MEDICAL GRANT

The Dartmouth Medical School is one of 23 medical schools in the nation which will share a $5,750,000 grant from the Richard King Mellon Charitable Trusts. Each of the 23 will receive $250,000 to augment funds available for salaries of faculty members in teaching.

"The gift," Dr. Gilbert H. Mudge, Dean of the Medical School, said, "provides much needed help in financing the very core of medical education, namely good teaching. The action of the Mellon Foundation is a particularly enlightened one, emphasizing a need which has often been overshadowed by the more glamorous appeal of research or construction. At this stage in its development, nothing is so important to Dartmouth Medical School as adequate and sound financing for the teaching part of its program."

Selection of the grant recipients, 23 out of the 45 private medical schools in this country, was based on a study by Dr. Willard C. Rappleye, retired Dean of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, and Dr. Fordyce B. St. John, retired professor of clinical surgery at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York. The schools were chosen on the combined basis of need, demonstrated excellence, and geographical distribution.