Alumni Council Meets

THE status of the Capital Gifts Campaign was one of the major topics discussed by the Dartmouth Alumni Council when it held its 97th meeting in Hanover on the weekend of January 16 and 17. John L. Sullivan '21, Trustee of the College and chairman of the campaign's leadership gifts committee, led this discussion, in which Vice President Orton H. Hicks '21 and Development Director George H. Colton '35 also participated. It was disclosed that the goal for the Alumni Council is 100 per cent participation and a gift total of $100,000, of which $87,000 lias been contributed.

Progress in another development program was reported to the Alumni Council by Prof. Donald H. Morrison, Provost of the College, in his talk about the Dartmouth Medical School. He described the studies which led to the Trustees' decision to continue, and expand, the two-year medical program at Dartmouth. So far, he said, $4,500,000 has been received, mostly from foundations, in the College's effort to raise $4,000,000 for a new Medical School building and $6,000,000 for endowment to develop personnel.

Dr. S. Marsh Tenney '44, director of medical sciences at Dartmouth, and Prof. Manuel F. Morales, head of the new BioChemistry Department at the Medical School, were other speakers. Dr. Tenney discussed the new educational program which will permit the student to take electives - almost unheard of in medical education - and to do some basic research. Professor Morales spoke about the coordinated research program being carried on in his department by a staff of eight young men, averaging 36.6 years of age.

The Council heard a talk about the now-famous trip to England, from Richard P. Liesching '59, president of the Dartmouth Rugby Club, and learned how greatly Dartmouth's stock has risen in the eyes of the British. Turning back to educational matters, the Council then heard from Prof. Edmund H. Booth '18 of the English Department, faculty representative on the Council, who reported that the new three-term, three-course program has begun well. He expressed the view that students are studying harder; are learning more, or seemingly are learning-more, with only three courses; and are making much better use of the month of January, with first-term examinations all behind them when they return from Christmas vacation. He also spoke of the new emphasis on independent learning and advised Council members to take back to the secondary schools in their areas the word that independent learning is a necessary part of future college education.

Other topics and speakers presenting them were: public relations, Milburn McCarty '35; Alumni Fund plans, Donald F. Sawyer '21; class gifts, Charles E. Rauch '30; enrollment and admissions, Louis V. Wilcox '23 and Director of Admissions Edward T. Chamberlain '36; secondary school awards, Franklin J. Cornwell '35; and alumni organization and relations, George B. Redding '29, who reminded the Council that the CAR proposal of a revised Alumni Council membership, providing enlarged alumni representation, would be coming up for future action. The Council referred the CAR proposal to its Committee on Alumni Organization and Relations for consideration and for the preparation of necessary constitutional amendments to be included in a report at the annual June meeting, scheduled to be held in Hanover on June 17-19.

In another formal action, the Alumni Council voted to present to the Dartmouth Board of Trustees the name of Thomas B. Curtis '32 of St. Louis for reelection as a Trustee for a second term of five years. Mr. Curtis is U. S. Congressman from the Second Missouri District, and as a Republican was reelected to a fifth term in the November elections.

Friday night the Alumni Council gave a dinner for Dartmouth's Ivy League championship football team, as reported elsewhere in this issue; and on Saturday morning a new wrinkle was added to the weekend program when Council members and their wives attended a wide variety of regular Dartmouth classes, ranging from art to the sciences. In a Shakespeare class, one of the wives had the fun of playing the part of Juliet.