THE COLLEGE

PRESIDENT DICKEY, in a series of Capital Gifts Campaign dinners that took him all the way to the Pacific Coast, told his Dartmouth audiences last month that encouraging progress has been made in the campaign. Figures up to late March show that some 500 Dartmouth alumni, parents and friends have already made gifts or pledges totaling just over four and one-half million dollars, not including one million dollars received from John D. Rockefeller Jr. for the Hopkins Center.

The two-year campaign, which opened last fall as one of the first steps in Dartmouth's 200th Anniversary Development Program, has a goal of seventeen million dollars, for faculty compensation, plant improvement, and operating income for the years when the Alumni Fund is coordinated with the capital campaign and alumni are making payments on their campaign pledges. Only one-fourth of the alumni body will be solicited in the campaign's regional efforts this spring. The broader, all-embracing campaign among the alumni begins next fall and continues through June of 1959.

Staff members of the Office of Development are now working in the field, with three regional offices: 75 Federal Street, Boston; 745 Fifth Avenue, New York City: and 69 West Washington Street, Chicago. Nearly 1,000 alumni and parents are engaged in present campaign efforts.