OPENING EXERCISES

The setting for the College's opening convocation, in the west wing of Alumni Gymnasium, was the same one used a little more than two weeks earlier for Dartmouth's highly successful Convocation on the Great Issues of Conscience in Modern Medicine - to the coverage of which this issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE has devoted a large part of its front section. As they delivered their traditional opening-day addresses to students and faculty, President Dickey and Samuel P. Bell '61, president of the Undergraduate Council, stood beneath the giant symbol reproduced on this month's cover, representing the physician's four interrelated areas of responsibility.

The assemblage this year was particularly colorful, with the flags of the nations hanging from the gym rafters and the brightly hooded faculty providing a competing splash of color from their seats near the speakers' platform. Just before the exercises opened President Dickey had led the faculty in an academic procession from the east wing of the gymnasium to the west wing. At the close of the exercises, the faculty and administrative officers of the College met with the senior class for coffee in the east wing - a social innovation tried for the first time last year and welcomed on both sides.