Corporation Gifts

Sixteen gifts from corporations and industrial foundations have been received by Dartmouth College in recent weeks, it is announced by the Office of Development. In addition, nearly forty such gifts have been made to the New England Colleges Fund in which Dartmouth shares.

The U. S. Steel Foundation has awarded Dartmouth $6,000 for a two-year fellowship for a graduate student entering Tuck School next fall. Half of this sum will go to the College as an unrestricted gift. This is the second such grant awarded to Dartmouth by the U. S. Steel Foundation, which also contributed to the New England Colleges Fund in 1955 and 1956.

From E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company the College has received $4,000 for the academic year 1957-58. Of this sum $2,500 will be allocated to the Chemistry Department and the remainder will be used to strengthen the teaching of other intellectual disciplines contributing to the education of scientists and engineers. Dartmouth received a similar grant for this year, and the Chemistry Department gift has been made each year since 1953.

Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation has contributed $10,000 to Dartm outh, for unrestricted use. Charles Kingsley '14 is vice president and general counsel of the company, which made a similar gift to the College last year.

Other gifts totaling more than $6,000 have come from the Davies Supply Company of Chicago, of which Marshall Davies '16 is president and William B. Davies '43 treasurer; the I. N. R. Beatty Lumber Company of Chicago, of which Ross W. Beatty '25 is president; the Hill Acme Company of Cleveland, of which Karl F. Bruch Jr. '40 is treasurer; H. and Val J. Rothschild, Inc., of St. Paul, of which Ryland J. Rothschild '21 is president; the Chicago Malleable Casting Company, of which John T. Llewellyn II '38 is president; Walter Kidde and Company of New York, of which Walter L. Kidde '24 is treasurer and R. L. Dickson '33 vice president and comptroller; the American Hospital Supply Corporation of Chicago, of which Thomas G. Murdough '26 is president; the E. and F. Construction Company of Bridgeport, of which Fred C. Frassinelli '47 is secretary; and the Lawson Machine and Tool Company of Maiden, Mass., whose gift was for the Tucker Foundation. Four other corporation gifts were made anonymously.