The Fund Goes to Work

MOST Alumni Fund dollars, being unrestricted, go immediately into the mainstream of Dartmouth life - into faculty salary funds that attract a promising young instructor to Dartmouth or hold a proven teacher-scholar in the face of enticing offers from elsewhere; into instruction aids and facilities; or into the scholarship funds so important to maintaining a strong student body. But there are some Alumni Fund resources now in action that can be easily identified, and in this identification are examples of the support the Alumni Fund brings to teacher, student and education program.

On the opposite page are the four line young men who have the honor of holding Alumni Fund Scholarships. They are proud to be recipients of these named scholarship grants provided by the generosity of Dartmouth men who preceded them. David K. Gordin '61, from Connersville, Ind., is a first-year student at the Dartmouth Medical School. A member of Dragon society, Dave was chairman of his dormitory and a freshman basketball player before moving into the serious business of pre-medical studies.

Steven P. Lasch '62, of Chicago, is a happy combination of scholar and athlete. A letter-winner as a guard on Coach Blackman's football squad last fall, he also stands in the upper tenth of the junior class this year. Richard Wellstead '63, of Maumee, Ohio, is to be vice-president of next year's Green Key Society and is a member of the football and track squads as well as the Dartmouth Band. Joseph J. Triolo '64, of Sharon Hill, Pa., is the newest Alumni Fund Scholar, and like the upperclassmen named above he is active in sports and other extracurricular activities at the freshman level.

The photographs showing the Language Laboratory and 104 Wilder Hall in use illustrate without further explanation how important Alumni Fund gifts are to providing the facilities needed in a modern instructional program. This is a continuing responsibility of the Fund through the current use resources made available to the College each spring.

Alumni Fund dollars were also the source for one of the newest and most exciting faculty programs - the Faculty Fellowships. The Trustees of the College voted last year to allocate $100,000 from the 1960 Alumni Fund to establish this program which provides a full year of unrestricted time to enable the best of the young teachers to gain added competence in their fields. This will not only enrich the classroom experience and the personal contact between student and instructor but has already shown itself to be one more reason why the very best young instructors would want to come to Dartmouth. The first Faculty Fellows are being named this spring.

The Alumni Fund, traditionally the spearhead for quality growth, has done much - and will accomplish more - on the strength of the concern, thoughtfulness and generosity of Dartmouth men.