$17,000,000 Goes to Work

THE first major step in Dartmouth's long-range 200 th Anniversary Development Program, designed to bring the College to "pre-eminence in all things" by the 1969 Bicentennial year, is assured of success. An early July announcement by National Chairman Charles J. Zimmerman '23 that the College's two-year Capital Gifts Campaign had achieved its $17,000,000 goal, on schedule, was greeted enthusiastically by all alumni and friends of Dartmouth.

The Capital Campaign books, as previously announced, will remain open through December 31 in order to give many alumni the balance of the tax year in which to determine the full amount they wish to commit to the campaign. Campaign leaders have expressed the hope that the total might reach $18,000,000 by year end. Their hopes seem justified on the basis of figures as of Septem- ber 10, which show that $17,217,379 in pledges and gifts has been received from 18,200 alumni, parents, friends, foundations and corporations. The campaign office in Hanover reports that new pledges and gifts are coming in daily, and that a number of alumni have increased or oversubscribed their pledges during the summer months.

The success achieved by this first Capital Campaign in Dartmouth history makes possible major advances on two important fronts. First, it enables the Trustees Planning Committee, the Faculty and Administration to move forward confidently with plans to achieve the excellence in people, program and plant on which pre-eminence must rest. Of more immediate significance is the fact that achievement of the goal on schedule has made it possible for the College to activate the programs on which campaign objectives were based.

One of the top priority components of the campaign was $3,000,000 to provide both current use and endowment funds to improve further the faculty compensation at Dartmouth. At the end of the last academic year, thanks in large measure to funds provided by the campaign, every member of the Dartmouth faculty received an increase in salary. This served, in effect, to increase the average salary levels for all academic ranks from instructor through full professor. This major advance, coupled with significant progress achieved during recent past years, provides every hope that in spite of constantly increasing competition, Dartmouth will continue to attract and retain a faculty which is first-rate in all respects.

The most noticeable results of the campaign, of course, are reflected in the construction work now being carried on in Hanover. The foundations for the Dartmouth of the future are literally being laid and construction work costing about

$15,000,000 has begun or is scheduled to start within the next twelve months. Approximately $12,000,000 of this sum will come from campaign funds. Another $3,200,000, being used for the new Medical Science Building now under construction, was given through the Dartmouth Medical School Campaign which has produced about $5,000,000 to date toward an objective of $10,000,000.

The most ambitious project and the one receiving top priority is the longawaited Hopkins Center. A total of $5,000,000 from Capital Campaign funds has been designated for this integrated academic, cultural and social center. This, together with the $2,500,000 given previously for the Hopkins Center, will enable the College to meet the cost estimate of $7,500,000.

During the summer Bissell Hall was torn down and much excavation work done at the site of the Center. Painstaking revisions of the Hopkins Center plans have been completed and sent out for bids. Since bids are due by mid-October, it is expected that the contract will be awarded in early November and actual construction on the Hopkins Center begun this winter. It is estimated that two to two and one-half years will be required to complete the four major buildings and other work connected with the Hopkins Center. Thus, the Hopkins Center will probably be ready for complete use by the summer of 1962.

The Army and Air Force R.O.T.C. units, formerly housed in Bissell Hall, have now been moved to College Hall. The Hanover Inn Ski Hut, long a familiar landmark, will be torn down shortly to make room for the Center and a handsome new room to handle groups formerly using the Ski Hut has already been opened in the basement of the Hanover Inn.

A third major Capital Campaign component, following faculty compensation and the Hopkins Center in priority, was $2,000,000 for new Mathematics-Psychology facilities and for other classroom and laboratory space. Plans for the new Math-Psychology building are now being prepared and these are expected to receive Trustee approval sometime this fall. Following this, working drawings will be prepared, bids will be let and construction will probably get underway during this academic year. The exact location of this new classroom building has not been finally determined, but the projected location is just north of Baker Library in the vicinity of the College Greenhouse.

