Three Grants

THREE cash grants recently received by Dartmouth include $12,500 for the Dartmouth Medical School from the National Fund for Medical Education, $2,500 for the Chemistry Department and $1,500 for other teaching purposes from the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company, and $1,000 for general purposes from the Johns-Manville Corporation.

The Medical School grant is part of more than $2,000,000 awarded to the nation's 81 medical schools for 1955-56. Approximately one-half of this total was contributed by corporations through the Committee of American Industry of the National Fund for Medical Education, and the other half was contributed by physicians through the American Medical Education Foundation.

Du Pont has granted the Dartmouth Chemistry Department $2,500 each year since 1953. The latest gift, like the earlier ones, is "to assist the Chemistry Department of the institution in achieving the most effective performance in the teaching of chemistry and in stimulating the interest of students in this science." It is supplemented by an unrestricted gift to the College of $1,500 to strengthen the teaching of other intellectual disciplines that contribute to the education of scientists and engineers.

The Johns-Manville grant is unrestricted and is part of a two-year program by the company to aid 100 privately supported colleges and universities in the United States. In presenting the grant to Dartmouth, V. D. Padham, plant manager of the Johns-Manville Products Corporation of Nashua, N. H., said: "This program implements the belief of Johns-Manville management that it is in the interests of the company and its stockholders to aid in the support of educational institutions that have provided and will continue to provide in the future our best resources for leadership."