Gift of Million Made Toward Gilman Bio-Medical Center
A $1,000,000 gift from the Gilman Foundation toward the establishment of a bio-medical center was announced by President Dickey during Commencement weekend. The Trustees have decided that the Center will carry the name of the Gilman family of New York City, Gilman, Vt., and St. Marys, Ga.
The Gilman Bio-Medical Center will consist initially of five grouped interconnected buildings, one of which will be the Charles Gilman Life Sciences Laboratory housing the College's Department of Biological Sciences. President Dickey stated that the concept of the Center is to provide a close working relationship between the medical scientists at the Medical School and the life scientists of the College's Department of Biological Sciences.
In a letter to the Trustees, Charles Gilman, president of the Gilman Foundation, Inc., said: "My Dartmouth alumni sons, Howard and Charles Jr., and I have discussed with President Dickey the establishment of a .bio-medical center at Dartmouth which would be a continuing primary philanthropic interest of our family. . . . Our family's ties to Dartmouth are strong, and we truly welcome this opportunity to be identified with this new era of development and collaboration between the basic life sciences and Dartmouth's historic Medical School."
President Dickey on behalf of the Trustees expressed "the abiding appreciation of the College for both the magnificent million-dollar gift now being made toward the establishment of the Center and for the prospect of continuing interest and help it will have from the Gilman family."
Mr. Gilman and his sons, Howard, Class of '44 and Charles Jr., Class of '52, are associated with the Gilman Paper Company and affiliated enterprises. Both sons earned Phi Beta Kappa honors while at Dartmouth.
The Charles Gilman Life Sciences Laboratory will be a five-story brick building containing 60,000 square feet of instructional, research, and office space located south of the Medical School. The fifth story will contain a greenhouse and a mechanical service area.
The four remaining buildings of the Gilman Bio-Medical Center are Strasenburgh Hall, a dormitory for Medical School students on which construction began in April; the Dana Library for the Medical and Life Science Collections, now under construction; the Medical Science Building; and the Kellogg Auditorium, now nearing completion. The auditorium will be used by the Medical School, the College, and Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital.
The Dartmouth Medical School, which will have its doubled enrollment fully in effect this fall, is engaged in medical science research supported by grants totaling about $1,200,000 annually. The Biological Sciences Department's research programs presently total about $250,000 a year.
