In Brief . . .

ADDISON L. WINSHIP II '42 of Williamsville, N. Y., joined the Dartmouth College Office of Development last month as Special Assistant to the President, with responsibility for relations with corporations. He succeeds Gilbert R. Tanis '38, who is now with the President's Office as Executive Officer of the College.

Mr. Winship was formerly district sales manager of the Sealtest Foods division of National Dairy Products Corporation for western New York. From 1954 to 1957 he was division sales manager for General Ice Cream Corporation in Cambridge, Mass. A native of Melrose, Mass., he is a former member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council, served as class agent for 1942, and was a member of the executive committee of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston. He and Mrs. Winship, the former Christine Hill of Andover, Mass., have three children.

A brighter prospect for air travel to and from the Hanover area was provided this fall when Governor Powell of New Hampshire signed the bill that cleared the financial way for enlarging the Lebanon Regional Airport. Ground-breaking ceremonies were held October 10, with Sidney C. Hayward '26, Secretary of the College and a member of the original Lebanon Regional Airport Commission, in charge of the program. Senators Styles Bridges and Norris Cotton of New Hampshire and Senator George Aiken of Vermont participated in the ceremonies, along with President James Austin of Northeast Airlines, who promised that four-engine, DC6B flights between Lebanon and New York would be started when the enlarged facilities are ready.

The extended runways will not only permit the operation of larger planes, but will reduce the number of flight cancellations when the local ceiling is low. To help finance the expansion of the Lebanon airport, the College and the Hitchcock Hospital jointly guaranteed to match, up to $42,500, the sum contributed by the Town of Hanover. The airport will be administered by a Regional Airport Commission on which Hanover is represented by Dr. John P. Bowler '15 and Robert S. Monahan '29.

The College last month announced an anonymous gift of $5,000 to establish the Ralph English Miller '24 Memorial Lectureship in Pathology at the Dartmouth Medical School. The lecture will be given annually to second-year medical students near the end of their course in pathology and is to be "not only a challenge to their thinking but also serve as an example of what a career in pathology has to offer the inquiring mind." Dr. Miller, who taught pathology at the Medical School and trained many young men in that field, died with Dr. Robert Quinn last winter when their light plane, in which they were returning from a medical call in northern New Hampshire, crashed in the Pemigewasset wilderness.

A grant from the Citizenship Clearing House, national organization promoting participation and research in public affairs, will make it possible for two Dartmouth students to take part in and study the campaigns of the major Presidential primary candidates in New Hampshire during the winter term. The program, in addition, will bring active participants in politics to the classroom and campus, facilitate student field research, and permit students to participate in legislative affairs. Plans for the next year include placing students on the campaign staffs of candidates for public office and in state legislative offices. The program director is Alan Fiellin, instructor in government.

The weekend of October 17-18 brought groups of economists and historians to the College for meetings. At the fall meeting of the Connecticut Valley Economists on October 17, representatives from some forty New England colleges heard Prof. Eli Shapiro of M.I.T. discuss the work of the National Commission on Money and Credit. At the 14th annual Northern New England Historians Conference, October 17-18, speakers were Prof. Shepard B. Clough of Columbia and two state historical society directors, Richard G. Wood '22 of Vermont and Philip N. Guyol '35 of New Hampshire.

On October 21, Thayer School was host to thirty members of the Tri-State Chapter of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers. Prof. George A. Taylor of Dartmouth was chairman of a round-table discussion of methods improvements.

Coach Bob Blackman and Captain Bill Gundy '60, with a canine friend, await their turnto speak at the Dartmouth Night program in front of Dartmouth Hall on October 9.

Our institutions and their fellowships are the hard-woncreations of men and women with a capacity for commitment. These strongholds of human aspiration sustain theindividual in trouble and provide the advance bases fromwhich are made the great forward thrusts to new knowledge and a truer community of humankind. - PRESIDENT DICKEY