Trustee Actions

THE Dartmouth Trustees at their annual spring meeting, April 27-28, approved a budget of $8,385,000 for the fiscal year 1956-57, which begins July 1. The budgeted operating expense is $385,000 greater than this year's total, resulting from anticipated higher costs in all categories. On this basis, the outlook is for a deficit of approximately $90,000.

The Trustees voted the increase in faculty salaries forecast on the strength of income from half of the Ford Foundation grant of $2,079,500 and allocation of $35,000 of this year's Alumni Fund to that purpose. Also confirmed were the plans for the new dormitories to be constructed on the old Clark School playing field at an estimated cost of $1,500,000. Construction of these units, to house 300 students, is scheduled to begin in August.

The Trustees reviewed progress on the remodeling and enlargement of Thayer Hall, where sophomores as well as freshmen will be required to eat next fall; and they also were brought up to date on the two new faculty apartment houses, for which the foundation work began last month.

Among other items of business, the Board (1) approved an increase of $20 a year in board rates in the College dining halls, made necessary by rising labor and food costs; (2) approved the second year's schedule in a five-year physical plant improvement and rehabilitation program; (3) approved plans for a College dial telephone system, the installation of which will begin this summer; and (4) approved plans for installing new heating mains along Massachusetts Row this summer and along the south end of the campus in the early fall.