Lincoln Filene Auditorium

THE 200-seat lecture hall in the Albert Bradley Center for Mathematics has been named the Lincoln Filene Auditorium in honor of the late Lincoln Filene, A.M. '16, Boston merchant and philanthropist. This action by the Dartmouth Trustees pays tribute to a long-time friend and benefactor of the College, who was also a close friend of President Emeritus Ernest Martin Hopkins and an honorary member of the Class of 1916.

The Lincoln Filene Auditorium joins the Bradley Center and the new Psychology Building. It will be used by both departments for large lecture classes and for other purposes by the College generally. It was the scene of the mathematics conference that dedicated the Bradley Center in November and also of last month's general meeting of the Dartmouth faculty.

Last year the trustees of the Lincoln and Therese Filene Foundation made a grant of $250,000 to establish the Lincoln Filene Endowment in Human Relations at Dartmouth, thus providing permanent support for an educational program that it had been financing on an experimental basis for the past three years.

The Filene Endowment provides funds for faculty research in human relations, undergraduate participation in these research projects, and for the Filene Lectureships in Human Relations. The Filene family has also supported investigations at the Tuck School in the uses of the behavioral sciences in marketing.

Mr. Filene, who was called the "dean of American merchants," had a keen personal interest in improving working relations among individuals within organizations. He advocated and put into effect an enlarged role for store employees in company management, introduced a plan of sharing benefits with employees and the community, pioneered in a minimum wage for women, and was an early organizer of a health clinic and of insurance, credit union, and retirement plans for employees. He and Mr. Hopkins were business associates in Boston before the latter returned to Hanover to become President of the College in 1916.