Tucker Convocation

THE William Jewett Tucker Foundation, a long-cherished dream at Dartmouth, will be formally inaugurated at a four-day convocation November 13-17 when the Rev. Fred Berthold Jr. '45 is installed as its first Dean. Addresses by prominent religious and lay leaders, discussion groups, and religious services will comprise a program centered about the theme, "Education for Moral Responsibility."

Among the notable personages who will participate in the convocation are: The Rev. Henry P. Van Dusen, president of Union Theological Seminary; Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati, Ohio, vice president of the National Council of Churches; Dr. Edward D. Eddy Jr., provost of the University of New Hampshire; Philip Jacob, professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania; and Gordon Allport, professor of psychology at Harvard University. Present also will be student groups from Wellesley College, Princeton University, the University of New Hampshire, and Dartmouth.

The Tucker Foundation was named for the Rev. William Jewett Tucker, President of Dartmouth College from 1893 to 1909 and the last churchman in a long line of clerical Presidents stretching back to Eleazar Wheelock. It was established by the Trustees in order to "support and further the moral and spiritual work and influence of Dartmouth College."

Professor Berthold was appointed Dean of the Foundation last year, but took a leave of absence to complete his book, The Fear of God, a study of religious anxiety. Concerning the aims of the Foundation, he feels that "the great need of our time is to bring into fruitful conversation men of deep religious conviction with those whose religious outlook is divergent or unorthodox, but whose concern as human beings is for the moral fulfillment of the race. The Tucker Foundation, in the spirit of the man it memorializes, stands for the integrity of religious conviction, for the integrity of the humanistic moralist, and for the deeper respect of each for the other."