In Brief . . .
THOMAS E. O'CONNELL '50, executive assistant to President Dickey, has been named Executive Director of the Trustees 1969 Planning Committee. He succeeds Albert I. Dickerson '30, former Director of Admissions and now Dean of Freshmen, who held the planning post for two years. Mr. O'Connell continues as assistant to President Dickey but has relinquished some of his assignments in order to devote the major part of his time to the Planning Committee. This Committee, headed by Life Trustee Harvey P. Hood '18, is engaged in a broad survey of Dartmouth's educational, financial and plant programs and goals, with the objective of bringing the College up to maximum quality and effectiveness on all fronts as it begins its third century.
A new member of the Dartmouth administrative staff this fall is Frank A. Logan '52 of Topeka, Kansas, who is Assistant to the Director of Admissions. A star pitcher on the Dartmouth baseball team, he was signed by the Detroit Tigers after graduation, but began Army service that fall and served overseas in Germany. Upon his release in June 1954 he played the remainder of that season with Wilkes-Barre in the Eastern League. During off seasons he attended the Graduate School of Music at the University of Indiana and recently completed the requirements for the Master's degree in Composition. As a Dartmouth undergraduate he made many musical arrangements for the Glee Club and set several Robert Frost poems to music for Club use.
The College has filed with Hanover's Precinct Commissioners a petition that College Street, running southward from Wheelock to Lebanon Streets, be closed off in order to provide more space eastward for building the Hopkins Center. A review of Center plans has indicated the urgent need of a larger site in order to achieve the desired spaciousness, both inside and outside the project, as well as to avoid crowding of the area behind Main Street business properties and to provide space there for off-street parking. The College owns all the property along both sides of this block of College Street. In return for closing off the street, the College has olfered to finance the cost of widening, grading and resurfacing Crosby Street, connecting Wheelock and Lebanon Streets one block eastward; to provide an -off-street parking area for cars now parking on Crosby Street; to provide a new access to the College power plant and storehouse from Lebanon Street; and to assist the town in achieving a better solution to the community's parking and traffic problems through the construction of public parking areas. The College's proposal has the unanimous support of the Hanover Town Planning Board.
President Emeritus Ernest Martin Hopkins is one of fifteen distinguished Americans named, by President Eisenhower to serve as a committee to promote his idea of a Government award for outstanding citizenship.
Appointment of three new alumni members of the Board of Overseers of the Hanover Inn was announced by President Dickey this summer. They are Robert E. Kalaidjian '39, director of personnel relations for the Columbia Broadcasting System; Alex J. McFarland 'go, Boston lawyer; and Eugene P. Tamburi '36, president and innkeeper of the Yankee Pedlar Inn, Holyoke, Mass. Chandler H. Foster 15 of Boston, a member of the Board of Overseers since its establishment in 1951, has been elected chairman.
The William S. Churchill Prize, awarded annually at the end of freshman year to that member of the first-year class who in the judgment of the Dean of Freshmen "possesses to the greatest degree the qualifications of manliness, uprightness. fairness and respect for duty," has been given to Patrick O. Burns '59 of Riverdale, N. Y. Burns, who was elected class president for both freshman and sophomore years, has been awarded $125 for the purchase of books of his choice.
