Coming: Hanover Holiday 1956
MID-JUNE, offering Commencement, reunions with old friends, and all the joys of the North Country's late spring, has come to be the best time to be in Hanover. The town is pleasantly full, but not crowded. There is, too, Hanover Holiday, jogging the brain cells with a program addressed to every taste.
The program this year begins on Monday, June xi, at 2:00 p.m., with a talk by Prof. Richard E. Wagner of the Art Department on "Painting a Picture." These days everybody paints - Grandma Moses, President Eisenhower, you and your wife — or will be soon. Mr. Wagner, with words, moving pictures, and slides, does an extraordinarily good job of telling you what you should try to do. Here is a talk really off the top layer.
Monday evening is set aside for Allen R. Foley '20, Professor of History. He has a famous talk in the field of local history, which strangely has not been given in Hanover. Come early to get in ahead of the crowd, to hear a master speak on "Vermont Humor." If you have heard him on the alumni circuit, rest easy. He always has new stories.
Tuesday morning, the 12th, James F. Ross, Instructor in Religion, talks about "The Dead Sea Scrolls." Every week sees a new book or article on the scrolls, asserting or denying that they change the basis of Christianity. Mr. Ross, an expert and a dramatic speaker, has had packed-full audiences for the topic this winter in Hanover.
Tuesday evening we have John L. Stewart, Assistant Professor of English, with a word for those of us who read or might read - "A Fearful Joy: The Risks of Great Reading." I suspect he will say that we ought to read but if we do we run the risk perhaps of having to think. I know he held 750 freshmen spellbound for two hours on a similar topic. They thought he was wonderful.
Wednesday morning the Holiday has been flattered. In the middle of a very busy ten days President Dickey wants to report on what he has seen abroad the three months previously - a report everybody will want to hear. "The Outlook in International Affairs" is a must.
Wednesday evening Robert K. Carr '29, Joel Parker Professor of Law and Political Science, will speak. His topic is "Individual Freedom and National Security: Can We Have Both?" Mr. Carr, author of half a dozen books on civil liberties, is nationally known as an expert in the field. The topic remains one of our greatest issues.
The series, after a pause Thursday morning, resumes that evening, largely directed to the interests of the 25-year Class of 1931 but open in the friendliest way to all. James F. Cusick, Professor of Economics, will take up "Dartmouth: Past, Present, Future." These are days of great change for Dartmouth, and of no change. Mr. Cusick, as vice-chairman of the Committee on Educational Program Planning, made up of Trustees and faculty, is well informed on all the proposals for making the College a better educational institution.
Friday morning there will be two panel discussions, at 8:30 and 11:00, both dealing with topics of real concern and drawing on the faculty and Class of 1931 for participants. The first, "The Future of Medical Care," is not just a polite way of telling '31 how to grow old gracefully. Under the chairmanship of Dr. Ralph W. Hunter '31, Medical School professor and a Dartmouth Trustee, various problems will be sketched by Dr. Rolf C. Syvertsen '18, Dean of the Dartmouth Medical School; Dr. William S. Conklin '31, Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Oregon Medical School; and Dr. Joseph G. Rushton '31 of the Mayo Clinic. The field will then be open for discussion by all - and who does not have ideas about the need of more doctors, or hospitals, or health insurance?
The second panel is on "The Economic Outlook." Speakers from the local scene will be Dean Arthur R. Upgren of the Tuck School and Dean William P. Kimball '28, of the Thayer School. From the Class of '31 are John K. Benson, Vice President of the National Shawmut Bank of Boston; John B. Martin '31, Auditor General of the State of Michigan; and E. Spencer Miller, president of the Maine Central Railroad. Each will speak briefly - we mean briefly - on the outlook as it appears to him. As for discussion, who can keep quiet on this subject?
That's it. Come for part or all. Dormitories, the entire College, will be open. Admission is free, living costs are low, enjoyment will be high.
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Prof. Richard E. Wagner of the Art Department shown during the shooting of a Dartmouthfilm on painting that will be part of his Hanover Holiday lecture in June.
