Running Start

A BULLDOZER, painted green and white and bearing the inscription Initiumrapidissimum in tertium saeculum Dartmuthiense (a running start into Dartmouth's third century), will be used in the Hopkins Center ground-clearing ceremonies, to be held October 24 on the Center's future site. The Board of Trustees, members of the various planning committees, invited guests and local notables will be present at the ceremonies, sitting in stands erected south of Bissell Hall. President Dickey, President Emeritus Hopkins, and the speakers will ascend a special platform built on top o£ the Dartmouth-trimmed bulldozer. Following the openingl speeches, Mr. Hopkins will turn on the ignition switch and then hand the dozer over to a member of the Class of '62 who will throw it into gear and start tearing down the north side of the first building to be demolished on the site.

The ceremony is planned in conjunction with the annual fall meeting of the Board of Trustees, October 23-24, and will signal the start of work to clear the area in preparation for the Center's construction beginning next spring. The widening and improvement of Crosby Street, running next to the football stadium, was finished this summer in order to funnel off traffic that must be re-routed when work on the Center blocks off the adjacent section of College Street.

Drawings and a revised model of the Center are to be placed on public exhibition this fall. The development of detailed plans of the complex of facilities for instruction, music and the arts will be undertaken by the Board's buildings and grounds committee, which will work with the architects. Richard W. Olmsted '32, business manager of the College, will act as executive agent for the committee during this phase of the work.