Dean of Tucker Foundation

HPHE Rev. Fred Berthold Jr. '45, Professor of Religion and a member of the Dartmouth faculty since 1949, has been named the first Dean of the William Jewett Tucker Foundation at Dartmouth College.

The Foundation, established by the Board of Trustees to support and further the moral and spiritual work and influence of the College, is named for Dr. Tucker, who was President of the College from 1893 to 1909 and was the last churchman in a long line of Dartmouth preacher-presidents.

As Dean of the Tucker Foundation, Professor Berthold will be responsible for leadership in all matters, other than academic courses, concerned with religion and the moral purposes of higher education. He will have immediate charge of chapel and other worship services in the College Chapel and will serve as the College's representative in relations with community churches having active student programs.

Professor Berthold will continue his research and writing and expects to do some teaching as well as to work actively with faculty colleagues in all fields to develop new cooperative undertakings within the purposes of the Tucker Foundation. He will be on leave during the first year of his appointment.

In announcing Professor Berthold's appointment, President Dickey said that he regarded this appointment as an important tangible step toward "restoring the moral purposes of liberal learning to a more central position in the total life and work of the American college campus."

President Dickey added, "Professor Berthold's work as a teacher and chairman of the Department of Religion brought new vitality to religious studies at Dartmouth, and the Trustees and the faculty advisory committee of the Tucker Foundation share my confidence that Professor Berthold will bring the same outstanding leadership to the larger opportunity of the Tucker deanship."

Professor Berthold, a native of Webster Groves, Mo., was a Rufus Choate Scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa as a Dartmouth undergraduate. He received his Bachelor of Divinity degree from the University of Chicago in 1947 and his doctorate in 1954. After teaching for a year at Utica College of Syracuse University, he joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1949. He was named chairman of the Department of Religion in 1951 and full professor in 1956.

Prof. Fred Berthold Jr. '45