Funds Given for Medical School Dormitory

As a gift from the Strasenburgh family u of Rochester, N. Y., the Dartmouth Medical School has received $325,000 for the construction of a new dormitory for medical students. The dormitory will be an important and vitally needed unit in the complex of structures to be built near the new Medical Science Building. Another unit adjacent to the central building will be a teaching auditorium, for which the W. K. Kellogg Foundation made a $500,000 gift last spring.

Dean S. Marsh Tenney '44 of the Medical School has announced that the dormitory, to be named Strasenburgh Hall, will house eighty students.

"By living and studying within the complex unit of a medical center," he said, "the spirit as well as the purpose of professional life is continuously apparent to the student. A .community motivated by common interest facilitates learning and the acquisition of those ideals so essential for future practitioners of medicine."

The Strasenburgh family, whose name the new dormitory will honor, has long been associated with medicine through research, production, and marketing of pharmaceutical products. Edwin G. Strasenburgh is presently chairman of the Strasenburgh Laboratories Division of Wallace and Tiernan, Inc. A graduate of Colgate, he is the father of three Dartmouth sons. Robert J. Strasenburgh II '42, a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council, is president of Strasenburgh Laboratories and director and vice president in charge of pharmaceutical operations of Wallace and Tiernan. E. Griffin Strasenburgh '45 is vice president of Strasenburgh Laboratories, and David M. Strasenburgh '49 is with the marketing staff services of the laboratory.

Architect's rendering of Strasenburgh Hall, to house medical students