In Brief...

DARTMOUTH College was host early last month to the annual Pentagonal Conference bringing together the presidents and top administrative officers of Amherst, Bowdoin, Wesleyan, Williams and Dartmouth. The conference was inaugurated by President Hopkins in the late 1930's and has been held annually at the different colleges on a rotating basis. Informal discussion this year dealt with admissions, the relationship of state and private institutions, student government, independent study, and faculty work loads. The conference was one of the first academic events in which President Dickey fully participated following an operation on his knee in early February.

Robert P. Burroughs '21 of Manchester, N. H., has been elected a member of the Board of Overseers of the Tuck School for a three-year term. He takes the place of Orton H. Hicks '21, who resigned from the board when he was named Vice President of the College in charge of development, alumni relations and public relations. Mr. Burroughs is one of the nation's top insurance men and has long been prominent in the Republican Party. He was Republican National Committeeman from New Hampshire from 1932 to 1944, and took a leading part in the Eisenhower nomination and election in 1952, serving as one of the President's floor managers at the convention and then as a special adviser during the campaign.

Dr. Robert J. Vanderlinde, staff member of the Hitchcock Clinic and Instructor in Medicine at the Dartmouth Medical School, has been named Medical Director of the Dartmouth College Health Service, it was announced last month by President Dickey. At the same time, Dr. Louis B. Matthews Jr., also of the Hitchcock Clinic and Medical School faculty, was named Assistant Medical Director.

Dr. Vanderlinde, who succeeds Dr. Ralph W. Hunter '31, joined the clinic and medical faculty in 1953. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Duke University Medical School, served with the Army Medical Corps in the European theater, and was affiliated with Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston and Harvard Medical School just before coming to Hanover. Dr. Matthews graduated from Tulane and took his M.D. at the University of Tennessee Medical School. He was with the Lankenau Hospital in Philadelphia and with the Mayo Clinic before and after two years of Naval service, 1951-53. He came to Dartmouth in 1957.

Guest lecturers in the Great Issues Course this term will include Paul Tillich of Harvard Divinity School; Mikhail Menshikov, Soviet Ambassador to the U. S.; and Robert Frost '96. Other lecturers will be Rosamond Gilder of the American National Theatre and Academy; Goddard Lieberson, composer and president of Columbia Records; Charles Frankel, professor of philosophy at Columbia; Philip E. Jacob, professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania; and Henry Margenau, professor of physics and natural philosophy at Yale.

The nucleus of a collection of die poetry and letters of the late Wallace Stevens, Pulitzer Prize poet, has been given to the College by Donald B. Hopkins '26 and his wife in memory of their son Nathaniel R. Hopkins II '54, who died in 1956 after a long illness. The collection was gathered by Mr. Hopkins with the aid of Samuel French Morse '36, Stevens authority and professor of English at Mt. Holyoke College, and was presented to Dartmouth through the Friends of Baker Library. The material includes several first editions, among them A Primitive Like an Orb, an essay on Raoul Dufy, and Three AcademicPieces. There are also five microfilm reels of Stevens' correspondence and a number of poetry magazines containing his work.

Freshman Fathers Weekend in late February attracted some 360 fathers o£ '62 men and was again a very successful event. Sharing student life in the dorms, classrooms and Commons was the core of the weekend, which provided also a smoker, a panel discussion by College officers, and a Saturday evening address by President Dickey. Dean Dickerson, Coach Bob Blackman, Ross McKenney, and David K. Park, '62 class president, were other speakers.

Dartmouth class officers will return to Hanover for their annual spring meetings on May 1 and 2. President Dickey will be the main speaker at a dinner for all officers and their wives on the first evening.