THE Tucker Foundation's

THE Tucker Foundation's affable young dean, Fred Berthold Jr. '45, was formerly chairman of the Department of Religion and is still serving in concurrent capacity as a member of the department. His religion courses have drawn large enrollments and he has awakened many a young sophomore or junior to an awareness of the religious issues that face him and all men today. A friendly smile and helpful counseling have always awaited any student who came to him with personal problems or perplexing religious questions. As an ordained minister of the Congregational Church, Dean Berthold has conducted services in neighboring communities and he has lectured throughout the country on religious and philosophical subjects.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, and graduated from Webster Groves High School, Dean Berthold was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was a Rufus Choate Scholar while at Dartmouth. He received his Bachelor of Divinity degree from the University of Chicago in 1947, and after further study at Columbia he taught philosophy for a year at Utica College of Syracuse University. Joining the Dartmouth faculty in 1949, he was named chairman of the Department of Religion in 1951. After studies at Yale, he entered the doctorate program of the University of Chicago and was awarded the degree in 1954. The George and Eliza Gardner Foundation honored him with a Howard Fellowship in 1957 for study-arid completion of his book, The Fearof God, a study of religious anxiety.

Both Dean Berthold and his wife, the former Laura McKusick of Minneapolis, were ordained ministers by the Plymouth Congregational Church of Utica, N. Y. They have two children.

Dean Berthold entertaining students at his home on North Main Street.