Ivy League in Sarasota

The Ivy League Club of Sarasota has decided to provide scholarship grants to New College on an equal basis with that provided any one of the eight Ivy League colleges.

New College is being built in Sarasota as a four-year college of the liberal arts and sciences of the highest academic standards, to open in the fall of 1964 for its first classes. Ivy League Club President, Dr. Leonard V. Buschman, said to all intents and purposes, "We have taken you into our family," in notifying New College of the action of the Club.

He said lie thought the action spoke of the Club's confidence that New College will develop as an institution of excellence "which in years to come will mean to this community and to the academic world what our various Ivy League colleges mean to their communities and to the academic world."

The Ivy League Club of Sarasota is probably the largest organization of its type in the country, numbering a good many of the graduates of Dartmouth College. There are more than 300 members in this Club who meet once every month and hold annual dinners, the next one to be addressed by Dr. Henry Heald, President of the Ford Foundation. Their good works extend to offering scholarships to Ivy League institutions for young men from Sarasota and Manatee Counties in Florida.