In Brief ...
HARVEY P. HOOD '18 of Boston, a Life Trustee of the College and senior member of the Board, has been elected Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Trustees. In this important position he succeeds John R. McLane '07, who retired from the Board in June after thirty years of Trustee service. Mr. Hood is chairman of the Trustees Planning Committee, which is directing the development program designed to bring every aspect of the College up to a new level of strength and effectiveness by the time of the Dartmouth Bicentennial in 1969. Mr. Hood, who is president of H. P. Hood & Sons of Boston, was an Alumni Trustee of the College from 1942 until 1951, when he became a Life Trustee.
In the November elections, Hanover, to no one's surprise, remained decidedly in the Republican column. The vote for President was 1,523 for Eisenhower and 618 for Stevenson. The town gave substantial help toward the reelection of Lane Dwinell '28 as Governor of New Hampshire, Norris Cotton of Lebanon as U. S. Senator, and Perkins Bass '34 of Peterborough as U. S. Congressman from the 2nd district. To represent them in the New Hampshire General Court, the Hanover voters elected four Republicans: Robert S. Monahan '29 (1415), David J. Bradley '38 (1414), Mrs. Elizabeth W. Hayward (1405) and Florimond D. Duke '18 (1361). James Campion Jr. '28, who in last year's special election became Hanover's first Democratic representative in Concord in fifty years, ran a strong race with 957 votes, but couldn't buck the power of a full Republican turnout. Hanover had the creditable record of getting 2,152 or 88.45% of its 2,433 registered voters to the polls.
The Dartmouth College Concert Series opened last month with Jan Peerce, tenor of the Metropolitan Opera. The National Symphony Orchestra plays in Webster Hall this month, the duo-pianists Luboshutz and Nemenoff in January, guitarist Andres Segovia in March, and the DePaur Opera Gala in April. As has been true for some years, the house was oversold for the 1956-57 series.
As a gift from Paul W. Cutler '28 of Chicago, Baker Library has received one of the largest collections of microfilmed literature in its history - 342 reels of the Adams Papers. The collection includes microfilm copies of all the papers, public and private, of President John Adams, President John Quincy Adams and Charles Francis Adams, as well as papers, letters and other personal documents written by their wives and children. It covers more than 150 years of United States history from 1735 to 1886. Assembled at the Massachusetts Historical Society after the creation of the Adams Trust in 1905, the collection has been microfilmed by the society for the benefit of scholarship and a better understanding of history.
