 at the alumni regional conference in San Francisco.