THE COLLEGE
THE past month at Dartmouth has been rather quiet, with winter-term classes ending March 12, final exams running until the 17 th, and then two weeks of vacation ensuing until the opening of the third term on March 31. Such news as there has been will be reported here in capsule form, especially since we need the space for a special report on TheAlumnus, beginning on Page 15.
BOARD RAISED: An increase of $25.00 a year in the board rates at Thayer and Stell dining halls will go into effect next fall. The new rates will be $500 for a full three-term year for freshmen, and $490 for sophomores. Freshmen report one week early in the fall and thus have a slightly higher rate. Juniors and seniors who elect to take their meals in the College dining halls have the option of a full-year contract, at the sophomore rate, or of single-term contracts. The rising cost of both food and wages has made the board increase necessary, it was explained by Richard W. Olmsted '32, business man- ager of the College. The last board increase took place two years ago, when the freshman rate went up from $460 to 1475 a year.
PARENTS CHAIRMAN: Guilford Hartley of Duluth, Minn., has been named chairman of the Parents Campaign of the Dartmouth Alumni Fund for i960. A real estate, mining and trust executive, he is the father of Roger Hartley, a junior. As chairman Mr. Hartley will direct the Alumni Fund solicitation of the parents of Dartmouth undergraduates and recent graduates. The Parents Campaign goal this year is $60,000, or $3,000 more than the sum realized in the last full drive. It is part of the i960 Alumni Fund campaign which seeks $1,000,000 as its unprecedented goal. A special campaign among non-alumni parents was first conducted in 1951. Contributions have increased steadily each year.
Mr. Hartley is a native of Duluth and a graduate of the University of Michigan. He was Duluth-area chairman of Dartmouth's successful Capital Gifts Campaign for $17,000,000, and was the only nonalumnus area chairman in the drive.
NEW ORGAN: Through the gift of Basil F. Austin '31 of West Hartford, Conn., a large three-manual organ is to be installed in Rollins Chapel, replacing the old organ that has been in use for about fifty years. Mr. Austin's gift is a memorial to his father, the late Basil G. Austin, who was a pipe-organ manufacturer. The College is now making an architectural study of the chapel to determine at which end the organ can best be located, for concert as well as chapel use, and whether that location will be right should the chapel be remodeled in the future.
Mr. Austin, donor of this very valuable memorial, is a partner in the investment firm of Conning and Company in Hartford, where he has been active in Dartmouth alumni affairs for some years.
FROM NIGERIA: Dartmouth is one of 21 American colleges and universities that are offering 25 special scholarships for Nigerian students during the 1960-61 academic year. The program is a special pilot project to promote cooperation between educators here and abroad in the selection and admission of international students. Admissions officers in this country have found it difficult and sometimes impossible to assess school records and reports from abroad in terms of standards applied to American students, and it is felt that this cooperative effort by educators here and abroad might provide part of the answer to the problem created by the influx of foreign students since World War II. There were 29,349 undergraduates from abroad last year and almost as many enrolled in U.S. graduate and professional schools.
Preliminary interviews will be conducted by a Nigerian-American Scholarship Board of distinguished educators and public servants in Nigeria next month. This board has been established in collaboration with the African-American Institute. The final scholarship winners will be chosen by admissions officers of the participating colleges at a meeting in June. The scholarships will cover tuition, board, room, fees and other basic expenses with the exception of travel.
David D. Henry, director of admissions at Harvard, is secretary of the project's steering committee.
TO CALIFORNIA: Eugene Hotclikiss III '50, Associate Dean of the College, will leave Dartmouth at the end of the present academic year to become Dean of Students at Harvey Mudd College of Science and Engineering in Claremont, Calif. The California institution opened in September 1957 and next fall, in its fourth year, will have a full enrollment of more than 200 for the first time. With Pomona, Scripps, Claremont Men's College, and Claremont College, it is part of the celebrated five-college association in Claremont.
Dean Hotchkiss was a Naval Reserve officer for three years after graduation from Dartmouth and then returned to the College in July 1953 as Assistant Dean. Two years later he resigned to do graduate work at Cornell, where he completed the requirements for his Ph.D. in education administration. While at Cornell he was an assistant in the office of the dean. He was named Associate Dean at Dartmouth in 1958. He is the son of Eugene Hotchkiss '22 and the brother of Frank Hotchkiss '50 and James Hotchkiss '50.
DCAC POST: Ernest A. Roberts, college sports editor of The Boston Globe, has been named Director of Sports Information at Dartmouth and will assume his duties on April 1, it has been announced by Director of Athletics Robert A. Rolfe '31. Roberts succeeds Theodore B. (Ted) Emery, who resigned to accept a post with the New York Titans of the American Football League.
Roberts has been a member of the Globe staff since 1947 and has specialized in college sports reporting since 1949. After graduating from Northeastern University in 1944 he served in the Army Air Force and later attended Boston University graduate school. He is married and has two children. He is presently chairman of the Boston Football Writers Association, a director.,of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association, and a charter member of the College Hockey Writers Association.
WILSON FELLOWS: Seven Dartmouth seniors have been awarded Woodrow Wilson Fellowships to help them prepare for college teaching careers. They are David E. Bond of Burlington, On tario, Canada, economics; Francis W. Dauer of Elmsford, N.Y., philosophy; James A. Herbert of Wickford, R.I., art; Ned P. Nabers of Atlanta, Ga., archaeology; Kenneth I. Reich of Hermosa Beach, Calif., international relations; William A. Veech of Pleasant Ridge, Mich., mathematics; and Seth I. Zimmerman of New York City, mathematics.
The fellowships are awarded annually under a program of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The recipient is awarded a stipend of $l500 plus family allowances and full tuition for a year's graduate study at any university in the United States or Canada.
An unusual feature of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship is that students may not apply directly for the award - they must be nominated by a faculty member. Because of the limited number of fellow ships which can be awarded in contrast to the nominations, there are a large number of well-qualified and deserving candidates who are given honorable mention.
At Dartmouth nine seniors received honorable mention. They are Martin F. Andic, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Reed Browning, Manhasset, N.Y.; Harold R. Hite, Harris burg, Pa.; John R. Nash, Hanover, N.H.; James R. Nichols, Wellesley, Mass.; Hiroshi Ono, Los Angeles, Calif.; Robert A. Peck, Mason City, Iowa; Wilburn L. Sims, Keene, N.H.; and Irving T. Stone, Hickory Corners, Mich.
EARLY '64S: In the second year of its program of early acceptance of outstanding applicants for admission, Dartmouth has admitted about 150 members of the Class of 1964, compared with only 90 early acceptances for the present freshman class. Decisions are based on secondary-school records through the junior year and are contingent upon satisfactory grades in the senior year as well.
According to Director of Admissions Edward T. Chamberlain '36, Dartmouth is aiming for a freshman class of approximately 750 men this fall. Competition for these places will be particularly stiff, since the active list of applicants last month was 22% greater than for the previous year. Letters of acceptance for the next entering class will go out about May 1.
MORE POWER: Dartmouth's student operated radio station, WDCR, has applied to the FCC for an increase in day-time power from 250 to 1000 watts. Programs at night would continue at the present 250 watts. The increase would equalize tire coverage of the station, since more power is needed to reach the same area in the daytime than at night.
POLITICS: Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, Democratic Presidential hopeful, paid Hanover a visit on Sunday, March 6, two days before the New Hampshire primaries, and drew an overflow crowd in 105 Dartmouth Hall. An earlier visit to the College was cancelled by a blizzard. Senator Kennedy had a friendly audience and, after a short talk, deftly fielded questions about civil rights, birth control, and McCarthyism.
