AUSTIN ORGAN DEDICATED

A large, appreciative audience filed from Rollins Chapel, Friday, November 15, after a late afternoon concert by organist David Craighead celebrating the dedication of a new pipe organ. The instrument was given to Dartmouth by Basil F. Austin '31 of Hartford, Conn., in memory of his father, Basil G. Austin, who was a longtime official of the Austin Company that made both the new Rollins Chapel organ and the James D. Vail Organ in Hopkins Center's Spaulding Auditorium.

Mr. Craighead, head of the organ department at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., gave a program that included Bach, Franck, Mozart, and Buxtehude selections. The invocation and benediction were given by the Reverend Richard P. Unsworth, Dean of the William Jewett Tucker Foundation. The organ was designed by Frederick L. Mitchell and Richard J. Piper of Austin Organs, Inc., in consultation with College organist Milton Gill.

The donor of the organ, Basil F. Austin '31, made the formal presentation to the College at the Rollins Chapel program. Members of the Austin family and officials of Austin Organs, Inc., were also present. A dinner in their honor was given by the College at the Outing Club House after the dedication.