Students Have Active Role in Program of the Museum

A STRONG advocate of the "teaching museum," Anthropology Curator Alfred I. Whiting has taken some twenty students under his wing this year, guiding their participation in Dartmouth Museum activities. Some were working on projects in conjunction with courses and others merely came over because they were interested in preparing exhibits and trying their hand at some amateur curatorial work. A few were regular research assistants and prepared papers describing their investigations, but all have shown a lively enthusiasm and pride in their work.

Student helpers maintain the familiar museum case in the Hanover Inn lobby which has carried six exhibits this year ranging in subject from Egil Stigum's "Norwegian Folk Art" to the most recent exhibit, "Man Makes a Book." The Commencement show will summarize student work in the Museum during the past year. Mr. Whiting is willing to take on more students than the present number and has a vast reserve of interesting and novel projects to be tackled.