Warner Bentley To Direct Center

The Dartmouth Board of Trustees at its spring meeting in Hanover last month reviewed plans for the development of the educational and cultural programs that will be offered in the Hopkins Center when the facilities of the Center will become available during the academic year 1962-63.

President Dickey announced that the Trustees have approved the appointment of Warner Bentley to be Director of the Hopkins Center. Mr. Bentley is presently Graduate Manager of the Council on Student Organizations and has headed the theatre work at Dartmouth for many years. Mr. Bentley's appointment as Director of the Center will become effective September 1, 1960; and during the next two years he will devote the major part of his time to developing a comprehensive program for the Center. He will be assisted by John R. Scotford '38, who has been serving as a Special Assistant on the Hopkins Center project and who will be a principal staff member of the Center in charge of educational exhibits and the promotion of special projects.

It is contemplated that the work of developing the Center programs will be carried out in collaboration with a program committee to be made up of members of the faculty having responsibility for the various instructional and creative activities carried on in the Center, student representatives chosen from among the Marcus Heiman Award winners in the creative arts, and members of the permanent staff of the Center. It is expected that the work of this operating group will be tied into a broader council on the creative arts that will be drawn from the faculty, student body, and outside persons interested in promoting the creative arts in the life and work of the College community.

In addition to the program committee and the larger council on the creative arts the work of the Center will be aided by advisory groups drawn from leading professional people in the various creative art fields embraced within the programs of the Center.

Mr. Bentley expects to devote much of the coming year visiting other institutions and cultural centers throughout the country in connection with the development of the organization and programs for the Center. It is expected that the organizational work will be completed during the coming year and that the following year will be devoted to detailed planning of the program for the entire first year of the Center's operations. Thereafter the programs of the Center will be planned a year in advance in order to assure maximum collaboration with all College activities, including academic courses, that directly or indirectly may be supported by the facilities and programs of the Center.

Mr. Bentley, a graduate of Pomona in 1926, received a certificate in directing from Yale's drama department in 1928 and came to Dartmouth that year as instructor in English. He attained full professorial rank in 1937 and at that time was awarded Dartmouth's M.A. degree.

Mr. Scotford has been Special Assistant on the Hopkins Center Program since 1956. After graduating from Dartmouth, he studied design at Pratt Institute for two years and then worked in the art departments of several New York advertising agencies. He resigned as senior art director with Franklin Spier, Inc., to return to Dartmouth in 1956.

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