MORE DORMITORY SPACE

Ready to provide 334 additional dormitory spaces for this full enrollment were three new residence halls at the west end of Tuck Mall, where Wigwam Circle once provided uninspiring quarters for married students and a small bachelor overflow from the dorms. Their location in relation to Tuck and Thayer Schools, and the Connecticut River, is well portrayed in Adrian Bouchard's aerial photograph on Page 29.

Completion of the new dorms - sentimentally named Wigwam, North Wigwam and South Wigwam Halls - has enabled the College to eliminate the overcrowding in other residence halls. For the first time since World War II the number of students in each hall is about what it was intended to be. For a long stretch of years many double rooms have been serving as triples, and even some singles have been accommodating two men.

With the 334 Wigwam spaces, the College now has a total of 2473 dormitory spaces in all. Nearly all are filled this year; shortly before College reopened it was reported that less than a dozen vacancies existed in the entire dormitory system.