SPAULDING DEDICATION

SPAULDING Auditorium in the Hopkins Center was fittingly dedicated in a brief ceremony before a Great Issues lecture on "The Arts and National Life" at the mid-point in the Hopkins Center Inaugural Program. John R. McLane Jr. '38, a trustee of the Huntley N. Spaulding Charitable Trust which provided the funds for the hall as a memorial to Huntley N. Spaulding, M.A. '27, gave the dedicatory address.

In his brief address to the members of the senior class and guests Mr. McLane "personalized" the named auditorium with a very discerning description of Mr. Spaulding and his accomplishments as industrialist, Governor of New Hampshire, and philanthropist. Mr. McLane said in part:

"Huntley had a very warm personality, a tremendous affection for and belief in people. His business associates tell of going through the company plants with him - he had a smile and a kind word for his employees, many of whose families he knew....

"Huntley had a great sense of responsibility to better the civilization of which he was a part, and in his civic and charitable interests he applied the same energy, ability, and determination that characterized him as a business man....

"Huntley and his wife, Harriet, never had children. It was characteristic of him that he knew that he and his wife could never wisely give away their wealth in their lifetime and therefore they created in their wills a charitable trust, selected as trustees men in whose judgment they had confidence, and entrusted them with the job of disposing of their estates within the 15 years following their deaths. The funds for this auditorium came from Huntley's charitable trust."

Although Spaulding Auditorium was used for concerts, recitals, and movies during the Inaugural Program, the Great Issues Course could well claim first rights. As part of the course emphasis this fall on The Arts, a novelist, a playwright, and a poet had addressed the seniors from the Spaulding lectern before the facility was "officially" opened.

It was fitting therefore that the auditorium should be dedicated before the Senior Class, assembled to hear August Heckscher, Special Consultant on the Arts to President Kennedy. Mr. Heckscher discussed both the problems and the opportunities of the arts in a technological age.

White House arts adviser August Heckscheraddressed seniors after dedication.

Dramatically lighted, Spaulding Auditorium fills up before the inaugural concert of the Dartmouth College Glee Club.

Mario di Bonaventura leads the orchestra in Hartman Rehearsal Hall.

The Glee Club rehearses in Faulkner Recital Hall beneath Spaulding.

Buck Concert Lounge just outsideSpaulding is designed for informaluse by folk and jazz music groups.