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GREL Cornerstone

July 1960
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GREL Cornerstone
July 1960

"PRESIDENT Dickey and New Hampshire's Governor Wesley Powell shared the spotlight on June 15 as the cornerstone was laid for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Cold Regions Engineering Lab- oratory in Hanover. The $3,250,000 project is located north of the golf course on the Lyme Road.

When completed late in 1961, CREL will be used to further research on snow, ice and permafrost and their effects on the design, construction and service life of engineer type structures. It will consolidate two Army facilities presently located in Wilmette, Ill. and Waltham, Mass.

Speaking during the cornerstone ceremony, President Dickey said that the occasion was symbolic of the joining of two lines of purpose: one, the government's in obtaining further information on the cold regions, and two, the deepening of the College's and community's understanding of man.

Representing the Army at the cornerstone laying were Brigadier General Duncan Hallock, chief of the Research and Development Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Brigadier General Alden K. Sibley, division engineer for the New England division of the Corps of Engineers; and Colonel William L. Nungesser, director of Arctic Research and Development. Colonel Nungesser will

One of the deciding factors in locating CREL near the College was Dartmouth's possession of the Stefansson Polar Library and the presence of famed Dr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson as a consultant. Another reason was the College's scientific and academic interests in the problems of snow, ice and permafrost shown in the fields of geography and geology.

Wives of graduating seniors watch as their husbands take part in Class Day in the Bema.