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REORGANIZATION of the Council on Student Health was announced by President Dickey last month as an initial step in carrying out the recommendations of a TPC subcommittee headed by Andrew B. Foster '25, special assistant to the President. Henry M. Helgen Jr., director of the Office of Student Counseling, has been named chairman of the reorganized Council. The other members are Dr. Robert J. Vanderlinde, medical director of the College, and Robert D. Funkhouser '27, comptroller of the College. The Health Council is responsible for policies and programs dealing with student health. Dr. Vanderlinde has primary responsibility for professional services carried out under the jurisdiction of the Council, including operation of Dick's House. Miss Ruth Moser, administrator and house mother of Dick's House, is responsible organizationally to the Medical Director.
The third series of Jacob Ziskind Memorial Lectures at Dartmouth were delivered January 26 to 28 by Professor Will Herberg of Drew University on the general subject, "Biblical Faith and Contemporary Life." The sub-topics of the three lectures were "Faith, History and Self-Understanding: Foundations for a Philosophy of Life"; "Anxiety, Faith and the Courage To Be"; and "Religion and the Changing Cultural Situation."
Dr. Herberg is Professor of Judaic Studies and Social Philosophy at Drew University and the author of Judaism andModern Man, a book hailed by Reinhold Niebuhr as "a milestone in American religious thought." The Ziskind Lectures at Dartmouth are made possible through a gift from the Jacob Ziskind Charitable Trust and are presented under the auspices of the William Jewett Tucker Foundation. Previous lecturers were Dean James Pike, Protestant Epicopal Bishop of California, and Dr. Paul Tillich of Harvard Divinity School.
Another visiting lecturer last month was Dr. Owen Chamberlain '41 of the University of California, co-winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize for Physics. At a Physics Department colloquium, open to the public, Dr. Chamberlain discussed antiprotons, the negatively charged particles on which he has done research for some years, leading to the award of the Nobel Prize to him and his California colleague, Dr. Emilio Segre.
The Dartmouth Plaque, awarded annually to that secondary school whose delegation of four or more men attained the highest scholastic rank during freshman year, has been presented for the Class of 1962 to the Loomis School of Windsor, Conn. The winning delegation consisted of Christopher T. Lane, Harrison, N. Y.; Robert F. Moseley III, Kingston, N. Y.; John D. Pease, Avon, Conn.; Theodore F. Rochow, Darien, Conn.; and Ellison L. Torbert, Pelham, N. Y.
Other ranking schools, in the order of their standing, were Baldwin High School, now the Ernest W. Seaholm High School, Birmingham, Mich.; Mercersburg Academy, Mercersburg, Pa.; Washburn High School, Minneapolis, Minn.; University School, Cleveland, Ohio; Great Falls High School, Great Falls, Mont.; Scarsdale High School, Scarsdale, N. Y.; and the Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H.
The Class of 1962, according to a recent report of the Committee on Admission and the Freshman Year, had an attrition of only 19 men out of 771 during the freshman year. This remarkably low record of only 2.4% included no separations. The 2.4% compares with 4.2% including eight separations for the Class of 1961 and 2.7% including 13 separations for the Class of 1960.
Curiosity as to what percentage of a class completes four years and gets a degree led us to check up on the Class of 1959. To date, 607 or 80% of the 757 men of '59 who matriculated have earned Dartmouth degrees, and with 21 still enrolled as undergraduates, the percentage of graduates will be higher.
A four-man team from Dartmouth will appear on G. E. College Bowl, a nationally televised CBS quiz program, on Sunday afternoon, February 28. Two colleges compete on the show, and points are given for correctly answering questions covering a wide range of fields. The winning team remains on the weekly show until eliminated.
Pierre Mendes-France, former Premier of France, came to Dartmouth on January 4 to lectureon "Political and Economic Problems Confronting a Summit Conference." Webster Hall waspacked for the lecture, jointly sponsored by Great Issues and the College Lecture Series.
