The Dickey Decade

Ten years ago, on November 1,1945, John Sloan Dickey '29 was inaugurated as the twelfth President of Dartmouth College. Mr. Dickey holds that anniversaries come and go for all members of the College staff and that in his case no special importance should be attached to November 1,1955. But hardly anyone agrees with him on that.

The past ten years have been a vital and progressive period in Dartmouth's life, shaped largely by the thought, the unflagging energy and the character of President Dickey. A review of that period, which the ALUMNI MAGAZINE presents briefly and factually in the following pages, should be of value as well as interest to all Dartmouth men. For those ten years, aside from their own forward march, have set the stage for the unprecedented effort of the next fourteen years to bring Dartmouth up to its Bicentennial in 1969 in a position of greater strength on every front. If everyone is hungry for the task, as President Dickey says in his Convocation address, the next fourteen years can be the greatest period of growth, excellence and national repute in Dartmouth's history.

The editors speak for the entire Dartmouth alumni body in giving President Dickey a very special Wah Hoo Wah on his tenth anniversary and in wishing him good health and good going as he carries forward his great design for the Dartmouth of today and tomorrow.