In Brief...
THE Dartmouth Medical School, which has moved into the impressive new quarters shown in the following photo story, still has approximately $4,700,000 to raise in its campaign for $10,000,000 in capital funds. Last month the School received a grant of $75,000 from the Theodore Edson Parker Foundation of Boston to be applied toward the $3,500,000 cost of constructing the Medical Science Building. The Parker Foundation is a philanthropic trust created under the will of Theodore Edson Parker in 1944.
Dartmouth will again be host to a Russian Language Institute for secondary-school teachers this summer, beginning June 26 and lasting eight weeks. Summer language institutes, administered by the U. S. Office of Education as a part of the National Defense Language Development Program, will be held at sixty colleges and universities throughout the country, and the Dartmouth session will be one of three devoted to Russian. Last summer forty high school teachers attended Dartmouth's pilot institute. This summer fifty teachers are expected from 22 eastern and southern states and from the District of Columbia. Prof. Basil Milovsoroff of the Russian Civilization Department is director of the Dartmouth institute.
Freshman Fathers Weekend, held February 17 to 19, was attended by a record total of more than 400 fathers of '64 men. In addition to their informal sampling of undergraduate life in Hanover, the fathers went to two evening programs at which speakers included President Dickey, Dean Dickerson, Professor Henry L. Terrie of the English Department, Ross McKenney of the D.O.C., and Fritz C. Zeller Jr., president of the freshman class.
A bit of news that came out of the Freshman Office just before the weekend was that the first-term average for the Class of 1964 was 2.93, compared with 2.88 for '63 and 2.82 for '62 when they were freshmen. Eleven men in the class came through with a perfect 5.0 average, two of them from the Bronx High School of Science in New York.
Ford H. Whelden '25 of the Office of Development reports that for the first six months of 1960-61 the College received a total of $365,626 in bequests, of which $316,722 came from new bequests and $48,904 as additional realizations from bequests previously received. An especially encouraging fact is that in six months the College has received seventeen new bequests against a previous high record of 23 for a full twelve-month period. The Bequest and Estate Planning Program conducted by the individual classes was reactivated last fall.
The College recess between the winter and spring terms will run from March 16 to 29, with third-term classes beginning on the morning of Thursday, March 30. There is some student agitation for being permitted to remain home through Easter Sunday, April 2, without penalty; but we think we know what the Dean's answer will be.
Alumni who are members of the 87th Congress met recently with other Washington notables who are members of the Dartmouth family. The group included (1 to r) front row, Clark MacGregor '44, Congressman from Minnesota; Joseph W. Martin Jr., LL.D. '55, former Speaker of the House; Colin Stam, LL.D. '58, Chief Adviser to Congress on tax legislation; David Martin '29, Congressman from Nebraska; and back row, Robert Barry '36T, Congressman from New York; Perkins Bass '34, Congressman from New Hampshire; Thomas Curtis '32, Congressman from Missouri; Robert Hill '42, former Ambassador to Mexico, now member of the New Hampshire legislature; John Monagan '33, Congressman from Connecticut; Edgar Hiestand '10, Congressman from California; James Wakelin '32, Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Fred Scribner '30, former Under Secretary of the Treasury; and Edwin Dooley '26, Congressman from New York.