Capital Campaign funds amounting to $700,000 have already been used for additions and extensive renovations in Steele Hall chemistry building. During the past year a Jourth floor was added to both the east and west wings to provide greater laboratory, classroom and office space. A new ventilating system was installed throughout the building and some of the existing classrooms and laboratories were enlarged and completely renovated.

Two of the present courtyards at Baker are being bricked in, one to provide space for the expanding College Archives Department and for the Rare Books Collection, the other to house the famed Stefansson Arctic Collection. Costs of these additions to Baker Library, expected to be completed by early winter, are estimated at $000,000.

Preliminary plans and studies are now being made for improvement of Dartmouth's auditorium and athletic facilities. Tentative estimates for these plans total about $3,000,000 of which a major share will go for construction of a new Auditorium-Arena to be built close behind the gymnasium where the varsity baseball diamond is presently located. The proposed Auditorium-Arena is expected to provide facilities for 4,500 to 5,000 people for Commencements, Convocations and other large gatherings and for a somewhat lesser number attending concerts and other College events. All home basketball games would also be held here. Other athletic facilities under current consideration are an athletic cage to provide indoor practice space for many Dartmouth teams on a year-round basis, a new swimming pool to supplement or replace the outmoded Spaulding Pool, and extensive work to improve the drainage of the College's playing fields.

The excellence of Dartmouth's academic program has for many years been made possible by the fact that the Alumni Fund has contributed substantial funds to supplement tuition and endowment income. Since the Alumni Fund was integrated with the Capital Gifts Campaign during the two years just past it was essential to include in the campaign components an item to sustain this vital support. Accordingly, $2,500,000 was earmarked for this purpose and to cover campaign expenses. Over the past two years the College has used approximately $1,000,000 from the campaign in lieu of Alumni Fund gifts, and expects to use more this coming year when many alumni will still be paying campaign pledges.

Expenses for the two-year Capital Gifts Campaign are not yet complete but will be in the vicinity of 6% of the total funds raised. Average expenses for college capital campaigns are usually about 10% to 12%, with many higher. Dartmouth's 6% figure is considered unusually good, well below average and a testimony to the soundness of the campaign and to the loyalty and devotion of those many hundreds of Dartmouth alumni who served without recompense throughout the campaign.

There can be no doubt that the success of this major Dartmouth effort is of great importance to the College today, and more especially as it moves toward the 1969 Bicentennial. The import of this success, however, extends well beyond the Dartmouth campus for traditionally Dartmouth has maintained over many years an outstanding reputation among all colleges and universities for the service and support it has received from alumni and, indeed, from all members of her family. The results of Dartmouth's first Capital Campaign in history were watched with great interest by many such institutions, and Dartmouth's success is expected to encourage these institutions to develop programs in search of the support they so urgently need.

Dartmouth has taken a giant stride forward. And on the strength of this accomplishment many other advances are now possible. Nothing in the long history of the College has so convincingly demonstrated the loyalty and devotion of her family as has the Capital Gifts Campaign. If all of Dartmouth's planned efforts between now and 1969 meet with the same inspired support and results, the goal of "pre-eminence in all things" will surely be attained.

Plant construction either in the active or planning stage is shown by letter on this aerial view. (A) indicates the cleared, block-long site for the Hopkins Center; (B) the two additions to Baker Library that were begun this summer; (C) the site of the new Mathematics-Psychology unit, for which architect's drawings are now being prepared; (D) Steele Chemistry Building, where added floors on both east and west wings have provided new laboratory, classroom and office space; (E) site of the new Medical Sciences Building, on which construction has started; and (F) the proposed site for an Auditorium-Arena that would seat up to 5,000 persons for both academic and athletic events.

One of the two Baker Library additions now under construction. This one will house theworld-famous Stefansson Collection, with research working space in connecting rooms to theright. The second addition, in the courtyard behind rear wall, will house the Archives andrare book collections and give added space to the order department.