GM Scholarships

ELSEWHERE in this issue an article by George H. Colton '35 of the Dartmouth Development Council deals with corporation support of the College. The latest development in this field is the announcement by General Motors that beginning with the Class of 1959, entering next fall, three General Motors Scholarships for each class will be awarded to Dartmouth students needing financial aid and having outstanding scholastic records. The awards will range from $200 to $2,000 annually, according to need, and in addition the College will receive $800 per recipient to help defray educational costs not covered by tuition. Twelve General Motors Scholars will be enrolled in the College by the fall of 1958.

The General Motors plan of financial aid to higher education will cost $2,000,000 a year and will provide benefits to 1,400 students and 306 colleges and universities when it is in full operation. Of the 350 scholarships to be awarded annually, 100 will go to winners in a national competition. A panel of fourteen educators will make the final selections in the nationwide contest, and General Motors has announced that President Dickey and Albert I. Dickerson '30, chairman of Dartmouth's Committee on Scholarships and Loans, will be two members of the panel. The examination part of the annual competition will be conducted by the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, N. J.

The addition of the General Motors Scholarships to the Daniel Webster National Scholarships, the Alfred P. Sloan National Scholarships, the regionals, and other grants made possible by corporations, classes, clubs and individuals points up the growth at Dartmouth of special "name" scholarships, all of substantial amount and all rating as prize awards to men of outstanding qualifications. In recent issues we have announced the recipients of some of these new scholarships, and this month we add the name of Walter E. Shea '58 of West Hartford, Conn., the first recipient of the Class of 1914 Scholarship. The 1914 scholarship was fully endowed a year ago and first became available to a member of this year's freshman class. Shea, an honors student at William H. Hall High School, was a senior class officer, co-captain of the football team, and a letterman in track.